{"id":19223,"date":"2012-03-12T07:50:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=19223"},"modified":"2018-11-13T23:07:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T04:07:04","slug":"oldest-dickens-adaption-discovered-in-bfi-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/12\/oldest-dickens-adaption-discovered-in-bfi-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest Dickens\u2019 Adaption Discovered In BFI Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Film adaptations of books are something that goes back all the way to the earliest days of cinema and the British Film Institute has announced the discovery of a very example of one such adaption in their archives.<\/p>\n

The Death Of Poor Joe<\/strong>, a 1901 production that adapted a scene out of Charles Dickens\u2019s Bleak House<\/em> was discovered by archivist Bryony Dixon, while doing unrelated research. The film had come to the BFI back in 1954 as part of a collection from a film collector who knew the film\u2019s director G. A. Smith. It had gone unnoticed in the archives as it had been mis-labeled as the 1902 film Man Meets Ragged Boy<\/strong>. It\u2019s original release predates by a few months Scrooge<\/strong> (aka Marley\u2019s Ghost<\/strong>) which had been thought the be the earliest Dickens film adaption.<\/p>\n

The one-minute long film depicts the scene where Joe, a chimney-sweep, lies dying outside a church yard in the snow. As a night watchman attempts to comfort him, Joe mistakes his lamp for heaven and dies.<\/p>\n

Smith was a British silents director who managed to create nearly 100 short films between 1897 and 1910.<\/p>\n

The discovery of the one-minute long film comes just a day after the BFI held a celebration for the 200th anniversary of Dickens\u2019s birth. The BFI has announced that they plan on screening the film at their upcoming program of Dickens\u2019 pre-1914 shorts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And just in time to celebrate the bicentennial of the author’s birth.<\/div>\n

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