Scotland's only silent movie festival is returns to the country's oldest purpose-built picture palace

Scotland's only silent movie festival is returning to the country's oldest purpose-built picture palace in March this year when the beautifully restored Hippodrome in Bo'ness will be the first cinema in Scotland to celebrate its 100th anniversary. The Festival will run from Friday 16th March to Sunday 18th March and feature the movies of silent era stars such as Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Laurel and Hardy and former Ziegfeld girl Marion Davies playing a character called Peggy Pepper - surely name-checked by Peppy Miller, the heroine in the new silent film sensation THE ARTIST. Picture: Universal News and Sport 6/4/09 .All pictures must be credited to www.universalnewsandsport.com.(0ffice) 0844 884 51 22.

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Scotland's only silent movie festival is returning to the country's oldest purpose-built picture palace in March this year when the beautifully restored Hippodrome in Bo'ness will be the first cinema in Scotland to celebrate its 100th anniversary. The Festival will run from Friday 16th March to Sunday 18th March and feature the movies of silent era stars such as Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Laurel and Hardy and former Ziegfeld girl Marion Davies playing a character called Peggy Pepper - surely name-checked by Peppy Miller, the heroine in the new silent film sensation THE ARTIST. Picture: Universal News and Sport 6/4/09 .All pictures must be credited to www.universalnewsandsport.com.(0ffice) 0844 884 51 22.