Free Ticketed Event
SOUTH EAST ARTS invites you and your family to a sublime evening as Leonard’s Beautiful Pictures makes its debut tour on the mainland, at CENTENNIAL PARK, COOMA, direct from the Ten Days on the Island Festival in Tasmania.
BRING A PICNIC, A RUG or a CHAIR
Grab a takeaway dinner from one of the local cafes or restaurants and enjoy the evening in the park.
ABOUT LEONARD'S BEAUTIFUL PICTURES
In the family of entertainers known as The Marvellous Corricks there were eight talented siblings: seven sisters and their brother, Leonard. He was just 14 years old when he started making and screening silent films.
It was 1901 and his early projections – a highlight of his family’s travelling shows filled with sketches and singalongs – would light up the world.
In 2021, Leonard’s Beautiful Pictures returned in all their wonder for a world premiere at Ten Days on the Island in Tasmania. These 100-year-old films once again are entertaining and delighting audiences.
Leonard’s fascinating newsreels and dramatic films once awed our local communities with the latest in cinematography. Now, a selection of Leonard’s films, some black-and-white, some gorgeously hand-tinted – digitally restored by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) – represent a rare vision of a former world.
