Romeo and Juliet

Synopsis

Animation parodying Shakespeare’s tragedy and featuring Charlie Chaplin as Romeo and Mary Pickford as Juliet. Bioscope reported ‘with quite extraordinary skill, Mr Dyer has caught the mannerisms of these two film favourites, reproducing in an amazingly life-like way the famous Chaplin walk and the Pickford smile...'

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Film

Technical information

Black-and-white / Silent

Year of release

1919

Duration

10 mins approx.

Availability

No archive copy found. Presumed a lost film.

Credits

Director

Anson Dyer

Producer

Cecil Hepworth

Animator

Anson Dyer

Additional Details

Production type

Animation

Plays

Romeo and Juliet

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Reviews

Ball, Robert Hamilton. Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968 (p. 265, 371). Bioscope, 23 October 1919.

Production Company

Name

Hepworth Manufacturing Company