Footage of Hamlet at Kronborg
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1999.10.3
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hansen, Anne
label: Collection Creator
content: Hansen, John V., 1880-1955
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content: John and Anne Hansen films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (10 minutes, color silent; 262 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1937
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Amateur film by John V. Hansen, engineer and member of the Amateur Cinema League, of a performance of Hamlet at Kronborg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark.  First title card states that "the oldest metropolitan daily Berlingske Tidende of Copenhagen presents the Old Vic at Kronborg."  Second title states "snappy colour-shots from different angles of Scenes from Shakespeares "Hamlet."  Title cards list cast as including Laurence Olivier (Hamlet); Vivian Leigh (Ophelia); John Abbott (Claudius); Dorothy Dix (Gertrude); Torin Thatcher (Ghost of Hamlet's father); George Howe (Polonius); Leo Genn (Horatio); and Michael Redgrave (Laertes).  Films shows audience, cast getting ready and shots taken throughout the play.