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John Barrymore was approached in 1933 to make a film version of Hamlet. Although he had played the role many times on stage, the production company asked for a screen test, perhaps because of rumours that...
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.
Television news and current affairs programme presented by Jeremy Paxman. Includes a Newsnight Review item (6.5mins) on the newly established Hip Hop Shakespeare Company. Kirsty Wark announces the launch of...
A compilation of screen tests given by Mrs Patrick Campbell. Includes the sleepwalking scene from Macbeth, Palleas and Melisande (sound only), Yiddish dialect from The Matriach (sound only), and a scene from...
W. Moelwyn Merchant, University of Exeter, and Brian Morris, St David’s University College Wales, discuss the play. They argue that Richard’s character and actions test the Elizabethan notions of the...
Documentary. The career of British actress Claire Bloom, paying particular attention to her playing of Shakespearean heroines. ‘Talking head’ delivery is interspersed with excerpts from both film and...
Shakespeare’s famous line-up from As You Like It is newly explored for the 1980s in a series of seven documentary films written and presented by Ronald Eyre. Each episode deals with a different stage of...
Amateur, low-budget production of the play made at Northwestern University, Chicago, using local settings and student talent.
Feature film. An elderly professor is infatuated by an attractive young music-hall singer, and abandons his teaching career to go away with her and her troupe. In one scene Professor Rath uses the line ‘to...
UK television commercial for Gordon’s gin. A glamorous gathering in a theatre bar, people drinking and chatting. A young woman (Fox) holds a glass of gin and tonic with lime. She says to her male companion...