Under the Sea Technicolor Double Bill: South West Silents
Sun, 10 Nov
|Bristol Megascreen (Bristol Aquarium)
Time & Location
10 Nov 2024, 13:00 – 17:00
Bristol Megascreen (Bristol Aquarium), Anchor Rd, Bristol BS1 5TT, UK
About the Event
Hans Hass returns in Technicolor, and exploring The Great Barrier Reef!
We are pleased to announce a special event (in cooperation with the International Conference, Colour in Film), an underwater, large screen, colour double feature, screened on Bristol's Megascreen, thus taking place within the genuinely marine environment that is Bristol Aquarium.
A Technicolor underwater masterpiece featuring BBC TV's nature film icons, Dr. Hans and Lotte Hass, UNDER THE CARRIBEAN / UNTERNEHMEN XARIFA (1954) offers the opportunity to explore the underwater realm with Hass and his team in an especially immersive fashion in this new subtitled digitisation from a vintage Technicolor print by Filmarchiv Austria.
Furthermore, courtesy of the Royal Film Archive of Belgium - CINEMATEK, we explore THE GREAT BARRIER REEF in Pierre Levie's 1969 film that has been likened to Cousteau's best works, features footage by shark experts Ron and Valerie Taylor (JAWS) and remarkably reflects some of the…