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William Shakespeare Main title missing

Reel Number: 221471-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1500-1600

Country: England,United Kingdom

Location: Stratford Upon Avon

TC Begins: 04:01:00

TC Ends: 04:23:56

Duration: 00:22:56

William Shakespeare Main title missing Forest tree reflections in water. Horse pulled cart past mult-storied thatched house. Tilt down steeple, dissolve to finger on birth records for William Shakespeare. Street scene w/ costumed people at vegetable carts. Clothing; cabbage; leather shown on market day. 04:02:50 Horse cart thru countryside. Boy walking to school; teacher writing w/ feathered pen as “Master Shakespeare” arrives; hits him w/ rod. 04:03:51 POV past brush along lane w/ boy walking. Reflections in water. Clouds & light watched by boy on fence gate, laying on grass. Band of players & jesters along road; woman to window; people rush out to see them, kids follow along. 04:05:36 CU boy watching dramatic performance, audience applauds in silhouetted from rear of hall. 04:06:04 Coins dumped on table; seal a document; counting coins. Thatched house exterior & interior, man at window; woman by fire rocking baby & walks up stairs & puts baby in cupboard putting out candle. Looks out window, man in moonlight walking in orchard. 04:07:59 LS over city w/ church steeples & spires. Pan over building, stone walk & wooden buildings on narrow street. View under stone bridge towards large castle. 04:08:47 CUs of people in renaissance costumes laughing & applauding actor who bows. LS reciting actor watched by others. CUs of facial expressions reacting. 04:09:43 Stone carving on top of wall outside castle. Shakespeare as old man reciting in chair as men stand around watching Elizabethian stage performance (?). Man standing watching is Shakespeare.. 04:11:41 Rider past over lane, thru trees & CU road marker. Dismounts & knocks loudly on house; woman down stairs opens door & Shakespeare walks in, sad at death of son. 04:12:53 Scenic countryside scenes w/ reflections in canal, thatched houses. CU of handwritten deed. Man walks thu cemetery w/ woman. 04:13:38 LS of city. Model of Globe Theater w/ cut-away showing interior. Actors in pantaloons rehearsing, assembling props. Shakespeare at desk writing w/ feathered quill. Costumed actors reciting from Julius Caesar. Skull & actors performing Hamlet; sword fight before King & Queen. 04:17:06 MS Hamlet writing w/ quill by candle light. 04:17:44 Actor in armor recites from Macbeth, “...life’s but a poor shadow...” 04:18:35 Pan over theater props w/ VO of lines from plays. CU of dagger on stool, volumes on bench. 04:20:04 People walking on street in Renaissance costumes; man mounts horse, riding home from city. Man working w/ pestle by scales. Shakespeare visits looks at books; at desk writing, wife brings in cup of ??. Continues writing; stands & walks to fire. Shakespeare dictating his will leaving money to actors to buy rings. 04:22:49 Reflections; actors; castle or palace building w/ gargoyles. Pan thru props & burning candles. Reflection of pond & trees. Dissolve to Man closing Shakespeare book. The End Encylcopaedia Britannica Author; Classical Literature;

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