Many of the references to Lanka in the Mahabharata are found in sage Markandeya's narration of the story of Rama and Sita to king Yudhishthira, which narration amounts to a truncated version of the Ramayana.

* 1997: The story of Babar, by Jean de Brunhoff, narration, music from Francis Poulenc, Chichester Festival, Great Britain

The story starts with the narration, by Tristram, of his own conception.

In its original sense, a shaggy dog story is an extremely long-winded tale featuring extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents, usually resulting in a pointless or absurd punchline.

How Green Was My Valley is a 1939 novel by Richard Llewellyn, telling the story through narration of the main character, of his Welsh family and the mining community in which they live.

While in many cases a story is cut off with the hero in danger of losing his life or another kind of deep trouble, in some parts of the full text Scheherazade stops her narration in the middle of an exposition of abstract philosophical principles or complex points of Islamic philosophy, and in one case during a detailed description of human anatomy according to Galen — and in all these cases turns out to be justified in her belief that the king's curiosity about the sequel would buy her another day of life.

The general story is narrated by an unknown narrator, and in this narration the stories are told by Scheherazade.

Welsh's narration imbued both characters with surprising warmth, and the story avoided easy, pro-ecstasy conclusions.

Al-Razi also recorded that al-Bayhaqi stated that the narration of the story was unreliable because its narrators were of questionable integrity.

The story is told almost entirely from the point of view of the first person narrator, David Copperfield himself, and was the first Dickens novel to be written as such a narration.

| Unreliable narrator || Plot device || The narrator of the story is not sincere, or introduces a bias in his narration and possibly misleads the reader, hiding or minimizing events, characters, or motivations.

The film opens with the narration: " This is the story of a ship " and the images of shipbuilding in a British dockyard.

Parts of the story are carried by Wayne's narration to the camera, in which he offers his thoughts on what's happening in the film.

In the course of the story we are drawn through a contemplative narration which sometimes leads one to think the old man has gone senile.

Another early example is the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ), where the general story is narrated by an unknown narrator, and in this narration the stories are told by Scheherazade.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at one point features the narration of an Arctic explorer, who records the narration of Victor Frankenstein, who recounts the narration of his creation, who narrates the story of a cabin dwelling family he secretly observes.

The novel's expository narration is interspersed with excerpts from a novel written by one of the main characters ; the novel-within-a-novel itself contains a science fiction story written by one of that novel's characters.

Another early example is The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, where the general story is narrated by an unknown narrator, and in this narration the stories are told by Scheherazade.

After beating the antagonist, a final narration will convey the story from each of the six pages and courses the Yoshis went through, finishing with the Yoshis standing together in joy, encircling the Super Happy Tree.

As a result, all conversations and even the narration become amusing confusing, until the very end where the sad story behind the triple names is told.

In 1992, its recorded footage was released on video using linking narration by Tom Baker, the Doctor to complete the story.

* Another Dragnet trademark is the show's opening narration: " Ladies and gentlemen: the story you are about to hear is true.

Its format is progressive rock and string orchestra, using narration and leitmotifs to carry the story via rhyming melodic lyrics that express the feelings of the various characters.

The act or process of telling the particulars of a story is referred to as narration.

As the Ghost Host continues his narration, the room begins to " stretch.

Each episode ( up to episode 24 ) begins with the following narration ( which Dick Tufeld voiced ):

Herzog's sparse commentary interprets the imagery out of its documentary context, and into a poetic fiction: the opening narration begins " A planet in our solar system / wide mountain ranges, clouds, the land shrouded in mist ".

The film begins, as it ends, with narration by Nettie ( Coleen Gray ).

Gregory Maguire's most recent book, A Lion Among Men, is told primarily from the Lion's viewpoint, and its plot is centered around Brrr's account of his own origins, or lack thereof ( he is unsure, as his narration begins, of the whereabouts of his parents, herd, etc.

The narration begins in early fall 1963, just as Rachel's latest fling with her married employer ends and she decides to relocate once again.

It begins with the narration of Animae, someone or something who / that has existed for as long as he / she / it can remember and contemplates the nature of his / her / its existence and then begins a journey of understanding with the words: " I will call myself GOD and I will spend the rest of forever trying to figure out who I am ".

Jubei's Revenge begins a narration of the timepiece explaining the era, the war between toyotomi and tokugawa, the events that led up to the Shimabara rebellion, and a dark satanic prophecy about Shiro.

The documentary begins without narration as a plane lands down in the remote part of the desert where Chicken Ranch is situated while a number from the Broadway Musical based on the Texas situated Ranch is played.

