Are you unsure about The Smoking Cabinet?

- JUST WHAT are they TRYING to tell-flog-show us?!?

Check out www.myspace.com/thesmokingcabinet for a taster of the kind of films we plan to screen this December, and if you can, join us, darling, join us.

Film clips include: Un Homme de tetes by Georges Melies (1898), La Retour a la raison by Man Ray (1923), A Trapeze Disrobing Act by Thomas Edison (1901) and footage of Josephine Baker dancing circa 1928.

The first titles which shall play at The Smoking Cabinet have been announced! They include Man Ray’s 1923 classic Le Retour à la raison, Percy Smith’s botanical extravaganza Birth of a Flower from 1910 and Tilly Losch and Her Dance of the Hands (Norman Bel Geddes, 1930-33). Please visit events and screenings for more info.

Maybe more importantly, the dates too have been confirmed. The festival will take place between 7th, 8th, 9th December at a variety of London venues, including the Curzon, Soho and Ragged School Museum, Mile End. More details soon!

Dr Vanessa Toulim, Director of the National Fairground Archive (University of Sheffield) is CONFIRMED as a panel speaker at The Smoking Cabinet.

Dr Toulim is an expert on recently discovered early British filmmakers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon, having curated both the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection UK Tour and BFI Video’s DVD release of their work: Electric Edwardians. Her latest project - Admission All Classes - is pairing the Whoopee Agency with a series of film screenings celebrating entertainment for the masses (1850-1950) taking place in the north west through out 2007-2008.

The Smoking Cabinet is now supported by Westminster Arts. We are very grateful to all involved.