The British Silent Film Festival

With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia

Neil Brand and Luke McKernan’s work in progress (in collaboration with the IWM) to recreate, using original text, slides and film extracts, Lowell Thomas’s famous lecture-cum-spectacle which is credited with creating and publicising the legend of Lawrence of Arabia. Thomas himself, a fascinating and flawed character but a master showman, delivers the narration.

Image supplied by James A. Cannavino Library, Archives & Special Collections, Marist College, USA