Rent Dickens Before Sound (2006)
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3h 0min
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- Synopsis:
Inspired by the popular success of Silent Shakespeare, Dickens Before Sound is a unique collection of early adaptations of perhaps Britain's favourite (and after Shakespeare) most adapted author. This selection ranges from the first extant adaptation, Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost photographed a mere thirty-one years after Dickens' death, to a bonus of the very first Dickensian sound film. Bransby Williams presenting his monologue in the character of Grandfather Smallweed from Bleak House. En route, the development of cinema storytelling will be witnessed as practitioners of this wonderful new art struggle to transform a tale from page to screen. For the first time these films are presented with Neil Brand's newly composed scores and, in the case of Gabriel Grub and The Pickwick Papers, with an entirely experimental attempt to match original words to silent images. - Actors:
- Lon Chaney, Jackie Coogan
- Directors:
- Frank Lloyd, D.W. Griffith, Frank Miller, W.R. Booth, J. Stuart Blackton, David Aylott, George O. Nichols, Larry Trimble, Thomas Bentley, Harry B Parkinson
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Documentary
- Collections:
- 12 Films of Christmas Past, 12 Scrooges of Christmas, All the Twos: 1902-62
