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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Koko, le gorille qui parle (Motion picture)

Title:

Koko, a talking gorilla / Janus Films, Les Films du Losange, Barbet Schroeder, and L'institut national de l'audiovisuel present a film by Barbet Schroeder.

Edition:

Director-approved special ed.

Publisher, Date:

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2006]

Description:

1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

Koko, a six-year-old gorilla, is the subject of a controversial Stanford University research project conducted by Penny Patterson. A perceptive simian who communicates with humans via sign language, Koko knows more than 300 signs and can combine them to make new hybrid descriptions. Director Schroeder and cinematographer Almendros present a visual argument exposing the contradictions that arise when scientific experiments are used to graph human behavior onto animals.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 340

Criterion collection ; 340.

Subjects:

Koko (Gorilla), 1971-2018.

Sign language.

Learning in animals.

Animal communication.

Human-animal communication.

Gorilla -- Behavior.

Gorilla -- Psychology.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Other Author:

Schroeder, Barbet.

Djerassi, Dale.

Almendros, Nestor.

Casabianca, Denise de.

Auvray, Dominique.

Menegoz, Margaret.

Csicsery, George Paul.

Patterson, Francine.

Janus Films.

Films du losange (Firm)

Institut national de l'audiovisuel (France)

Notes:

Originally produced in 1977 by Les Films Losange as a French film entitled: Koko, le gorille qui parle.

Special features: new, restored digital transfer; 2006 video interview with Schroeder; essay by critic Gary Indiana; a homage to Koko from Marguerite Duras.

Classroom use may be subject to licensing restrictions.

Director, Barbet Schroeder ; executive producers, Dale Djerassi and Barbet Schroeder ; camera, Nestor Almendros with additional footage by Ned Burgess ; editors, Denise de Casabianca, Dominique Auvray ; production, Margaret Menegoz ; production assistant, George Csicsery.

Features: Koko, Penny Patterson, Carl Pribram, Saul Kitchener, Roger Fouts.

DVD ; Dolby digital mono ; 1:33:1 aspect ratio.

In English with optional English subtitles; optional soundtrack which includes only the narration in French and the interviews in English; includes optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Contents:

Preface/Opening credits -- Exile -- Penny and Koko -- Red sweater -- Acquisition of signs -- Michael -- Feelings -- White, American, Protestant gorilla -- Controversy -- Breeding -- Koko's computer -- Just a gorilla? -- Part of nature -- Color bars.

ISBN:

9781559409858

1559409851

9781559409858 : DVD

1559409851 : DVD

Publisher Number:

CC1637D

Other Number:

70878995

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

956256

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 599.8846 Koko