Welcome to the


AVRC Library Catalogue

Hallelujah [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 67676 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English Subtitle language: French, Spanish Publication details: [United States] : Turner Entertainment ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2006]Edition: Standard versionDescription: 1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1419817124
  • 9781419817120
Other title:
  • Title on container: King Vidor's Hallelujah
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.N4 H355458534 2006
Production credits:
  • Music, Irving Berlin ; director of photography, Gordon Avil ; editor, Hugh Wynn.
Cast: Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine, Harry Gray, Fanny Belle DeKnight.Summary: Infused with spirituals, folk songs, blues, and jazz, Hallelujah follows the fortunes of Zeke, a poor cotton farmer. Love, loss, passion, redemption, make this cinematic milestone the first all-black feature from a major studio.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD 1186 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050123241

Originally released as a motion picture in 1929.

Run time: approx. 100 min.

Dual-layer format.

Special features: commentary by Black Cultural Scholars Donald Bogle and Avery Clayton ; 2 vintage musical shorts featuring the Nicholas Brothers and Hallelujah co-star Nina Mae McKinney: Pie, pie blackbird featuring Eubie Blake and band and The black network ; theatrical trailer.

DVD, region 1, Dolby digital.

In English (mono) with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish; closed-captioned in English.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.