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Page last updated at 08:58 GMT, Thursday, 2 July 2009 09:58 UK

Far from a school production

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A Dorset school has taken the idea of the 'school play' a stage further by making their own feature film.

The Gryphon School spent a year creating their own version of Thomas Hardy's novel Far From the Madding Crowd, working to a tiny budget and borrowing everything from a stately home to farm animals for the production.

Richard Westcott reports.

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