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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Learn about essential elements of the novel—including mood, motivation, characterization, and style—with editor and anthologist Clifton Fadiman and actors from London's Old Vic theater company. This is a 1962 production of Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
The Bigfoot story dates back to Native American and Indigenous Canadian folklore.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Clifton Fadiman examines the inspiration Charles Dickens's work took from the milieu of Victorian England, with its startling contrasts of morality and hypocrisy, splendor and squalor, prosperity and poverty. This video is a 1962 production of Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
American editor and anthologist Clifton Fadiman discusses the elements of a short story, 1980. The video features clips from Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation's dramatizations of O. Henry's “The Gift of the Magi,” Guy de Maupassant's “The Necklace,” and H.G. Wells's “The Magic Shop.”
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
This dramatization of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's short story “The Crocodile” tells the story of a young Russian man who, having been swallowed alive by a crocodile, finds himself forced to continue life from inside the animal's belly. This video was produced in 1973 by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Learn about the controversy of identifying the first novel in history.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Using the example of Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation's 1977 dramatization of Walter van Tilburg Clark's “The Portable Phonograph,” director John Barnes discusses the problems of translating a short story into film and explains what it means to be faithful to the original.
