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MARK TWAIN

Date released

Oct 1958

Series name

Mining Review 12th Year

Issue no

2

NoS ID

346017

Story no

1 / 4

BFI synopsis: the positioning of the second sea-boring unit off Blackhall colliery, Durham. NCB Commentary - West Hartlepool, celebrated in the annals of British shipbuilding. Today an unfamiliar structure...

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Mark Twain Tonight! (1999)

Subject

Drama; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 90 minutes), £13.52

A recording for American television of Hal Holbrok’s one man show on Mark Twain. He comments on politics, the art of lying, religion, patriotism, slavery and man’s notion that he is the Creator’s pet....

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (1939 Film)

aka: Huckleberry Finn

Director

Richard Thorpe (2)

Producer

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Feature film based on Mark Twain’s novel with Mickey Rooney as Huck. Douglas Lanier in Shakespeares After Shakespeare (entry 1120) notes that this is the only film version of Twain’s novel which includes...

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A tramp abroad (1985)

Genre

Non-fiction

A Tramp Abroad, by Mark Twain. Chapters I-XVII. Narrator not identified.

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Mark Twain’s America (1960 Film)

Subject

History; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1), £8.91

Recreates the life of Mark Twain and the age in which he lived, through a collection of period engravings and photographs. Highlights the 1880s and 1890s, with pictures of frontier towns and Manhattan....

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Life on the Mississippi (1980)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 115 minutes), $19.95

A version of the novel by Mark Twain made for American television.

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Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn and the Mississippi: A Video Commentary (1988)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 28 minutes), £95.00 [University rate]

Gives students background information about Mark Twain and his work in this interview with noted scholar Lee Schlesinger, Associate Professor of Literature at the State University of New York at Purchase....

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Adventures of Huck Finn, The (1995)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £17.99

Film adaptation of the novel by Mark Twain’s.

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Mark Twain: A Film Directed by Ken Burns (2004)

aka: Mark Twain: A Film by Ken Burns

Director

Ken Burns

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 210 minutes), £19.99

A documentary by Ken Burns, the fifth part of his PBS television series ‘American Lives’. Looks at the life and work of Mark Twain, using archival photography and interviews with writers including Russel...

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (1985) (2001)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 211 minutes), £6.99

The novel by Mark Twain adapted for American television and starring Jim Dale and Lillian Gish.

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