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4 shorts by Werner Herzog / Cine-International ; directed by Werner Herzog ; screenplay by Werner Herzog.
LIBRA VHS PN1995.9.D6 A47 1995
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Steiner, Walter.
- Auctioneers--Pennsylvania--New Holland.
- Auctioneers.
- Auctioneers--Language.
- Auctions--Pennsylvania--New Holland.
- Auctions.
- Wood-carvers.
- Aeronautics in medicine--Africa, East.
- Aeronautics in medicine.
- Physicians--Africa, East.
- Physicians.
- Medical care--Africa, East.
- Medical care.
- Ski jumping.
- Soufrière (Guadeloupe)--Eruption, 1976.
- Soufrière (Guadeloupe).
- Africa, East.
- Pennsylvania--New Holland.
- Genre:
- Short films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (167 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- Other Title:
- Title on cassette label: 4 short films by Werner Herzog
- Four shorts by Werner Herzog
- Place of Publication:
- Medford, NY : Luminous Film & Video Wurks : Tartan Video, [1995]
- Language Note:
- In English and German with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck: Series of hilarious interviews set at the annual World Championship of Livestock Auctioneers in the Amish region of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County.
- La Soufriere: Record of an ardent and unfulfilled journey Herzog made to the island of Guadeloupe just as a volcanic eruption is expected.
- The Great ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner: Studies Walter Steiner, a woodcarver who explores the shapes, knots, grain and forces in a piece of wood and sculpts it in a way to release the hidden tensions and energy. The film also shows Steiner, a world championship ski jumper, preparing for the World Ski Jumping Championships.
- The Flying doctors of East Africa: Shows an independent group of physicians in remote areas of East Africa, and the difficulties they encounter in treating the African patients, who prefer local traditional remedies.
- Contents:
- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
- : Beobachtungen zu einer neuen spache (observations on a new language) / ein film von Werner Herzog
- La Soufriere / ein bericht von Werner Herzog
- Die Grosse Ekstase des bildschnitzers Steiner / ein film von Werner Herzog
- Die Fliegenden arzte von Ostafrika = The flying doctors from East Africa / ein bericht von Werner Herzog.
- Participant:
- Walter Steiner.
- Credits:
- Directors of photography, Thomas Mauch, Jorg Schmidt-Reitwein ; editor, Beate Mainke-Jellinghaus.
- Notes:
- Videocassette release of the short films produced from 1968 to 1977.
- Contains:
- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck--.
- Soufriere.
- Grosse ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner.
- Flying doctors of East Africa.
- Fliegenden Arzte von Ostafrika.
- OCLC:
- 36495700
- Publisher Number:
- 5023965123022
- TVT 1230 Tartan Video
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