- Description:
- DVD - Region 2. viewing copy. 2 videodiscs of 2..
b/w and tinted b/w.
fullscreen. sound.
- Notes:
- Supplemental materials: spoken word performance by Ken Campbell of Dickens’ original text over GABRIEL GRUB and THE PICKWICK PAPERS; audio commentary on THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH; downloadable essay by Dickens scholar Graham Petrie.
Titles
+ Gabriel Grub
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Year:
- 1880-1920
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- An adaptation of the Dickens’ story using vintage magic lantern slides. Narration by Ken Campbell.
+ Scrooge; or, Marley’s Ghost
- Director:
- Booth, Walter R.
- Production Co:
- R.W. Paul’s Animatograph Works
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1901
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Melodrama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- An adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
+ Cricket On The Hearth, The
- Director:
- Griffith, D. W.
- Production Co:
- Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 14 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1909
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Melodrama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. An adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens. Supplemental material: audio commentary.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Oliver Twist
- Director:
- Blackton, J. Stuart
- Production Co:
- Vitagraph Co. of America
- Running Time:
- Short. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1909
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Melodrama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Musical accompaniment. An adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Boy And The Convict, The
- Director:
- Aylott, Dave
- Production Co:
- Williamson & Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1909
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Melodrama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. An adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens. A boy helps a convict to escape after meeting him at his mother’s graveyard. The convict gets rich in Australia, and when he returns he is arrested again.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Nicholas Nickleby
- Director:
- Nichols, George
- Production Co:
- Thanhouser Film Corporation
- Running Time:
- Short. 20 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1912
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Melodrama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. An adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens.
+ David Copperfield
- Director:
- Bentley, Thomas
- Production Co:
- Hepworth Manufacturing Company
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1913
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Melodrama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. An adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens. This version is a compilation of surviving excerpts.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Oliver Twist
- Director:
- Lloyd, Frank
- Production Co:
- Jackie Coogan Productions
- Running Time:
- Feature. 74 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1922
- Genre:
- Melodrama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. An adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel. Dramatization of that part of the Dickens novel in which Oliver is orphaned, apprenticed to an undertaker, taught pickpocketing by Fagin, rescued by Mr. Brownlow, kidnaped and plotted against by Monks and the Sikeses, and recovered by Mr. Brownlow--happy and secure in the knowledge that he will receive the inheritance due him.
- Link to:
- FII catalog | AFI catalog
+ Dickens’ London
- Director:
- Miller, Frank; Parkinson, Harry B.
- Production Co:
- Graham-Wilcox Productions
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1924
- Genre:
- Melodrama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. Various scenes from Dickens’ novels enacted against a London background.
+ Grandfather Smallweed
- Alternate Title:
- Bleak House
- Director:
- Croise, Hugh
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1929
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Melodrama
- Notes:
- The earliest known sound film adapting a work by Charles Dickens. From the novel BLEAK HOUSE.
+ Pickwick Papers, The - The Honourable Event
- Director:
- Trimble, Larry
0 minutes
- Year:
- 1913