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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.