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Short films / New Yorker Films ; directed and narrated by Werner Herzog.
LIBRA DVD 005 741 disc + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Herzog, Werner, 1942-.
- Herzog, Werner.
- Steiner, Walter.
- Ski jumping.
- Auctions--Pennsylvania--New Holland.
- Auctions.
- Auctioneers--Language.
- Auctioneers.
- Soufrière (Guadeloupe)--Eruption, 1976.
- Soufrière (Guadeloupe).
- Pennsylvania--New Holland.
- Genre:
- Short films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([6] pages ; 19 cm)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, NY] : New Yorker Films, [2005]
- Language Note:
- "The great ecstasy of the sculptor Steiner" is in German with optional English subtitles; "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck" is in English ; "Soufrière" is narrated in English by Herzog.
- System Details:
- DVD - NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Three short documentaries from the 1970's by director Werner Herzog. "The great ecstasy of the sculptor Steiner" is about Walter Steiner, a Swiss woodcarver and world class ski jumper. "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck" is a visit to the annual world championship of livestock auctioneers in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. "La Soufrière" is about the anticipated eruption of a volcano on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and the man who chooses to stay behind when everyone else evacuates.
- Contents:
- The great ecstasy of the sculptor Steiner = Die grosse Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Schneider (45 min.)
- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck = beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache (45 min.)
- La Soufrière, warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe = La Soufrière : waiting for an inevitable catastrophe (30 min.)
- Notes:
- Films were originally produced 1975-1977.
- In booklet: excerpts from Paul Cronin's interviews with the director in Herzog on Herzog.
- Contains:
- Grosse Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Schneider.
- Great ecstasy of the sculptor Steiner.
- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck.
- Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache.
- Soufrière.
- ISBN:
- 1567303897
- OCLC:
- 62208386
- Publisher Number:
- 717119986544
- NYD 98605 New Yorker Video
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