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Kelley McGrath 2012 OLAC Conference FRBR, Facets and the Discoverability of Moving Image Materials in Libraries Activity #2 Work boundaries: two works or two expressions of the same work?

Text of Shakespeare’s play Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 Hamlet feature film adaptation of Hamlet Text of Shakespeare’s play Video of a televised stage Hamlet performance of Hamlet Hitchcock’s Gus Van Sant’s shot-by-shot of Psycho Original theatrical release of Unrated version of American American Pie (R-rated) Pie Miyazaki’s Ponyo (anime) Miyazaki’s Ponyo (anime) with original Japanese voices dubbed in English using the voices of famous actors The original Japanese Godzilla, dubbed in English Godzilla and reedited with added sequences for the American market with actors not in the original version Kokusai himitsu keisatsu - What’s Up Tiger Lily? where Kagi no kagi (International writes dubbed Secret Police - Key of Keys), a English language comedy Japanese action spy film script for the Japanese Key of Keys with a new storyline

Early talkies that were filmed in multiple language versions, sometimes with different casts

Examples: The Spanish vs. English versions of Dracula. The only thing they have in common is the sets (the Spanish crew worked at night—and even got to the end of shooting before the set was properly dressed and had to do without the requisite spider webs).

The English and German versions of Garbo's Anna Christie. In this case Garbo is in both, though the rest of the cast and the directors differ. They are very different from each other, even in costuming and makeup.

The German and English versions of The Blue Angel (not coincidentally with the same cast and director) are so close that on a practical level they could be considered expressions.

The Spanish version of Laurel and Hardy's Chickens Come Home was surprisingly similar to the English version despite different actresses and a lengthy interlude with a fire-eater not in the English version.

European and American versions of a with the same personnel but made of different takes of the same scenes, usually but not always edited in the same way