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Performance; Yesterday's Actors

09/30/1956

Produced and directed by Ted Hoffman. 16mm B/W Kinescope Print transfer.

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Series

Performance

Program

Yesterday's Actors

Series Description

Radio series.

Program Description

Hosted by Edwin Burr Pettet, this program “illustrates the changing fashions in acting from the Elizabethan Period to the present.” Pettet acts out a Shakespearean scene in seven different parodies, exemplifying different acting methods throughout history.

Duration

00:29:38

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Citation

Chicago: “Performance; Yesterday's Actors,” 09/30/1956, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed January 28, 2020, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_4E751C9E6F7046558A9EEB990378BB5A.

MLA: “Performance; Yesterday's Actors.” 09/30/1956. WGBH Media Library & Archives. Web. January 28, 2020. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_4E751C9E6F7046558A9EEB990378BB5A>.

APA: Performance; Yesterday's Actors. Boston, MA: WGBH Media Library & Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_4E751C9E6F7046558A9EEB990378BB5A