Hippodrome Silent Film Festival

Feedback please! 🙏 Now that the dust is settling on our sixteenth edition we are keen to hear all about your visit. Enter the prize draw to win a Festival Pass for #HippFest2027: email hippfest@falkirk.gov.uk to confirm participation by Sun 26 April. ✅ arts-culture-surveys.org/surveys/en-GB/…

2 hours left to book a #HippFestAtHome ticket/pass! 💻 Available to watch online wherever you are in the world: April Fool (1926), Captain January (1924), Fante-Anne (1920), Saxophone Susy (1928), The Bat (1926), The White Heather (1919) & New Found Sound: hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/hippf…

Thanks @FalkirkHerald for shouting about #HippFest2026! 'Highlights of this year’s Festival included a sold out screening of Saxophone Susy, with jazz-infused accompaniment from John Burgess, Jane Gardner & Hazel Morrison.' 🎟️ hippodromecinema.co.uk/whats-on/sff26… 📰 falkirkherald.co.uk/news/people/th…

1 week ago already! 📆 Photos from our soldout screening of Saxophone Suzy (1928), a jazz-age comedy of errors about friends chasing very different dreams. 🗣️ Introduced by: Pamela Hutchinson 🎶 Jane Gardner, Hazel Morrison, John Burgess 🎟️ hippodromecinema.co.uk/whats-on/sff26… 📷 Kat Gollock

4 ⭐ from @TheScotsman for Fante-Anne (1920), 'accompanied here by an intriguing partnership between traditional Norwegian fiddler Jo Einar Jansen and the electronica of musician and DJ Dina Konradsen.' 📰 Read: scotsman.com/arts-and-cultu… 🎟️ Watch online: scotsman.com/arts-and-cultu…

Whooping aplenty after our late-night screening of The Bat (1926) last week! 👏 This horror-comedy is a classy combination of thrills and chills, with ingenious accompaniment by the one and only Stephen Horne. 🎟️Watch online: hippodromecinema.co.uk/whats-on/sff26… 🖥️ Digital Festival Pass: £35

Thanks to @snackmag for a fab review of our Opening Night, including a segment on Fante-Anne (1920): 'This was the sound of Norway reaching back a hundred years to connect their musical present with their cinematic history.' 🎟️ hippodromecinema.co.uk/whats-on/sff26… 📰 snackmag.co.uk/hippfest-silen…

New Found Sound ft #archive film from @natlibscot Moving Image Archive & music from YMI Falkirk Junior Trad Band, YMI Falkirk Senior Trad Band, plus young composers Connor Campbell, Katie Clark, Bethany Ford, Stafaniya Martsul & Nathan Winters. 🎟️ Online: hippodromecinema.co.uk/whats-on/sff26…

HippFest silent cinema festival review: 'I loved Scotland's silent film festival - and the whisky was a nice bonus' @heraldscotland @HippFest heraldscotland.com/life_style/259…

That's a wrap! 💗 The curtain closes on HippFest 2026... a brief post just to say a huge THANK YOU as we head home after a fantastic five days at @hippodromefilm. A reminder too that we would love your feedback - online survey here: arts-culture-surveys.org/surveys/en-GB/… #HippFest2026 #Film

Always a delight to see @HippodromeFilm full to the brim with fans of #SilentFilm with #LiveMusic. Snap from the close of our ever popular Laurel & Hardy double-bill yesterday. Thanks to all the audiences that joined us & to Günter Buchwald and Frank Bockius for the music! 📽️🎶

Tonight’s treats at @Hippfest - 1928 German comedy Saxophone Susi, and the film which perhaps left a wee impression on Bob Kane, The Bat, released 100 years ago this month

DAY 5️⃣! 10–11 | New Found Sound 12–13:30 | Art Deco Bo’ness Walking Tour 12:30–13:30 | Laurel & Hardy Double Bill (1927) 14:30–16:30 | Roaring Twenties Charleston Workshop 15:00–16:15 | Apart From You (1933) 17:30–19:30 | Song (1928) 20:30–22:30 | Closing Night: The Crowd (1928)

Unfortunately we are experiencing technical difficulties with online booking for Digital Passes. 💻 We hope to have this rectified soon. If visiting in-person, Passes and Digital Add-ons can be purchased at Box Office. Pictured: The Cameraman (1928) this morning! #BusterKeaton

Loved the photobooth at @HippFest’s Friday Night Gala - Steve and I ended up on the big screen

Tonight’s silent at @hippfest was 1929’s Why Be Good? starring Colleen Moore, a massive flapper icon. Seeing Neil Hamilton - Commissioner Gordon from Batman 66 - looking a total dreamboat was not on my bingo card. The film, with live music by Meg Morley & Frank Bokius, was a gem

Day 4! 10:30–13:30 | Foreshore Fragments 11:00–12:35 | The Cameraman (1928) 13:30–15:00 | Rosebank Tour 14:00–15:15 | Captain January (1924) 16:30–18:05 | The Mountain of Destiny (1924) 19:30–20:30 | Platform Reels 19:30–21:00 | Saxophone Susy (1928) 21:45–23:15 | The Bat (1926)

@BBCScotlandNews Join us (and Mike!) at @HippodromeFilm this afternoon for High Treason (1929) - Britain’s answer to Metropolis! This is a fascinating example of one of British cinema’s early ventures into sci-fi... Tickets: hippodromecinema.co.uk/whats-on/sff26… #SciFi #SilentFilm #HippFest2026

Fab segment on #HippFest2026 in @BBCScotlandNews The Entertainment Mix - ft. footage of Hipponauts past & present, Festival Director Alison Strauss, plus Mike Nolan offering a piano preview of this afternoon's High Treason (1929)! 📺 Starts approx 10:30: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Friday at #HippFest2026! ✨ Prepare for glamour! 10:00–13:00 Callendar House Exhibition Tour 12:30–14:00 April Fool 15:30–17:00 High Treason 18:00–19:00 HippFest Pub Quiz 20:00–21:45 Friday Night Gala: Why Be Good? (Gala after-party until 23:00) 🎟️ hippodromecinema.co.uk/whats-on/