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  • Hamateur Night (1939 Film)

    Series
    Merrie Melodies
    Director
    Tex Avery
    Producer
    Leon Schlesinger

    Cartoon of an amateur talent contest in a local theatre, which includes, among other entrants, an operatic penguin, a fox reciting Shakespeare, two chickens (one with a Katharine Hepburn voice) performing...

  • Shake, Mr. Shakespeare (1936 Film)

    Director
    Roy Mack

    Musical short. Created as a tie-in for Dieterle and Reinhardt’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1935) the film imagines a hybrid between Shakespeare and swing music. An assistant director is told to read all...

  • Dream Comes True, A (1935 Film)

    The premiere of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1935) at the Warner Beverly theatre in Beverly Hills. and behind-the-scenes production footage with shots between takes of many cast members. Includes footage of...

  • Charles Hackett with Rosa Low in an Excerpt from Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet (1931 Film)

    An except from the Capulets’ tomb scene from the final act of Gounod’s opera Rom o et Juliette with American tenor Charles Hackett and Romanian-born soprano Rosa Low.

  • Office Steps (1930 Film)

    Director
    George Hale

    Musical short. Set in the office of a music promoter, the boss, his secretary and the typists all dance. Two tap dancers (Tom and Dick) arrive for audition, then an old Broadway actor (McNaughton). He at...

  • Mme Alda Singing ‘Ave Maria’ By Verdi (1930 Film)

    Musical short in which Frances Alda sings the ‘Ave Maria’ from Verdi’s opera Otello.

  • Shakespeare was Right (1930 Film)

    Vitaphone short. Shakespeare is brought to trial in the modern day to defend his plays against a charge of dullness. His characters come to life in the Jazz Age to show they belong there, with snappy...