Results
11 results found for '"advertising"' in Keywords.
Shakespeare Succombs to Product Placement (2013 Video)
- Series
- Happy Hour Sketch Comedy
- Director
- Dustin Murphy
- Producer
- Brandon R. Miller
Sketch comedy web series. William Shakespeare (a starving artist before his big career takes off) finds himself writing entertainment business schlock just to keep himself afloat and his nagging wife happy....
Double, Double Toil and Trouble (2009 Radio)
Radio commercial for Specsavers, the biggest optical retailer in the UK. The three witches, reciting lines from the witches spell in Macbeth IV i ("Double, double toil and trouble") inform the approaching...
This is Macbeth (2008 Video)
- Director
- Greg Watkins
- Producer
- Jeremy Sabol; Greg Watkins
The feature-length DVD presents a TV-style interview with characters from the play, who remain in character as they discuss their experiences, motivations, concerns and fears with the fictional host, Ralph...
Voice-Over Queen, The (1990 Film)
- Director
- Alyse Rosenberg
- Producer
- Paula Schapp
Fiction short. Drama about a voice-over actress proficient in making noises which imitate household appliances in television advertisements. Seeking recognition as an artist she auditions for Hamlet but...
Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The (1982 Film)
- Series
- Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The
US late-night talk/variety show. In this episode (3 minute sketch) Carson, dressed in Renaissance garb, imagines Shakespeare as written for television and plays Hamlet, reciting, "To be or not to be" and...
Danny Kaye Show, The [03/03/1965] (1965 Television)
- Series
- Danny Kaye Show, The
- Director
- Robert Scheerer
- Producer
- Perry Lafferty
US variety series. This episode includes a sketch on what commercials might look like if they were written by some of the great authors: William Shakespeare (`Macbath’), William Faulkner (`A detergent...
Jack Benny Program, The [07/02/1960] (1960 Television)
- Series
- Jack Benny Program
US television variety show/sitcom. The episode is sponsored by Lux Liquid and Lux Soap. Don Wilson does the ‘half-time’ commercial as a Shakespearean soliloquy.
Mama Rosa [30/03/1950] (1950 Television)
- Series
- Mama Rosa
- Director
- George. M. Cahan
An obscure, early, and short-lived US sitcom set in a Hollywood boarding house, home to an assortment of theatricals. In episode 6, Shakespeare (Pucci) is writing a 20 second radio commercial that is due to...
Carmen (1946 Radio)
- Series
- Fred Allen Show, The
- Director
- Howard Riley
Radio comedy series written by and starring Fred Allen. Maurice Evans and Allen joke about the misfit between lowbrow radio and highbrow culture (Shakespeare). Evans performs an extract from the ghost scene...
Your Old Time Hit Parade [11/06/1944] (1944 Radio)
- Series
- Your Old Time Hit Parade
Musical radio show. A spin-off series derived from Your Hit Parade and devoted to all-time favourites and standards mixed with some current hits. In what at first appears to be a dramatic scene from the...