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Posted by Ernie Zahn (Member # 274) on 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
Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on 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.
Posted by Tony Stucchio (Member # 519) on September 28, 2007, 06:22 PM:
Blackhawk offered AS YOU LIKE IT.
Posted by Ernie Zahn (Member # 274) on 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?
Posted by Adrian Winchester (Member # 248) on 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!
Posted by Robert Wales (Member # 502) on 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.
Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on 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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