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Things to Come (1936 Film)

Director

William Cameron Menzies

Producer

Alexander Korda

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Feature film. Forecasts that World War II would cause the collapse of civilisation to be replaced by a life of Arcadian simplicity. Science takes over with an invention of a ‘space gun’ which shoots...

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Merchant of Venice, The (1938 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare Cycle (Cbc)

Director

Charles Warburton

CBC Radio drama. Scenes from The Merchant of Venice directed and adapted for radio by Charles Warburton.

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Shakespeare in Hollywood (1950 Audio)

Eight sound discs. A compendium of the 60-minute Columbia Shakespeare Cycle of plays broadcast in 1937 starring leading Hollywood actors. Narrated by Conway Turo.

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Peg of Old Drury (1935 Film)

Director

Herbert Wilcox

Feature film based on the life of the eighteenth-century actress Peg Woffington. Born in Dublin, she came to London and became a famous actress under David Garrick’s guidance. She suffered from a weak...

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Twelfth Night (1937 Radio)

Series

Columbia Shakespeare Cycle

Producer

Brewster Morgan

A CBS radio version of Twelfth Night with Tallulah Bankhead as Viola and Orson Welles as Orsino. Narrated by Conway Tearle.

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Richard III (1955 Film)

Director

Laurence Olivier

Producer

Laurence Olivier

What makes this ‘gloriously watchable, now as then, is Oliver’s effortlessly virtuosic performance as Richard: imperious, ironic, bruttish, sometimes hysterical and never less than smirkingly...

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