A SPECIAL silent cinema night at Brecon's Coliseum Cinema will feature some of the oldest known film footage of the town.

Brecon Film Society is holding a special screening on Monday, April 7 of a 1926 animated film 'The Adventures of Prince Achmed'. It is the world's oldest surviving animated feature film.

Ahead of the main feature, footage filmed by local professional photographer Jack Clark, dating back to the 1920s, will be shown on the cinema's big screen.

All the films will feature music specially composed by Paul Shallcross, of Brecon, who will be playing the piano at the screening.

It will be a specially poignant night for Jack Clark's grandson's Philip, 60, and Andrew, 62, as their father, Jack's son Vernon, died last week.

Andrew still runs Clark's, the town centre toy and gift shop, first founded as a photography shop and studio by his grandfather in 1905.

Vernon Clark, who was 91, had spearheaded the expansion of the business.

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