Alfred Drayton as Squeers and Derek Bond as Nicholas Nickleby in “Nicholas Nickleby” also known as “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby” (1947)
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Scrooge, or Marley’s Ghost (1901)
For more on the BFI’s Dickens on Screen project seehttp://www.bfi.org.uk/dickens
Produced by the English movie pioneer R.W. Paul, this version of ‘A Christmas Carol’ was thought to be the earliest surviving adaptation of Dickens’ work on film, before the discovery of ‘The Death of Poor Joe’ -http://youtu.be/yqufG89Jlyc. The only known print, held by the BFI, is incomplete, but manages to tell enough of the story for it to be recognisable.
This early cinematic excursion into Dickens’ most popular tale was an ambitious undertaking at the time. Not only did it attempt to tell an 80 page story in five minutes, but it featured impressive trick effects, superimposing Marley’s face over the door knocker and the scenes from his youth over a black curtain in Scrooge’s bedroom.
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Great Expectations OST - Estella’s theme
Seriously, this is one of the best soundtracks ever
Smike: You are my home. Please may I go with you to sea? I will be your faithful, hardworking servant, I will. Promise I will. I want only to be near you.
Nicholas: Smike, the wall that separates us shall never be set by me. And I promise you, from this night forward, the world shall deal by you as it does by me.
Sally Ann Howes as Kate Nickleby, “Nicholas Nickleby” (1947)
“Nicholas Nickleby” (1947)
What the Dickens is Ralph Fiennes doing wearing Hilda Ogden’s curlers?
Fiennes, 49… is currently playing Charles Dickens in new movie The Invisible Woman and the curlers are there to ensure his swept back locks stay in place.
He is also directing the film, which tells the story of Dickens’s secret affair with Nelly Ternan, who is played by Felicity Jones, star of comedy Chalet Girl.
Publicity photo of actors Freddie Bartholomew and W.C. Fields for the 1935 George Cukor film “David Copperfield” based on the novel by Charles Dickens. Click the pic to watch a scene from the movie.
Reasons to be cheerful in 2012: the resurrection of Charles Dickens
It may be 142 years since he died, but one of England’s greatest ever novelists is perhaps more in the spotlight now than ever – what the Dickens is going on?
Charles Dickens and the Magic Lantern
The earliest films might not have been made until the mid 1890s but that didn’t stop people in Victorian Britain enjoying all sorts of visual spectacles and wonders, created using lights, smoke, mirrors - and plenty of imagination. In this short film, ‘Professor’ Mervyn Heard performs a magic lantern show, while Dr John Plunkett (Exeter University) and Phil Wickham (curator of the Bill Douglas Centre) explore why the stories of Charles Dickens were adapted so often in the pre-cinema age.
Dickens on Film, BBC Four, review
Anne Billson reviews Dickens on Film, the latest instalment of the BBC Four documentary series Arena, which explores Charles Dickens’s contribution to the history of film and television.
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)
Comparative literature?
