What is the state of the film footage that has survived?
It's intact but blurry
It's fragmented
About an hour of footage has survived
Only a few seconds of footage survived
Answer
About an hour of film footage has survived from the 1927 filming of the play. The surviving footage was found in a barn and was transferred to film stock in 1968. The footage was used in the documentary The Making of Hamlet (1969).
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