MARIE STUART ET RIZZIO
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Title: MARIE STUART ET RIZZIO
Reference number: 9056
Date: 1911
Director: [d. Louis Feuillade]
Production company: [ Gaumont]
Sound: silent
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 10.45 mins
Description:
A dramatisation of the events, plotting and eventual murder of David Rizzio, personal secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots.
The director, Louis Feuillade, was Artistic Director of Gaumont at the time this film was made.
Intertitles on the silent film have been transcribed to give a sense of the drama as it unfolds. It is believed this copy is around 50 metres short of the full film, and therefore incomplete. Stencilled colour. Scanned from nitrate positive at 4K
Shotlist:
[intertitles]
MARY STUART
1565. Mary,having fallen under the influence of Rizzio, prefers his Italian songs to the Scottish Dances
Having become the Queen's Favourite, Rizzio prevails upon her to marry Lord Darnley
THE ITALIAN MAKES ENEMIES
VAIN ATTEMPTS ARE MADE TO PROVOKE LORD DARNLEY'S JEALOUSY
RIZZIO REFUSES TO SIGN THE SCOTCH COURTIERS' PETITION
LORD DARNLEY ENTERS INTO A COMPACT WITH MORAY, RUTHVEN, MORTON AND OTHER PROTESTANT CHIEFS TO ASSASSINATE RIZZIO
AT THE END OF THE BALL
THE CONSPIRATORS
9th MARCH 1566. THE ASSASSINATION OF RIZZIO.