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Fiction short. Alice Day is Juliet in a rustic stage performance of Romeo and Juliet. Ball notes ‘I wish I had seen, a Mack Sennett Romeo and Juliet with the hilariously cross-eyed Ben Turpin as Romeo. In...
This is a collection of some of key books and articles on British newsreels and cinemagazines. The BUFVC publications can be ordered here. A fuller bibliography that includes essays, newspaper articles,...
A Star Comedy burlesque. No further information known.
The film was screened at the Pavilion Theatre, London and shown at New King’s Hall - no other information known (4/2008).
A burlesgue. No further details known (7/2008).
Feature film. A recording of a St James’s Theatre production with Matheson Lang as Shylock.
Fiction film. The connection to Shakespeare’s play is tenuous but the plot is set in Cyprus and involves rivalry for a girl’s affections and the attempted vengeance of the disappointed lover.
Farce. The relationship to Othello has not been ascertained but is included because of the title which translates as ‘Flypaper Othello’.
Fiction film, possibly based on The Merchant of Venice.
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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