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Animation parodying Shakespeare’s tragedy and featuring Charlie Chaplin as Romeo and Mary Pickford as Juliet. Bioscope reported ‘with quite extraordinary skill, Mr Dyer has caught the mannerisms of these...
Viewfinder 104 was published in September 2016. Contents of the issue: LEARNING ON SCREEN Our Chief Executive, Virginia Haworth-Galt, explains the thinking behind our rebrand and maps out our...
Cartoon animated by Anson Dyer with a Charlie Chaplin (C.H. Aplin) figure as ‘Amlet. Told of his uncle’s guilt by a ghost, ‘Amlet ‘shoots’ Claudius with a cinematograph, as he exalts over the...
Animated burlesque. Antonio is a Venetian ice-cream man; Bassanio a navvy. Antonio is brought to court by Shylock. After shedding flood of tears (which cause the flowers in her window box to grow) Portia (a...
Cut-out animated cartoon burlesque of Othello. Bioscope (29 July 1920) described the film thus - ‘The Moor of Venice becomes a seaside nigger minstrel whilst Desdemona (known as Mona for short) is the...
Study extracts. 1) the ghost of Hamlet’s father on the battlements (6 min); 2) Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy; ‘Get thee to a nunnery’ scene; preparations for the visiting players...
Feature film. A record of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson and the Drury Lane Company’s production of the play. `... the film’s chief purpose is to preserve a performance and a production and makes few...
Animated cartoon burlesque. ‘Amlet drives Ophelia mad by offering her vegetables instead of flowers, then cutting off her hair ("to bob or not to bob"). Laertes complains to the King of ‘Amlet’s...
The New Scottish Cinema by Jonathan Murray, (I.B. Tauris, 2015), 288 pages, ISBN: 978-1845118617, (hardback), £69.00. About the reviewer: Simon Brown is Associate Professor of Film and Television at...
Sixty years ago Hollywood had its first serious engagement with exhibiting feature films in three dimensions. Dr Simon Brown looks at one of the first films released on the then new film format, Inferno,...
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