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FANCY A TRIP to the movies? Can we recommend The Perils of Pauline, an adventure romp featuring an heiress being pursued for her fortune?
Or perhaps popular musical The Rollicking Rajah? Or Daisy Doodad’s Dial, a comedy of errors starring hot new starlet Florence Turner who gets arrested in a face-pulling competition?
Not heard of them yet? That’s probably because these are short film reels from 1914, all of which would have been part of a typical cinema programme on that year when war broke out across Europe.
There is a rare chance next week to see a schedule of these light-hearted snippets, along with one of Charlie Chaplin’s earliest appearances, sitting cheek-by-jowl with short films of Allied troops at the Front at Christmas, suffragette protests and other news reels from the time.
The Irish Film Institute in Dublin will run the programme with a specially commissioned original score by Stephen Horne, beginning next Friday, 1 August (the schedule will pop up here next Monday).
The clips were compiled from by the British Film Institute as part of centenary remembrances for the start of World War I. This might give you a taster of what to expect:
All images courtesy BFI/IFI
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So a no-deal Brexit would be bad for the economy but so would an orderly Brexit. And does anyone really believe that inflation is only 1 percent per annum in this country? I assume the Central Bank guy is not renting accommodation or paying crèche fees.
@Earth Traveller: yes…inflation is low. Are any of your day to day products in a basket of goods going up?
@Earth Traveller: yes…inflation is low. Are any of your day to day products in a basket of goods going up? Competition is driving retail prices down. The majority of people own their homes and interest rates are dropping…
@joe: yes they absolutely are
More tax from FFG …
Our central banks “expert” analysis seems to be to look at the current number and then add a little bit onto that!
And aren’t we all so lucky that FFG never brought us to the brink of recession!
Its always somebody else’s fault, brexit, or the financial crash, or the butterfly that flapped its wings the wrong way in brazil, its never the fault of the useless idiots in dail eireann.
We need to stand up stop thinking about how bad it will be without England financially and start thinking about Irish unity and how it will benefit us as a nation of course if won’t benefit us straight away but a few years down the line it will. Those figures the central bank send out I would take them with a grain of salt .Time to stop moaning and get on with it.
@Donal Carey: what if the vote goes the other way ,what then and it is likely to do that as the uncertainty that is around the corner
@Donal Carey: we really don’t want or need that money pit!
@FlopFlipU: Negative everything points to a United Ire and it’s about time
Once northern Ireland see how britain has betrayed them, it will a work itself out.
What will they use to scare us with when its all sorted.
Is this the same regulator that predicted a soft landing at the height of the Celtic tiger?
The banks will be a great help to struggling people. They give you an umbrella when the sun is out, then take it off you when it’s raining
Scare mungering again like 12 years ago
@Joseph Molloy:
You may have missed it, but 12 years ago the proverbial muck hit the fan in this country like never before and we’re still suffering the consequences. Where exactly do you see the scaremongering?
Brexit won’t happen. English are stupid alright but not economically suicidal. London is the powerhouse and voted remain. Money talks.
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