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Australian radio current affairs talk series presented by Phillip Adams. This edition is a panel discussion from the 8th World Shakespeare Congress, hosted by the University of Queensland, on Shakespeare’s...
An advertisement for Pizza Hut and their ‘stuffed crust pizza’. Peter O’Toole on stage (at an audition?) reciting "to be or not to be that is the question/Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer"....
Commercial for Beck’s Beer as part of the ‘What Germans Do Best’ campaign. The balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet performed in German in Expressionist style; the set is black and white with a...
The second track on a collection of variety sketches by Viennese cabaret artist, writer, actor, director Karl Farkas (1893-1971) focuses on the fate of great works of art, such as Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The...
Radio broadcast. Isn’t silent Shakespeare an oxymoron? All that’s nuanced, beautiful, meaningful in the poetry - silenced. Yet between 1899 and 1927, when the first commercial sound film was released,...
Item from MONITOR, the television arts documentary series. A report on the new theatre built in Nottingham including the opening by Lord Snowdon. Features rehearsal footage of Tyrone Guthrie’s production...
Short. A satire on the film industry as if it existed in Elizabethan times. Film director William Shakespeare shoots HAMLET in one reel and in one take. When he screens his 15-minute film for the studio...
Duke Ellington composed incidental music for a Timon of Athens production at the Stratford (Ontario) Festival in 1963. Ellington’s sketches and partial score remained in the Stratford archives since then...
UK television commercial for Gordon’s gin. A glamorous gathering in a theatre bar, people drinking and chatting. A young woman (Fox) holds a glass of gin and tonic with lime. She says to her male companion...
In the third episode of the radio series exploring the life and works of Vaughan Williams, presenter Donald Macleod explores the composer’s Shakespeare opera - Sir John in Love, and his Elizabethan and...
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