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Louisiana story /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: LOU130 | Home Vision CinemaPublication details: [United States] : Home Vision Entertainment, ©2003.Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 79 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 0780024796
  • 9780780024793
Other title:
  • Title on container: Robert J. Flaherty's Louisiana story
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .L7588 2003
Online resources:
Incomplete contents:
Special features: Letters home: a reading of cinematographer Richard Leacock's Letters with images from the production; Flaherty and film: a filmed discussion between Frances Flaherty and Robert Gardner about the making of Louisiana story; Hidden and seeking: a documentary excerpt in which Frances Flaherty reflects on her life and work with Robert Flaherty; The land: an excerpt from a 1940 film directed by Robert Flaherty for the United States Department of Agriculture; Study film: commentary by Richard Leacock and Frances Flaherty over the famed opening sequence.
Production credits:
  • Editor, Helen Van Dongen ; photography, Richard Leacock ; original music, Virgil Thomson ; music performed by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, conducting.
Awards:
  • Pulitzer Prize, musical score.
  • Named to the National Film Registry in 1994 by the Library of Congress.
Cast: Joseph Boudreaux, Lionel LeBlanc, Mrs. E. Bienvenu, Frank Hardy.Summary: Through the eyes of a young Cajun boy living on the Bayou, tells the story of disruption and change when an oil rig brings industry into his pristine world.
Holdings
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD 1579 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050127565

Fully restored by the Library of Congress, The Museum of Modern Art, and the UCLA Film and Television Department.

Originally produced as motion picture in 1948.

Special features: Letters home: a reading of cinematographer Richard Leacock's Letters with images from the production; Flaherty and film: a filmed discussion between Frances Flaherty and Robert Gardner about the making of Louisiana story; Hidden and seeking: a documentary excerpt in which Frances Flaherty reflects on her life and work with Robert Flaherty; The land: an excerpt from a 1940 film directed by Robert Flaherty for the United States Department of Agriculture; Study film: commentary by Richard Leacock and Frances Flaherty over the famed opening sequence.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD ; NTSC, Region 1 encoding ; 1.33:1 aspect ratio ; mono.

Pulitzer Prize, musical score.

Named to the National Film Registry in 1994 by the Library of Congress.

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