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Things to come /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 660.Publication details: [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2013]Edition: Blu-ray special edDescription: 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([22] pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)ISBN:
  • 9781604657340
  • 1604657340
Other title:
  • H.G. Wells' Things to come
Uniform titles:
  • Things to come (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Settings designed by Vincent Korda ; photography by Georges Perinal ; music specially composed by Arthur Bliss ; musical director, Muir Mathieson ; costumes designed by John Armstrong, Rene Hubert and the Marchioness of Queensberry [Cathleen Mann] ; film editors, Charles Crichton & Francis Lyon ; special effects directed by Ned Mann.
Cast: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Maurice Braddell, Sophie Stewart, Derrick De Marney, Ann Todd, Pearl Argyle, Kenneth Villiers, Ivan Brandt, Anne McLaren, Patricia Hilliard, Charles Carson.Summary: A hundred-year journey beginning with the start of a war that leaves the world living in underground cities, and ends in 2036 A.D. when a man and a woman are rocketed to the moon.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room BLU-00581 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050316007

Special features: New high-definiton digital film restoration; Audio commentary featuring film historian and writer David Kalat; Christopher Frayling on the design (interview with writer and cultural historian Christopher Frayling); Bruce Eder on the score (film historian Bruce Eder on Arthur Bliss's musical score); László Moholy-Nagy (unused footage by special effects artist Moholy-Nagy); The wandering sickness (audio recording from 1936 of a reading from H.G. Wells's writing). Booklet features an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1936.

Blu-ray release date: Jun. 18, 2013.

Rating: Not rated.

Blu-ray; region A; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; high-definition; mono.

This Blu-ray disc will not play on standard DVD players.

English dialogue with optional English SDH subtitles.

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