Shorts based on works by Charles Dickens, Jonathan Swift, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Brothers Grimm, among others, followed. The earliest known adaptation of written literature into celluloid was a 45-second scene called “Trilby and Little Billee,” based on George du Maurier’s best-selling novel “Trilby,” filmed in 1896. But no other source has yielded as many films as books. Plays, comic strips, graphic novels, magazine stories, songs, and video games have all spawned movies. Many of the best (and for that matter worst) films in cinematic history have come from original screenplays - scenarios conceived specifically for the screen - but they’ve always been drawn from other genres, too, either directly or by way of inspiration.
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