Salford Museum & Art Gallery

By Productions North
http://www.productionsnorth.com

Directed by Phil Tune
Music by Richard Bodgers
Read by Tom O'Bedlam.

This film was commissioned by Salford Museum and Art Gallery. All content was filmed in Salford in October and November 2010.
http://www.salford.gov.uk/salfordmuseum.htm

Shakespeare

Sonnet 55

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
So, till the judgment that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lover's eyes.

Sonnet 17
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers, yellow'd with their age,
Be scorn'd, like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And stretched metre of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice, in it, and in my rhyme.

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[rapportbryn]

Simply Beautiful. A labour of love that will stand the test of time, appropriately enough.

[NATASHAYOUNGE]

I am all for a trip to the Salford Museum right about now. An engaging and a beautifully edited production.

[RussellK9]

Great video and Sonnets ♫♪♫♪ღ♥

[pkmediapl]

WOW, trully worthwhile...