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Fiction film. A record of the F.R. Benson Company’s stage production of The Taming of the Shrew at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre.
Fiction short. Macbeth directed for stage by F.R. Benson with Benson and his wife, Constance, in the leading roles. Filmed at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre.
Cartoon animated by Anson Dyer with a Charlie Chaplin (C.H. Aplin) figure as ‘Amlet. Told of his uncle’s guilt by a ghost, ‘Amlet ‘shoots’ Claudius with a cinematograph, as he exalts over the...
Fiction short. A recording of F.R. Benson’s production of Julius Caesar at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre with Benson as Mark Antony.
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.
A compilation of seven early silent versions of Shakespeare plays, created from nitrate prints held in the BFI National Archive. They include examples of hand-stencilled and tinted prints, and, though...
Feature film. Set in a Swedish provincial town in 1907 depicting the lives of the theatrical Ekdahl family through their siblings Fanny and Alexander. After a Christmas celebration, their beloved father,...
A much shortened record of F.R. Benson’s production filmed at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford in 1911 with Benson as King Richard. The film makes no attempt to be other than what it is, a...