Like all silent films, the scene from King John might well have been accompanied by some variation of live music, sound effects, phonograph records, intertitles, recitations, or supplementary lectures, as filmmakers sought to compensate for a silenced Shakespeare.Ĭineasts in France, the United States, Italy, and Germany soon began making other Shakespeare movies. Of four excerpts shot and later exhibited at London’s Palace Theatre to promote the stage production, only the death scene (Act V, scene 2), long thought lost, resurfaced in 1990 in an Amsterdam film archive. Among these early films was a remarkable production of 1899 (still available) by the London studio of the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company: a scene from Shakespeare’s King John-then on the boards at Her Majesty’s Theatre and featuring Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree-recorded on 68-mm film. Pioneer French filmmakers had begun to produce primitive actualités (i.e., brief film clips of parading soldiers and umbrella dancers), which were screened between the live acts in vaudeville houses in London and New York City. Listen to Professor Mark Thornton Burnett explaining why we can watch Shakespeare's films in other languages See all videos for this articleĪt the end of the 19th and the start of the 20th centuries, when William Shakespeare was becoming an academic institution, so to speak-a subject for serious scholarly study-a revolutionary search began in the world outside the universities for the means to present his great dramas in the new medium of film. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.

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