Twelfth Night

Synopsis
Abbreviated version of the play directed by Charles Kent with Florence Turner as Viola and Charles Kent as Malvolio.
Country
United States
Medium
Film
Technical information
Black-and-white / Silent
Year of release
1910
Recording date
3 Feb 1910
Duration
970 feet

Credits

Director
Charles Kent
Writer
William Shakespeare
Cast
Florence TurnerViola (later disguised as Cesario)
Julia Swayne GordonOlivia
Tefft JohnsonOrsino, Duke of Illyria
Charles KentMalvolio
Edith StoreySebastian
James YoungSir Andrew Aguecheek
Marin SaisMaria
William HumphreySir Toby Belch

Additional Details

Production type
Fiction Films
Historical period
Elizabethan
Plays
Twelfth Night
Subjects
Drama
Keywords
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes
The copy held by the BFI National Archive is incomplete (735ft, 8min) and scenes are apparently out of order as detailed by Ball. Identification of Edith Story, Marin Sais, William Humphrey and James Young is uncertain.
History
The last of Vitagraph’s Shakespeare one-reelers unless one counts CARDINAL WOLSEY.
Reviews
Ball, Robert Hamilton. Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968 (pp56-60, 314).

Production Company

Name

Vitagraph Company of America

Archive

Name

BFI National Archive

Web
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Phone
020 7255 1444
Fax
020 7436 0165
Address
21 Stephen Street
London
W1T 1LN
Name

Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division

Web
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Phone
(20) 707-8572
Fax
(20) 707-237’1
Address
Motion Picture & Television Reading Room
James Madison Building, LM 336
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Washington, D.C.
20540-4690
United States

How to cite this record

Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av68530 (Accessed 26 Nov 2024)