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)