Film. Complete scenario, illustrations, production shots - annotated copy

Film. Complete scenario, illustrations, production shots - annotated copy

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Film.

Includes an essay on directing Film by Alan Schneider.  This copy bears Beckett's signature on the title page, and the text contains a number of corrections in his hand. Beckett continuously made revisions to his works, years after their completion. The film was originally released in 1964.

Beckett, Samuel

PR6003 E282 F5 1969 c.2

https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b1816128~S2

Grove Press

1969

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First printing. Paper wrappers. Bears the author's autograph signature on title page. Text bears a number of corrections in his hand.

It took multiple screenings for Beckett to become satisfied with Film. He wrote to Sidney Meyers, the film editor, on 29 September 1964: 

“I am on the whole pleased with the film, having accepted its imperfections, for the most part perceptible only to the insiders, and discerned how in some strange way it gains by its deviations from the strict intention and develops something better. The last time I found myself submitting, far from the big crazy idea, to a strangeness and beauty of pure image.”

And he wrote Alan Schneider, the film’s director, on the same day: 

“I described it to Barney [Rosset] after the first screening as an 'interesting failure'. This I now see is much too severe. It does I suppose in a sense fail with reference to a purely intellectual schema, that is in a sense which only you and I and a few others can discern, but in so doing has acquired a dimension and a validity of its own that are worth far more than any merely efficient translation of intention.”

 The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1957-1965, pp 629-631

1957-1965 exhibit case

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