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Film
versions of Hawthorne's works
Here are some links and card catalogue references if you're
looking for more information. Some of them now seem to be
available in NTSC VHS format by searching videos online at
http://www.amazon.com/.
PAL viewers--please let us know where to find them in your
country.
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Short summary of movie versions of The Scarlet Letter:
so far, several:
- 1917 silent b&w by Carl Harbaugh with Colleen Moore, said to be a real melodrama
- 1926 silent by Victor Sjostrom with Lillian Gish, supposed to be a classic
- 1934 talkie by Robert Vignola with Colleen Moore as Hester
Prynne, said to have more humor in
it. See B&W NTSC VHS version, ASIN 6303864074, from
amazon.com
- Franklin and Marshall College library archives used to have a
page about this, but it is gone:
Franklin J. Schaffner (19?? - 1982) directed television adaptations
- The Scarlet Letter 1951 for Studio One (CBS)
- The Marble Faun (Ford Theatre, CBS), script available.
10/10 "The Marble Faun." [6 Oct 1950]. Ford Theater. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. Adapted for
television by David Davidson. Directed by Franklin Schaffner. Settings by A. A. Ostrander.
Costumes by Grace Houston. Music by Ben Ludlow. Script Editor, Lois Jacoby. (1f)
- 1972-73 in German with English subtitles by Wim Wenders
(Der Scharlachrote Buchstabe)--see
review by Magill's Survey of Cinema
- 1979 mini-series for PBS TV with
Meg Foster and John Heard:
According to Les Brown's Encyclopedia of Television, Rick Hauser
conceived and produced an adaptation for station WGBH-TV, Boston.
It took four and a half
years to finish. It was finally shown on public
television (PBS) for four nights in April, 1979, and received the
highest ratings of any PBS drama series in that season. It won
an Emmy for videotape editing.
It starred Meg Foster as Hester Prynne, Kevin Conway as Roger
Chillingworth, and John Heard as the Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale.
Brown remarks that the production was inordinately expensive
and protracted mainly because of the PBS system of "step funding"
in effect at the time. Each of the four steps required a lengthy
proposal and separate grant: a planning grant to determine the
need for the project, research and development to cover
script production, a pilot film production, and a full production
grant for the entire work. Brown states that the r&d grant proposal ran 300 pages
alone (more than Hawthorne's original novel!) and consumed two
writers, the first of whom needed two years for "scholar-dictated
revisions." After some 48 National Endowment of the Humanities
reviewers could not agree on the production's interpretation of
the novel, a new writer was hired, Alvin Sapinsly, who composed
new scripts, the ones produced.
According to some who remember having seen it, the series was quite
faithful to Hawthorne's novel.
Some viewers have told us they have obtained the video from
amazon.com, where you can also find some viewer reviews.
The following links probably won't work any longer. Was the 1995 Scarlet Letter
film so bad that the producers tried to remove all traces of it from the net?
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The 1995 Hollywood Pictures/Buena Vista film "free adaptation" of The Scarlet Letter
Internet Movie Database in the U.K.
or in Los Angeles, or
Australia,
or
Mississippi State Internet Movie Database
have information on some of the following, for which you can search,
if direct links don't work:
- House of the Seven Gables,
a 1940 or 1941 black and white talkie by Joe May of Universal Pictures, starring George Sanders,
Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, and Dick Foran-- the
video is now available from amazon.com
- Request for
funding for The Crescent Moon Film Project to film "Young Goodman Brown"
- Young Goodman Brown,
1993 by Peter George with Tom Shell
- Rappaccini's Daughter,
a one-hour 1980 TV special by Dezso Magyar for Learning in Focus
- Party (also known as
Revelations), 1994, by Eric Swelstad for J & E Studio Productions, adapted
by Jay Woelfel from the Hawthorne short story, "A Select Party"
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Notice of forthcoming (fall 1996) animated version of "Feathertop",
from ucalgary.ca
For schools
-
rental film, A DISCUSSION OF DR. HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT, no. 030191,
Was Dr. Hiedegger just an eccentric old gentleman? Hawthorne's readers
in the 19th century looked for the moral in the story; there may be a
very different moral for today's readers--the danger of interfering
with nature's laws? Stimulates discussion without promoting just one
point of view. Companion film in this series is "Dr. Heidegger's
Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, RENTAL FEE, $7.00, 11 min.
