Somme100 FILM project is co-ordinating 100 showings of The Battle of The Somme film with its soundtrack performed live by orchestras, one hundred years after it was released.

Ely Standard: Laura Rossi, the composer who is leading the Somme100 FILM project.Laura Rossi, the composer who is leading the Somme100 FILM project. (Image: Archant)

The Cambridge Concert Orchestra will perform, conducted by Suzanne Dexter-Mills, this Saturday (10) in St George’s Church, Chesterton.

When the film was first shown in Cambridgeshire, it would have been accompanied by the Playhouse Orchestra, lead by violinist D. M Westwood, playing popular pieces of music of the day - marches and so on.

Promoters believe the film was shown at the Cambridge Playhouse in October 1916.

The Battle of the Somme was the first feature-length documentary of war in action. It shows some horrific scenes of fighting and explosions. Starts 7.30pm.