Pantomime Dame, The

Synopsis: The pantomime has been a uniquely British tradition for over 200 years, but the pantomime dame belongs to an older tradition having evolved from Grimaldi’s clown of the early 1800s through the burlesque tradition of female impersonation embodied by Dan Leno in the 1900s. Examines the reasons for the Dame’s enduring hold on the audience’s imagination and investigates the changes in her portrayal corresponding to changing attitudes to women and sexuality.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Film; Video; Film. 16mm. sd. col. 15 min. Videocassette. VHS. col. 15 min.
Technical information: Black-and-white / Sound
Year of production: 1982
Availability: Hire
Uses: Students of drama; popular culture courses; sociology and culture courses.*
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: pantomime; United Kingdom

Director: Elizabeth Wood
Producer: Elizabeth Wood
Contributor: Cyril Collick; Ernest Vincze; Ivan Strasburg; John Lundsten; John Shann; Martin Rissen; Peter Heelas

Name: Arts on Film Archive, University of Westminster
Notes: Arts on Film Archive offers on-line access to a large range of films on art produced in the United Kingdom since the 1950s, and is a unique record of British and international post-war art, as well as of documentary film-making in the UK. In its first phase, the archive offers a complete database and an on-line video streaming of all 450 films made by the film department of Arts Council England between 1953 and 1998 and several films produced till 2003 by the dance Department of ACE. The collection is only available streamed to ac.uk domain addresses.

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