Robert Louis Stevenson
Television Films about Stevenson
199* (planned) Robert Louis Stevenson's America, dir. James S. Culp
(Film History Foundation) [about Stevenson's life and work in America.]
1996 The Birth of Horror: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, dir. Christopher Frayling
(****) [stimulating; available (but only for shipment within the USA or
Canada) as a 200-minute, 2-video set of the whole interesting series Nightmare:
the Birth of Horror for $39.95 from A&E TV Networks (product code AAE-16076)]
1994 Stevenson's Travels (BBC) [interesting; divided into topological
/ bibliographical 'chapters', there are a good number of prominent Stevenson
scholars, and the Stevenson voice-overs are very evocative ]
1989 Meet the Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (SRA/McGraw-Hill; dir.
Cynthia Cowens, script/research/assoc. prod.: Frank Beck) [uses still images
from the Beinecke collection at Yale and other sources, including a number
of photographs never published before; named one of the ten best children's
videos of the year by the American Library Association, and in 1994 it
was used as part of the main Centenary commemoration exhibition at the
City Art Centre, Edinburgh and organized by the Writers' Museum (where
it made a very effective conclusion to the visit). Available from SRA/McGraw-Hill,
220 East Danieldale Road, Desota, Texas 75115; product No. 1-888-772-4543,
ISBN 0-07-509245-X; $57.96 (schools), $77.28 (individuals); video includes
teacher's guide]
1988 Knight, Alanna (script) & David Jensen. The Ballad Of Robert
Louis Stevenson. [pilot TV programme by Bon Accord Productions 1988]
1987 Knight, Alanna. Across The Plains. BBC 1. [Adaptation of The Amateur
Emigrant]
19** Tusitala - Teller of Tales (ABC, Australia) [a retelling of RLS's
last four years in Australia; I remember it as rather boring and with a
simplistic anti-English, pro-Australian approach; six 52 mins. episodes]
c. 1970 Heather on Fire (BBC Scotland) (N) [dramatization in which
S appears as a character]
c1946 [G.B. Stern, planned script for a film on the life of Stevenson]
[G.B. Stern (1948), No Son Of Mine, London, Cassell, p. 8 (Preface): 'I
had persuaded a film company to let me make a script on the life of Robert
Louis Stevenson; an idea which I had treasured for many years before']
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/treasure/setframe.htm