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Amateur ballet film photographed by John de Vere Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst. Includes film of three minutes of dress rehearsal of John Cranko’s version of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet staged by the...
Feature film. A remake of the 1921 film also starring Matheson Lang (see separate entry). ‘This version boasts considerably better photography, but otherwise is very ponderous and plain. Nor did they go to...
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...
Cut-out animated cartoon burlesque of Othello. Bioscope (29 July 1920) described the film thus - ‘The Moor of Venice becomes a seaside nigger minstrel whilst Desdemona (known as Mona for short) is the...
Made-for-television hand-drawn animated version of Alfred Jarry’s play. The play offers parodic adaptations of situations and plots from Shakespearean drama, including Macbeth, Hamlet and Richard III.
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...
Interest film, in five parts, based on the Glastonbury pageant of 1922. Episode one shows the arrival of Joseph of Arimathea to preach Christianity to British peoples; episode 2 shows King Alfred’s...
Animation. A fictional account of 400 years of the history of England in a series of tableaux, from the feudal communities of the Middle Ages, through the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the merchants...
Television arts documentary. In 1976 and 1977 Alan Howard played three major roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s repertory - Coriolanus, Henry V and Henry VI (in parts 1, II and III). The programme...
Feature film. Anna Neagle is a supposed Nazi sympathiser who is really British to the core and helps foil a German plot to blow up a harbour in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The film opens with two British air-raid...
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