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Television sitcom starring George Burns and Gracie Allen as themselves, a show business couple in their home. Each episode began with Burns standing, trademark cigar in hand, before the proscenium...
A version of The Merchant of Venice. Ball surmises that Shylock may have been played by William V. Ranous who probably directed. The Moving Picture World (January 9 1909) noted ‘An ambitious film. The...
This scene comprises part of the video compilation ‘Theatrical Motions Pictures from the Paper Print Collection’ of the Library Congress. Shot by cameraman G W Bitzer in New York City on 15 July 1905,...
Fiction film of Macbeth containing at least 17 sequences with the focus on the first half of the play. Shot largely in the studio, the film was not well received by the trade papers and its censorship by...
Animation short. A life drawing class is caught in the act of capturing the male nude on paper. Words spoken are from Shakespeare.
Early films from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, shown in their entirety. Titles are ‘The drunkard’s reformation’ (March 1909), made by the American Motoscope...
Antony and Cleopatra directed by Charles Kent with Betty Kent (the director’s wife) as Cleopatra. The film was shot entirely in the studio, Vitagraph’s promotion describing the film as a ‘stupendous...
Advertisement. One of a series of adverts for Woolworth and Woolco stores using the slogan ‘That’s the wonder of Woolworths!'. This advert uses an actor, playing William Shakespeare, to advertise...
Fiction short. A western-style shoot out on a beach between God and Shakespeare - the protagonists quote variously from Shakespeare and the Bible.
Newsreel item. Scenes inside and outside the fire-damaged Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon. "Destroyed at Stratford-on-Avon in its Jubilee Year." The damaged building. "But nothing can...
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