Orkney is gearing up for a weekend of film events, including a visit from an Oscar winner.
Silent film historian and film maker Kevin Brownlow will give a talk about his long career.
And Mr Brownlow, 76, will also take the chance to explore a family connection with the islands.
His grandfather Lieutenant Arthur Fortnum was stationed on Flotta during World War I and was involved in the sinking of U Boat-116 which attempted to enter Scapa Flow through Hoxa Sound.
The vessel was detected October 28 1918 by hydrophone and blown up in a controlled minefield.
During his trip, Mr Brownlow will visit Flotta to find out more about his grandfather’s life there.
Mr Brownlow is recognised as one of the world’s leading experts on silent film, an interest which began in his early teens. Through his research he met and interviewed many leading figures of that era including Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Marlene Dietrich and Gloria Swanson, which lead to him writing one of the definitive books on its history, The Parade’s Gone By.
As a film editor he was nominated for Bafta for The Charge of the Light Brigade, starring Trevor Howard and Sir John Gielgud.
As well as working on the restoration of many silent films, he has directed and produced many documentaries and television series including the Bafta-winning Hollywood and Cinema Europe, narrated by Kenneth Branagh.
Hollywood director Martin Scorsese nominated him for an honorary Oscar for his work preserving and restoring silent film and its history, which he received in 2010, the first ever given for such work.
Tonight there will be a showing of one of the most important British films of the silent era – The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands.
The 1927 film was directed by Walter Summers and tells the story of two early naval battles from World War I.
The film was fully restored by the British Film Institute to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War.
Event organiser Moya McDonald, of Another Orkney Production, said that the realistic style of the film was due to the use of actual World War I warships and crew.
Two of the ships featured were later assigned to Scapa Flow and from there took part in the Battle of Jutland in May 1916.
Many of the battle scenes were filmed at sea off Malta, and the Scilly Isles took on the role of the Falkland Islands.
The film will be shown tonightat the Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall, at 7.30pm.
Mr Brownlow will give his illustrated talk, called Confessions of an English Celluloid Addict at the Gable End Theatre, Hoy, tomorrow and at Cromarty Hall, St Margaret’s Hope on Sunday.