"Camelot": The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
record, records, music, orchestra, orchestral, Alan Jay Lerner, Arthur, Arthurian, Arthuriana, Camelot, chivalric, chivalry, cinema, entertainment, film, Franco Nero, Guinevere, Hoyts Century Theatre, York, King Arthur, knight, knighthood, Lancelot, movie, New South Wales, NSW, popular culture, Richard Harris, Round Table, Sydney, theatre, theatres, Vanessa Redgrave
An image of a record found in a York secondhand store featuring the soundtrack to the popular 1967 film "Camelot." An example of the popularity, commerciality and timelessness of Arthurian legends, the film was a box office hit in the West. The film was a screen adaptation of the 1960 musical of the same name by Alan Jay Lerner. It starred Richard Harris as King Arthur, Vanessa Redgrave as Guinevere and Franco Nero as Lancelot. For more information about the film, consult <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061439/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061439/. </a><br />
Carter, Bree
27 November 2011
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“Crowd outside the Hoyts Century Theatre at the Preview of Camelot, Sydney,” <em>Medievalism in Australian Cultural Memory</em>, accessed November 28, 2011, <a href="../../../items/show/26">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/26 </a>
Digital Photograph; JPEG
Viking Memories
Adelaide, The Advertiser, cinema, film, films, movies, movie, dragon, ship, ships, dragon ships, Lief Eriksson, film, Norseman, SA, saga, South Australia, Viking, vikings, Norway
A review of the film The Viking on page 14 of the Adelaide newspaper ‘The Advertiser’ on October 17, 1929. The film was about Lief Eriksson, or Leif the Lucky, the leader of possibly the first group of Europeans to reach North America. The review is positive, describing the film as ‘a remarkable screen achievement’, featuring dragon ships and Viking dress and armour. The reviewer also notes that Lief had a saga written about him, although the saga (story) that provides the most information about Lief is the saga about his father, Saga of Erik the Red’s.
Anon.
National Library of Australia
The Advertiser
17 October 1929
National Library of Australia
Newspaper Article; PDF
English
Grand Theatre: ’Under the Red Robeâ€
Alma Rubens (1897-1931), Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642), Day of the Dupes (1630), drama, duel, fiction, film, Gil de Berault, Grand Theatre, Henri de Cocheforet, historical fiction, honour, Huguenot, John Charles Thomas (1889-1960), literature, Louis XIII, Mademoiselle de Cocheforet, “Medieval romanceâ€, movie, novel, Robert B. Mantell, screen Stanley J. Weyman (1855-1928), “Under the Red Robeâ€, WA, Western Australia
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In this notice about the upcoming programme for the Grand Theatre, a screening of the 1923 silent film “Under the Red Robe” is announced. The film is based on Stanley J. Weyman’s historical novel of the same name. The novel is described in the article as a medieval romance, although it is set in seventeenth-century France. The story opens in 1630, when Gil de Berault sets out on a search for fugitive Huguenot Henri de Cocheforet, on the orders of Cardinal Richelieu. He has offered his martial skills to Richelieu in exchange for his life after being arrested for duelling in Paris. Although he does indeed find and arrest M. de Cocheforet, he realises that he has fallen in love with his sister and lets him go free to restore his honour. The story ends on the Day of the Dupes with the marriage of de Berault and de Cocheforet. </span></p>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">For a copy of “Under the Red Robe” by Stanley J. Weyman, see </span><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1896" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1896</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;">. </span>
Anon.
National Library of Australia
The West Australian
16 December 1925, p. 12.
The West Australian
Digitised Newspaper Article; PDF
English
Crowd outside the Hoyts Century Theatre at the Preview of Camelot, Sydney
Alan Jay Lerner, Arthur, Arthurian, Arthuriana, Camelot, chivalric, chivalry, cinema, entertainment, film, Franco Nero, Guinevere, Hoyts Century Theatre, King Arthur, knight, knighthood, Lancelot, movie, New South Wales, NSW, popular culture, Richard Harris, Round Table, Sydney, theatre, Vanessa Redgrave
In this black and white photograph by J. A. Mulligan, a crowd gathers outside the Hoyts Century Theatre in Sydney on 20 December 1967 to attend a preview of the film Camelot. The film was a screen adaptation of the 1960 musical of the same name by Alan Jay Lerner. Based on Arthurian legend, the plot tells the story of Arthur’s marriage to Guinevere, his establishment of the Round Table, the love triangle that ensued between Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot and the rescue of Guinevere by Lancelot when she was sentenced to death for her adultery. The film starred Richard Harris as King Arthur, Vanessa Redgrave as Guinevere and Franco Nero as Lancelot.
Mulligan, J.A.
National Library of Australia
National Library of Australia
20 December, 1967
National Library of Australia
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