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Swing Time /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: T6571 | Turner Home EntertainmentT7259 | Warner Home Video | (set)Language: English Subtitle language: French, Spanish Publication details: [United States] : Turner Home Entertainment Co. ; Burbank, Ca. : Warner Bros. Entertainment : Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2005.Edition: Standard versionDescription: 1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 078063988X
  • 9780780639881
  • 0780650786
  • 9780780650787
Uniform titles:
  • Swing time (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .S957 2005
Online resources:
Partial contents:
Special features include: commentary by John Mueller, author of Astaire Dancing; new featurette "The swing of things: swing time step by step"; musical "Short hotel a la swing"; classic cartoon "Bingo Crosbyana"; theatrical trailer.
Production credits:
  • Music by Jerome Kern ; lyrics by Dorothy Fields ; musical director, Nathaniel Shilkret ; art director, Van Nest Polglase ; "Silver sandal" set and "Bojangles" costumes by John Harkrider ; photographed by David Abel ; photographic effects by Vernon Walker ; set dressing by Darrell Silvera ; dance director, Hermes Pan ; gowns by Bernard Newman ; recorded by Hugh McDowell, Jr. ; edited by Henry Berman.
Awards:
  • Academy Award, 1937: Best Music- Original Song
  • National Film Registry, 2004
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Betty Furness, Georges Metaxa.Summary: A performer and gambler travels to New York City to raise the $25,000 he needs to marry his fiancée, only to become entangled with a beautiful aspiring dancer.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD 1086 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050122148

From a story by Erwin Gelsey.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1936.

Also issued as part of the box set: Astaire & Rogers collection, volume 1.

Special features include: commentary by John Mueller, author of Astaire Dancing; new featurette "The swing of things: swing time step by step"; musical "Short hotel a la swing"; classic cartoon "Bingo Crosbyana"; theatrical trailer.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1) presentation preserving the aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition; Dolby Digital, mono.

In English with optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

Academy Award, 1937: Best Music- Original Song

National Film Registry, 2004

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