# Story into film : Clark's ThePortable Phonograph

On camera, director John Barnes demonstrates how Walter Van Tilburg Clark's short story 'The Portable Phonograph' was adapted to make a motion picture. Barnes alternates between reading passages from the story and showing film interpretations of the same scene, describing the differences between the actual story and the screenplay. For more on John Barnes, visit http://www.afana.org/barnesbio.htm

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1977
- Runtime: 9 min
- By: John Barnes
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/StoryIntoFilm)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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