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Illustrates direction, editing and acting, using a selection of MGM films from the 1930s. Includes an extract from George Cukor’s 1936 ROMEO AND JULIET with Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer.
A reworking of the play, based on the Triple Action Theatre Group’s 1973 stage production. Rumbelow sees the play as a conflict between man, nature and the supernatural, and so insisted that it was filmed...
A modern version of the Romeo and Juliet story, here between a rich white businessman and his black cleaning woman.
Presents a series of exercises relating to basic acting problems. Shows the work of a first-year group of students at the Central School of Speech and Drama; their activities guided by the actor Harold Lang....
The Battle of Bosworth scene from RICHARD III. The film is a series of title cards intercut with tableaux from the play in a theatrical rather than cinematic style.
An adaptation of the 19th-century Russian novelist Nikolai Leskov’s transposition of Macbeth to the Siberia of his time. Leskov’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, also served as inspiration for Shostakovitch’s...
Study extracts. 1) the ghost of Hamlet’s father on the battlements (6 min); 2) Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy; ‘Get thee to a nunnery’ scene; preparations for the visiting players...
Feature film adaptation of the play. An abbreviated version in heightened style by actors wearing exaggerated make-up and stylised costumes. Hamlet is played by twin actors to show him as literally a split...
Otto Nicolai’s 1948 opera, translated and adapted by Norman Foster with the Zagreb Symphony Orchestra.
Documentary. Jennings’ deeply felt vision of life in Britain during the final year of World War II as lived by four representative characters - an engine driver, a farmer, a miner and an injured fighter...
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