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Museum object · Time-based Media - Moving Images

Hamlet

1959

Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A series of educational films called Hamlet. It consists of three reels of 16mm color acetate film with optical sound. The films, which discusses Shakespeare’s Hamlet, feature Professor Maynard of Yale University as well as a cast from Stratford Shakespearean Festival Company.

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Catalog reference: 2017.55.75.1abc

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