The famous history of the life of King Henry the Eight, by William Shakespeare ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Cedric Messina ; director, Kevin Billington

Type

Label

The famous history of the life of King Henry the Eight, by William Shakespeare ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Cedric Messina ; director, Kevin Billington

Note

Originally broadcast on the BBC series The Shakespeare plays in 1979DVD includes the complete script in Microsoft Word document format

Color

multicoloredone color

resource.creditsNote

Cameramen, Trevor Wimlett, Mike Winser ; music by James Tyler ; performed by the London Early Music Group ; video-tape editors, Malcolm Banthorpe, Howard Dell

Dimensions

4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.other

resource.fileFormat

one file format

resource.governingAccessNote

For private home use only

Medium for sound

videodisc

Participant note

John Stride (Henry VIII), Timothy West (Cardinal Wolsey), Michael Poole (Cardinal Campeius), Ronald Pickup (Cranmer), Peter Vaughn (Gardiner), David Dodimead (Bishop of Lincoln), Julian Glover (Duke of Buckingham), Jeremy Kemp (Duke of Norfolk), Charles Lloyd Pack (Lord Sands), John Nettleton (Lord Chamberlain), Lewis Fiander (Duke of Suffolk), Oliver Cotton (Earl of Surrey), David Rintoul (Lord Abergavenny), Jack May (Lord Chancellor), Jack McKenzie (Sir Nicholas Vaux), Nigel Lambert (Sir Thomas Lovell), Claire Bloom (Katharine of Aragon), Barbara Kellerman (Anne Bullen), Sylvia Coleridge (Old Lady), Tony Church (Prologue), John Rowe (Cromwell), Alan Leith (Sergeant-at-Arms), John Bailey (Griffith), David Troughton, Adam Bareham, Jeffrey Daunton, John Cater, Roger Lloyd Pack, Michael Gaunt, Emma Kirkby, Sally Home, Michael Walker, John Rhys-Davies, Timothy Barker, Brian Osborne, John Rogan

Physical Description

1 videodisc [165 min.], sound, color, 4 3/4 in.

Sound on medium or separate

sound on medium

Specific Material Designation

optical diskvideodisc

System control number

836180(Sirsi) o46736762

System details

DVDSystem requirements for script: PC or Mac with Microsoft Word, DVD-ROM drive

Videorecording format

DVD