THE PREVAILING tone of artistic reflections on the summer of 1914 is elegiac; this may be appropriate but not necessarily accurate, as this collection of early cinema entertainment shows. A Night at the Cinema in 1914, assembled by Bryony Dixon, curator of silent films at the British Film Institute National Archive, is touring to venues around the country until mid November. It comprises nearly an hour and a half of newsreels, travelogue, comedy, drama and variety, set to a new score by Stephen Horne. At the outbreak of the First World War, cinema – the kinematograph business – was quite the thing in Britain, with at least two weekly publications chronicling its progress. During the decade leading up to it, more than 3,000 purpose-built cinemas had appeared and audiences were,