1950 - Col, USA Educational Film: William Shakespeare: Background For His Works (main title missing & abrupt end)

1950 - Col, USA Educational Film: Shakespeare’s England Coronet Instructional Films (main title missing) Shots of Warwickshire countryside, sleepy village, ruins of Kenilworth Castle. 01:16:41 Portrait of Elizabeth I. Stratford-upon-Avon - street scenes w/ half-timbered buildings - tourists into Shakespeare’s birthplace; boys into Shakespeare’s school. Ann Hathaway’s cottage - INT shot. 01:17:55 London - red double-decker bus in traffic. 01:18:00 Tower of London. 01:18:12 George Inn & courtyard - model of Globe Theatre. 01:18:37 Memorial Theatre at Stratford - visitors going in past sign: Today at 2.30 A Midsummer Night’s Dream. CUs various playbills & extracts of stage performances: Romeo & Juliet - “what light from yonder window breaks?” 01:19:44 Macbeth - scene w/ Lady Macbeth; Taming of the Shrew - scene w/ Petruchio; Merchant of Venice - “the quality of mercy is not strange”; Hamlet - “To be or not to be, that is the question...” 01:22:22 CU collected works of Shakespeare - pages turning - olde English verse. Examples of Shakespearean phrases still used today: “neither rhyme nor reason” etc. 01:24:10 Forest of Arden - inspiration in Warwickshire countryside, Windsor Castle; White Cliffs of Dover. Blue sky w/ grey clouds; village at dusk; sunset 01:26:06 Aerial rural village; River Avon - church bell tolls in BG - Stratford Church & Shakespeare’s grave. 01:26:48 London street scene - pedestrians past shops. Pull out to show double-decker buses & traffic. Ends abruptly. English Literature; England Daily Life; Tourism; Tourists; Literary History; Theatre; Theaters; Plays; Literature; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.