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Silent Sherlock Holmes film to be screened for first time since 1922 release
The Golden Pince-Nez features Eille Norwood as the detective and has been restored by the BFI national archive
A silent Sherlock Holmes film starring Arthur Conan Doyle’s favourite impersonator of the famous sleuth, Eille Norwood, is to be screened for the first time since its release in 1922, following its extensive restoration by the BFI national archive. She described the Golden Pince-Nez film as “fairly close” to Conan Doyle’s original as his stories were licensed to Stoll Pictures on condition that the screen adaptations would follow his plots. These are the first titles in the BFI’s “mammoth multi-year restoration project”, Dixon said, noting that Norwood’s films were well-received in their day by audiences who flocked to the cinema back then in their millions.
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