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  1. Othello (1920 Film)

    Director
    Anson Dyer
    Producer
    Cecil Hepworth

    Cut-out animated cartoon burlesque of Othello. Bioscope (29 July 1920) described the film thus - ‘The Moor of Venice becomes a seaside nigger minstrel whilst Desdemona (known as Mona for short) is the...

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  2. `Amlet (1919 Film)

    Director
    Anson Dyer
    Producer
    Cecil Hepworth

    Cartoon animated by Anson Dyer with a Charlie Chaplin (C.H. Aplin) figure as ‘Amlet. Told of his uncle’s guilt by a ghost, ‘Amlet ‘shoots’ Claudius with a cinematograph, as he exalts over the...

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  3. Merchant of Venice, The (1919 Film)

    Director
    Anson Dyer
    Producer
    Cecil Hepworth

    Animated burlesque. Antonio is a Venetian ice-cream man; Bassanio a navvy. Antonio is brought to court by Shylock. After shedding flood of tears (which cause the flowers in her window box to grow) Portia (a...

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  4. Romeo and Juliet (1919 Film)

    Director
    Anson Dyer
    Producer
    Cecil Hepworth

    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...

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  5. Oh’Phelia (1919 Film)

    Director
    Anson Dyer
    Producer
    Cecil Hepworth

    Animated cartoon burlesque. ‘Amlet drives Ophelia mad by offering her vegetables instead of flowers, then cutting off her hair ("to bob or not to bob"). Laertes complains to the King of ‘Amlet’s...

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