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Ernie Zahn
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From: Greenwich, CT, USA
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posted September 28, 2007 08:21 AM

Were there any film versions of Shakespeare that made it on Super 8? Either trailers, digests, features or extracts?

It would be cool to see Othello or Hamlet on Super-8

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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted September 28, 2007 10:11 AM

Yes Ernie!

Orson Welles "MacBeth" (1948) was released by an un known company, (at least, unknown to me), as a 4X400ft. feature release.

The original release was a little over 80 minutes, so this might have a few minutes cut out of it, but it is mostly complete.

Note: This was re-released on DVD in it's "Directors cut" which ran one hour and 50 minutes. The original release to theaters was 85 or so minutes.

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Tony Stucchio
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posted September 28, 2007 06:22 PM

Blackhawk offered AS YOU LIKE IT.

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Ernie Zahn
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posted September 29, 2007 06:48 AM

Interesting, I'd like to check out that Welles version. As You Like sounds good too, who's version is it?

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Adrian Winchester
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From: Croydon, London, UK
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posted September 29, 2007 08:41 AM

"Orson Welles "MacBeth" (1948) was released by an un known company"

I think that was a Mountain release. I recall when I started collecting in the early 1980s I'd regularly go to the Portland Film shop in central London, and this release always seemed to be on offer cut-price!

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Robert Wales
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From: Toronto
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posted September 29, 2007 08:45 AM

"As You Like It" was the 1936 version starring Elisabeth Bergner and Laurence Olivier.
Sorry I can't tell you more about it as I never saw the print.

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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted September 29, 2007 10:17 AM

Your in luck,

If MacBeth is a Mountian release, then the print is bound to be pretty darn good. They released "A Night in Casablanca"
(Marx Brothers), as a 4X400ft. version (omitting, thankfully, the rediculous romantic subplot, which always dragged down thier films, but thankfully, only briefly), but the image was very sharp with great sound. So Macbeth should be a great find, if you should find it.

If "As you like it", is a Blackhawk release, then it will be above par, as Blackhawk always had great feature releases. I have rarely seen a poor Blackhawk feature release.

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