The Count of Solar (Original title)
Date: 02 February 1992 (Television)Country: United KingdomDirector: Tristram Powell
Production company billing: BBC Films for Screen Two In Colour
Synopsis: Set in France just before the French Revolution. A true story of Joseph, a young boy who is deaf and dumb and who tries to gain his inheritance as the Count of Solar. The case of the count of Solar was important becuase it established for the first time the viability of sign language, codifed and publicised by the Abbé de l'Epée.
Subjects: Sign languages, Deaf people, France
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TV Transmissions
Date: 02 February 1992Broadcast channel: BBC2Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 22:10-23:30Runtime: 80 mins Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Title: [Sight and Sound - v2 n1 May 1992: no known title]Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
In: Sight and Sound v2 n3 July 1992 Page: 63
Title: [Sight and Sound - v2 n3 July 1992: no known title]Article type: LetterLanguage: English
Description: Letter from Tristram Powell about the review of COUNT OF SOLAR which appeared in Sight and Sound May 1992.
In: Sight and Sound v2 n5 September 1992 Page: 71
Title: [Sight and Sound - v2 n5 September 1992: no known title]Article type: LetterLanguage: English
Description: Letter about the representations of disability in cinema and television, in particular The COUNT OF SOLAR.
In: Screen International n794 15 Feb 1991 Page: 41,42
Title: [Screen International - n794 15 Feb 1991: no known title]Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
Date: 02 February 1992 (Television)Country: United KingdomDirector: Tristram Powell
Production company billing: BBC Films for Screen Two In Colour
Synopsis: Set in France just before the French Revolution. A true story of Joseph, a young boy who is deaf and dumb and who tries to gain his inheritance as the Count of Solar. The case of the count of Solar was important becuase it established for the first time the viability of sign language, codifed and publicised by the Abbé de l'Epée.
Subjects: Sign languages, Deaf people, France
Series title:
TV Transmissions
Date: 02 February 1992Broadcast channel: BBC2Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 22:10-23:30Runtime: 80 mins Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
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In: Sight and Sound v2 n1 May 1992 Page: 62Title: [Sight and Sound - v2 n1 May 1992: no known title]Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
In: Sight and Sound v2 n3 July 1992 Page: 63
Title: [Sight and Sound - v2 n3 July 1992: no known title]Article type: LetterLanguage: English
Description: Letter from Tristram Powell about the review of COUNT OF SOLAR which appeared in Sight and Sound May 1992.
In: Sight and Sound v2 n5 September 1992 Page: 71
Title: [Sight and Sound - v2 n5 September 1992: no known title]Article type: LetterLanguage: English
Description: Letter about the representations of disability in cinema and television, in particular The COUNT OF SOLAR.
In: Screen International n794 15 Feb 1991 Page: 41,42
Title: [Screen International - n794 15 Feb 1991: no known title]Article type: CreditsLanguage: English