The Tempest (1908)
- Directed by
- Percy Stow
- Genre
- fantasy film, silent film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 12 min
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 10 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This silent film adapts William Shakespeare's play about a magician who conjures a storm to strand his enemies on an island. It uses early trick photography to show magical events like spirits and a shipwreck.
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What happens
The Tempest is a 1908 British-made silent film directed by film pioneer Percy Stow who specialised in trick photography. The 'delightful' film was made by the Clarendon Film Company founded by Stow and Henry Vassal Lawley. It was written by Langford Reed and was the second screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, the first being when Charles Urban filmed the opening storm sequence of Herbert Beerbohm Tree's stage version at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1905 for a 2+1⁄2-minute flicker. Stow's film can be said to be the first cinematic version designed specifically for film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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A Grandmother's Story (1908)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.