SHAKESPEARE

Synopsis

Film adaptation of As You Like It.

Country

United States

Medium

Film

Technical information

Black-and-white / Silent

Year of release

1908

Recording date

11 Sep 1908

Duration

c10; c900 feet

Availability

No archive copy known, presumed lost.

Credits

Director

Kenean Buel

Writer

Gene Gauntier

Additional Details

Production type

Fiction Films

Plays

As You Like It

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

General

Some scenes filmed on the estate of Mr Ernest Seton Thompson, Windygoul Cos Cob, Conn. This location may have been chosen to attract local audiences.

History

Kalem supplied a lecturer for the film ‘With the average audience the delivery of a lecture on this film would make it a big success, otherwise the situations would be unintelligible to many’.

Reviews

Ball, Robert Hamilton. Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968 (pp61-2, 314-5). Ball cites from Moving Picture World ‘The love scene in the forest between Rosalind and Orlando is acted in a lame manner, I have seen people holding hands in that fashion on the last Coney Island boat of a Saturday night, but in a Shakespeare play - never’.

Production Company

Name

Kalem Company