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Tempest, The: An Introduction (1971 Film, Video)
- Director
- Peter Seabourne
- Producer
- John Seabourne
Part of a series of educational films intended to serve as an introduction to each play’s theme or atmosphere. Designed to reproduce the conditions of acting in Elizabethan times such as having the same...
Understanding Shakespeare: His Sources (1971 Video)
- Director
- W Hugh Baddeley; George Murcell
Shows how Shakespeare’s plays grew out of the many elements available to him. The background of English rural life is shown: his home, school and Warwickshire countryside. Shakespeare is seen in London...
Understanding Shakespeare: His Stagecraft (1971 Video)
- Director
- W Hugh Baddeley; George Murcell
Designed to show how the physical features of the Elizabethan stage influenced the work of Shakespeare. The duties of the bookholder, the props and costumes, actors in the ‘tiring room’, and boys playing...
Dans la Poussiere du Soleil (1971 Film)
aka: Lust in the Sun
- Director
- Richard Balducci
Feature film spaghetti-Western based on Hamlet. As he lays dying, killed by his brother Joe, Willie Hawk asks his son, Hawk, to revenge his death. Hawk’s meditative nature lead the townsfolk to think him...
Othello (1971 Television)
- Series
- 24 Hours
- Director
- Peter Oyston; Julius Gellner
Current affairs series broadcast nightly. Includes a short televised excerpt from the controversial production directed by Peter Oyston and Julius Gellner at the Mermaid Theatre in 1971 showing Bruce...
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1971 Television)
- Series
- Play of the Month
- Director
- James Cellan Jones
- Producer
- Cedric Messina
Traditional adaptation directed by James Cellan Jones set in 1865 and filmed on location at Scotney Castle, Kent. With Ronnie Barker as Bottom.
Shakespeare’s Island (1971 Television)
- Director
- Lorna Pegram
- Producer
- Lorna Pegram
Documentary. The programme goes behind the scenes of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford to watch the various stages of John Barton’s production of The Tempest. It also explores Shakespeare’s life...
New King Lear, A (1971 Television)
- Series
- Review
- Director
- Alan Yentob
- Producer
- Barrie Gavin
A BBC topical arts magazine series. This episode includes an interview with Edward Bond, who talks about his play Lear that premiered the same week with Harry Andrews in the title role. Bond states that his...
Juliet is the Sun (1971 Television)
- Series
- Brady Brunch, The
- Director
- Jack Arnold
US comedy drama about the Brady family. When Marcia is offered the lead as Juliet in the school play she is not sure that she can tackle such an important part. But when the Bradys encourage her she lets it...
Magic of Peter Brook, 1, The (1971 Television)
- Series
- Camera Three
- Director
- Merrill Brockway
Television arts series. Peter Brook and his Experimental Theatre Company prepare for a production of The Tempest and are seen in acting exercises and performance. Brook believes that we no longer know what...