As You Like It

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

How to cite this record

Shakespeare, "As You Like It". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av68533 (Accessed 03 Oct 2024)