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13165_30355_charles_dickens11

1970
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This clip is contains footage of Charles Dickens talking to a man who inspired many of his characters. It takes place in Victorian England. It begins with a MS of the two walking next to a path near a bridge and the man talks about his smoke stacks. Cuts to a photo of the man standing in front of his factory. Cuts back to the two men talking. Cuts to photo’s of child workers. Cuts to the two men walking down a street and the man grabs a young boy and talks about how everybody wants to become rich but hardly anyone succeeds.