Paul Robeson : portraits of the artist.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976, actor.
• Murphy, Dudley, 1897-1968, director.
• Turell, Saul J., 1921-1986, director.
• Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951, director.
• Macpherson, Kenneth, director.
• Korda, Zoltan, 1895-1961, director.
• Freeland, Thornton, 1898-1987, director.
• Tennyson, Pen, 1912-1941, director.
• Hurwitz, Leo T., 1909-1991, director.
• Strand, Paul, 1890-1976, director.

Series:

• Criterion collection ; 369--373.
• Criterion collection ; 369--373

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976.

Genre:

• Feature films.
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
• Video recordings.

Physical Description:

• 4 videodiscs (approximately 586 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (75 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
• polychrome

Place of Publication:

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2007]

Language Note:

Open-captioned.

System Details:

• DVD; Dolby digital mono., Dolby digital stereo.
• digital
• optical
• mixed
• Dolby
• video file
• DVD video

Summary:

A collection of feature films that starred Paul Robeson, plus one short documentary narrated by Sidney Poitier.

Contents:

• [Disc 1] Icon. The Emperor Jones (1933, 76 min., directed by Dudley Murphy) ; Paul Robeson: Tribute to an artist (1979, 29 min., directed by Saul J. Turell)
• [Disc 2] Outsider. Body and soul (1925, 79 min., directed by Oscar Micheaux) ; Borderline (1930, 75 min., directed by Kenneth Macpherson)
• [Disc 3] Pioneer. Sanders of the river (1935, 87 min., directed by Zoltan Korda) ; Jericho (1937, 75 min., directed by Thornton Freeland)
• [Disc 4] Citizen of the world. The proud valley (1940, 77 min., directed by Pen Tennyson) ; Native land (1942, 88 min., directed by Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand).

Participant:

Paul Robeson.

Notes:

• Title from container.
• Videodisc release of the 1925-1979 films.
• Special features include: audio commentaries by historians Jeffrey C. Stewart (The Emperor Jones) and Pearl Bowser (Body and Soul) ; musical scores by Wyclife Gordon (Body and Soul) and Courtney Pine (Borderline) ; Pacifica Radio interview with Paul Robeson from 1958 ; four new video programs, featuring actors Ruby Dee and James Earl Jones, filmmaker William Greaves, cinematographer Tom Hurwitz, Paul Robeson Jr., and film historians Ian Christie and Stephen Bourne, and including clips from throughout Robeson's film career.

Contains:

• Emperor Jones
• Paul Robeson: Tribute to an artist
• Body and soul
• Borderline
• Sanders of the river
• Jericho
• Proud valley
• Native land

ISBN:

• 1934121193
• 9781934121191
• 1934121207
• 9781934121207
• 1934121215
• 9781934121214
• 1934121223
• 9781934121221
• 1934121231
• 9781934121238

OCLC:

84837651

Publisher Number:

• 715515021722
• CC1676D Criteron Collection (set)
• CC1677D--CC1680D Criteron Collection (discs)