Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Hallelujah / a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; scenario by Wanda Tuchock ; story and direction by King Vidor.

Publisher, Date:

[Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [2013?]

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video

Description:

1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video

Summary:

Infused with spirituals, folk songs, blues, and jazz, Hallelujah follows the fortunes of Zeke, a poor cotton farmer. Love, loss, passion, redemption, and brilliant moviemaking, this cinematic milestone is the first all-black feature from a major studio.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Series:

Warner Bros. archive collection

Warner archive

Warner Bros. archive collection.

Archive collection.

Subjects:

African Americans -- Religion -- Drama.

African Americans -- Drama.

African Americans -- Social conditions -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Tuchock, Wanda, screenwriter.

Vidor, King, 1894-1982, screenwriter, film director.

Haynes, Daniel L., -1954, actor.

McKinney, Nina Mae, 1912-1967, actor.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, presenter.

Warner Home Video (Firm), film distributor.

Notes:

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1929.

Special features: Commentary by Black Cultural Scholars Donald Bogle and Avery Clayton; 2 vintage musical shorts featuring Nocholas Brothers and "Hallelujah" costar Nina Mae McKinney "Pie, pie blackbird" (also with Eubie Blake) and "The black network".

Music, Irving Berlin ; director of photography, Gordon Avil ; editor, Hugh Wynn.

Daniel Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney.

DVD, fullscreen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.

English dialogue; Spanish, English or French subtitles; closed-captioned.

ISBN:

9786315426612 : DVD

6315426611 : DVD

Other Number:

863649656

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

904030

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Halleluj