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The Mikado

🎞️ Movie 4 min GB
1926

A short, hand-tinted promotional film made by the D'Oyly Carte Opera company to show off the new wardrobe and set dressing for the 1926 production of The Mikado. About six scenes from The Mikado are shown, then designer Charles Rickets steps onto the stage with a final look at the costumes and the film ends. The players in the production are legendary Savoyards, well-known from recordings of the period, but this is the only time a movie camera caught them in their roles, though sadly minus the singing. About four nitrate prints of this film are known to exist; two of which are at the BFI in London.

Cast

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Darrell Fancourt
The Mikado
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Charles Goulding
Nanki-Poo
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Henry Lytton
Ko-Ko
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Leo Sheffield
Pooh-Bah
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John Huntington
Pish-Tush
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Elsie Griffin
Yum-Yum
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Aileen Davies
Pitti-Sing
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Beatrice Elburn
Peep-Bo
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Bertha Lewis
Katisha