ABSTRACT
During the Spring of 1913, while working on Victory, Joseph Conrad explored the possibility of collaborating on a play with his friend Perceval Gibbon. Later in his career, he was actively involved in the very successful stage-adaptation of Victory by Macdonald Hastings, and he produced his own stage-adaptations of 'Because of the Dollars' and The Secret Agent, as well as a film-script based on 'GasparRuiz'. In the Prefaces, James had delineated his 'scenic method'. R. P. Blackmur observes that 'the Dramatic Scene was the principal device James used to objectify the Indirect Approach,' and notes that 'his use of the scene resembled that in the stage-play'. In Europe, the development of cinema coincides with Conrad's writing career. French cinema begins on 22 March 1895, when Auguste and Louis Lumiere staged a show of their Cinematographe for the Societe d'Encouragement pour 1'Industrie Nationale in Paris.
