Leadbelly (film) For a while, she takes care of him until the police arrive, breaking up a party. Leadbelly and an old man escape via a train and Leadbelly buys a twelve-string acoustic guitar from the old man. Seeking work, he takes a job picking cotton. He soon leaves on a train to Silver City where he meets Blind Lemon and they start playing shows together. At one show, a drunken man tells Leadbelly to keep playing, and threatens him. Leadbelly responds by smashing his guitar onto him and is arrested. He escapes from jail and leads a normal life until he
When Marnie Was There (novel) Anna lives with her foster mother in London. Due to illness, she is sent away to Norfolk to recover, where she meets a strange girl called Marnie who lives in a house overlooking the local marshes. In 2014, Studio Ghibli released an animated adaption of the book, with the story set in Hokkaido. The anime was directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki had previously recommended the book. The anime won the Chicago International Children's Film Festival, and an Oscar nomination in 2015. "When Marnie Was There" was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 1967. When Marnie Was There