Black Beauty

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1993. First Draft script and Revised First Draft script for the 1994 film. First Draft script dated April 12, 1993, and Revised First Draft script dated July 30, 1993.

Based on Anna Sewell's classic 1877 novel, about the eponymous black horse and his varied experiences in England in the 1800s. The fifth film adaptation of Sewell's novel.

Shot on location in London, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Hampshire, England.

First Draft:

White untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present, dated April 12, 1993, noted as FIRST DRAFT, with credit for director-screenwriter Caroline Thompson. 113 leaves, with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two silver brads.

Revised First Draft:

White untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present, dated July 30, 1993, noted as REVISED / FIRST DRAFT, with credit for director-screenwriter Caroline Thompson. 116 leaves, with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with rainbow revision pages throughout, dated variously between July 16 and September 13, 1993. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with a silver prong.

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