BUFVC Search
Current Search
Previous Searches
A cinemagazine produced by the National Coal Board. This issue contained three stories. the final story, Heart of England, includes brief footage of an open-air production of Richard III by the Burton...
Feature film. A loose reworking of the Romeo and Juliet story. Set in a small coal mining village in Wales in 1911, a young Jewish peddler (Solomon) meets Gaenor, the eldest daughter of a Christian mining...
Recording of an illustrated lecture at Boston College by Professor Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. He discusses the role of the Library, the use of digital...
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.
Video Recording of a live online lecture by Dr. Ros Barber (Goldsmiths College, University of London) on whether North did in fact write much of the material used by Shakespeare in his work. She discusses...
Video podcast. This podcast by Steven Gunn talks about accidental deaths and the hazards of everyday life in Shakespeare’s day. Coroners’ inquest reports into accidental deaths tell us about the hazards...
Feature film about a turn-of-the-century frontier gold mining town. According to the entry in Lanier (op cit) ‘in a performance described as Barrymore-esque, Reagan performs Othello for a dog, references...
Feature film. Octavia is a rich society beauty living in New York. Her grandfather, a mining magnate, sends her to Alaska fearing that she is about to marry a foolish city boy. There she meets Chuck...
Feature film. A re-working in film noir style of Hamlet. Old Hamlet is president of a Helsinki timber mining and shipping empire. He is poisoned by his managing director, Klaus (Salminen), so that he and...