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Newsreel item on the Saint George’s Day procession through Stratford-upon-Avon, 23rd April 1915. The procession, led by the Mayor and Mr George Benson, winds through the streets to lay a wreath on...
Fiction short. `...as fine an example of the producer’s skill as we have seen. The management of the riotous crowds, the costly splendour of the costumes, and the perfectly artistic spirit in which the...
Comedian Ronald Frankau, in his customary top hat and tails and smoking a cigarette in a long holder, recites a humorous rhyming monologue on blood in Shakespeare’s plays because ‘I like to see a murder...
Pathe News item which was not issued. The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre’s 1954 production of Romeo and Juliet directed by Glen Byam Shaw went to Moscow in 1959. Glen Byam Shaw welcomes the actors. Scenes of...
Newsfilm. The laying of the foundation stone for the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre by Lord Ampthill on 2 July 1929. View of the old theatre; members of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Warwickshire and...
Newsfilm. Opening of the tomb of Sir Thomas Walsingham at St Nicholas’ Church, Chislehurst in a search for Shakespearean manuscripts, the existence of which American theatre critic Calvin Hoffman believes...
Fiction film version of Othello, filmed mostly on location in Venice, with Ferruccio Garavaglia as Othello.
British Pathe newsfilm item. Preparations for, and scenes from, a production of Macbeth at the Minack Cliff Theatre, an open-air theatre in Porthcurno, Cornwall which opened in 1932. Includes shots of the...
Travelogue of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire which includes brief scenes of a rehearsal for an open air production of Much Ado About Nothing by students of Queen’s College. Narrated by Michael Redgrave.
Comedian Ronald Frankau, in a dinner suit, stands by a piano (played by Monte Crick) and partly sings, partly recites, a humorous monologue on the theme of Shakespeare was a playboy ‘with a naughty...
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