Brighouse and Rastrick Band set to perform new score as the first ever all-brass soundtrack for a silent film at festival

There's a world premiere alongside century-old cult classics and the return of a long-thought-lost film in the fifth Yorkshire Silent Film Festival.

And for the first time, the world-famous Brighouse and Rastrick Band is to perform a new score as the first ever all-brass soundtrack for a silent film.

There is creeping horror, as only silent film knows. Slapstick comedy, swashbuckling greats. What is striking is that each film is to be accompanied by musicians, improvising as they go.

This is an art, and an incredible talent, said artistic director Jonny Best, that brings each screening to life with dramatic tempo.

He said: "Live music does something almost electric, to the body and the mind. It's completely alive, spontaneous, right there in the room with you.

"And there's something about a film, that is 100 years old, brought to life by musicians.

"It's that mix, of old and new. These beautiful old films, different every time as musicians create the score.

"It's a little taste of something like musical theatre or opera, but with film."

The festival launches October 14, in Hull, with it then coming to Hebden Bridge Picture House on October 15 for a special event with slapstick greats in Hebden Bridge, encouraging children to join in with making music.

The festival closes November 6 at Morecambe's Winter Gardens, with the Rastrick and Brighouse Band accompanying Echoes of the North; Four Chapters in Time.

Featuring rarely seen early 20th century archive footage shot around the North of England, this will be world premiere.

To Mr Best, the festival is celebrating the art of live music to some of the best-known films from the early days of cinema, in settings which may have seen the silent era.

"These silent films were incredibly popular, it was an art that just swept across the world," he said. "We can promise interesting stories along with these haunting, beautiful images."

Yorkshire Silent Film Festival is supported with National Lottery funding from Arts Council England, and Film Hub North on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.