This episode, which like many Christmas shows has an anapestic rhyming narration and storybook style, begins in the forest, where " the boy in the red poof-ball hat " discovers a group of talking animals, the Woodland Christmas Critters, building a Christmas tree.

The story begins with a narration by Samos the Sage, master of the Green Eco.

The miniseries begins in the 1820s and is told mainly through the third person narration of Jacob Wheeler ( Matthew Settle ) and Loved By the Buffalo ( Joseph M. Marshall III ), although episodes outside the direct observation of both protagonists are also shown.

The film begins with a monotone narration about the developing evil of marijuana in modern society and the need for vigilance in stopping the actions of the " pushers " and the " smugglers.

The episode begins with a cold open in which Rose Tyler, via narration, recollects her life with The Doctor and how she believed their adventures would continue indefinitely before all that changed and she announces, " This is the story of how I died.

Narration begins, mirroring the narration done by Eliot in the beginning of the film, with Dan revealing himself to be a Baxter as well, describing his lament at losing the girl ( Cecil ) to the leading man ( Eliot ).

Without a writing system, the Ainu were masters of narration, with the Yukar and other forms of narration such as the Uepeker ( Uwepeker ) tales, being committed to memory and related at gatherings, often lasting many hours or even days.

The film includes recreations of several key scenes, most notably Lugosi's ponderous narration and Glen's plea for his girlfriend's understanding at the end of the movie.

( 2006 ), incorporating live Foley artists, narration and orchestra at select showings.

While at Disney in 1982, Burton made his first short, Vincent, a six-minute black-and-white stop motion film based on a poem written by the filmmaker, and depicting a young boy who fantasizes that he is his ( and Burton's ) hero Vincent Price, with Price himself providing narration.

In the full-length version, restored in 1998 and released on DVD in 2004, the voice-over narration is heard only at the beginning of the film.

Performing at the recording session were Ellington on the piano and doing the narration, 16 of his orchestra members, four vocalists including the Swedish singer Alice Babs, and five choirs: the AME Mother Zion Church Choir, the choirs Of St Hilda's and St. Hugh's School, the Central Connecticut State College Singers, and the Frank Parker Singers.

( As seen on the Stan Lee narration list at Spider-Friends. com )

King Edward the Confessor, king of England and about sixty years old at the time the tapestry starts its narration, had no children or any clear successor.

However, Laura in her narration stresses that what holds her back is her horror at the thought of betraying her husband and her settled moral values, tempted though she is by the force of a love affair.

The Hollywood Production Code did not allow murderers to get away with their crimes, so Ulmer got through the censors by having Al picked up by a police car at the very end of the movie, after foreseeing his arrest in the earlier narration.

* The Hospital film clip at Turner Classic Movies Media Room ( Paddy Chayefsky narration & titles )

A studio cast recording of the film's songs was released by Decca soon after the film, with Danny Kaye, Jane Wyman, and a backup chorus singing the songs from the film, also including two Sylvia Fine originals made specifically for the album, " Uncle Pockets " and " There's a Hole at the Bottom of the Sea ", and Danny Kaye's narration of two Tubby the Tuba stories by Paul Tripp.

Off-air home audio recordings of various television programmes have also been recovered, at least preserving the soundtracks to otherwise missing shows, and some of these ( particularly from Doctor Who ) have been released on CD by the BBC following restoration and the addition of narration to describe purely visual elements.

The closing narration is a possible reference to the original draft: at the time of broadcast, the Dodgers had beaten the Chicago White Sox to win the previous year's World Series, doing so with a dominant pitching staff featuring Don Drysdale, Johnny Podres and a young Sandy Koufax.

Alberto Santos-Dumont footage starts at 21 seconds in this 1945 newsreel on various firsts in human flight, but be aware of controversial claims in the narration ( Media: First flights in aviation history. ogg | full size ).

As the final narration states, " Many laughed to see this alteration in him, but he let them laugh and little heeded them, for he knew that no good thing in this world ever happened, at which some did not have their fill of laughter.

Religious narration ( including sermons ) may be pronounced in a variety of settings and at various times.

* See also audio narration at LibriVox's Short Nonfiction Collection Vol.

Orson Welles ' narration appears on the 1987 Remix only, at the beginning of " A Dream Within a Dream " and " Prelude ".

Eckert's Pulitzer Prize-nominated book A Time of Terror: The Great Dayton Flood was adapted for the stage as 1913: The Great Dayton Flood by W. Stuart McDowell and Timothy Nevits in 1996 and performed at the Wright State University Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures, featuring recorded narration by Martin Sheen, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.

The narration follows at least twenty characters in this way but the bulk of the novel is spent with Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith.