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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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Matter of Life and Death, A (1945 Film)

aka: Stairway to Heaven

Director

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Producer

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

A British wartime aviator who cheats death by miraculously surviving bailing out of his plane without a parachute must argue for his life before a celestial court. Fantasy film, ostensibly produced with the...

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Adoulotoi Sklavoi (1946 Film)

Director

Vion Papamihalis; Marios Ploritis

Feature film. On the eve of World War II in Athens, a group of young people have established a theatrical group, planning to stage A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The outbreak of war, however, changes...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1953 Film)

Series

World’s a Stage, The

Director

Charles Deane

Producer

Charles Deane

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.

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Midsummer Night’s Dream - Introduction to the Play, A (1954 Film)

Educational videotape for schools. Key scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream are staged with exposition on the language the characters speak and their relationship to one another. ‘Educational...

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