4 minutos
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.
Darrell Fancourt
The Mikado
Charles Goulding
Nanki-Poo
Henry Lytton
Ko-Ko
Leo Sheffield
Pooh-Bah
John Huntington
Pish-Tush
Elsie Griffin
Yum-Yum
Aileen Davies
Pitti-Sing
Beatrice Elburn
Peep-Bo
Bertha Lewis
Katisha
Charles Ricketts
Janet Adair
Herbert Aitken
Josephine Ashley
Marjorie Avona
Henry Blain
