Knorosov : el desciframiento de la escritura Maya = the decipherment of the Mayan script / CONACULTA ; un documental de Tiahoga Ruge y Eduardo Herrera ; dirección, Tiahoga Ruge y Eduardo Herrera F. ; guión, Olaga Cáceres, Tiahoga Ruge, Eduardo Herrera F.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Knorozov, I︠U︡. V., author.

Contributor:

Ruge, Tiahoga, director, producer, screenwriter.

Cáceres, Olga, screenwriter.

Herrera F., Eduardo, director, screenwriter.

Coe, Michael D., associated name.

Dreshner, Heather, narrator.

Laird, Danny, narrator.

First Run/Icarus Films, distributor.

Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (Mexico), producer.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Russian

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Knorozov, I︠U︡. V.

Knorozov, I͡U. V.

Mayan languages--Writing.

Mayan languages.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videocassette (57 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.

1/2 in.

Place of Publication:

New York : First Run/Icarus Films, 2000.

Language Note:

English, Russian and Spanish with English subtitles.

System Details:

VHS - NTSC.

analog

magnetic

VHS

NTSC

Summary:

Reviews the history of attempts to decipher Mayan glyphs, finally accomplished by Yuri V. Knorosov, who in 1952 while working at the Russian Institute of Ethnography discovered the key to the Mayan writing system. Includes interviews with Knorozov and Michael Coe, author of Breaking the Maya code.

Participant:

Narrators: Heather Dreshner, Danny Laird.

Credits:

Director of photography and editor, Eduardo Herrera F.

Notes:

Includes public performance rights for University of Pennsylvania only. Streaming not allowed without a separate license.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

OCLC:

47807139