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RKO Radio Pictures Short. Described on the BFI Film & Television database as ‘A travesty of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar’ and ‘Comedy short with human faces on the bodies of marionettes’.
Abbreviated version of the play directed by Mario Caserini with Amleto Novelli as Hamlet.
Television programme presented by Elwyn Jones. Dame Edith Sitwell repeats a recital of poems which she gave at the Edinburgh Festival in 1959. Among the recitations are the song ‘Take, O! take those lips...
Presents a series of exercises relating to basic acting problems. Shows the work of a first-year group of students at the Central School of Speech and Drama; their activities guided by the actor Harold Lang....
Abbreviated version of The Winter’s Tale. William Shakespeare reads the play to some friends. The story is largely the plot of the play but Autolycus is omitted and there is no pursuit of a bear. McKernan...
One of a series of ballet films shot on location at Wynyard Park in county Cleveland, England. The balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet.
Animation. Still images and animated fragments from George Dunning’s unfinished version of The Tempest.
Feature film with Ruggero Ruggeri as Hamlet.`...Rodolfi finds an intriquing halfway style between film and theatre, eschewing a more conventional cutting scheme. Key thoughts are shown in close-up, there are...
The Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The show is entitled Enlightenment with a theme of science and discovery. Ian McKellen appears as Prospero in sequences inspired by the play.
Compilation of sketches from the series. Includes a one minute skit in which Aimi MacDonald recites Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy whilst tap dancing. Next week Aimi promises King Lear.
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