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2020

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Uniform Title:	War of the worlds (Motion picture : 1953)
Title:	The war of the worlds / director, Byron Haskin.
Publisher, Date:	[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2020]
Description:	1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. digital optical video file DVD video
Summary:	Byron Haskin's genre-defining sci-fi classic, an Oscar-winning adaptation of the novel by H. G. Wells, is both an influential triumph of visual imagination and a still-disquieting document of the wonder and terror of the atomic age.
Target Audience Note:	Rating: G.
Series:	Criterion collection. Criterion collection.
Subjects:	Martian meteorites -- United States -- Drama. Martians -- United States -- Drama. Space vehicles -- Drama. Scientists -- United States -- Drama.
Genre:	Science fiction films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Motion pictures.
Other Author:	Haskin, Byron, 1899-1984, film director. Barry, Gene, actor. Robinson, Ann, 1929- actor. Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Notes:	Title from sell sheet. Originally released as a motion picture in 1953. Full screen (1.37:1). Special features: New alternate 5.1 soundtrack; audio commentaries; Movie archeologists; From the archive; audio interview with George Pal from 1970; The sky is falling, a 2005 documentary; The Mercury Theatre on the air radio adaptation from 1938; radio program from 1940 featuring a discussion between H.G. Wells and Orson Welles; trailer; essay by J. Hoberman. Gene Barry, Ann Robinson. DVD, full screen (1.37:1); mono. Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
ISBN:	9781681437392 1681437392
Publisher Number:	CC3167DDVD
Other Number:	1154790488
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	1
Control Number:	843847
# Local items in:	1
# System items in:	1
Call Number:	DVD MOVIE War of t

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