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  1. Marcantonio e Cleopatra (1913 Film)

    aka: Antony and Cleopatra

    Director
    Enrico Guazzoni

    Feature film loosely based on Shakespeare’s play which was praised for its lavish costumes, spectacular sets, and ambitious special effects.

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  2. Romeo and Juliet (1911 Film)

    Director
    Barry O’Neil

    Abbreviated version of the play with Julia M.Taylor as Juliet and George Lessey as Romeo. Ball (op cit) notes ‘The costuming was good, and all in all the film contains considerable visual movement, and...

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  3. Hamlet (1907 Film)

    aka: Hamlet and the Jester’s Skull Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

    Director
    Georges Méliès

    Fiction film. An abridged version of Hamlet which begins with the graveyard scene and ends with the duel scene. Hamlet also sees Ophelia’s ghost. Ball (op cit) writes: ‘It is easy to brand this...

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  4. Romeo and Juliet - A Romantic Story of the Ancient Feud Between the Italian Houses of Montague and Capulet (1908 Film)

    Director
    William V. Ranous

    Fiction film directed by William V. Ranous with Paul Panzer as Romeo and Florence Lawrence as Juliet.

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  5. Triumph (1924 Film)

    Director
    Cecil B. DeMille
    Producer
    Cecil B. DeMille

    Feature film. David Garnet, a tin magnate, dies leaving his fortune to his wastral son on the condition that he settles down within two years. The son, King Garnet, becomes a tramp and so the business passes...

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  6. 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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  7. Life of William Shakespeare, The (1914 Film)

    aka: Life of William Shakespeare: His Intriques and Romances or the Loves, Adventures and Life of William Shakespeare

    Director
    J B McDowell

    Film biography of Shakespeare concentrating on his youth and early manhood. In the final scene Shakespeare dreams scenes from his plays - The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Hamlet.

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  8. 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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  9. Mort de Jules Cêsar, La (1907 Film)

    aka: Shakespeare Writing Julius Caesar

    Director
    Georges Méliès

    Fiction short which shows Shakespeare suffering from writer’s block while planning the assassination scene in Julius Caesar. He falls asleep in his study and dreams of the scene he is to write. Shakespeare...

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  10. Macbeth (1909 Film)

    Director
    Mario Caserini

    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’...

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