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  1. Tempest, The (1912 Film)

    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,...

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  2. Henry V (1913 Film)

    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...

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  3. Hamlet (1910 Film)

    Director
    Henri Desfontaines

    Fiction short. Ball’s attribution of Eclipse as the production company is tentative; he notes that ‘all the external information is puzzling and much of it contradictory’. A detailed account of the...

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  4. Roméo and Juliette (1900 Film)

    Director
    Clément-Maurice

    Emilio Cossira singing a tenor aria from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. Ball hazards a guess that the aria was ‘Ah! Lève-toi soleil’. The film experimented with a synchronised sound system outlined by...

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  5. Hamlet (1910 Film)

    Director
    Will Barker

    Fiction film. The first filmed version of Hamlet to be produced in England. For a detailed account of the complicated provenance of this film see Ball, especially pp.318-20.

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  6. Giulio Cesare (1909 Film)

    aka: Brutus Julius Caesar

    Director
    Giovanni Pastrone
    Producer
    Louis Albert

    An abbreviated version of the play. Ball finds the picture disappointing, commenting on the poorly handled crowd scenes, unnecessary invented action, and primitive photography and acting.

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  7. Robbie Williams V Shakespeare (2002 Television)

    Series
    Swapheads
    Producer
    Atul Malhotra

    Television specialist knowledge quiz show hosted by Johnny Ball. Contestants research the chosen subject of their opponent. In this episode an expert on Shakespeare is in competition with a Robbie Williams...

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  8. Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1913 Film)

    Fiction film. Ball (op cit) writes (p.168). ‘All the camera work was done out of doors, and the scenery is lovely and charmingly rustic. Remarkably for its period, the photography is technically advanced,...

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  9. Othello (1909 Film)

    aka: Death of Othello

    Director
    Franz Porten
    Producer
    Oskar Messter

    A film depicting a scene from Verdi’s Otello, using the experimental synchronisation process known as the Biophon developed in 1903 by Oskar Messter. Ball (op cit, p. 33) describes how a camera turned...

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  10. Bumke als Othello (1913 Film)

    aka: Bumke As Othello

    Director
    Gerhard Dammann

    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.

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