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Documentary about Yugoslavia’s celebration of Shakespeare’s quatercentenary which was held in Sarajevo from June 1-8, 1964. The film contains extracts from productions by Yugoslav theatres.
Musical short. An early sound film using Lee De Forest’s sound film process and featuring a song from Gounod’s opera Romeo et Juliette sung by Otakar Marak and Mary Cavanova.
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...
Radio broadcast live from King Edward VI School. The BBC Concert Orchestra join presenter Matthew Sweet live on stage for 60 minutes of music from Shakespeare on film. Including music from one of the great...
Early sound short showing the trial scene from The Merchant of Venice (IV i). Lewis Casson is Shylock and Joyce Lyons plays Portia.
Feature film version of the play and the first sound film to attempt a full version of a Shakespeare play. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks as Kate and Petruchio.
Radio broadcast. Matthew Sweet presents a selection of music for films that take inspiration from the works of Shakespeare. Includes music from the scores of Start Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country,Ran,...
Animation. The film shows a different drawing for each word of Hamlet’s ‘To Be Or Not To Be’ speech. Images are not connected to the speech or its meaning. Narrated by Maurice Evans,
Black comedy short. Hattie is a burnt-out social worker who has returned to university where the Shakespeare she’s studying begins to have a resonance in her life. The deadly combination of Othello,...
Presents scenes from Shakespeare’s plays, examples of his stagecraft and the landscapes in which many of his plots are set. Examines how his life, locale and times shaped literature.
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