Learning on ScreenMidsummer Night’s Dream, A
- Synopsis
- The ‘play scene’ from A Midsummer Night’s Dream enacted by players from the Young Vic Company with a thirty second introduction by Ronald Howard. No cast details known.
- Series
- World’s a Stage, The
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Black-and-white / Sound
- Year of release
- 1953
- Duration
- 12 mins
- Availability
- No archive copy found (11/2007).
Credits
- Director
- Charles Deane
- Producer
- Charles Deane
- Cinematographer
- A.T. Dinsdale
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Art Direction
- George Haslam
- Contributor
- Ronald Howard
Additional Details
- Theatre company
- Young Vic Company
- Production type
- Other
- Plays
- Midsummer Night’s Dream, A
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- General
- Made at Merton Park Studios.
- Reviews
- The Monthly Film Bulletin notes of the production of TWELFTH NIGHT in this series, ‘Possibly intended as a television film, the production pays no concessions to the film medium and the acting (which is of conventional repertory standard) is very theatrical in style. Neither photography nor décor display any imagination, and it seems unlikely that the film will increase the interest of audiences for filmed Shakespeare’. In the entry for A Winter’s Tale for this series it states ‘The scenes themselves must be as bewildering to those who are not familiar with the plays as they are distressing to those who are’.
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