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Vitaphone short. Shakespeare is brought to trial in the modern day to defend his plays against a charge of dullness. His characters come to life in the Jazz Age to show they belong there, with snappy...
Musical short in which Frances Alda sings the ‘Ave Maria’ from Verdi’s opera Otello.
The premiere of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1935) at the Warner Beverly theatre in Beverly Hills. and behind-the-scenes production footage with shots between takes of many cast members. Includes footage of...
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.
Musical short. Set in the office of a music promoter, the boss, his secretary and the typists all dance. Two tap dancers (Tom and Dick) arrive for audition, then an old Broadway actor (McNaughton). He at...
Cartoon of an amateur talent contest in a local theatre, which includes, among other entrants, an operatic penguin, a fox reciting Shakespeare, two chickens (one with a Katharine Hepburn voice) performing...
Musical short. Created as a tie-in for Dieterle and Reinhardt’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1935) the film imagines a hybrid between Shakespeare and swing music. An assistant director is told to read all...