Greetings From Bonnie Scotland,

I'm a tramp abroad via Philadelphia, ex-Chicago, planning a short  
film production of "The Stolen White Elephant" here in Edinburgh and  
Glasgow.

Every time I read the story I immediately become bereft that no one  
has produced an adaptation so I've just decided to go ahead with it  
already.

A question and a request:

First, does any one have any strong opinions about the story or about  
film adaptations of Mark Twain in general? I've read some criticism  
about how Twain was satirizing the likes of G. K. Chesterton and  
Agatha Christie, who would have their respective detectives just show  
up at the right time and place whenever they were needed to could  
observe some plot-turning, clue-producing event regardless of  
plausibility. This was a good start for me planning the film. Anyone  
maybe interested in advising the production in a serious way, please  
write to me and I'll send you some directors notes that may need  
development. I always say, a Literary Historian and an in-house  
Mathematician are underrated crew members in the short filmmaking  
process. More info about everything is located at the film website is  
here:

www.that-a-way.com/elephantproductioninfo.htm

The second is that for this film production - my master's graduation  
film -  I'm experimenting with micro-fundraising, gathering up 10  
dollar donations from several hundred individuals to help pay for the  
cost of the production. I don't know if it will work or not. The film  
production house is based at the University of Edinburgh and the  
Edinburgh College of Art, but the film is being shot on location in  
Glasgow inside two famous Charles Rennie Mackintosh buildings: The  
Scotland Street School Museum and The Glasgow School of Art - (my  
plan is to make Glasgow look like Chicago). Anyone who wises to  
support this film so that together we can no longer be gloomy that  
there's no short film version of the "The Stolen White Elephant" can  
do so and read all about "The Stolen White Fundraiser" here:

www.that-a-way.blogspot.com

Thank you for letting me post on the server and let me know what you  
think.

Piecemeal,
Zach Rosenau