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“no other single literary figure—not Shakespeare or Dickens—has been more significant in the evolution of film narrative”
—Prof Tim Dolin, “The Great Uncredited: Sir Walter Scott & #Cinema”
www.screeningthepast.com/issue-34-fir...
Narrative possibly, but both Griffith and Eisenstein said that Dickens was a huge influence for them on the development of film language and technique.