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Legong : dance of the virgins : a story of the South Seas / a Paramount Release ; a Milestone Film Release ; UCLA film and television archive ; Bennett Pictures Corporation ; a Henry de la Falaise Production ; titles, Hampton Del Ruth ; told by Henry de la Falaise and Gaston Glass.
Penn Museum Library - Desk DVD GN635.I65 L38 2004
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LIBRA DVD 002 128
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Age of exploration (Milestone Film & Video)
- Milestone collection
- The Milestone collection
- Age of exploration series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tiger.
- Moi (Southeast-Asiatic people).
- Balinese (Indonesian people)--Social life and customs.
- Balinese (Indonesian people).
- Bali Island (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.
- Bali Island (Indonesia).
- Bali Island (Indonesia)--Drama.
- Balinese (Indonesian people)--Rites and ceremonies.
- Moi (Southeast-Asiatic people)--Drama.
- Tiger--Vietnam--Drama.
- Vietnam.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Silent films.
- Documentary films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (152 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Dance of the virgins
- Story of the South Seas
- Place of Publication:
- Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, Inc., 2004.
- Language Note:
- Legong, and Kliou, the killer have musical soundtracks with English intertitles; Gods of Bali has English language narration on soundtrack.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby digital mono (with optional stereophonic on feature).
- digital
- optical
- mixed
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Legong is a dramatized documentary about life on Bali Island and the romantic relationship between Poulou, a chaste maiden and sacred dancer of the temple, and Nyong, a carefree youth. Kliou, the killer is a dramatized documentary about the hunt for tiger in the highlands of what is now Vietnam. Gods of Bali is a documentary about religious festivals on the island of Bali as seen through the eyes of a temple dancer.
- Participant:
- Goesti Poetoe Aloes, Goesti Bugus Mara, Njoman Saplak (Legong); Dhi, Bhat, Nyan (Kliou, the killer).
- Gods of Bali narrated by John Rodney.
- Credits:
- Photographed by William Howard Greene; edited by Edward Schroeder; music supervised by Abe Meyer; orchestra directed by S.K. Wineland (Legong); directed by Henry de la Falaise; photographed by William Howard Greene; edited by Ralph Dietrich; musical setting composed by Heinz Roemheld (Kliou, the killer); prepared under the supervision of Robert Snyder, with the assistance of Allegra Snyder; written by Sidney Carroll; director of photography, Nikola Drakulic; edited by Ken Cofod; original music arranged by Jaap Kunst (Gods of Bali).
- Notes:
- "Legong : dance of the virgins (1935) has been preserved by UCLA Film and Television Archive ..."
- "Classic Pictures presents an L.L.D. Strengholt Production." (Gods of Bali).
- Special features: second optional soundtrack (for Legong) in stereo featuring a brilliant new score by Richard Marriott and I Made Subandi, performed by members of Gamelan Sekar Jaya and the Club Foot Orchestra; complete feature film, Gods of Bali (1952, 56 min.), produced by Robert Snyder; Henry de la Falaise's previously lost film, Kliou, the killer, shot in Vietnam (1937, b&w version of 2-color Technicolor original, 50 min.); DVD-ROM article on Legong, written by Katherine Hagedorn and Peter Bloom for Gamelan Sekar Jaya; video interview with the composers of the new score; DVD-ROM press kit for Legong, written by Milestone Film & Video.
- Videodisc release of two feature films originally produced in 1935 (Legong), and 1937 (Kliou, the killer) and one documentary film produced in 1952 (Gods of Bali).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Contains:
- Gods of Bali.
- Kliou, the killer.
- OCLC:
- 57761393
- Publisher Number:
- 014381249927
- ID2499MLSDVD Image Entertainment
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