Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Citizen Hearst [videorecording] / Leslie Iwerks productions presents ; directed, produced & edited by Leslie Iwerks ; produced Jane Kelly Kosek ; written by Leslie Iwerks & Mark A. Johnson.

Publisher, Date:

Santa Monica, Calif. : Lionsgate, [2013]

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video Region 1

Summary:

Traces the 125-year history of the Hearst Media Empire, from William Randolph Hearst's pioneering and controversial days of headline-grabbing yellow journalism to the global impact of the company's many successful media brands. Iwerks provides a rare glimpse behind the glass walls of the Hearst Tower, interviewing top magazine editor of Harper₂s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, and Esquire, among others, and gaining unprecedented access to the Hearst Castle and family members in San Simeon, California.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: TVPG.

Subjects:

Hearst, William Randolph, Jr., 1908-1993.

Publishers and publishing -- United States -- Biography.

Newspaper publishing -- United States -- History.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Iwerks, Leslie.