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Hamlet (1936 Radio)

Series

Columbia Workshop

Director

Irving Reis

Radio broadcast. Ray Collins reads from Hamlet including the entire ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy. To demonstrate the quality of older and newer microphones, the sound engineer switches microphones...

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Volunteer, The (1943 Film)

Director

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Producer

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Propaganda short feature film. Fred is an inept but willing dresser to a famous actor (Richardson), who makes himself up to play Othello. The news of the invasion of Poland comes in, and (in Othello costume)...

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Lear (1983 Video)

Director

Barry Kyle

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1983 production of Edward Bond’s play, directed by Barry Kyle with Bob Peck as Lear. ‘In Bond’s play, Lear is a...

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Taming of the Shrew, The (1950 Television)

Series

Mr I. Magination

Producer

Paul Tripp; Worthington Miner

Children’s television series. Paul Tripp, as Mr I. (a gentle train engineer), takes children in his train to Imagination Land where they live out fantasies. In this episode Mr I. takes Donny to fulfill his...

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Transforming Our Theatres (2008 Video)

Promotional DVD to raise donations for the building of the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford upon Avon. Artistic Director Michael Boyd and Executive Director Vikki Heywood speak of their vision for...

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John V. Hansen Footage of Hamlet at Kronberg (1937 Film)

Silent amateur film shot by John V. Hansen, engineer and member of the Amateur Cinema League, of a performance of Tyrone Guthrie’s Hamlet at Kronberg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark with Laurence Olivier as...

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Romeo and Juliet (1950 Audio)

Director

Margaret Webster

Producer

Robert C. Fine

Sound recording of Romeo and Juliet directed by Margaret Webster with Robert C. Fine as recording engineer. Eva Le Gallienne and Richard Waring in the title roles. Margaret Webster speaks the Prologue and...

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Lear (1971 Audio)

Director

William Gaskill

A live sound recording of Edward Bond’s play Lear first performed at the Royal Court theatre, London. Harry Andrews is Lear.

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Hamlet (1920 Film)

aka: Hamlet: The Drama of Vengeance

Director

Svend Gade; Heinz Schall

Feature film which presents Hamlet as a princess. While the King of Denmark is seriously ill his wife gives birth to a daughter, telling the court that a son has been born in order to safeguard the crown....

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