The Mind's Eye (publisher)

The Mind's Eye was a publisher which produced dramatized adaptations of various written works. They were one of America’s biggest audio drama producers during the 1980s. They had mainstream distribution through chains like Waldenbooks and catalogs like Wireless, and they published an expansive catalog of adaptations of classic stories. They are most notable for the 1979 National Public Radio radio drama version of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and for the 1980 version of The Hobbit. Prominent contributors included Bernard Mayes, Erik Bauersfeld, John Vickery, Lou Bliss, Gail Chugg, Tom Luce, Ray Reinhardt, James Arrington, Pat Franklyn, Wanda McCaddon, Rick Cimino, Joe Gostanian, John Joss, Karen Hurley, Kevin Gardiner, Darryl Ferreira, and Carl Hague. The company was acquired by Soundelux in 1992.

The Mind's Eye
StatusDefunct
Founded1972 (1972)[1][2]
FounderBob Lewis[1][2]
SuccessorSoundelux
Country of originUnited States
Publication typesAudiobooks

List of Mind's Eye productions

Many of the productions were adapted and directed by Bob Lewis, and include:

  1. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1972)
  2. Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (1972)
  3. Beauty and the Beast by Mme. De Villeneuve (1975)
  4. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane (1972)
  5. The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
  6. The Celebrated Jumping Frog by Mark Twain (1972)
  7. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1972)
  8. Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  9. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1973)
  10. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
  11. The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe
  12. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  13. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (1980)
  14. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1975)
  15. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1974)
  16. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (1983)
  17. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (1972)
  18. The Light Princess by George MacDonald (1979)
  19. Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien (1979) Adapted by Bernard Mayes
  20. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle (1974)
  21. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1982) Adapted by Erik Bauersfeld
  22. Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  23. My Kinsman, Major Molineux by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  24. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
  25. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1973)
  26. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1972)
  27. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1979)
  28. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  29. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  30. Aladdin by Antoine Galland (1974) with James Arrington as Aladdin, Beverlee Cochrane as Scheherezade, Lynn Preisler as the Mother, Joe Hughes as the Sultan, and Joe Gostanian as the Vizier
  31. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
  32. The Odyssey by Homer (1977)
  33. Oedipus The King by Sophocles (1977)
  34. Dracula by Bram Stoker (1983)
  35. Watership Down by Richard Adams (1984)


External audio
audio icon The Hobbit Mind's Eye Theater Recording
audio icon The Lord of the Rings Mind's Eye Theater Recording

References
  1. "Books on cassette tape: aloud and alive". Christian Science Monitor. 1983-12-14. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  2. Bob Lewis - Amazon.com


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