Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Wattstax / a Stax Films/Wolper Pictures presents ; produced by Larry Shaw and Mel Stuart ; directed by Mel Stuart.

Edition:

Special edition.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, [2019]

Description:

1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

The dynamic film of the 1972 Los Angeles event attended by over 100,000 concertgoers and first billed as the 'black Woodstock, ' gets ya plenty. Its performances burn with vitality. Its forays into the neighborhood are a time capsule of pride and pain. And the Richard Pryor comedy riffs that provide the film's running commentary are a treasure all by themselves.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: R.

Subjects:

Popular music -- 1971-1980.

African Americans -- Music.

African American musicians.

Genre:

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Documentary films.

Musical films.

Other Author:

Stuart, Mel, film director.

Hayes, Isaac, performer.

Pryor, Richard, 1940-2005, performer.

Ingram, Luther, performer.

King, Albert, 1923-1992, performer.

Stax Films (Firm), productiion company.

Wolper Pictures (Firm), productiion company.

Notes:

Title from container.

Originally produced in 1973.

Special features: audio and video commentaries by Chuck D (rapper) and Rob Bowman (music historian); audio commentary by Isaac Hayes, director Mel Stuart, executive producer Al Bell and others; "Rolling down a mountain-- Isaac Hayes; complete Albert King performance of I'll Play the Blues For You; original 1973 and special edition 2003 trailers

Isaac Hayes, Richard Pryor, Luther Ingram, Albert King.

DVD; Dolby digital surround 5.1 ; wide screen (16 x 9).

English dialogue; English, Japanese or Portuguese subtitles; closed-captioned.

ISBN:

9786317899872 : DVD

6317899878 : DVD

Other Number:

1105931928

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

897417

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 782.4 Wattstax