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Intolerance : a drama of comparisons /

Contributor(s):

Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: K267 | Kino on VideoSeries: Griffith masterworksPublication details: New York : Kino on Video, ©2002.Description: 1 videodisc (197 min.) : sound, black and white tinted ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

Other title:

Title on container: D.W. Griffith's Intolerance
Drama of comparisons

Uniform titles:

Intolerance (Motion picture)

Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:

791.43/72 21

LOC classification:

PN1997 .I58 2002

Online resources:

Contents:

I. Opening Titles -- II. The reformers -- III. Jerusalem, the golden city -- IV. Paris, A.D. 1572 -- V. Miss Jenkins commits -- VI. Babylon, 539 B.C.

Production credits:

Music composed by Joseph Turrin ; photography, G.W. Bitzer ; produced for video by Bret Wood.

Awards:

National Film Registry, 1989.

Cast: Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, F.A. Turner, Sam De Grasse, Vera Lewis, Miriam Cooper, Walter Long, Tom Wilson, Ralph Lewis, Lloyd Ingraham, A.W. McClure, John P. McCarthy, Howard Gaye, Lillian Langdon, Olga Grey, erich von Ritzau, Bessie Love, William H. Brown, George Walsh, Margery Wilson, Eugene Pallette, Spottiswood Aitken, Ruth Handforth, Frank Bennett, Constance Talmadge, Joseph Henabery, Elmer Clifton, W.E. Lawrence, Alfred Paget, Seena Owen, Tully Marshall, Lillian Gish.Summary: Switches back and forth between four separate stories from Babylonian times to the twentieth century to show humanity's inhumanity and intolerance through the ages. The Babylonian story deals with the fall of Babylon in 538 B.C. The Judean story treats the life of Christ. The French story centers on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572. The modern story is set in an American mill town and the slum area of an American city.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD 1759 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050129541

Videodisc release of the 1916 motion picture.

Remastered, with color tinted sequences.

"A sun-play of the ages"--Title card.

Special features include: Introduction by Orson Welles; excerpt of The last days of Pompeii (1913); excerpt of Cabiria (1914); excerpt of The fall of Babylon (alternate ending); pamphlets; about the score; the book.

I. Opening Titles -- II. The reformers -- III. Jerusalem, the golden city -- IV. Paris, A.D. 1572 -- V. Miss Jenkins commits -- VI. Babylon, 539 B.C.

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