Father Brown is everywhere, being available to anyone who wants to read a solid mysterious, and occasionally, fantastical story, which the diminutive priest adroitly reduces to the common place. The God-given gift of reason can do that.
From the written word to the big screen with Sir Alec Guinness’s portrayal in The Detective to Kenneth More in the British television series, which I wrote of in April: G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown on DVD.
I received a comment on that post from Alek, but his comment was not so much a comment, but an invitation to view a stop-action animation adaption of G. K. Chesterton’s The Blast of the Book. The short was produced by the Soyuzmultfilm Studio in 1987 and is presently available on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2NKRxDEezo
No English subtitles are available, but that does not detract from the quality of the work. It’s a little over thirteen minutes long.
And by all means, re-read the original story first; then watch the short. Chesterton is available everywhere on the Internet. Or just pick your copy of The Scandal of Father Brown from your bookshelf.
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You can visit Alek, the purveyor of this wonderful piece of entertainment, at: http://alek-morse.livejournal.com/
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