- Light in the Shadows, 1982
- Title: Nathaniel Hawthorne--light in the shadows
[videorecording], Unicorn Productions ; producer, Mary
Norman ; director, William Eddy.
- Name: Unicorn Productions.
International Film Bureau.
- Subject(s): Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 Biography.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Novelists, American 19th century Biography.
Authors, American.
- Imprint: Chicago, Ill. : International Film Bureau, 1982.
- Pages: 1 videocassette (23 min.) : sd., col.
- Note: Title from data sheet.
Intended audience: Grades 9-12.
Issued as 1/2 in. or U-matic 3/4 in.
Issued also as motion picture.
- Abstract:
Portrays the life story of Nathaniel Hawthorne, focusing on his friendships with other
New England writers, his other careers, his unsuccessful attempts to have his works
published, etc. Includes dramatizations of portions of his works.
- Library of Congress Call # PS1881
- Dewey Class # 813
- The Inward Eye, 1972
- Title: Nathaniel Hawthorne: the inward eye. [Filmstrip]
- Name: Media Systems Consultants (Firm).
Perfection Form Company.
- Subject(s): Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 Biography.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Authors, American.
- Pages: 124 fr. color. 35 mm.
- Note: Also issued with phonotape in cassette.
With script.
Media Systems Consultants. Released by Perfection Form
Co., 1972.
- Abstract:
Uses drawings, paintings and live photography to document the life of American
author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- Library of Congress Call # PS1881
- Dewey Class # 928
- The Man and His Works, 1968
- Title: Nathaniel Hawthorne: the man and his works [and]
The
Scarlet Letter: analysis and evaluation [KIT].
- Name: Smutny, Joan
- Subject(s): HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL.
Literature History and criticism.
- Imprint: Society for Visual Educ. 1968
- Pages: 2fs 1record
- Series: Great novels and their authors.
The scarlet letter.
- The Sister Years, 1981
- Title: Great American holiday stories [filmstrip] / Spoken
Arts, Inc. ; producer, Artur Luce Klein.
- Name: Twain, Mark,
Henry, O.,
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
- Name: Spoken Arts.
- Subject(s): Short stories, American.
Holidays Fiction.
Short stories.
Holidays Fiction.
- Imprint: New Rochelle, N.Y. : Spoken Arts, 1981, c1980.
- Pages: 4 filmstrips : col. ; 35 mm. +
- Note: Title from data sheet.
Illustrators, Frances Anderson, William Saut Boch ;
editor, Christopher King ; narrator, Tom Carlin.
Based on the stories of the same titles by Mark Twain,
O. Henry, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Sound accompaniment compatible for manual and automatic
operation.
- Content Note: The glorious whitewasher / Mark Twain (83 fr.) -- Two
Thanksgiving gentlemen / O. Henry (69 fr.) --
The
sister years / Nathaniel Hawthorne (77 fr.) -- Tom
Sawyer loves Aunt Polly / Mark Twain (64 fr.).
- Library of Congress Call # PS648.S5
- Dewey Class # 813
- American short stories, 1976
- Title: Introduction to American short stories. [Filmstrip].
- Name: Eye Gate Media.
- Subject(s): Short stories, American History and criticism.
Short story.
Short stories, American.
- Imprint: Jamaica, N.Y. : Eye Gate Media, 1976.
- Pages: 8 rolls : col. ; 35 mm.
- Note: Sound accompaniment compatible for manual and automatic
operation.
With teacher's guide at end of each filmstrip.
- Content Note: A. Edgar Allan Poe: The telltale heart. 62 fr.--B.
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
Feathertop. 55 fr.--C. Kate
Chopin: A lady of Bayou St. John. 55 fr.--D. O. Henry:
Springtime a la carte. 53 fr.--E. Ernest Hemingway:
Banal story. 54 fr.--F. Katherine Anne Porter: Theft.
52 fr.--G. Langston Hughes: Coffee break. 54 fr.--H.
Elements of the short story. 46 fr.
- Abstract:
Introduces the short story and some of America's greatest writers.
- Library of Congress Call # PS374.S5
- Dewey Class # 813.08
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