Leonard's Beautiful Pictures - Cooma

SOUTH EAST ARTS invites you and your family to a sublime evening as Leonard’s Beautiful Pictures makes its debut tour on the mainland, at CENTENNIAL PARK, COOMA, direct from the Ten Days on the Island Festival in Tasmania.

BRING A PICNIC, A RUG or a CHAIR 

Grab a takeaway dinner from one of the local cafes or restaurants and enjoy the evening in the park.

ABOUT LEONARD'S BEAUTIFUL PICTURES

In the family of entertainers known as The Marvellous Corricks there were eight talented siblings: seven sisters and their brother, Leonard. He was just 14 years old when he started making and screening silent films.

It was 1901 and his early projections – a highlight of his family’s travelling shows filled with sketches and singalongs – would light up the world.

In 2021, Leonard’s Beautiful Pictures returned in all their wonder for a world premiere at Ten Days on the Island in Tasmania. These 100-year-old films once again are entertaining and delighting audiences.

Leonard’s fascinating newsreels and dramatic films once awed our local communities with the latest in cinematography. Now, a selection of Leonard’s films, some black-and-white, some gorgeously hand-tinted – digitally restored by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) – represent a rare vision of a former world.

THE SOUND

Paying homage to The Marvellous Corricks’ musical talents, renowned Tasmanian composer and performer Dean Stevenson and his band will accompany these moving pictures with a playful new musical soundscape. 

Originally commissioned by Ten Days on the Island.

Presented by the National Film and Sound Archive Digital Restoration
Program – NFSA Restores – Reviving Australia’s cinema icons.