Kennington Bioscope has continued its series of accompanied silent films in Lockdown, and on Wednesday 10thMarch the subject was the English slapstick comedy star Fred Evans, screen name ‘Pimple’. He was an exact contemporary of Chaplin’s. The BFI’s Bryony Dixon curated the many films in the programme. I accompanied ‘Pimple’s Part’, about an aspiring actor rehearsing his lines in public and at home, nearly leading to his arrest; and ‘Pimple Has One’, in which our hero begins drunk and gets drunker, again leading him into clashes with the Law.
Colin Sell 