Film scenario carbon typescript

Film scenario carbon typescript

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Film.

Corrected carbon typescript draft of Film scenario, including Beckett's outline and notes for the original English version. 

Washington University also holds autograph and typescript drafts of his translation into French.

Beckett, Samuel

MSS008 Box 2 Folder 39

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1963

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MSS008 Box 2 Folder 40: Film [screenplay], 1965 Typescript [photocopy], 22 pages. 1 item; Folder 41: Film [screenplay], 1971 Autograph, typescript, and typescript [carbon], 40 pages. 3 items

Film. Complete scenario, illustrations, production shots - annotated copy - PR6003 E282 F5 1969 c.2

On 13 April 1963, Beckett wrote to Barney Rosset of Grove Press: "I have finished a first project for the film, with a certain amount of detail which I won't set forth here, as I'm not at all sure of it."

He went on to describe the three parts of the film (street, stairs of a house and small room) and set it in 1939. He continued:

"No speech. Perhaps sounds (breath, feet, creak of rocking-chair, etc.). But not sure yet.

"I'm letting it lie now for a bit and beginning to feel already the desolemnizing climate it needs - sort of silent film comedy, but not broad."

-The Letters of Samuel Becket: 1957-1966, pp. 538-539

1957-1965 exhibit case

English

Manuscript

13 leaves