Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

American experience (Television program). American Oz.

Title:

American Oz / American Experience Films ; produced by Rebecca Taylor, Randall MacLowry, Tracy Heather Strain ; written and directed by Tracy Heather Strain & Randall MacLowry ; a Film Posse, Inc. production.

Publisher, Date:

[Arlington, Va.] : PBS Distribution, [2021]

Description:

1 videodisc (approx. 110 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

L. Frank Baum was 44 when he published the first book about Oz, having spent most of his life reinventing himself with each new career in pursuit of the American Dream. When in Chicago, his observations of an uncertain nation during the Gilded Age informed his magical tale of survival, adventure, and self-discovery which went on to become a quintessential classic.

Subjects:

Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919.

Authors, American -- Biography.

Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism.

Genre:

Biographical television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Strain, Tracy Heather, television producer, screenwriter, television director.

MacLowry, Randall, television producer, screenwriter, television director.

Taylor, Rebecca (Producer), television producer.

Rhinehart, Joanna, 1958- narrator.

American Experience Films, production company.

Film Posse (Firm), production company.

PBS Distribution (Firm), publisher.

Other Title:

American experience : American Oz

American experience (Television program)

Notes:

Title and credits from screen.

Originally broadscast on PBS on April 19, 2021.

"SDH (subtitles for the deaf-and-hard of hearing) are a function of the disc and serve the same purpose as closed captions." --container.

Cinematography, Jason Longo, Austin de Besche ; editor, Chad Ervin ; music, P. Andrew Willis.

Narrator, Joanna Rhinehart ; voice of L. Frank Baum, Michael Stuhlbarg ; interviewees, Michael Patrick Hearn, Sharon Hartmen Strom, Evan Schwartz, Philip J. Deloria, Kent Drummond, Robert Baum, Sally Roesch Wagner, Dina Massachi, Jeanine Basinger, Louis S. Warren, Gregory Maguire, Douglas A. Jones, Jr.

DVD; NTSC; region 1; 16:9 wide screen presentation; stereo.

English audio.

Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

ISBN:

9781531713638

1531713637

9781531713638 : DVD

1531713637 : DVD

Publisher Number:

AE62002

Other Number:

1245862574

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

900409

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 813 Baum