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  • Racconto d’Inverno (1910 Film)

    aka: Winter’s Tale, The

    A version of The Winter’s Tale. Cines’ press material reads ‘a magnificent series of pictures dealing with episodes in Shakespeare’s wonderful tragedy. Acted in the most perfect manner, amid scenes...

  • King Lear (1909 Film)

    Director
    William V. Ranous

    Fiction film with William V. Ranous directing and taking the title role.

  • Winter’s Tale, A (1909 Film)

    Fiction short. No further information known.

  • Songe d’Une Nuit d’Ete (1909 Film)

    aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

    Fiction short. A version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

  • Othello (1909 Film)

    aka: Death of Othello

    Director
    Franz Porten
    Producer
    Oskar Messter

    A film depicting a scene from Verdi’s Otello, using the experimental synchronisation process known as the Biophon developed in 1903 by Oskar Messter. Ball (op cit, p. 33) describes how a camera turned...

  • Romeo und Julia (1909 Film)

    aka: Romeo and Juliet

    Ball (op cit) writes, taking the information from the Wiesbaden brochure, "Deutsche Vitascope made a brief sound film of Romeo and Juliet with Luisa Tettrazzini as Juliet. This was perhaps a presentation of...

  • Othello (1908 Film)

    aka: Jealousy

    Director
    William V. Ranous

    Fiction film of Othello with William V. Ranous directing himself in the title role.

  • Julius Caesar (1908 Film)

    Fiction short. Robert Hamilton Ball in Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History (p. 314) notes that although a copyright record exists in the Library of Congress no further information can be...

  • Romeo and Juliet (1908 Film)

    Fiction short. A version of Romeo and Juliet which is a record of the stage production at the Lyceum; Godfrey Tearle is Romeo and his wife, Mary Malone, is Juliet.

  • Othello (1908 Film)

    Director
    Viggo Larsen

    Fiction film. A comic version of the play with Carl Alstrup as Othello. Bioscope, commenting on the film on its re-release in 1911, writes that Alstrup ‘becomes so imbued with his part that he deals...