Ivan Klimeš: Do kinematografu! Přednáška se světelnými obrazy.

In the era of silent film, there was a film performance of productions of a different cultural type than we know today. Before the spectators in the cinemas lonely with a "technical can", they could always expect a unique experience of living musical accompaniment, lively, or inserted scenic outputs, whether music, dance, or cabaret. Just as they could look forward to a favorite commentator. When they went to the cinema in the evening, they could see the film disregarding at quite a different speed than if they were going to the cinema in the afternoon, or to handle two movies in the same time, but at a frantic pace. If they visited a luxury cinema with multiple projectors, they saw the film in one haul, but in the so -called "one -eyed" cinemas with one projector it was always a performance full of breaks, as they dictated the need to deploy another episode in the projector. The lecture will remind the forgotten form of such performances.

PhDr. Ivan Klimeš is a film historian with theatrology and musicology education, a long -time worker of the National Film and Archive and Department of Film Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. It focuses on the older history of Czech cinematography in international context, in many studies has been dealt with mainly by institutional history of the film industry, the presence of writers in the operation of film production, etc., repeatedly devotes to editorial activities (archive sources, libretto, memoirs, correspondence).