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Louisiana story / Lopert Films, Inc. presents ; Robert Flaherty Productions, Inc. ; story by Frances and Robert Flaherty ; produced and directed by Robert Flaherty.
LIBRA DVD 005 752
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cajuns--Drama.
- Cajuns.
- Bayous--Louisiana--Drama.
- Bayous.
- Oil well drilling rigs--Louisiana--Drama.
- Oil well drilling rigs.
- Oil industries--Drama.
- Oil industries.
- Manners and customs.
- Louisiana--Social life and customs--Drama.
- Louisiana.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Documentary-style films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 79 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Chatsworth, CA] : Home Vision Entertainment, [2003]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; monaural.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Through the eyes of a young Cajun boy living on the Bayou, tells the story of disruption and change when an oil rig brings industry into his pristine world.
- Participant:
- Joseph Boudreaux, Lionel LeBlanc, Mrs. E. Bienvenu, Frank Hardy.
- Credits:
- Photography, Richard Leacock; editor, Helen Van Dongen; music, Virgil Thomson; music performed by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, conducting.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1948, and restored in 1998.
- "Commissioned by Standard Oil of New Jersey."--Container insert.
- "Louisiana story (1948), has been restored by the Library of Congress ... , The Museum of Modern Art ... and the UCLA Film and Television Department."--Opening frames.
- Special features: Letters home (a reading of cinematographer Richard Leacock's Letters with images from the production); Flaherty and film (a filmed discussion between Frances Flaherty and Robert Gardner about the making of Louisiana story); Hidden and seeking (an excerpt from a documentary on Frances Flaherty); The land (an excerpt from a 1940 film directed by Robert Flaherty for the United States Department of Agriculture); Study film (audio commentary by Richard Leacock and Frances Flaherty over the famed opening sequence).
- Pulitzer Prize, musical score.
- ISBN:
- 0780024796
- 9780780024793
- OCLC:
- 52440466
- Publisher Number:
- 037429163825
- LOU130 Home Vision Entertainment
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