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125 results found for all records.
Romeo in Rhythm (1940 Film)
- Director
- Rudolf Ising
- Producer
- Fred Quimby
Cartoon. ‘The Black Crow Light Opera Company Presents Romeo and Juliet’. Swingin’ Romeo and Flat-Foot Juliet are two black crows who speak in African-American accents. They enact part of the balcony...
Bookworm Turns, The (1940 Film)
- Director
- Hugh Harman
- Producer
- Fred Quimby
Cartoon featuring Bookworm, Dr Jeckyl and Crow. A copy of Macbeth comes to life as the three weird sisters are making their brew.
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...
Mickey’s Grand Opera (1937 Film)
- Director
- Wilfred Jackson
- Producer
- Walt Disney; John Sutherland (2)
Cartoon. Mickey Mouse is preparing to conduct an operatic version of Romeo and Juliet with Donald Duck as Romeo and Clara Cluck as Juliet. Pluto upsets the magician’s props backstage and they come to life...
Romeo and Juliet (1933 Film)
- Series
- Terrytoons
- Director
- Frank Moser
- Producer
- Paul Terry
Animation. Romeo (a mouse) attacks the castle where Juliet is living with her parents. Juliet’s father rejects Romeo and blows him away in more ways than one.
Felix the Cat As Romeeow (1927 Film)
- Director
- Otto Messmer
- Producer
- Pat Sullivan
Animation. A parody of the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. The connection with Shakespeare is slight but the sequence in which he courts his Juliet on the balcony with flowers, ice cream and banjo playing...
Othello (1920 Film)
- Director
- Anson Dyer
- Producer
- Cecil Hepworth
Cut-out animated cartoon burlesque of Othello. Bioscope (29 July 1920) described the film thus - ‘The Moor of Venice becomes a seaside nigger minstrel whilst Desdemona (known as Mona for short) is the...
`Amlet (1919 Film)
- Director
- Anson Dyer
- Producer
- Cecil Hepworth
Cartoon animated by Anson Dyer with a Charlie Chaplin (C.H. Aplin) figure as ‘Amlet. Told of his uncle’s guilt by a ghost, ‘Amlet ‘shoots’ Claudius with a cinematograph, as he exalts over the...
Oh’Phelia (1919 Film)
- Director
- Anson Dyer
- Producer
- Cecil Hepworth
Animated cartoon burlesque. ‘Amlet drives Ophelia mad by offering her vegetables instead of flowers, then cutting off her hair ("to bob or not to bob"). Laertes complains to the King of ‘Amlet’s...
Merchant of Venice, The (1919 Film)
- Director
- Anson Dyer
- Producer
- Cecil Hepworth
Animated burlesque. Antonio is a Venetian ice-cream man; Bassanio a navvy. Antonio is brought to court by Shylock. After shedding flood of tears (which cause the flowers in her window box to grow) Portia (a...