The painted truck / [Film Images/Radim Films] ;a film by Judith Hallet, Stanley Hallet and Sebastian C. Schroeder. The nomads of Badakhshan / a film by Judith and Stanley Hallet ; script, Selma Thomas.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Hallet, Judith Dwan, 1941- director, producer.

Hallet, Stanley, director, producer.

Schroeder, Sebastian C., director, producer.

Thomas, Selma, screenwriter.

Redford, H. E. D., narrator.

Film Images/Radim Films, producer.

Judith Hallet Dwan Productions, distributor.

Language:

English

Persian

Subjects (All):

Nomads.

Transportation, Automotive.

Trucks--Decoration.

Afghanistan--Description and travel.

Afghanistan.

Trucks--Decoration--Afghanistan.

Trucks.

Transportation, Automotive--Afghanistan.

Nomads--Afghanistan.

Badakhshān (Afghanistan).

Genre:

Ethnographic films.

Short films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

polychrome

Edition:

[Full frame presentation].

Other Title:

Container and DVD label list title of second film as: Nomads of Badakshan

Place of Publication:

[Washington, DC] : Judith Hallet Dwan Productions, [1973]

Language Note:

(Painted truck) English voiceover over Dari dialogue.

(Nomads of Badakhshan) In English.

System Details:

DVD-R, all regions.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

all regions

Summary:

(The painted truck) "In Afghanistan they paint their trucks with brilliantly colored designs, religious motifs, everyday objects and lush mountain scenes. We watch an Afghan truck get repainted, and then take a two day trip to Bamiyan in Central Afghanistan. It has to go over the 12,700 foot Hajigak Pass. The truck carries goods and people, lots of people, 'good or bad people, they take them all.'"--Container.

(Nomads of Badakhshan) "The film follows Afghan nomads for three days as they move on their camels from their summer camp to their winter camp. The film takes place in the province of Badak[h]shan in Northern Afghanistan."--Container.

Participant:

(Painted truck) Rustam, Uzbak, Mohammed Naim.

(Nomads of Badakhshan) Narrator, H.E.D. Redford.

Credits:

(Painted truck) "Assisted by Jean Charles Blanc, Ursula Klarand Raseldad. With cooperation of Afghanistan Tourist Bureau, Radio Afghanistan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs."--Closing frames.

(Nomads of Badakhshan) Interpreter, Said M. Selah; special music field recorded by Loraine and Thomas Sakato.

Notes:

Videodisc release of two motion pictures filmed in 1972 and released in 1973 (Painted truck) and 1976 (Nomads of Badakhshan).

Aspect ratios 4:3.

Contains:

Nomads of Badakhshan

OCLC:

741172400