The New Yorker web site's Page Turner offers a link to a 1952 film of William Faulkner at home in Oxford, Miss., after winning the Noble Prize.
The film, posted on Open Culture, was shot for the cultural-affairs show Omnibus and shows Faulkner walking around Oxford's downtown, talking to cronies like the lawyer Phil Stone and joking with black workers. Stiff and contrived, the film still captures Faulkner's formal, aristocratic personality as well as his courtesy and humor. It preserves the long vanished accents and rhythms of the deep South speech of Faulkner and others.
Scenes of him walking, with perfect posture and fine tweeds, shows that one of Faulkner's greatest creations was himself.
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