Hamlet: Museum Object and Cultural History
Hamlet: Date: 1959. Directed by: John Barnes, American, 1920 - 2000. Subject of: Maynard Mack PhD, American, 1909 - 2001.
The object in the museum catalogue
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.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1959
- Directed by: John Barnes, American, 1920 - 2000
- Subject of: Maynard Mack PhD, American, 1909 - 2001
- Distributed by: Encyclopædia Britannica Films, American, founded 1928
- Subject of: Stratford Shakespearean Festival Company, Canadian, founded 1952
- Owned by: D.C. Public Library, American, founded 1896
- Type: sound films
- Type: color films (visual works)
- Type: 16mm (photographic film size)
- Medium: acetate film
- Dimensions: Duration (Reel 1): 29 Minutes
- Dimensions: Length (Film): 1075 Feet
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- Dimensions: Duration (Reel 3):
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- Place used: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Education
- Topic: Film
- Topic: Literature
- Topic: Theatre
- Object number: 2017.55.75.1abc
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Transferred from the DC Public Library
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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