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A burlesque involving amateur theatricals. No further information known of the Shakespeare connection beyond the title.
Experimental student amateur film. Yorick returns to earth and lectures Hamlet on God and nuclear power. Filmed in a basement, with English language actors but a French crew.
Comedy short. An exhausted Shakespearean actor, on holiday in an isolated ranch in Arizona, is forced to put on an amateur production of Romeo and Juliet. Juliet awakens in her tomb and sings ‘O Bury Me...
Feature film. A former theatre director, Dima Kamentsev, stages Richard III using young amateur actors. He engages a ‘difficult’ teenager, nicknamed ‘Milord’ to play the part of Richard. No further...
Topical. Scenes from Henry V performed by the boys of King Edward VI Grammar School, Stratford-upon-Avon. Ball (op cit) believes this production to be the first amateur Shakespeare film. Screened at The...
Comedy short. An experienced actor directs a melodrama for an amateur troupe. A jealous young man sabotages the set.
Low-budget amateur feature film. A self-financed recording by the Rafters Players of their stage production. Filmed over three weeks in Cornwall.
Comedy short. Part of the Bumptious series which featured the rotund and aptly named comedian John R. Cumpson. Bumptious organises an amateur production at the town hall of Romeo and Juliet in which he is to...
Comedy burlesque. The Mudford Amateur Dramatic Society stages Hamlet. The village doctor (Claudius) is called away during a performance and changes into everyday clothes in front of the audience; the Ghost...
Comedy burlesque. The Mudford Amateur Dramatic Society stages Romeo and Juliet. Ball (op cit) writes `...Romeo and Juliet which focused on both on the audience - a bored schoolboy who sticks chocolate on the...