George Orwell
George Orwell’s anti totalitarian novel Animal Farm, was almost destroyed during the Nazi bombings of London during the Second World War. Having been rejected by many editors, including TS Elliot, who was working for Faber & Faber at the time, the novel would have to wait until it was finally printed in 1945, and eventually became an animated film funded by the CIA in 1954.
Watch Animal Farm from Disney Below!
1984 was originally published as a novel in 1949, coming to television courtesy of BBC in 1954. Spurring a wave of controversy, the BBC decided to air a second version of a live performance and recorded it in a 35 mm film which you can watch below.
1984 by George Orwell, courtesy of the BBC
