The British Film Institute’s YouTube channel features short films about Charles Dickens’s interest in magic lantern shows as well as the silent film adaptations of his work. The earliest, Scrooge or Marley’s Ghost, was made in 1901. Dramatist and Dickens adapter Michael Eaton argues that Dickens’ prose style itself may have influenced the language of the emerging artform. Dickens 2012 has more on the “global celebration” of the author’s 200th birthday year.