The Mikado (Original title)
Date: 1926 (Release)Country: United Kingdom
Synopsis: Scenes from the 1926 D'Oyly Carte `The Mikado' production designed by Charles Ricketts. "Exclusive `Mirror' pictures in colour of the world famous Gilbert & Sullivan opera, showing the new designs by Mr. Charles Ricketts, A.R.A.". `The Mikado' is dressed in 1720 period costumes, the excerpts from `The Mikado' include three shot in stencil colour. Charles Ricketts is also seen at work. The Mikado scenes are: Opening chorus `If you want to know who we are'. Entry of the schoolgirls `Comes a train of little ladies'. `Three little maids from school are we'. Scene with KoKo, Nanki Poo, Pooh Bah and others. Entry of Katisha `Your revels cease'. `Braid the raven hair'. Entrance of the Mikado and Katisha `Miya sama, miya sama'; `From every kind...' `The Flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la'.
Subject: Opera
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Releases
Date: 1926Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour and Black and White - SilentLength: 330 Feet
Date: 1926 (Release)Country: United Kingdom
Synopsis: Scenes from the 1926 D'Oyly Carte `The Mikado' production designed by Charles Ricketts. "Exclusive `Mirror' pictures in colour of the world famous Gilbert & Sullivan opera, showing the new designs by Mr. Charles Ricketts, A.R.A.". `The Mikado' is dressed in 1720 period costumes, the excerpts from `The Mikado' include three shot in stencil colour. Charles Ricketts is also seen at work. The Mikado scenes are: Opening chorus `If you want to know who we are'. Entry of the schoolgirls `Comes a train of little ladies'. `Three little maids from school are we'. Scene with KoKo, Nanki Poo, Pooh Bah and others. Entry of Katisha `Your revels cease'. `Braid the raven hair'. Entrance of the Mikado and Katisha `Miya sama, miya sama'; `From every kind...' `The Flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la'.
Subject: Opera
Series title:
Releases
Date: 1926Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour and Black and White - SilentLength: 330 Feet
Credits
(2)
Production Company: Gaumont Company, Designer and participant: Charles Ricketts
Cast
(10)
Elsie Griffin (Yum-Yum), Charles Goulding (Nanki-Poo), Henry Lytton (Ko-ko), Leo Sheffield (Pooh-Bah), John Huntington (Pish-Tush), Aileen Davis (Pitti-Sing), Beatrice Elburn (Peep-Bo), Bertha Lewis (Katisha), D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Darrell Fancourt (The Mikado of Japan)