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Eight-part television series, the aim of which was to explore ‘how far television can be used to allow the poem itself to work undisturbedly on the reader-listener’. In episode 7, Professor I.A. Richards...
A concert series featuring the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its conductor Seiji Ozawa. Guest conductor Colin Davis leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Berlioz’s King Lear Overture (c13 mins) and...
Fiction film. A young woman and her fiance attend a performance of Romeo and Juliet starring a matinee idol billed as ‘the modern Garrick’. The woman becomes infatuated with the actor and craves to play...
An except from the Capulets’ tomb scene from the final act of Gounod’s opera Rom o et Juliette with American tenor Charles Hackett and Romanian-born soprano Rosa Low.
Adult movie. The film comprises two narratively unconnected 30 min. segments - Romeo and Juliet and The First Convertible. The former is shot on a single studio set, in Elizabethan costume and with actors...
Animation. The film shows a different drawing for each word of Hamlet’s ‘To Be Or Not To Be’ speech. Images are not connected to the speech or its meaning. Narrated by Maurice Evans,
Fiction short. A version of The Merry Wives of Windsor. Ball (op cit) notes that Fenton, Shallow, Slender, Sir Hugh Evans, Doctor Caius and Mistress Quickly are omitted.
Animation. Romeo (a mouse) attacks the castle where Juliet is living with her parents. Juliet’s father rejects Romeo and blows him away in more ways than one.
Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Overture, Scherzo, Wedding March) and the Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90, (Italian...
Educational videotape for schools. Key scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream are staged with exposition on the language the characters speak and their relationship to one another. ‘Educational...