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Comedy short. Shakespearean connection beyond the title unknown (9/2008).
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...
Cinemagazine. A look at how Stratford celebrated Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary. Views of Stratford including the cottages of Anne Hathaway and Shakespeare’s birthplace. Tony Sheridan strums a guitar...
Travelogue. English life in Autumn, Winter and Spring. Includes sequences from the Old Vic production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with comedian Frankie Howerd as Bottom at the play rehearsal and Titania...
RKO short primarily serving as an outlet for the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey. They take pills from a Professor Sweinstein and are transported into characters in history - Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
Cinemagazine. Shakespeare quatercentenary celebrations in Stratford-upon-Avon and Trinidad. In Trinidad, dancers in the street portray Shakespeare’s characters as part of a carnival procession. Commentator...
Interest film. A record of the pageant, directed by Randle Ayrton, held in aid of the rebuilding of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on 9 July 1927. ‘Queen Elizabeth’s Progress’ with actors in...
Fiction short. Alice Day is Juliet in a rustic stage performance of Romeo and Juliet. Ball notes ‘I wish I had seen, a Mack Sennett Romeo and Juliet with the hilariously cross-eyed Ben Turpin as Romeo. In...
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