Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Lonesome [videorecording] / Carl Laemmle presents ; story, Mann Page ; adaptation and scenario, Edward T. Lowe Jr. ; directed by Paul Fejos.

Publisher, Date:

[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2012]

Description:

2 videodiscs (69 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

The early Hollywood gem, Lonesome, is the creation of a little-known, but audacious and one-of-a-kind auteur, Paul Fejos, who bridged the gap between the silent and sound eras. Fejos pulled out all the stops for his lovely New York symphony set in antic Coney Island during the Fourth of July weekend, employing color tinting, superimposition effects, experimental editing, and a roving camera, plus three dialogue scenes, added because of the craze for talkies.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Series:

Criterion collection 623.

Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 623.

Subjects:

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Amusement parks -- New York (State) -- Drama.

Comedy films.

Fiction films.

Silent films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama.

Other Author:

Fejos, Paul, 1897-1963.

Laemmle, Carl, Jr., 1908-1979.

Page, Mann, 1888-1961.

Lowe, Edward T. (Edward Thomas), 1890-1973.

Tryon, Glenn, 1899-1970.

Kent, Barbara, 1907-2011.

Devine, Andy, 1905-1977.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

Other Title:

Last performance.

De tolv kilinger.

Twelve swords.

Broadway.

Notes:

Originally produced as motion picture in 1928.

Includes Paul Fejos's 1929 feature, The last performance starring Conrad Veidt about a magician who becomes smitten with his assistant. Initially filmed as a silent, dialogue scenes were added before it was released. This version no longer exists, so presented here is the Danish version of the silent film, retitled De tovl klinger (The twelve swords) with Danish intertitles and added English subtitles.

Special features include audio commentary; The last performance, Paul Fejos's 1929 silent; reconstructed sound version of Broadway; Fejos memorial, 1963 visual essay; audio excerpts about Broadway from an interview with Hal Mohr; a booklet featuring essays by Phillip Lopate.

Photography, Gilbert Warrenton ; film editor, Frank Atkinson.

Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon, Fay Holderness, Gustav Partos, Eddie Philips, Andy Devine.

DVD, NTSC, 1.19:1 apsect ratio, monaural.

In English with a mix of English intertitles and dialogue with optional English subtitles for the hearing impaired.

Contents:

disc 1. Lonesome -- disc 2. De tolv Klinger = The Twelve Swords ; Broadway.

Publisher Number:

CC2175DDVD

Other Number:

798365119

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

329446

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Lonesome

Medium:

[videorecording]