David Copperfield (1913 film)
David Copperfield is a 1913 British black-and-white silent film based on the novel "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens.
It is the second-oldest known film adaptation of the novel.
Running six reels, it is significant as a very early British feature film at a moment when the world film industry was beginning its move away from traditional short films towards longer and more ambitious works.
The film was made by the Hepworth Manufacturing Corporation, was produced by Cecil Hepworth and was written and directed by Thomas Bentley.
In the United Kingdom it was released in August 1913, and in the United States it was released on 1 December 1913.
It ran at 67 minutes on seven reels.
A review of the film in "
The Dickensian" said:
"It occupies close upon two hours to exhibit and is divided into six parts, telling the story of David's life from Blunderstone to his happy union with Agnes.
Obviously the part of David is enacted by three different actors, Master Eric Desmond, Mr Len Bethel and Mr Kenneth Ware.
The first-named being one of the cleverest child actors we have seen.
We have no space to speak of all the characters presented.
Each and all of them were Dickens' creations to the life and not mere exaggerations as is often
the case.<br>
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The film not only includes all of the most prominent characters and all the necessary incidents of the book to make the story intelligible to the lay reader, but they have been enacted in the actual places in which the novelist laid them."
Thomas Bentley
Thomas Bentley (1884–1966) was a British film director.
He directed 68 films between 1912 and 1941.
He directed three films in the early DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, "The Man in the Street" (1926), "The Antidote" (1927), and "Acci-Dental Treatment" (1928).
Bentley was born in London and originally trained as an engineer but went on to become a vaudeville performer well known for impersonating the characters from the novels of Charles Dickens on stage.
His directing career in silent films began in 1910 with his adaptations of a number of Dickens' novels to film.
After his retirement from directing in 1941 he became technical advisor to the British Film Council.
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Question: Where was the director of film David Copperfield (1913 Film) born?
Answer: London