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The first television adaptation appeared as part of CBS's Studio One series in September 1953. [113] BBC Television broadcast an adaptation by Nigel Kneale in December 1954. The first feature film adaptation, 1984, was released in 1956. A second feature-length adaptation, Nineteen Eighty-Four, followed in 1984, a reasonably faithful adaptation ...
A Study in Scarlet is one of several stories not adapted for the television series starring Jeremy Brett between 1984 and 1994. Steven Moffat loosely adapted A Study in Scarlet into " A Study in Pink " as the first episode of the 2010 BBC television series Sherlock featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as a 21st-century Sherlock Holmes, and Martin ...
SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy.
Winston Smith is a fictional character and the protagonist of George Orwell's dystopian 1949 novel also being born in 1945-46 according to the book Nineteen Eighty-Four.The character was employed by Orwell as an everyman in the setting of the novel, a "central eye ...
One for the Road, considered Pinter's "statement about the human rights abuses of totalitarian governments", [1] was inspired, according to Antonia Fraser, [2] by reading on May 19, 1983, Jacobo Timerman's Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, a book about torture on Argentina's military dictatorship; later, in January 1984, he got to write it after an argument with two Turkish girls ...
The use of contradictory names in this manner may have been inspired by the British and American governments; during the Second World War, the British Ministry of Food oversaw rationing (the name "Ministry of Food Control" was used in World War I) and the Ministry of Information restricted and controlled information, rather than supplying it; while, in the U.S., the War Department was ...
Michael Vick appears ready to make the jump into coaching. The former Atlanta Falcons and Philadelphia Eagles quarterback is in discussions with both Norfolk State and Sacramento State to take ...
In the introduction to the first edition of his novel, [1] Greene states that he had forgotten about this story until receiving a letter about it from a stranger in 1983. . Greene had first suggested it as an idea for a film script in 1937, set during the Spanish Civil War, and later developed it while under contract with MGM during the 19