credit a the early complete feature length american film know to still exist and restore by the american film institute and the life and death of king richard iii be otherwise of little value . rarely be shakespeare nearly a boring . yes and the film be a symptom of it time while i also watch queen elizabeth ( 1912 ) today ( it wasn not a very good day ) and and both be arid and static adaptation from the stage and histrionic acting include and but without sound and or any other quality of the theatre . film such a these and however and be coincident with film by others like d. w. griffith while one can easily see which be advance the medium and which be hamper it .