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Broken blossoms [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: K196 | Kino on VideoSeries: Griffith masterworksPublication details: NYC : Kino on Video, c2001.Edition: Digitally remastered versionDescription: 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color tinted ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Other title:
  • Container title: D.W. Griffith's Broken blossoms
  • Yellow man and the girl
  • Chink and the Child
  • Scarlet Blossoms
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4372
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.75 .B765 2001
Production credits:
  • Photography, G.W. Bitzer ; music, Joseph Turrin ; video producer, Bret Wood.
Cast: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp.Summary: A young Chinaman in London's squalid Limehouse district hopes to spread the peaceful philosophy of his Eastern religion. He befriends a pitiful street waif who is mistreated by her brutal father. Nursing her back to health, tragedy results when an unspoken romance flowers between them.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD 0348 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050092265

Originally produced or released in 1919.

Run time: approx. 105 min.

Adapted from a story by Thomas Burke.

"Digitally remastered from a 33mm print at the correct projection speed, with color tints, and a new score by Joseph Turrin recorded in digital stereo"--Container.

Special features: filmed introduction by Lillian Gish, including excerpts from Gish's film Romola; text of Thomas Burke's original story; a recording of the 1919 song, "Broken blossoms"; D.W. Griffith on leading ladies; about the score.

DVD; NTSC (Region 1).

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