Charles Dickens: background for his works

Scenes photographed in England, showing many of the actual places which Dickens used as settings in his novels and also town and country houses where he wrote some of his best-known novels. Views of historic inns and buildings in London, Rochester, Canterbury, Dover and the marshlands of “Great Expectations”. A page from the MS of “Pickwick Papers”; another from the MS of “Oliver Twist”. The film stresses the relation between Dickens’ stories and his personal experience of places, people and social customs.