King John
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Original title | King John |
Country of production | Great Britain |
Publishing year | 1899 |
length | fragment obtained: 3 minutes |
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Director |
Walter Pfeffer Dando , William KL Dickson |
camera | William KL Dickson |
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King John is a British silent film from 1899. It is considered to be the first film with a Shakespeare theme.
Plot (of the fragment)
King John sits on his throne and awaits his death at Swinstead Abbey.
background
The film consisted of several short scenes from Herbert Beerbohm Tree's stage production by King Johann . It served as a commercial for theater production in London. It was presented in foreign distribution as a recording of a celebrated English stage production.
King John is considered to be the oldest Shakespeare film adaptation in film history. It originated as a production of the British Mutoscope and Biograph , a British-funded branch of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company .
The film originally consisted of four scenes, only a fragment of which has survived and is kept in the Nederlands Filmmuseum .
Web links
- King John in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Judith Buchanan Shakespeare films . In Richard Abel: Encyclopedia of Early Cinema , New York 2010, p. 588
- ↑ Comparison with the Film History Milestones website