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Little Dorrit / 2 Entertain ; British Broadcasting Corporation ; a BBC Drama/WGBH co-production ; producer, Lisa Osborne ; screenwriter, Andrew Davies ; director[s], Dearbhla Walsh, Adam Smith, Diarmuid Lawrence.
LIBRA DVD 011 374 disc 1-4
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Masterpiece theatre
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Film adaptations.
- Dickens, Charles.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
- Marshalsea Prison (Southwark, London, England).
- Social classes--England--Drama.
- Social classes.
- Women dressmakers--England--Drama.
- Women dressmakers.
- Marshalsea Prison (Southwark, London, England)--Drama.
- Social conditions.
- England--Social conditions--19th century--Drama.
- England.
- London (England)--Drama.
- London (England).
- Genre:
- Television mini-series.
- Historical television programs.
- Television adaptations.
- Television melodramas.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Drama.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 4 videodiscs (approximately 452 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- [Widescreen presentation].
- Place of Publication:
- [London, England] : BBC Video ; Burbank, CA : distributed by Warner Home Video, 2009.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; Dolby Digital stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- When Arthur Clennam returns to London after several years abroad, he wants to learn more about his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England.
- Participant:
- Matthew Macfadyen, Claire Foy, Tom Courtenay, Alun Armstrong, Judy Parfitt, Emma Pierson, Ruth Jones, Sue Johnston, Bill Paterson, Andy Serkis, James Fleet, Freema Agyeman.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Owen McPolin ... [et al.]; editors, Philip Kloss ... [et al.]; music, John Lunn.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the television mini-series originally broadcast in 2008, and copyright 2007.
- Based on Little Dorrit / by Charles Dickens.
- "Masterpiece classics."--Opening frames.
- Special features: Little Dorrit : an insight (featurette); picture gallery.
- Aspect ratio 16:9 enhanced.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1419880675
- 9781419880674
- OCLC:
- 319172478
- Publisher Number:
- 883929064946
- 1000092476 BBC Video/Warner Home Video
- 3000021038 BBC Video/Warner Home Video
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