HUMOUROUS, FUNNY, WEIRD, BIZARRE, ARTISTIC, NON SENSE CHESS PICS, IMAGES, CARICATURES, ETC...

Lev Alburt clearly a player

Here we see film director William Dieterle and theatrical producer/director Max Reinhardt, and it appears that they're playing some exotic, three-dimensional chess variant.

... Not really. I'll explain below. I hope that you find it interesting.

They collaborated on the 1935 film A Midsummer Night's Dream, based, of course, on the Shakespeare play. This is a brief scene from a documentary on the making of the film, included as a DVD extra on the Warner Brothers release of the film.

We swiftly learn that they're in fact, using the chessmen as as markers for the actors, as the camera next pans over to the actual set.

No comment about it from the narrator. It's a very brief view: I tried to capture the vertical pan in three frames.

One wonders if they used pieces for the stars and pawns for the extras, or if the breakdown was fairies versus foolish mortals.

I found the documentary piece had already been uploaded. You can see the whole thing at ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B-YLW1pOuA&list=PLoUpsHz4FHxGIdscN6pRJ0m5I1XG99beY&index=5

Look at around the 4:20 mark. Do not blink!

Edit: Tried to fix the link.

Awesome.