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Feature film. A romance taking place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 focusing on a declining male film star (Dujardin) and a rising actress (Bejo), as silent cinema declines and is replaced by the...
A feature-length celebration of Shakespeare on silent film drawing on two dozen titles from the BFI National Archive many of which are rarely seen. Of the estimated 300 Shakespeare films produced in the...
A shortened version of the play which omits the casket scene and the business concerning Portia’s ring. Some scenes were filmed in Venice.
Silent version of Macbeth presented as an historical spectacle and directed by Mario Caserini with Dante Capelli and Maria Gasperini as the Macbeths. Contemporary accounts speak of ‘very fine tableaux’...
Silent feature film. A romantic family saga which includes scenes from both a stage and film production of Romeo and Juliet.
A comic murder mystery conceived and staged by Forkbeard Fantasy to mark their 30th year in the theatre. Set in 1904 in the pioneering days of cinema, a group of fledgling movie makers, desperate to...
German silent film. A modernised version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Stellan Rye.
A Star Comedy burlesque. No further information known.
Fiction film version of The Tempest. No cast or production credits have been found; the film appears not to have been a critical or popular success.
Fiction short. Robert Hamilton Ball in Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History (p. 314) notes that although a copyright record exists in the Library of Congress no further information can be...
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