A Bermuda from another era lit up Liberty Theatre's big screen on the final day of the first Bakatown Short Film Festival on Saturday night.Island filmmaker Al Seymour Jr's ‘Crimson & Gold', a half-hour movie made in 1980, delighted the audience with moments of offbeat humour and its homage to martial arts movies of the late 70s.Filmed in the pre-digital era, muted colour tones and scratches on the time-damaged original celluloid print (now transferred to DVD) only added to the sense of peering back in time to glimpse a vanished Bermuda.This was an era when disputes were settled not with bullets but with carefully choreographed kung fu-type duels.Although dated, the fun and innocence of the 32-year-old short film captivated the audience with laughter as well as delight at seeing antiquated artefacts such as record players and dial phones in the background shots.The plot involved a lost box that contained something of importance and developed into a series of martial art confrontations. Some of those involved in the movie, including director Mr Seymour Jr, were at the Liberty Theatre on Saturday to witness the first big screen showing of the film.Gavin Djata Smith, founder of Chewstick Foundation, which organised the Bakatown Short Film Festival, picked ‘Crimson & Gold' as a movie favourite. Judging by the loud applause as the film finished, he's not alone.‘Crimson & Gold' was the official festival selection, and it was shown in the middle of five overseas award-winning short films from the Future Shorts Collection.The first movie, ‘Incident by a Bank', recreated a true account of a bizarre attempted bank robbery in Sweden. Two hapless would-be robbers on a moped bike came unstuck in almost comic fashion. As an opening movie for the evening, it proved to be a perfect choice to warm-up the audience.‘Deeper than Yesterday' followed an incident on board a Russian submarine, graphically showing the grim and sinister side of life for men isolated from the outside world, living in almost unbearable proximity to one another.The animated shorts ‘Luminaris' and ‘The Eaglestag Man' displayed two different filming techniques and both captured interesting ideas, with ‘Eaglestag Man' particularly thought-provoking as it pondered the relativity of time and life.The festival concluded with a short from the US, ‘God of Love', about a jazz singer's pursuit of love and how he uses a surprise gift of cupid's darts, yes darts, in an attempt to the woo the one he loves. It was a perfect feel good conclusion to the night and the three-day festival, which had started on Thursday with the airing of five locally produced short films and continued last Friday with a music video launch party.Chewstick should be commended for organising and hosting a highly enjoyable inaugural short film festival for the Island.