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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(1909) United States of America
B&W : One reel / 991 feet
Directed by J. Stuart Blackton and Charles Kent

Cast: William V. Ranous [Bottom], Julia Swayne Gordon [Helena], Maurice Costello [Lysander], Rose Tapley [Hermia], Walter Ackerman [Demetrius], Gladys Hulette [Puck], Charles Chapman [Quince], Harry T. Morey, Helene Costello [fairy], Dolores Costello [fairy], [?] Florence Turner?, [?] William Shea?

The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by The Vitagraph Company of America. / From the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. / Released 25 December 1909. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot in the summer of 1909.

Comedy: Historical-Fantasy.

Survival status: Print exists in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Authors: William Shakespeare (1564?-1616)

Listing updated: 7 March 2011.

References: Film viewing : Ball-Shakespeare pp. 52-56, 59, 73, 88, 96c, 313-314, 388; Pohle-Holmes p. 26 : Website-AFI; Website-GEM.

Home video: DVD.

 
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