Twelfth Night (1933 film)

Twelfth Night is a 1933 American PreCode short color film, notable as the very earliest surviving film directed by Orson Welles, then aged 17. It is a recording of the dress rehearsal of Welless own abridged production at his alma mater, the Todd School for Boys, where he had returned to direct this adaptation of Shakespeares Twelfth Night for the Chicago Drama Festival in 1933. The play won first prize at that years festival, presented as part of the 1933 Chicago Worlds Fair, A Century of Progress Exposition.

The print that I saw of Orsons Twelfth Night in Roger Hills living room in Miami, a halfcentury later, was still perfectly preserved with rich color and quite professionally focused but without any camera movement, or pronounced flourishes or angles. It was simply shot from one point of view, perhaps from the middle of the tenth row of the theater an amateur recording of the play on film rather than a piece of cinema.44The Todd School production of Twelfth Night received the silver cup from the Chicago Drama League330 after competition at the Century of Progress Exposition in JulyAugust 1933. The cast included Hascy Tarbox as Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Roger Hills daughter Joanne Hill as Viola.172 The play was presented at the English Village at the Chicago Worlds Fair. ........

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