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Old Vic To Peking

Date released

1980

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

1108

NoS ID

329349

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: With the policy of bringing the classics to the people at prices anyone could afford, The Old Vic Theatre Company built up a reputation that made it internationally famous. It was disbanded in...

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Old Vic (1955 Television)

Television programme going behind the scenes at the Old Vic theatre. The Old Vic was in its third year of a five-year project to stage all Shakespeare’s plays working from the First Folio. There are shots...

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Trailer: Ctbf - Laurence Olivier Appeal

Date released

24 Oct 1946

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

907A

NoS ID

014112

Story no

1 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: CTBF Trailer - Laurence Olivier Appeals to You. DESCRIPTION: Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh appeal on behalf of the Cinema Trade Benevolent Fund. SHOTLIST: MCU Sign Old Vic Theatre...

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Measure for Measure (1937 Television)

Series

Theatre Parade

Director

Tyrone Guthrie

Producer

Royston Morley

The theatre cast of the original stage production of the play directed by Tyron Guthrie at the Old Vic Theatre, London, re-enacted selected scenes for this televised broadcast. Presentation by Royston Morley.

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Return Journey to the Old Vic (1949 Radio)

Producer

W. Farquharson Small

Radio programme presented by Farquharson Small on the history of the Old Vic Theatre, its two female managers, Emma Cons (acting manager 1898-1912) and Lilian Baylis (manager 1912-37), and producer-director...

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Cymbeline (1956 Television)

Director

Michael Benthall

Producer

Michael Elliott

An excerpt showing scenes from the Old Vic Theatre Company production of Cymbeline with an introduction by British theatre actress Sybil Thorndike (1882-1976).

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Julius Caesar (1955 Television)

Director

Michael Benthall

Producer

Hal Burton

Three members of the Old Vic Theatre Company appear in scenes from Michael Benthall’s stage production of the play. Huw Wheldon presents.

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Old Vic Company in Scenes from ‘Othello’, The (1942 Radio)

Series

From the Theatre in Wartime

Producer

Barbara Burnham

Eleventh broadcast in a series offering condensed versions of plays performed at the theatre. Bernard Miles as Iago and Frederick Valk as Othello and other members of the Old Vic Company, London, perform...

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Old Vic Company in ‘The Merchant of Venice’, The (1942 Radio)

Series

From the Theatre in Wartime

Producer

Barbara Burnham

Third broadcast in a series offering condensed versions of plays performed at the theatre. Jean Forbes-Robertson as Portia and Frederick Valk as Shylock perform in scenes from the Old Vic production of...

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Macbeth (1937 Television)

Series

Theatre Parade

Director

Michel Saint-Denis

Producer

George More O’Ferrall

Television broadcast. Scenes from Michel St. Denis’ production of Macbeth at the Old Vic with Laurence Olivier and Judith Anderson in the title roles. Presented for television by George More O’Ferrall.

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