Classic Hollywood Film Festival in Lahore

The festival represents the development of American cinema from silent, black-and-white movies to colour-tinted and sound versions. Film buffs have an eclectic mix of masterpieces to choose from: works by comedic genius Charlie Chaplin and master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock, the first Hollywood epic by D.W. Griffith The Birth of A Nation and the multiple-award-winning Ben Hur. A collaborative effort by the US Consulate and NCA, the festival represents the development of American cinema from silent, black-and-white movies to colour-tinted and sound versions.The 6-day festival opened on Wednesday with Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush, a personal favourite of Chaplin himself that casts him in the role of a gold prospector at the turn of the 19th century.