form y separately published work icon Caesar's Friend single work   film/TV  
Adaptation of Caesar's Friend : A Play in Three Acts Campbell Dixon , Dermot Michael Macgregor Morrah , 1933 single work drama
Issue Details: First known date: 1939... 1939 Caesar's Friend
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Notes

  • The review in the Times of the 1939 production both praised and criticised the new medium as a vehicle for drama:

    The trial scene [...] showed some of the limitations of television in its present state. The field of view of the cameras was awkwardly narrow, so that Pilate and his adversaries were cramped on the balcony of the praetorium, although the Jewish crowd did not quite succeed in filling the foreground. But the close-up picture of the menacing hands of this crowd, with their rhythmic cry of "Crucify him," which ended the scene, was authentically impressive, as had been the rather similar treatment of the hands of the High Priest paying out the 30 pieces of silver.

    Source:

    'Televised Drama', The Times, 6 April 1939, p.10.

Production Details

  • Television play.

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    Middle East, Asia,
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