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Author Charles Frazier reflects on his experiences with the adaptation of his critically acclaimed novel Cold Mountain into a full length feature film. While doing so Frazier explores what the screenwriter owes the novelist and the fundamental differences between the novel and film.
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18610
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Conceived and produced as an education movie to be shown throughout North Carolina's public schools, the 1921 silent film \"The Lost Colony Film\" was created by a group of Outer Banks residents led by educator Mabel Evans. The film depicts the violent interactions between the early English colonists and natives, as well as the mysterious loss of the colony.
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18611
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The 1921 silent film, \"The Lost Colony Film\" has at times been as difficult to locate as the colony it depicts. Since the film was released in 1921 there have been periods of time, spanning several years, where the film was not locatable by anyone. Tom Whiteside had spent considerable time and energy locating and preserving the film for future generations.
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18612
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North Carolina playwright and screenwriter Paul Green contributed to dozens of Hollywood scripts between the early 1930s and 1960, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1927 play, In Abraham's Bosom, and famously wrote the outdoor history play, The Lost Colony, which has run every summer in Manteo since 1937. Green, an advocate for liberal social reforms in the South, used both his plays and film scripts to voice his social concerns.
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18630
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In 1915, North Carolina novelist Thomas Dixon traveled to Hollywood to create a film entitled “The Fall of a Nation,” the sequel to “Birth of a Nation,” the successful film adaptation of his 1905 novel, “The Clansman.” Dixon's directorial, production, and script credits between 1915 and 1937 included several films involving Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan, psychoanalysis, and the Red Scare.
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18631
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Elisabeth Benfey's Duke University film class had the unique opportunity to adapt into film, stories written by local North Carolina authors and was able to consult those authors during the process. Randall Kenan's short story, The Foundations of the Earth, was the selected story for a group of students and discussed in detail.
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18632
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North Carolina writer John Ehle's entire career has been interconnected to the film industry. From being Governor Terry Sanford's special assistant where he participated in the creation of the North Carolina Film Board and the North Carolina School of the Arts, to his novels being adapted into films themselves, Ehle has greatly influenced film in North Carolina.
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18633
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Books are a common source of stories utilized in the filmmaking process. Author George Hovis examines the rich literary history of North Carolina and selects 10 stories or books that he believes would make good feature films.
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