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William Shakespeare - Background For His Works

Reel Number: 221470-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950

Country: England,United Kingdom

Location: London,stratford

TC Begins: 03:45:28

TC Ends: 03:58:13

Duration: 00:12:45

William Shakespeare - Background For His Works Coronet 03:45:45 England street scene from above w/ pedestrians, traffic. MS individual people walking, man reading newspaper, talking. Boy & girl kiss on park bench; boy reading on bench outside ivy covered school. CU of book The Works of William Shakespeare w/ etching of Shakespeare. 03:46:53 LS across English village in Warwickshire valley. Kenilworth castle ruins beyond field. MS. 03:47:37 Illustration of Queen Elizabeth. River Avon w/ Stratford on opposite bank; street scene w/ half-tudor buildings. Tourists & pedestrians; entering birthplace; thatched buildings. Home of Anne Hathaway. Interiors. 03:49:05 London street scene w/ St Martin’s-in-the Fields church & traffic. Tower of London. Wooden Inn w/ balconies as first theaters. Globe theater. 03:49:47 Memorial Theater at Stratford, people entering; past poster for A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Romeo & Juliet poster. 03:50:19 Actor on stage (SOF). Macbeth poster, Lady Macbeth (SOF). Taming of the Shrew poster, SOF of Petruchio. Merchant of Venice poster, Portia (SOF) re quality of mercy. Hamlet poster, SOF Hamlet To Be or Not To Be... 03:53:21 Open book w/ Shakespeare’s picture, turning page of old English typeface. Merry Wives of Windsor. Intertitles of phrases still used today. 03:54:45 Opening book as above, turning pages. CU of phrase re Forest of Arden, shot of actual Forest of Arden. Heath w/ brush & shrub. 03:55:27 Windsor Castle gardens, park land. Coastal Cliffs of Dover & English Channel. 03:56:02 Ext of Castle & people walking around it. Sun thru clouds w/ dramatic light. Pan across silhouetted trees & church w/ light on clouds. 03:57:02 High angle of English town lining road. River Avon w/ Church in background. MS of Stratford Church & tower. Statue of Shakespeare. 03:47:48 High angle of pedestrians window shopping, buses. Abrupt end. Literature; History; Elizabethan Playwright; Theatre; Tourism; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per real rate.

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