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The incredible shrinking man / Universal-International presents ; screenplay by Richard Matheson ; produced by Albert Zugsmith ; directed by Jack Arnold.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 034 173 disc 1-2 + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 1100.
- Criterion collection ; 1100
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Matheson, Richard, 1926-2013--Film adaptations.
- Matheson, Richard.
- Matheson, Richard, 1926-2013.
- Radioactive substances--Drama.
- Radioactive substances.
- Human beings--Effect of radiation on--Drama.
- Human beings.
- Radioactivity--Drama.
- Radioactivity.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Film adaptations.
- Horror films.
- Science fiction films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + insert (1 folded leaf : illustrations ; 18 cm).
- 4 3/4 in.
- monchrome
- black and white
- stamping
- Edition:
- Two-DVD special edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English; open-captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Audio mono.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- 5.1 Dolby Digital
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Existentialism goes pop in this benchmark of atomic-age science fiction, a superlative adaptation of a novel by the legendary Richard Matheson that has awed and unnerved generations of viewers with the question, What is humanity₂s place amid the infinity of the universe? Six months after being exposed to a mysterious radiation cloud, suburban everyman Scott Carey finds himself becoming smaller⁵ and smaller⁵ and smaller until he₂s left to fend for himself in a world in which ordinary cats, mousetraps, and spiders pose a mortal threat, all while grappling with a diminishing sense of himself. Directed by the prolific creature-feature impresario Jack Arnold with ingenious optical effects and a transcendent metaphysical ending, The Incredible Shrinking Man gazes with wonder and trepidation into the unknowable vastness of the cosmic void.
- Contents:
- Disc 1. Feature film
- disc 2. Special features.
- Participant:
- Randy Stuart, Grant Williams, April Kent, Paul Langton, Raymond Bailey, William Schallert, Frank Scannell, Helene Marshall, Diana Darrin, Billy Curtis.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Ellis W. Carter; film editor, Al Joseph ; trumpet soloist, Ray Anthony.
- Notes:
- Based on The incredible shrinking man / by Richard Matheson.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1957.
- Wide screen (1.85:1).
- Special features: new audio commentary with Tom Weaver and David Schecter; new program on the film's special effects by Craig Barron and Ben Burtt; new conversation between Joe Dante and Dana Gould; Auteur on campus: Jack Arnold at Universal (Director's cut) (2021); interview from 2016 with Richard Cristian Matheson; interview with Jack Arnold from 1983; 8mm home-cinema version from 1957; trailer and teaser narrated by Orson Welles; essay by Geoffrey O'Brien.
- Contains:
- Motion picture adaptation of: Matheson, Richard, 1926-2013. Incredible shrinking man.
- ISBN:
- 9781681438856
- 1681438852
- OCLC:
- 1264681965
- Publisher Number:
- 715515265218
- CC3303DDVD The Criterion Collection
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