Learning on ScreenHenry VIII
- Synopsis
- A record, filmed at Ealing, of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree’s production of Henry VIII staged at the Her Majesty’s Theatre.
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Black-and-white / Silent
- Year of release
- 1911
- Recording date
- 27 Feb 1911
- Availability
- No copies extant
Credits
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Plays
- Henry VIII
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Notes
- Information on the length of the film is inconclusive but Ball surmises that it is likely to have been two reels.
- General
- Beerbohn Tree had opened his stage production at His Majesty’s, London on September 1 1910 playing Wolsey with Arthur Bourchier as the King and Violet Vanbrugh as Queen Katharine.
- History
- Tree was paid an unprecedented fee of £1000. Only 20 prints were made; these were not sold to a dealer but leased for special exhibition as an ‘exclusive’. After six weeks the prints were to be called in and destroyed. On April 13, at the end of the six-week period, the prints were burned at Ealing, producer Will Barker himself applying the match while a cameraman filmed the destruction of the prints. Barker’s aggressive pre-publicity and marketing of the film is fully described in Ball.
- Reviews
- Ball, Robert Hamilton. Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968 (pp78-82, 320-22).
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