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Three extracts from HAMLET (1948) - I ii, I,iii, III i compiled for 8mm release by Castle Films. The BFI National Archive holds the 35mm original. Presented by Laurence Olivier.
Trailer for Orson Welles’ MACBETH (1948).
Documentary on the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, giving the story of the company and showing them in rehearsal and in performance in London with a production of Coriolanus. Narrated by Michael Croft.
Animated short. The Romeo and Juliet story from caveman times to the present.
Newsfilm item. Folk dancing and Shakespearean performance at the Burley pageant in Yorkshire.
A news and magazine programme. Studio rehearsal between presenters from different regions reading lines from Shakespeare. An exercise to test the ability to cut quickly between the regions.
Abbreviated version of the play directed by Percy Stow. The cast is not known.
Musical short in which Frances Alda sings the ‘Ave Maria’ from Verdi’s opera Otello.
Amateur film showing scenes from King Lear performed in the Speech Room at Harrow School in 1956, under the supervision of Ronald Watkins.
Work and rehearsals at the Th àtre National Populaire (TNP) with extracts from Macbeth and the Prinze von Homburg featuring Jean Vilar, G rard Philipe and Maria Casar s.
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