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Labyrinth: The Photo Album
by Rebecca Grand Henry Holt, and Co. 1986 |
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This book is a pictoral journey following Sarah and her friends through the Labyrinth with a commentary from two unnamed goblins. Dozens of full color photographs illustrate the story and are enhanced by some dialog from the movie. I think it is the best of the Labyrinth books and my personal favorite.
Envious of Walter Pullen's scanning the early script and providing the Closed Captioning from the movie, and not to be outdone by Stephanie Massick painstakingly typing out the entire novel, I've made available the out-of-print Labyrinth: The Photo Album. You can try having Amazon.com search for it.
The online version exists in two formats for your reading pleasure. Depending on how fast you can receive info via modem connection and Fortune City's cooperation:) you may prefer to first
two facing pages - just like you were reading the book for real. However, the Preview shows the two pages at half their actual size. For this reason, the text appears above and below the Preview. Generally, the text for the left-hand page is above and the right hand page is below. Clicking on the left or right page will take you to the full 8 x 10 inch page. Now you will View the entire page, one page at a time. However, quite a few pages are centerfold pictures and are shown here together as one picture.
View shows you one page at a time, full size 8 x 10, with no accompanying text. If you can't make out some words in the pictures, just go
where you can read the text I've typed out in regular old Hyper Text Mark-up Language [ HTML ].
View pictures are approximately 8 x 10 inches and generally 60 K. You can skip or flip your way through The Photo Album this way, or merely cruise around the
I've also tried to mimic the feel of the book. Jareth speaks with a different font, er, accent, the goblins shout back and forth, persistently interrupting each other, Sarah quotes
The Labyrinth
, and various narrations are added. All of these often come across rather confusing, so I used different font colors to try to distinguish these different voices.
Also notice that when Sarah is in "real-life" or what appears as her "real-life" the pictures have straight, rectangular borders. The Labyrinth pictures are in jaggedy edges, and the ballroom pics are all in circles. Took me 8 years to spot that...
I have acquired the British version of Labyrinth: The Photo Album from the same place as I acquired the novel. It is nearly identical, with only minor differences you might find curious. I've also added the Japanese version to my collection! The Japanese covers are very different and there are a few blue-tinted "black and white" photos on both inside covers. |
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Start at the Table of Contents. Return to the library's entrance.
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