VCT Orpheum Silent Movie Mondays: The Black Pirate

Declared “glorious” by the New York Times upon its release, this 1926 action adventure film, shot entirely in two-colour Technicolor, marked a landmark achievement in the advancement of cinema as an art form. It features Douglas Fairbanks portraying a nobleman posing as the “Black Pirate” to seek justice for his father’s death and rescue a kidnapped princess.  Accompanied live by eminent Vancouver organist Edward Norman on the historic Wurlitzer organ.