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  1. Duped Othello, The (1909 Film)

    aka: Theatrical Chimney Sweep, The

    Director
    Jack Smith

    Fiction film. A chimney sweep, wanting to take revenge on an actor, secretly puts soot into his make-up. No further details found (7/2008).

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  2. Romeo und Julia (1909 Film)

    aka: Romeo and Juliet

    Ball (op cit) writes, taking the information from the Wiesbaden brochure, "Deutsche Vitascope made a brief sound film of Romeo and Juliet with Luisa Tettrazzini as Juliet. This was perhaps a presentation of...

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  3. Hamlet (1908 Audio)

    E.H. (Edward Hugh) Sothern reciting Hamlet’s soliloquy ‘to be, or not to be’ and Hamlet’s speech to the players (III ii).

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  4. Tempest, The (1908 Film)

    Director
    Percy Stow

    Abbreviated version of the play directed by Percy Stow. The cast is not known.

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  5. Romeo and Juliet (1908 Film)

    Fiction short. A version of Romeo and Juliet which is a record of the stage production at the Lyceum; Godfrey Tearle is Romeo and his wife, Mary Malone, is Juliet.

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  6. Merchant of Venice, The (1908 Film)

    A version of The Merchant of Venice. Ball surmises that Shylock may have been played by William V. Ranous who probably directed. The Moving Picture World (January 9 1909) noted ‘An ambitious film. The...

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  7. Warwick Pageant (1906 Film)

    A record of the Warwick Pageant held in the grounds of Warwick Castle 2-9 July 1906 and showing incidents in Warwick’s history from AD40-1572. Includes scenes from a performance of Christopher Marlowe’s...

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  8. Tempest, The (1905 Film)

    A filmed record (with Beerbohm Tree’s consent) of the opening storm scene from his stage production of The Tempest. Urban’s catalogue describes the scenes thus: ‘This remarkable picture, taken under...

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  9. King John (1899 Film)

    aka: Scene - ‘King John’ - Now Playing at Her Majesty’s Theatre, A Beerbohm Tree, The Great British Actor

    Director
    William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson

    Four scenes from the Her Majesty’s Theatre production of King John, one of which survives. The descriptions quoted are from the copyright records in The National Archives: THE BATTLEFIELD NEAR ANGIERS -...

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  10. [To Be or Not to Be - Hamlet Sound Recording] (1885 Audio)

    Possibly earliest sound recording of the opening lines of Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy, spoken by a man’s voice on a wax cylinder disc. The recording is an example of experiments...

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