Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date

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Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date
Directed by Jim Wolpaw
Written byJim Wolpaw
Produced byMichael Crowley
Jim Wolpaw
Production
company
Rhode Island Council for the Humanities
Distributed byPicture Start
Release date
  • 1985 (1985)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date is a 1985 American short documentary film directed by Jim Wolpaw. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. [1]

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