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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Kon-Tiki [videorecording] / NRK TV International ; Syncron Film in cooperation iwth Artfilm ; television version produced by Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation ; photography, manuscript, and production by Thor Heyerdahl.

Edition:

Collector's ed.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Janson, [2006]

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 124 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

On April 28, 1947, an expedition was led by Norwegian biologist Thor Heyerdahl. The journey by raft spanned 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean and was hailed as one of the most fantastic feats of daring and courage of its time. Heyerdahl and his crew duplicated the legendary voyage of Kon-Tiki, the mythical hero who led the settlement of the South Sea Islands by sailing on a balsa wood raft from Peru to the Polynesian islands.

Subjects:

Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen (1947)

Polynesians.

Ethnology -- Polynesia.

Documentary films.

Pacific Ocean.

Other Author:

Heyerdahl, Thor.

Hesselberg, Erik, 1914-

Haugland, Knut.

Danielsson, Bengt.

Raaby, Torstein.

Watzinger, Herman.

Norsk rikskringkasting.

Syncron Film.

Artfilm (Firm)

Janson Associates.

Notes:

"The authentic film about Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki Expedition in 1947. ... We have chosen to present the film in its original form, as filmed by the members during the expedition."

DVD release of the 1951 documentary, with an updated television version in 1996.

This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

Special features include: one-hour portrait of Thor Heyerdahl: explorer & scientist; the crew; photo gallery; expedition map; rare color footage.

Editor, Olle Nordemar ; music composed by Ragnar Bjerkreim ; performed by Film Symphony Orchestra, Prague.

Members of the expedition: Thor Heyerdahl, Herman Watzinger, Erik Hesselberg, Knut Haugland, Torstein Raaby, Bengt Danielsson.

DVD-R.

Academy Award for best documentary feature, 1951.

ISBN:

1568392273

9781568392271

Publisher Number:

20327

Other Number:

66914100

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

331706

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 910.4 Kon-tiki

Medium:

[videorecording]