Willie, the son of Steamboat Bill, the captain of a steamboat, goes to visit his father after they have not seen each other for several years. The young man is too delicate and refined for Bill’s liking, and his father sets about trying to make a man of him. The events that follow – an unfair competition with another steamboat and a huge storm – transform Bill Junior. Co-written and co-directed by Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner, this nearly century-old film features several of the stunts for which its leading actor became famous. In the most memorable scene, the side wall of a building collapses onto the young man, who survives only because his body happens to be positioned exactly within the frame of one of the windows. The gag was filmed using a real wall, and it is said that half the crew were reluctant to take part, unwilling to face the danger. Steamboat Bill Jr. is now presented as a film-concert, with music by Bruno Pernadas performed live alongside the screening. Trained in classical guitar and jazz, Pernadas is a versatile musician and composer whose career spans a wide range of projects. His work moves between jazz, space-age pop, folk, world music, electronic music, psychedelic rock and the sound-system culture of 1950s and 1960s Jamaica.