Space is the place / North American Star System presents ; screenplay, Joshua Smith ; produced by James Newman ; directed by John Coney.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• Sun Ra, actor, composer, performer.
• Newman, James, 1933- producer.
• Smith, Joshua (Screenwriter), screenwriter.
• Coney, John, director.
• Johnson, Ray (Actor), actor.
• Brooks, Christopher (Christopher S.), actor.
• Deloney, Barbara, actor.
• North American Star System, producer.
• Intergalactic Solar Arkestra, performer.
• Plexifilm (Firm), distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Jazz--Drama.
• Black people--United States--Drama.
• Black people.
• United States.

Genre:

• Feature films.
• Science fiction films.
• Musical films.
• Blaxploitation films.
• Drama.
• Video recordings.

Physical Description:

• 1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([10] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
• 1/4 in.
• polychrome

Edition:

Widescreen version.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Plexifilm, [2003]

System Details:

• DVD, NTSC, Region 1; Dolby Digital mono.
• digital
• optical
• Dolby
• NTSC
• video file
• DVD video
• region 1

Summary:

Sun Ra, space-age prophet, lands his spaceship, having been presumed lost in space for a few years. Like Ra himself, Space is the Place is one of a kind, a mythopoetic manifesto made by people who believed in Ra's mystical message as much as they dug the raw splendor of his Afro-psychedelica.

Participant:

Sun Ra, Ray Johnson, Christopher Brooks, Barbara Deloney, Erika Leder, John Bailey, Clarence Brewer.

Credits:

Camera, Seth Hill, Pat Riley; editors, B. Progress, Frank Namei; music arranged, composed and conducted by Sun Ra; performed by the Intergalactic Myth-science Solar Arkestra.

Notes:

• Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1974.
• "Director's cut of Space is the place (1974) restored to its original 82 min. length."--Container.
• Special features: home movies of Sun Ra and the Arkestra; video interview with director John Coney and producer Jim Newman.
• Aspect ratio 1.78:1; enhanced for widescreen televisions.

OCLC:

53401721

Publisher Number:

• 082354001322
• 010 Plexifilm

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