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Film version of The Tempest. No cast or production credits found. Ball, paraphrasing from Bioscope (December 12 1912), writes ‘the film consequently has pictured the beginning and end of the story,...
Video recording of Theatre for a New Audience’s 2002 production of Cymbeline directed by Bartlett Sher. Robert Staffel is Cymbeline. Videotaped for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Penny Ward.
Comedy short featuring a character called Bumke. An ambitious but inept actor makes himself ridiculous by playing the part of Othello on the stage. He has to flee when the audience becomes outraged.
Topical. Scenes from Henry V performed by the boys of King Edward VI Grammar School, Stratford-upon-Avon. Ball (op cit) believes this production to be the first amateur Shakespeare film. Screened at The...
The letter scene from Twelfth Night enacted by players from the Young Vic Company with a thirty second introduction by Ronald Howard. No cast details known.
Fiction film based on The Merchant of Venice in which the daughter of a pious Jew steals money from her father and elopes with her lover who has been borrowing from Shylock. Shylock’s pursuit of his...
Newsreel. Travelogue. Places of general and historical interest including Kenilworth, Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon.
Scene from Macbeth enacted by players from the Young Vic Company with a thirty second introduction by Ronald Howard. No cast details known, and the scene unidentified.
Feature film. Welles’ first European work, shot in fits and starts over four years at various locations in Morocco and Italy, due to lack of finance. This original technical quality was poor, but this...
Feature film. Low budget, independent film in which Hamlet is played by a woman (often in male dress) and Ophelia by a man. The film is set in contemporary Turkey; it maintains the outline of Hamlet while...
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