We continue with the Third Elisberg Industries Film Festival with our presentation of the original 1960 cast production of Camelot. And tonight, we come to the turning point of the show, through Scenes 9-11 of Act 1. For the first two scenes, we have the live onstage-audio and script only – but filled in with wonderful production photos and even some silent film footage of the stage action – as Arthur, sensing Guinevere’s growing interest in Lancelot, tells her and Pellinore that he knows he must knight Lancelot for his actions, bringing a man believed dead back to life. Left alone, Guinevere realizes that she’s falling in love with Lance and she sings “Before I Gaze at You Again,” as Lancelot enters and the two must deal with their growing affection. This leads to the Processional before the knighting ceremony. And then, once again, video from the Ed Sullivan Show is intercut in for the entire knighting ceremony, a scene that culminates in Arthur’s tormented “Proposition” soliloquy of how as a man or King he must address what to do about the two people closest to him who he loves but are betraying him – which ends the First Act.
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