Film Record: Witch’s Fiddle, The

Still image from The Witch's Fiddle via BFI

Identifier:

• 21848 (Source: British Film Institute )

Date produced: 1924

Filmmaker(s):

Peter Le Neve Foster

Country of Production:

United Kingdom

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:06:45

Format:

format unknown

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Description:

"Possibly the first student film ever made, this tale of a magical instrument was shot by the newly formed Cambridge University Kinema Club. While the film is a daft comedy, its creators went on to careers straight from a thriller: director Peter Le Neve Foster spent years filming behind the Iron Curtain, his assistant director Cedric Belfrage was a suspected Russian spy, and Pembroke Stephens - the lovesick youth - was killed in 1937 while reporting on the Japanese invasion of China." (BFI Player)

Resources:

BFI Player Online

Club Affiliation:

Cambridge University Kinema Club

Subjects:

• Arts

Genre:

• Comedy
• Fantasy

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Repository:

British Film Institute

Screenings:

• Screening at the first Amateur Kinematograph Conference, St. Vincent Hotel, Torquay, UK, September 28, 1928.: United Kingdom

Last Seen:

Screening at the first Amateur Kinematograph Conference, Electric Theatre, Torquay, UK, September 28, 1928.

Video Link:

• bfi.org.uk

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