Ballad Of The Bard (1964)

Описание: Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire.



Various views of Stratford including the cottages of Anne Hathaway and Shakespeare's mother. Tony Sheridan strums a guitar and sings, he walks through and joins the pop group Bobby Patrick's Big Six for a pop version of a Shakespeare song.



Lewen Tugwell has made a sculpture of Shakespeare which follows you with its eyes by cutting it concave not convex, actor Donald Gray is one of the people looking at it.



We see how mead is made by pressing apples and adding honey, there are various people dressed in Shakespearean costume in Goodwood having a feast and eating boar's head, we see a pig roasting on a spit.

Various shots of a wrestling match between the Robinson brothers. Other activities include bowling, apple bobbing and puppet shows. A man sits in stocks and is pelted with flour. We then briefly move to Birmingham and see the souvenir shops.



Various people are sat about outside the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and the Shakespeare Centre which is giving an exhibition of his career. We see various views of Stratford again and the Big Six still singing.



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FILM ID:285.07

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