SHAKESPEARE

Synopsis

Fiction film. A version of The Winter’s Tale with Martin Faust as Leontes and Anna Rosemond as Hermione.

Country

United States

Medium

Film

Technical information

Black-and-white / Silent

Year of release

1910

Recording date

27 May 1910

Duration

11 mins; 1000 feet

Credits

Director

Barry O’Neil

Screenplay

Gertrude Thanhouser; Lloyd Lonergan

Cast

Martin Faust	Leontes, King of Sicily
Anna Rosemond	Hermione
Amelia Barleon	Perdita
Alfred Hanlon	Florizel
Frank Crane	Polixenes

Additional Details

Production type

Fiction Films

Plays

Winter’s Tale, The

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes

The film is 12 minutes and 35 seconds. Original release length c1000ft. The film was restored by Thanhauser Company Film Preservation, Inc from a print in the Library of Congress and is contained within THANHAUSER COLLECTION. VOLUME 7: THANHAUSER PRESENTS SHAKESPEARE released in 2007.

General

The identification of Barry O’Neil as director is tentative.

Reviews

Ball, Robert Hamilton. Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968 (pp68-70, 73, 316-7). Moving Picture World (June 11 1908) ‘Every scene was set with fidelity to the original, but always with the development of the pictorial feature as an important factor. Then the acting. It would be a capricious critic, indeed who could discover a flaw in it...'.

Production Company

Name

Thanhauser Film Corporation

Archive

Name

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

Web

http://catalog.loc.gov/ External site opens in new window

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

Distributor (Sale)

Name

Thanhouser Company Film Preservation

Email

postmaster@thanhouser.org

Web

http://www.thanhouser.org External site opens in new window

Fax

(503) 226-7961

Address

8770 NW Kearney Street
Portland
Oregon 97229
USA