Rip Van Winkle (1903 film) Rip Van Winkle (1903 film) Rip Van Winkle is a 1903 American short black-and-white silent compilation film written and directed by William K.L. Dickson. It is adapted from the play by his friend and investor Joseph Jefferson with Dion Boucicault based on the story of the same name by Washington Irving. The film features Joseph Jefferson as a ne'er-do-well, who wanders off one day into the Kaatskill mountains where he drinks some of a group odd men's mysterious brew and passes out only to find when waking up that 20 years have passed. The film is compiled from a series
Dismissal of School on an October Afternoon memorial exhibit. In 1992, this painting was featured in the "An Exhibit of American Painting, 1815–1865: from the M. and M. Karolik Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." "Dismissal from School on an October Afternoon" was not Inman's only work influenced by Irving. Inman was particularly interested in Rip van Winkle. In 1823, "Rip Van Winkle Awakening from His Long Sleep" was painted. Several years later Inman painted his "James Henry Hackett as Rip Van Winkle". There is also an undated sketch titled "Rip Van Winkle". James Cozzens commissioned the painting. Ownership soon passed to William P. Jones.