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Directed by | Warwick Gilbert |
Written by | Steven Fosberry |
Based on | The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens |
Produced by | Tim Brooke-Hunt |
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Music by | Simon Walker |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
The Pickwick Papers is a 1985 animated Australian TV film based on the 1837 novel of the same name by Charles Dickens. [2]
INI Entertainment Group Inc. licensed the film, alongside others in the International Family Classics library, to 20th Century Fox. [3] To date, it's the only one known to have its rights utilized by the latter company, as it aired on HBO on June 14, 1989. [4] [5] It was released by GoodTimes Home Video on DVD, under license by INI's successor, Liberty International Entertainment.
The music score for this film by Simon Walker was released as a soundtrack album in 2002 on 1M1 Records (1M1CD1021).
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club was the first novel by English author Charles Dickens. His previous work was Sketches by Boz, published in 1836, and his publisher Chapman & Hall asked Dickens to supply descriptions to explain a series of comic "cockney sporting plates" by illustrator Robert Seymour, and to connect them into a novel. The book became a publishing phenomenon, with bootleg copies, theatrical performances, Sam Weller joke books, and other merchandise. On its cultural impact, Nicholas Dames in The Atlantic writes, "'Literature' is not a big enough category for Pickwick. It defined its own, a new one that we have learned to call 'entertainment'." The Pickwick Papers was published in 19 issues over 20 months, and it popularised serialised fiction and cliffhanger endings.
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