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- The BBC marked the four hundred year anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth with an ambitious production, Hamlet at Elsinore, shown on 19 April 1964. Hamlet was filmed the previous autumn in and around Kronborg castle in Elsinore, the setting for the play, becoming the first major drama for television filmed entirely on location.
www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/april/hamlet-at-elsinore
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Kronborg is a castle and stronghold in the town of Helsingør, Denmark. Immortalised as Elsinore in William Shakespeare 's play Hamlet, Kronborg is one of the most important Renaissance castles in Northern Europe. It was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000.
Elsinore Castle in the movie Hamlet was in part Dunnottar Castle on the east coast of Scotland with many shots of the castle seen from a distance. External shots within the walls of Elsinore were filmed elsewhere at Blackness Castle and a film set built at nearby Muchalls, plus Dover Castle and Shepperton Studios in England.
To match the film’s scope and stellar casting, there’s a suitably daunting exterior for the Danish castle of ‘Elsinore’ in the shape of Blenheim Palace, in the village of Woodstock, eight miles north of Oxford, Oxfordshire.
Many stars have seen their international careers launched at Kronborg Castle. For example, Vivien Leigh stepped directly out of Ophelia’s costume into the frocks of Scarlett O´Hara in Gone With The...
Other than a 1910 silent version, this is the only production of Hamlet (so far) to actually be filmed in Elsinore, Denmark, where most of the play takes place (imdb). The production was conceived and executed in eight weeks and four days.
During the great period of Kronborg Castle in the late 16th century, sailors, businessmen, diplomats and aristocrats spoke of the magnificent castle and court in Elsinore with its pomp and splendor. Kronborg Castle was ravaged by a devastating fire in 1629 which only left the chapel intact.
