Charles Dickens and the Magic Lantern
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Uploaded by BFIfilms on Dec 15, 2011
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.
With special thanks to the Bill Douglas Centre and Charles Dickens Museum.
For more on the BFI's Dickens on Screen project go to http://www.bfi.org.uk/dickens
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"..end of the seventeenth century"???
- shurely shome mishtake?
Hellishcrusade 4 weeks ago
I enjoyed that very much. Has - does - Mervyn Heard ever present(ed) magic lantern shows at BFI Southbank or associated venues?
akaRazz2 2 months ago
Thanks to the glacial speed of youtube's servers it only took about 20 minutes to watch an 8 minute clip.
internezzo 2 months ago
It would be great if you acknowledged the composer of the soundtrack, so I'll ask: Who is the composer?
whitcopress 2 months ago
Great little film, well edited, produced, and presented ~ I look forward to seeing your uploads ~ Thank you for preserving our past ~ A Merry Christmas, to everyone at bfi ~ and all the very best for the new year ~ Geoff
williheckaslike 2 months ago