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An American in Paris /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 3000017735 | Warner Home Video | (container)1000043443 | Warner Home Video | (French container)3000018847 | Warner Home Video | (French container)2000003621 | Warner Home Video | (disc 1)2000003622 | Warner Home Video | (disc 2)Language: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Japanese, Thai Publication details: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, ©2008.Edition: Two-disc special edDescription: 2 videodiscs (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1419866370
  • 9781419866371
Other title:
  • French title: Américain à Paris
Uniform titles:
  • American in Paris (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .A343 2008
NLM classification:
  • FE CO 1951 A447
Contents:
Disc 1. Feature film ; Special features. Commentary by Patricia Ward Kelly ; Paris on parade ; Symphony in slang ; Theatrical trailer -- Disc 2. Special features. Gene Kelly : anatomy of a dancer ; 'S wonderful : the making of an American in Paris ; Love walked in outtake ; Audio outtakes ; Radio interviews.
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Alfred Gilks ; choreography by Gene Kelly ; ballet photographed by John Alton ; film editor, Adrienne Fazan ; musical direction, Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin ; orchestrations, Conrad Salinger.
Awards:
  • Winner, Best Picture (Arthur Freed), Best Writing, Story and Screenplay (Alan Jay Lerner), Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture (Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin), Best Costume Design, Color (Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, Irene Sharaff), Best Cinematography, Color (Alfred Gilks, John Alton), Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Color (Cedric Gibbons, E. Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason); Nominee, Best Director (Vincente Minnelli), Best Film Editing (Adrienne Fazan) -- 1952 Academy Awards (U.S.A.)
  • Named to the National Film Registry in 1993 by the Library of Congress.
Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guetary, Nina Foch.Summary: An American expatriate painter living in Paris falls in love with an engaged French woman.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-02221 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050183953

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1951.

Disc 1. Feature film ; Special features. Commentary by Patricia Ward Kelly ; Paris on parade ; Symphony in slang ; Theatrical trailer -- Disc 2. Special features. Gene Kelly : anatomy of a dancer ; 'S wonderful : the making of an American in Paris ; Love walked in outtake ; Audio outtakes ; Radio interviews.

Not rated by the MPAA.

DVD, NTSC, region 1; dual-layer disc; Dolby digital mono.

In English or dubbed French; optional English, French, Japanese or Thai subtitles; subtitled for the hearing impaired.

Winner, Best Picture (Arthur Freed), Best Writing, Story and Screenplay (Alan Jay Lerner), Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture (Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin), Best Costume Design, Color (Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, Irene Sharaff), Best Cinematography, Color (Alfred Gilks, John Alton), Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Color (Cedric Gibbons, E. Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason); Nominee, Best Director (Vincente Minnelli), Best Film Editing (Adrienne Fazan) -- 1952 Academy Awards (U.S.A.)

Named to the National Film Registry in 1993 by the Library of Congress.

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