Learning on ScreenMacbeth
- Synopsis
- Fiction film version of Macbeth directed by André Calmettes with Paul Mounet and Jeanne Delvair as the Macbeths. The film owed much to theatrical convention. Ball (op cit) comments ‘Actors are forever entering or leaving the scene as if they were on a stage, and the frequency with which the technique is used makes identification of characters in the rapidly paced and shifting episodes at times impossible. Talk and gesture which would interpret a play become empty or extravagant when there is no sound’.
- Country
- France
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Black-and-white / Silent
- Year of release
- 1909
- Duration
- c11; c1000 feet
Credits
- Director
- André Calmettes
- Cast
Paul Mounet Macbeth Jeanne Delvair Lady Macbeth
Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Plays
- Macbeth
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William
Notes
- Notes
- The copy held by the Library of Congress is 439ft, missing about half the footage.
- Reviews
- Ball, Robert Hamilton. Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968 (pp. 91-6, 324-5). Ball gives a full description of the scenes and an account of the different release dates cited in various sources.
Production Company
- Name
Film d’Art
Archive
- Name
Archives Francaises du Film du Centre National De La Cinematographie (CNC)
- AFF@cnc.fr
- Web
- http://www.cnc/fr External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +33-1 3014 8000
- Address
- 7bis Rue A, Turpault, F-78395
Bois D’Arcy
France
- Name
Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv
- filmbenutzung@bundesarchiv.de
- Web
- http://www.bundesarchiv.de External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +49 (0)30 18/7770-1172
- Fax
- +49 (0)1888-7770-999
- Address
- Finckensteinallee 63
Berlin
12205
Germany
- Name
Deutsche Kinemathek
- filmverleih@deutsche-kinemathek.de
- Web
- http://www.filmmuseum-berlin.de/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +49-30-300 903-31
- Fax
- +49-30-300 903-13
- Address
- Museum für Film und Fernsehen
Potsdamer Straße 2
Berlin
10785
Germany
- Name
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division
- Web
- http://catalog.loc.gov/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- (20) 707-8572
- Fax
- (20) 707-237’1
- Address
- Motion Picture & Television Reading Room
James Madison Building, LM 336
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Washington, D.C.
20540-4690
United States
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