A collection of rare short films and extracts from the BFI’s Film Archive to showcase the love affair of cinema and literature since the origin of film.
Silent Shakespeare (1899–1911),
Dickens Before Sound (1901–1922),
The Lotte Reiniger Fairytales (1934–1955),
Auden’s Nightmail (Harry Watt, 1936), Pinter’s
The Caretaker (Clive Donner, 1963), and the Beat poets in
Wholly Communion (Peter Whitehead, 1965).
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