The Resource The magnificent Ambersons, a Mercury Production by Orson Welles ; screenplay, production & direction by Orson Welles, (videorecording DVD)
The magnificent Ambersons, a Mercury Production by Orson Welles ; screenplay, production & direction by Orson Welles, (videorecording DVD)
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The item The magnificent Ambersons, a Mercury Production by Orson Welles ; screenplay, production & direction by Orson Welles, (videorecording DVD) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Spokane Public Library.
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- Summary
- A brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when the Amberson family is at the height of its wealth and prestige. But the day arrives when all the Ambersons are stunned by the truth of their financial ruin
- Language
-
- eng
- eng
- eng
- eng
- Edition
- DVD edition
- Extent
- 2 videodiscs (88 min.)
- Note
-
- Credits, from container; film credits are spoken
- From the novel by Booth Tarkington
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1942
- Special features: two audio commentaries; new interviews; new video essay on the film's cinematographers by scholar François Thomas; new video essay on the films score by scholar Christopher Husted; Welles on The Dick Cavett show in 1970; segment from Pampered youth, a 1925 silent adaptation of The Magnificent Ambersons; audio from a 1979 AFI symposium on Welles; two Mercury Theatre radio plays: Seventeen (1938), an adaptation of another Booth Tarkington novel by Welles, and The magnificent Ambersons (1939); trailer
- Program note (1 folded sheet) with essay by critic Molly Haskell inserted in container
- Isbn
- 9781681435251
- Label
- The magnificent Ambersons
- Title
- The magnificent Ambersons
- Statement of responsibility
- a Mercury Production by Orson Welles ; screenplay, production & direction by Orson Welles
- Language
-
- eng
- eng
- eng
- eng
- Summary
- A brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when the Amberson family is at the height of its wealth and prestige. But the day arrives when all the Ambersons are stunned by the truth of their financial ruin
- Cataloging source
- TEFMT
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/collectionName
- Magnificent Ambersons (Motion picture).
- Credits note
- Cinematography, Stanley Cortez ; storyboards and sketches, Joe St. Amon ; editing, Robert Wise ; score, Bernard Herrmann
- Dewey number
- 791.43/72
- Intended audience
- MPAA rating: Not rated
- Language note
- In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
- PerformerNote
- Joseph Cotten, Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead, Dolores Costello, Tim Holt, Ray Collins
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
-
- 1915-1985
- 1905-1994
- 1900-1974
- 1869-1946
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Welles, Orson
- Cotten, Joseph
- Baxter, Anne
- Moorehead, Agnes
- Tarkington, Booth
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Runtime
- 88
- Series statement
- Criterion collection
- Series volume
- 952
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Families
- Children of the rich
- Inheritance and succession
- Loss (Psychology)
- Mothers and sons
- Social change
- Technique
- live action
- Label
- The magnificent Ambersons, a Mercury Production by Orson Welles ; screenplay, production & direction by Orson Welles, (videorecording DVD)
- Note
-
- Credits, from container; film credits are spoken
- From the novel by Booth Tarkington
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1942
- Special features: two audio commentaries; new interviews; new video essay on the film's cinematographers by scholar François Thomas; new video essay on the films score by scholar Christopher Husted; Welles on The Dick Cavett show in 1970; segment from Pampered youth, a 1925 silent adaptation of The Magnificent Ambersons; audio from a 1979 AFI symposium on Welles; two Mercury Theatre radio plays: Seventeen (1938), an adaptation of another Booth Tarkington novel by Welles, and The magnificent Ambersons (1939); trailer
- Program note (1 folded sheet) with essay by critic Molly Haskell inserted in container
- Carrier category
- videodisc
- Carrier category code
-
- vd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Configuration of playback channels
- monaural
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
-
- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in..
- Dimensions
-
- 4 3/4 in.
- other
- Edition
- DVD edition
- Extent
- 2 videodiscs (88 min.)
- Isbn
- 9781681435251
- Media category
- video
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- v
- Medium for sound
- videodisc
- Other control number
- 715515223614
- Other physical details
- sound, black and white
- Publisher number
-
- CC2968DDVD
- CC2968D
- Recording technique
- stamping
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
- videodisc
- System control number
-
- on1056157966
- 673891
- (OCoLC)1056157966
- System details
- DVD, NTSC, region 1; monaural, Dolby audio; 1.37:1 aspect ratio
- Video recording format
- DVD
- Label
- The magnificent Ambersons, a Mercury Production by Orson Welles ; screenplay, production & direction by Orson Welles, (videorecording DVD)
- Note
-
- Credits, from container; film credits are spoken
- From the novel by Booth Tarkington
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1942
- Special features: two audio commentaries; new interviews; new video essay on the film's cinematographers by scholar François Thomas; new video essay on the films score by scholar Christopher Husted; Welles on The Dick Cavett show in 1970; segment from Pampered youth, a 1925 silent adaptation of The Magnificent Ambersons; audio from a 1979 AFI symposium on Welles; two Mercury Theatre radio plays: Seventeen (1938), an adaptation of another Booth Tarkington novel by Welles, and The magnificent Ambersons (1939); trailer
- Program note (1 folded sheet) with essay by critic Molly Haskell inserted in container
- Carrier category
- videodisc
- Carrier category code
-
- vd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Configuration of playback channels
- monaural
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
-
- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in..
- Dimensions
-
- 4 3/4 in.
- other
- Edition
- DVD edition
- Extent
- 2 videodiscs (88 min.)
- Isbn
- 9781681435251
- Media category
- video
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- v
- Medium for sound
- videodisc
- Other control number
- 715515223614
- Other physical details
- sound, black and white
- Publisher number
-
- CC2968DDVD
- CC2968D
- Recording technique
- stamping
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
- videodisc
- System control number
-
- on1056157966
- 673891
- (OCoLC)1056157966
- System details
- DVD, NTSC, region 1; monaural, Dolby audio; 1.37:1 aspect ratio
- Video recording format
- DVD
Subject
- Fiction films
- Film adaptations
- Inheritance and succession -- Drama
- Loss (Psychology) -- Drama
- Mothers and sons -- Drama
- Social change -- Drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Children of the rich -- Drama
- Families -- Indiana -- Drama
- Domestic drama
- Feature films
Genre
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Film adaptations
- Fiction films
- Feature films
- Drama
- Domestic drama
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