Oscar® winning director and film historian Kevin Brownlow shares some of his favourite and lesser known Western comedy shorts, with impersonations of famous stars, and gags that mock the best clichés of the genre.

He says: “Western comedy sounds a contradiction in terms, but some of the shorts are fascinating - from early work by John Ford; a hilarious view of a beleaguered pianist playing for a Western in 1916 to a cowboys and Indians drama made in France in 1910 with a horse-drawn Paris omnibus standing in for a stagecoach…” (Kevin Brownlow).

With special thanks to Rosie Taylor for curating this event.

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