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| Tarzan of the Apes. Courtesy: British Film Institute |
Program of early silent films exploring the influence of Darwin's theory of evolution on cinema, and the widespread interest in visual representations of primates - our nearest neighbours.
Highlights include D.W. Griffith's 1912 work
Man's Genesis: A Psychological Comedy Founded on Darwin's Theory of the Genesis of Man and early special-effects pioneer Willis O'Brien's
Creation and
The Dinosaur and the Missing Link.
Also screening is
Tarzan of the Apes, the first ever Tarzan film and the one most faithful to Edgar Rice Burrough's 1914 novel, and
Gorilla Hunt, documenting adventurer Ben Burbridge's dramatic foray into Africa.
