<I>Great Expectations</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1962
name: label: Directed by
content: John Barnes, American, 1920 - 2000
label: Narrated by
content: Clifton Fadiman, American, 1904 - 1999
label: Subject of
content: Charles Dickens, English, 1812 - 1870
label: Produced by
content: Encyclopædia Britannica Films, American, founded 1928
label: Subject of
content: John Stride, British, 1936 - 2018
label: Subject of
content: Rosalie Crutchley, British, 1920 - 1997
label: Subject of
content: Richard Caldicot, British, 1908 - 1995
label: Subject of
content: Judi Dench, British, born 1934
label: Owned by
content: D.C. Public Library, American, founded 1896
notes: label: Caption
content: This film was a part of the Washington D.C. Public Library's circulating 16mm film collection housed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Central Library. The collection is particularly noted for the wide variety of African American and African diaspora content.
label: Description
content: A two-part educational film with the title Great Expectations. It consists of two (2) reels of 16mm color acetate film with optical sound.
label: Description
content: Part one opens with Clifton Fadiman providing contextual narration and discussing "the prison" as a major theme that arises in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, before the film transitions to a re-enactment of the scene in which young Pip meets young Estella and Miss Havisham (Rosalie Crutchley). The rest of part one alternates between scenes from the novel and Clifton Fadiman’s narration.
label: Description
content: Part two starts out with Fadiman providing a philosophical analysis of an interaction between Pip (John Stride) and Miss Havisham. The rest of part two alternates between Fadiman’s narration and re-enactments of scenes from the novel.
place: label: Place used
content: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
title: label: Title
content: Two-part educational film about the novel Great Expectations
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Actors
label: Topic
content: Education
label: Topic
content: Film
label: Topic
content: Literature
label: Topic
content: Theatre
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: DC Public Library Film Collection
label: Classification
content: Time-based Media - Moving Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Transferred from the DC Public Library
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2017.55.111.1ab
objectType: label: Type
content: sound films
label: Type
content: color films (visual works)
label: Type
content: 16mm (photographic film size)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Restrictions likely apply. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: acetate film
label: Dimensions
content: Duration (Reel 1): 35 minutes
label: Dimensions
content: Length (Film): 1250 Feet
label: Dimensions
content: Duration (Reel 2): 34 Minutes
label: Dimensions
content: Length (Film): 1225 Feet