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Heart of England (1959 Film)

Series

Mining Review. 13th Year. Number 2

Newreel produced for the National Coal Board. The first of three stories in this issue contains brief footage of an outdoor performance of Richard III by the Burton Shakespeare Society.

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Teddy Bergman’s International Broadcast (1936 Film)

aka: International Broadcast

Director

Milton Schwarzald

Variety/musical short compered by comedian Teddy Bergman. One sequence involves Bergman’s Shylock’s answer to Billy Reyes Antonio’s request for a loan (I iii). After Bergman first plays the sequence...

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Life with Cooper [22/04/1969] (1969 Television)

Series

Life with Cooper

Producer

Milo Lewis

Comedy series starring Tommy Cooper. Includes a sketch in which Tommy Cooper plays Hamlet. He begins the ‘to be or not to be’ speech which he interrupts with comic banter.

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Cured Hams (1927 Film)

Series

Gold Medal Comedies

Director

George Jeske

Comedy short concerning a disastrous performance of two vaudeville actors (Will and Will Not) at a small provincial theatre. Among their acts is one in which they play the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet...

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Seven Ages, The (1905 Film)

Director

Edwin S. Porter

Fiction short. A depiction of the seven ages of Man in eight tableaux. The titles are: Infancy, Playmates, Schoolmates, Lovers, The Soldier, The Judge, Second Childhood and What Age? (showing an old woman...

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Midsummer Night’s Scream, A (1994 Television)

aka: Night Show: A Midsummer Night’s Scream, The

Series

Without Walls

Director

Paul Morrison

Producer

Gina Marsh

Spoof arts magazine show. In this episode researcher-turned-director Jenny has the thankless task of interviewing up-and-coming writer William Shakespeare. He is producing his play A Midsummer Night’s...

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Our Man in Othello (1998 Television)

Series

Video Nation

Director

Rachel Foster

Producer

Rachel Foster

Television documentary series, in three-parts, in which people gave personal accounts of an episode in their lives in the form of a video diary. David Harewood makes a record of the National Theatre’s tour...

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Otello (1959 Television)

aka: Othello

Director

Rudolph Cartier

A performance, recorded for television, of Verdi’s Otello with Charles Holland as Othello and Ronald Lewis as Iago. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Bryan Balkwill.

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Dvoye (1965 Film)

aka: Two in Love Dvoe

Director

Mikhail Bogin

Short. Relates the growing love between an student oboist and a beautiful girl who studies at a circus theatre for deaf mutes. In one scene the boy watches the girl as the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet...

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Giulio Cesare (1909 Film)

aka: Brutus Julius Caesar

Director

Giovanni Pastrone

Producer

Louis Albert

An abbreviated version of the play. Ball finds the picture disappointing, commenting on the poorly handled crowd scenes, unnecessary invented action, and primitive photography and acting.

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