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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1909 Film)

Director

J. Stuart Blackton; Charles Kent

Abbreviated version of the play closely following the original with the exception of a new character, Penelope. It is she who quarrels with Titania and tells Puck to bewitch Titania.

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Open-Air Concert for Wounded Soldiers (1917 Film)

Series

War Office Official Topical Budget

The second of four stories in the newsfilm. "WAR ENTERTAINMENTS: A large number of wounded soldiers were entertained by a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Hanover Lodge, Regent’s Park".

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Sommernachtstraum, Ein (1925 Film)

aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Wood Love Heiteres Fastnachtsspeil, Ein

Director

Hans Neumann

Producer

Hans Neumann

Feature film which appears to have combined great charm and ribaldry. Ball, summarising contemporary reviews, writes: ‘Theseus was shown at the telephone, Amazons and Athenians moved into battle to the...

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Cured Hams (1927 Film)

Series

Gold Medal Comedies

Director

George Jeske

Comedy short concerning a disastrous performance of two vaudeville actors (Will and Will Not) at a small provincial theatre. Among their acts is one in which they play the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet...

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Little People Arrive, The (1932 Film)

Series

Eve and Everybody’s Film Review

Newsfilm item. Backstage at a puppet show version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. There are shots of the puppets being manipulated by the puppeteers and the show in front of the curtain as seen by the...

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Mister Cinders (1934 Film)

Director

Friedrich Zelnik

Producer

Walter C. Mycroft

Feature film musical comedy concerning a male Cinderella who wins the heart of an American heiress. Features a village production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in rehearsal and shambolic performance (Hermia...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1935 Film)

Director

William Dieterle

Producer

Max Reinhardt

A film based on the Broadway production by Max Reinhardt. A combination of German expressionism and Hollywood realism. Hal Mohr’s cinematography is ‘astonishing, a surreal visual fantasy of dancing...

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Dream Comes True, A (1935 Film)

The premiere of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1935) at the Warner Beverly theatre in Beverly Hills. and behind-the-scenes production footage with shots between takes of many cast members. Includes footage of...

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Shake, Mr. Shakespeare (1936 Film)

Director

Roy Mack

Musical short. Created as a tie-in for Dieterle and Reinhardt’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1935) the film imagines a hybrid between Shakespeare and swing music. An assistant director is told to read all...

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Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream - Nocturne, Scherzo, Wedding March (1940 Film)

Series

Musical Masterpieces

Director

George Freedland

Producer

George Richfield

Franco Ferrara conducts the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Italy in Mendelssohn’s Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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