1000 and One--the Blue Book of Non-Theatrical Films (1927)
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LITERATURE AND DRAMA
"1000 and One"
GROUP 83 (Continued) Literature and Drama
** Mark Twain (1) With scenes made famous by his writings, and a dramatization of The Jumping Frog.
** Walt Whitman (1) An effort to put the philosophy of the author in
film form.
** John Green leaf Whit tier (1) Illustrating Whittier by lines from The
Barefoot Boy and Maud Mutter. English Author Series (Series of 10, one reel each) The films visualize a brief sketch of the following1 authors: The Brownings, Robert Burns, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Oliver Goldsmith, Sir Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, Percy B. Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alfred Lord Tennyson. ** Alice in Wonderland (4) Lewis Carroll's child classic produced exactly as the book was written for children and grown-ups alike. •
(23, 49, 56, 66A, 69, 112, 113, 156) ***Alice Through the Looking Glass (5) A sequel to Alice in Wonderland.
(23, 37, 112)
American Literature (1) Dramatic situations from Poe's The Goldbug and from Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. (113, 151)
* The Ancient Mariner (6) The Coleridge story, with a "modern" beginning and ending. (IX)
Annabel Lee (5) Exquisite production based on Edgar Allen Poe's famous poem. (23, 49, 56, 69, 113)
Antony and Cleopatra (6) The classic story. (77) ***As No Man Has Loved (8) Excellent screen version of "The Man Without a Country." (IX)
The Atabaska Trail (1) Picturization of poem by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
(XXX)
Aunt Tabitha (1) Comedv, comparing present-day girl with her aunt. Poem by 0. W. Holmes. (XII, 112)
The Barefoot Boy (6) Based upon Whittier's immortal poem. Cast includes John Bowers, Marjorie Daw, Tully Marshall, Raymond Hatton. (32) ** Beloved Vagabond (5) Picturization of famous Locke novel. (VIII) ***Bill (3) A gem of screen acting. Motion picture version of Anatole France's Crainquebille. (XIX)
Bluebird (5) From Maeterlinck's delightful story. (128A)
* The Bond Boy (6) George Washington Ogden's novel. Acted by Richard Barthelmess and Mary Alden. • (19)
The Brock (1) Picturization of Tennyson's poem. (XXI)
The Call of the Wild (7) Picturization of Jack London's book, admirably done. (XV)
The Child of M'sieu' (5) Baby Marie Osborne in a story suggested by Browning's Pippa Passes. (37, 56, 112)
A Christmas Carol (1) Taken from Charles Dickens' story. (33, 49)
Corsican Brothers (6) From the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, enacted by Dustin Farnum. (66 A)
The Courtship of Myles Standish (5 or 6) Dramatization of Longfellow's poem, geographically and historically correct. Not the version with Charles Ray. (18, 28, 49, 56, 71, 113, 158A)
***The Courtship of Myles Standish (9) Longfellow's poem furnishes the incident of John Alden and Priscilla amplified by Charles Ray to include the story of the Pilgrims and the voyage of the Mayflower. 'Valuable for school as a study of the Pilgrims and their experiences. (XV., 18)
The Cricket on the Hearth (7) Charles Dickens' best known storv featuring Josef Swickard as Caleb Plummer. (2 3, 3 7 A, 56, 6 6 A, 69, 112, 113, 156)
The Deemster (5) Adapted from Hall Caine's novel. (XXI)
* The Deerslayer (5) James Fenimore Cooper's famous classic produced especially for educational use. (23, 56, 69, 113," 156)
Do m bey and Son (6) Charles Dickens' classic filmed in original English locations. (18, 56, 112, 113)
***The Enchanted Cottage (8) Pinero's play acted by Richard Barthelmess and May McAvoy. A screen classic. (19) Enoch Arden (3) Version of the classic. (112) Hamlet (7) Shakespeare's masterpiece ' beautifully presented. (23) Hansel and Gretel (3) The well-known story. (4 9)
The Headless Horseman (6) Adapted from Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow, with Will Rogers as Ichabod Crane. (23) ***Heidi of the Alps (3) Filmed in Switzerland — in natural colors.
(XX, XXI, 112)
Home Sweet Home (1) After the poem by John Howard Payne. (49)