David Copperfield (1913 film)

David Copperfield
Still from David Copperfield (1913)
Directed by	Thomas Bentley
Written by	Thomas Bentley
Based on	David Copperfield 1850 novel by Charles Dickens
Produced by	Cecil Hepworth
Starring	Alma Taylor Reginald Sheffield
Production company	Hepworth Picture Plays
Distributed by	Walturdaw
Release dates	August 1913 (1913-08) (UK) December 1, 1913 (1913-12-01) (US)
Running time	67 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	Silent English intertitles

David Copperfield is a 1913 British black-and-white silent film based on the 1850 novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. It is the second-oldest known film adaptation of the novel. Running six reels, it is significant as a very early British feature film at a moment when the world film industry was beginning its move away from traditional short films towards longer and more ambitious works.

The film was made by the Hepworth Manufacturing Corporation, was produced by Cecil Hepworth and was written and directed by Thomas Bentley.^[1] In the United Kingdom it was released in August 1913, and in the United States it was released on 1 December 1913. It ran at 67 minutes on seven reels.^[2]

A review of the film in The Dickensian said:

"It occupies close upon two hours to exhibit and is divided into six parts, telling the story of David's life from Blunderstone to his happy union with Agnes. Obviously the part of David is enacted by three different actors, Master Eric Desmond, Mr Len Bethel and Mr Kenneth Ware. The first-named being one of the cleverest child actors we have seen. We have no space to speak of all the characters presented. Each and all of them were Dickens' creations to the life and not mere exaggerations as is often the case.

The film not only includes all of the most prominent characters and all the necessary incidents of the book to make the story intelligible to the lay reader, but they have been enacted in the actual places in which the novelist laid them."^[3]

Cast

Reginald Sheffield (billed as Eric Desmond) as David Copperfield as a boy
Len Bethel as David Copperfield as a youth
Kenneth Ware as David Copperfield as a Man
Edna May as Em'ly as a Child
Amy Verity as Em'ly as a Woman
Alma Taylor as Dora Spenlow
H. Collins as Wilkins Micawber
Miss West as Emma Micawber
Jack Hulcup as Uriah Heep
Jamie Darling as Daniel Peggotty
Cecil Mannering as James Steerforth

References

^ David Copperfield on the British Film Institute website
^ David Copperfield on 123 Nonstop Movies
^ David Copperfield on the Cinemaatograph, The Dickensian , Vol IX, No. 10, October 1913

External links

David Copperfield at IMDb
David Copperfield at AllMovie
David Copperfield at the BFI's Screenonline

Films directed by Thomas Bentley

Films directed by Cecil Hepworth

v t e Charles Dickens's David Copperfield
Characters	David Copperfield Mr. Dick Uriah Heep Wilkins Micawber Edward Murdstone Peggotty Dora Spenlow James Steerforth Betsey Trotwood Agnes Wickfield
Film	1911 film 1913 film 1922 film 1935 film The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019 film)
Television	1956 serial 1966 serial 1969 film 1974 serial 1986 serial 1993 film 1999 film 2000 film Micawber (2001 series)
Other	Copperfield (musical)

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