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Murder mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as the mystery writer-cum amateur detective, Jessica Fletcher. In this episode there is rivalry for the coveted post of headmaster at St Crispin’s Academy....
A cinemagazine produced by the National Coal Board. This issue contained three stories. the final story, Heart of England, includes brief footage of an open-air production of Richard III by the Burton...
Filmic imagery is used to illustrate quotations from the works of Shakespeare. Commentary attempts to contextualise Shakespeare’s work within the environment in which he lived, and to suggest what might...
Amateur film. Record of a house party held by author J.M. Barrie at Stanway, Gloucestershire, the home of Lord Wemyss. Written and directed by Barrie, it features a semi-dramatised dream sequence in which...
Fiction short. An alcoholic tramp, and former actor, living around Charing Cross, London recalls lines from Romeo and Juliet which underline his own life.
A shortened version of the play which omits the casket scene and the business concerning Portia’s ring. Some scenes were filmed in Venice.
Documentary short written and directed by George Fleming which combines Shakespeare with modern Britain to to produce a poetic documentary about a modern British family. [Description summarised from that...
A record of the Warwick Pageant held in the grounds of Warwick Castle 2-9 July 1906 and showing incidents in Warwick’s history from AD40-1572. Includes scenes from a performance of Christopher Marlowe’s...
Television show in which Paul McCartney and John Lennon were joined by a number of artists, each giving their versions of Beatles’ songs. There is a comic tour de force from Peter Sellers, intoning ‘A...
Animated version of Alfred Jarry’s play by Geoff Dunbar. The play offers parodic adaptations of situations and plots from Shakespearean drama, including Macbeth, Hamlet and Richard III.
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