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- BFI identifier144790
- Date1961-04-09 (Television)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- SynopsisTelevision film; a close-up of the work of a 1st year class at the Central School of Speech and Drama and the methods used to train the aspiring actors and actress. Instructor is Harold Lang. Lang arrives late and apologises then takes the register. At the end of the class he talks to a student, while a voice-over of Dame Peggy Ashcroft recites Portia's speech on mercy from "The Merchant of Venice". (Synopsis)
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The Class (Original)
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Non Fiction (Short film)- Collections
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- Scripts / DocumentsJohn Schlesinger - Television Series Projects - Documents - Scripts and notes for television Series episodes made by John Schlesinger includes for Monitor (BBC) and The Face London. See also cuttings in A Kind of Loving Scrapbook JRS-1-2-3 JRS-2 previously JRS/19 - JRS/20 THE FACE OF LONDON A Series of Films For Television (tx 1956) JRS/19/1 'Two First Treatments For THE RIVER and THE CITY, 'Greenwich Only' and 'Dear Sir', written by John Schlesinger and Mitchell Raper, nd. MONITOR An Arts Magazine television programme composed of short films on different subjects tx 2/2/1958 - 29/6/1965. JRS/20/1/1 MONITOR : CIRCUS (tx 2/2/1958) Director/Camera Operator : John Schlesinger; Presenter: Huw Weldon Commentary Script, nd. MONITOR: ITALIAN OPERA COMPANY (tx 30/3/1958) Director: John Schlesinger JRS/20/2/1 Commentary script ' Some Italians In Drury Lane', nd. MONITOR: CANNES FILM FESTIVAL (tx 25/5/1958) Director: John Schlesinger JRS/20/3/1 Rough commentary script draft, typescript heavily annotated, nd; JRS/20/3/2 Commentary script 'The Clapper Board Of My Aunt', nd [An account by John Schlesinger of the Film Festival at Cannes] MONITOR: BENJAMIN BRITTEN (tx 22/6/1958) Written & Directed by John Schlesinger. JRS/20/4/1 Commentary script, rough manuscript draft, nd. JRS/20/4/2 'Britten - Linking Commentary' - annotated typescript, nd. JRS/20/4/3 'Aldeburgh Item' commentary script, nd. MONITOR: ON THE PIER (tx 20/7/1958) Written & Directed by John Schlesinger JRS/20/5/1 'Over The Briny (A Study of the different aspects of a pier)' story outline/shot list, nd; JRS/20/5/2 'Dubbing Script on Piers Item', 20 July 1958. JRS/20/5/3 'On The Pier' - commentary script with note 'not to be read jollily', nd. MONITOR: BACK STAGE AT THE REP (tx 29/9/1958) a.k.a ALL NEXT WEEK Written & directed by John Schlesinger JRS/20/6/1 Drafts of commentary script, annotated typescript, nd. MONITOR: INNOCENT EYE (tx 9/11/1958) Written & Directed by John Schlesinger. JRS/20/7/1 BBC notepad, 'Innocent Eye - notes' by Schlesinger, nd. JRS/20/7/2 Commentary script, nd. MONITOR: HI-FI-FO-FUM (tx 12/4/1959) Director: John Schlesinger JRS/20/8/1 Partial commentary script, annotated, nd; Insert fro 'Hi-Fi' script from Robert Robinson, 12 January 1959. MONITOR: JOURNEY INTO A LOST WORLD (tx 28/3/1960) Director: John Schlesinger JRS/9/1 Commentary script 'Tomorrow's Wallpaper', nd. MONITOR: PRIVATE VIEW (tx 8/5/1960) Written & Directed by John Schlesinger JRS/20/10/1 Small notepad, 'Private View - notes', nd; JRS/20/10/2 ' Young Contemporaries - material for a treatment about the working conditions and attitudes of some young painters in London', nd. JRS/2010/3 Commentary script - early annotated typescript draft, 'Young Contemporaries', nd; JRS/20/10/4 Commentary script [Post Production], annotated typescript, nd. JRS/20/10/5 Publicity hand-out [giving full credits], nd. MONITOR : THE CLASS ( tx 1961) Written & Directed by John Schlesinger. JRS/2011/1 Spiral bound notepad ' The Class - Notes', nd. MONITOR: BLACKBURN WAKES FORTNIGHT [Not On Sift. Unrealised?} JRS/20/12/1 Spiral bound notepad containing rough manuscript outline by Schlesinger; JRS/20/12/2 Commentary script, nd. MONITOR: DANCERS OF THE ROYAL BALLET [Not On Sift. c1959] Director: John Schlesinger; Producer: Peter Newington; Script: John Schlesinger & Peter Brinson. JRS/20/13/1 Outline [including purpose, planning, Opera House sequences, touring sequences, timetabling, possible cast], 2 October 1959. - JRS-2
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