Word: halled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, D.C., an assistant high school principal tried to stop three teen-agers from robbing the school bank; they shot him dead. In New York City, a high school chemistry teacher stepped into the hall to investigate a disturbance; three youths squirted lighter fluid on his clothing and set him aflame. In San Francisco, helmeted police dispersed teen-agers from the grounds of Mission High School after violence had flared between black and Spanish-speaking students for six successive days. In Hamden, Conn., seven students were arrested for participating in a racial brawl in the high school cafeteria...
...their force in a medium that emphasizes sight over sound. Putting a Shakespeare film on television is doubly troublesome, for the small screen reduces the principals to tiny figures who are all but lost in panoramic scenes. Despite the difficulties, England's Royal Shakespeare Company, under Director Peter Hall, has turned A Midsummer Night's Dream into a richly textured color film that comes across as TV at its best. Millions of Americans will have a chance to view it on CBS next Sunday (Feb. 9, 9-11:15 p.m., E.S.T...
Frankly Wicked. In the past, some directors have coped with Shakespearean plays by cutting the text. Sir Laurence Olivier's unforgettable 1946 film of Henry V included only half the original; Franco Zeffirelli's recent Romeo and Juliet cut more than half. To Director Hall, 38; the best solution was to leave Shakespeare's words alone. Since A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the bard's shortest plays, he cut only ten lines...
...Hall emphasized closeups instead of movie-style shots of sweeping vistas and cluttered tableaux, which, though characteristic of Shakespeare on the big screen, are hardly suitable for TV's cramped picture. "A long shot," he explained, "diminishes the power of what is being said." The many full-face shots build an air of intimacy between actor and audience that is especially suitable for the TV screen (though the film was also released in London last week as a feature movie). "For the first time," says Paul Rogers, who plays Bottom in a blustering, John Bullish vein, "a Shakespearean movie...
...Hall deliberately avoids the storybook approach to A Midsummer Night's Dream that some directors have adopted. This is no ethereal child's fantasy "with fairies in little white tutus skipping through gossamer forests," as Hall puts it. He sees the play, rather, as a poignant tale of "the universal experience of falling in love on Monday, out of love on Tuesday, in love again on Wednesday, and discovering on Thursday that your best friend loves the same girl." David Warner, remembered from Morgan (see CINEMA color), and Diana Rigg, onetime heroine of ABC's The Avengers...