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The Resource Ganja & Hess, Kino Classics ; the restoration was performed by the Museum of Modern Art with support from the Film Foundation ; a film by Bill Gunn ; a Kelly-Jordan Enterprises, Inc. production ; producer, Chiz Schultz ; directed and written by Bill Gunn

Ganja & Hess, Kino Classics ; the restoration was performed by the Museum of Modern Art with support from the Film Foundation ; a film by Bill Gunn ; a Kelly-Jordan Enterprises, Inc. production ; producer, Chiz Schultz ; directed and written by Bill Gunn

Label
Ganja & Hess
Title
Ganja & Hess
Statement of responsibility
Kino Classics ; the restoration was performed by the Museum of Modern Art with support from the Film Foundation ; a film by Bill Gunn ; a Kelly-Jordan Enterprises, Inc. production ; producer, Chiz Schultz ; directed and written by Bill Gunn
Title variation
Ganja and Hess
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
An archaeologist is stabbed with an ancient dagger that gives him immortality and an insatiable thirst for blood, which he then shares with his assistant's wife, and the two of them form a troubled partnership
Cataloging source
CLE
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Music, Sam Waymon ; director of photography, James E. Hinton ; film editor, Victor Kanefsky
Dewey number
791.43/72
Intended audience
MPAA rating: rated R
LC call number
PN1997
LC item number
.G3653 2012
PerformerNote
Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Bill Gunn, Sam Waymon
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1936-2006
  • 1934-1989
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Waymon, Sam
  • Hinton, James E.
  • Kanefsky, Victor
  • Gunn, Bill
  • Schultz, Chiz
  • Jones, Duane
  • Clark, Marlene
  • Kelly-Jordan Enterprises, Inc
  • Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
  • Film Foundation
  • Kino Classics (Firm)
Runtime
113
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Vampires
  • Christianity
  • Romance fiction
  • Anthropologists
  • Spiritual warfare
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Anthropologists
  • Christianity
  • Romance-language fiction
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Spiritual warfare
  • Vampires
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
Label
Ganja & Hess, Kino Classics ; the restoration was performed by the Museum of Modern Art with support from the Film Foundation ; a film by Bill Gunn ; a Kelly-Jordan Enterprises, Inc. production ; producer, Chiz Schultz ; directed and written by Bill Gunn
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • Originally produced as a motion picture in 1973
  • Special features include: "The blood of the thing" : an interview-based documentary ; audio commentary by Chiz Schultz, Marlene Clark, James Hinton, Sam Waymon ; original screenplay by Bill Gunn ; essay on the making by David Walker and Tim Lucas ; photo gallery
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
monaural
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
1498650
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
  • 4 3/4 in.
  • other
Extent
1 videodisc (113 min.)
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
738329084929
Other physical details
sound, color
Publisher number
K849
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o793656240
  • (OCoLC)793656240
System details
DVD format ; NTSC ; anamorphic,1.66:1 ; 2.0 mono
Video recording format
DVD
Label
Ganja & Hess, Kino Classics ; the restoration was performed by the Museum of Modern Art with support from the Film Foundation ; a film by Bill Gunn ; a Kelly-Jordan Enterprises, Inc. production ; producer, Chiz Schultz ; directed and written by Bill Gunn
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • Originally produced as a motion picture in 1973
  • Special features include: "The blood of the thing" : an interview-based documentary ; audio commentary by Chiz Schultz, Marlene Clark, James Hinton, Sam Waymon ; original screenplay by Bill Gunn ; essay on the making by David Walker and Tim Lucas ; photo gallery
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
monaural
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
1498650
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
  • 4 3/4 in.
  • other
Extent
1 videodisc (113 min.)
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
738329084929
Other physical details
sound, color
Publisher number
K849
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o793656240
  • (OCoLC)793656240
System details
DVD format ; NTSC ; anamorphic,1.66:1 ; 2.0 mono
Video recording format
DVD

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