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- BFI identifier12390
- Date1939 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- SynopsisRL.1 Quick shots of a railway engine, office blocks, an aeroplane revving up, pylons, smoking factories illustrating modern England. Shots of fields, farm-houses, blossom, a church, a river, swans, sheep, man dressed in Tudor costume illustrating the comparative tranquillity of Tudor days. Views of Stratford-on-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace. Portrait of Shakespeare. Title heads of some of Shakespeare's plays. Shots of Stratford-on-Avon's High Street (432) and Tudor houses. The Tudor home of John Harvard, pilgrim father is shown (520). Exterior shots of Shakespeare's birthplace, his school - Stratford Grammar School and Chapel (620). The foundations of Shakespeare's house - New House, the home of Shakespeare's mother and Anne Hathaway's cottage at Shottery (780 ft). RL.2 Environs of Stratford are shown - Warwick Castle (140), a hospital founded in 1571 by Robert Dudley and still used for convalescence (229), a Saxon mill (269), Welcombe Hotel with its formal gardens (333), Kenilworth Castle (424). Pleasure boats, punts, sail boats and rowing are shown on the River Avon. Swans take cover under overhanging trees as sun sets (648). Exterior shots of the Memorial Theatre and people arriving for the performance. Inside stage hands set the stage for "King Lear" (727). Shot of Holy Trinity Church where Shakespeare is buried. Final shot of a statue of Shakespeare (1608 ft). Note: The film also includes some appearances by famous actors in various Shakespearean roles (see cast list). They do not move or say anything and appear on screen for only a few seconds as visual illustrations of the Bard's works. (Shotlist)
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England's Shakespeare (Original)
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Non FictionThis work is available to view in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank.
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Work - 12390 - 1939 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Non Fiction
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