Kerstmatinée Stille Sneeuw

• 25 December 2024
  • 15:00 – 17:00

Come between the historical wings with a glass of mulled wine and enjoy film and live music and take a romantic journey back in time. Silent Snow is a show full of antique Christmas films with lots of snow and ice, humor and drama, toys and delicious food.

To get into the mood, we start with wintery magic lantern slides from 1880. Then we dream away with ‘A dream of Toyland’ made in England in 1907 by Arthur Melbourne Cooper, the very first puppet animator in the world and inventor of the Stop-Motion technique. It gets spooky with the very first film adaptation of Charles Dickens’ story ‘A Christmas Carol’ from 1910, accompanied live by a ghost piano.

We set sail with Roald Amundsen (1911), Robert Falcon Scott (1913) and Ernest Shackleton (1914) and travel on their heroic expeditions to the South Pole, and then celebrate Christmas with the insects of Wladyslaw Starewicz (Moscow 1913). Finally, we feast on delicious shoe soles and roast Christmas chickens in ‘The Gold Rush’ by Chaplin (1925).