Hamlet

Synopsis: Fiction film adaptation of Hamlet. No cast or production credits known. Moving Picture World (February 12 1910) observed ‘To adequately represent Shakespeare’s greatest drama in a motion picture is a difficult task, and though in this instance the producer has done well, one must say that it is a great pity he has not done better’.
Country: France
Medium: Film
Technical information: Black-and-white / Silent
Year of release: 1910
Duration: 9 mins; 950 feet

Notes: Ball (op cit) had examined an incomplete 16mm film at the Museum of Modern Art, New York which is catalogued as Lux and has English titles. He describes the scenes in detail but has doubts of the provenance. He notes that if the Museum’s film isn’t from Lux then he is unable to identify it.
Reviews: Ball, Robert Hamilton. Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968 (p105-7, 328),

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