Shelfmark
Krr.2.10
Title
The film Hamlet : a record of its production / edited by Brenda Cross..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : The Saturn Press, 1948.
Physical description
76 p. : ill. (portraits) ; 25 cm.
Note
Discusses the production of the 1948 motion picture, directed by Laurence Olivier.
Note
With a half-title.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Introduction / Brenda Cross -- An essay in Hamlet / Laurence Olivier -- Shakespeare? Ugh! / Phil C. Samuel -- Casting the film / Anthony Bushell -- Insuring Olivier / Reginald Beck -- Camera and lighting / Desmond Dickinson -- Design and costumes / Roger Furse -- Building the sets / Carmen Dillon -- And now Hamlet ... / Harcourt Williams -- Shakespeare without tears / Stanley Holloway -- An exacting role / Jean Simmons -- The editor's job / Helga Cranston -- The music of Hamlet / William Walton -- Recording the music / Muir Mathieson -- Hamlets--modern and ancient / Alan Dent -- Publicity problems / Kenneth Green.
Binding
Publisher's case binding, half cloth over boards. Upper cover with stamped with gilt publisher's device. Endpapers (pastedown and flyleaf) decorated with facsimile autographs of the principal cast. In original printed dust jacket, printed with photograph of Olivier and facsimilie signatures.
Subject
Subject
Hamlet (Motion picture : 1948).
Subject
Motion pictures Production and direction Interviews.
Subject
Motion pictures Production and direction Great Britain.
Genre/Form
Interviews.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Cross, Brenda editor.
Added entry--name
Saturn Press publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50845