The Resource The magnificent Ambersons, an RKO Radio picture ; a Mercury Production by Orson Welles ; [screenplay, production & direction by Orson Welles]
The magnificent Ambersons, an RKO Radio picture ; a Mercury Production by Orson Welles ; [screenplay, production & direction by Orson Welles]
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The item The magnificent Ambersons, an RKO Radio picture ; a Mercury Production by Orson Welles ; [screenplay, production & direction by Orson Welles] represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
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- Contributor
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- Herrmann, Bernard, 1911-1975
- trueCotten, Joseph, 1905-1994
- Holt, Tim, 1918-1973
- Moorehead, Agnes, 1906-1974
- Costello, Dolores, 1905-1979
- Sanford, Erskine, 1885-1969
- Cortez, Stanley
- trueTarkington, Booth, 1869-1946
- Collins, Ray, 1889-1965
- Bennett, Richard, 1873-1944
- Baxter, Anne
- RKO Radio Pictures
- trueWelles, Orson, 1915-1985
- Mercury Productions, Inc
- Wise, Robert, 1914-2005
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Summary
- "Orson Welles's beautiful, nostalgia-suffused second feature--the subject of one of cinema's greatest missing-footage tragedies--harks back to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Indianapolis, chronicling the inexorable decline in the fortunes of an affluent family. Adapted from an acclaimed Booth Tarkington novel and featuring restlessly inventive camera work and powerful performances from a cast including Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, and Agnes Moorehead, the film traces the rifts deepening within the Amberson clan--at the same time as the forces of progress begin to transform the city they once ruled. Though RKO excised over forty minutes of footage, now lost to history, and added an incongruously upbeat ending, The Magnificent Ambersons is an emotionally rich family saga and a masterful elegy for a bygone chapter of American life"--Container
- Language
-
- eng
- eng
- eng
- Edition
-
- Blu-ray special edition.
- Blu-ray edition
- Extent
- 1 videodisc (88 min.)
- Note
-
- Title from title frame
- Credits from booklet; most film credits are spoken aloud
- Based on the novel by Booth Tarkington
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1942
- Features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; Two audio commentaries, featuring scholars Robert L. Carringer, and James Naremore and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum; New interviews with film historians Simon Callow and Joseph McBride; video essay "The cinematographers" by Orson Welles scholar François Thomas; video essay "The score" by Bernard Herrmann scholar Christopher Husted; Director Orson Welles on The Dick Cavett Show in 1970; Segment from a 1925 silent film adaptation of The Magnificent Ambersons; Audio from a 1978 AFI symposium on Welles, and audio interviews with Welles conducted by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich; Two Mercury Theatre radio plays: Seventeen (1938), an adaptation of another Booth Tarkington novel by Welles, and The Magnificent Ambersons (1939); Trailer; and a booklet with an essays by authors and critics Molly Haskell, Luc Sante, Geoffrey O'Brien, Farran Smith Nehme, and Jonathan Lethem, and excerpts from an unfinished 1982 memoir by Welles
- Isbn
- 9781681435244
- Label
- The magnificent Ambersons
- Title
- The magnificent Ambersons
- Statement of responsibility
- an RKO Radio picture ; a Mercury Production by Orson Welles ; [screenplay, production & direction by Orson Welles]
- Contributor
-
- Herrmann, Bernard, 1911-1975
- trueCotten, Joseph, 1905-1994
- Holt, Tim, 1918-1973
- Moorehead, Agnes, 1906-1974
- Costello, Dolores, 1905-1979
- Sanford, Erskine, 1885-1969
- Cortez, Stanley
- trueTarkington, Booth, 1869-1946
- Collins, Ray, 1889-1965
- Bennett, Richard, 1873-1944
- Baxter, Anne
- RKO Radio Pictures
- trueWelles, Orson, 1915-1985
- Mercury Productions, Inc
- Wise, Robert, 1914-2005
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Subject
-
- Indiana
- Inheritance and succession
- Inheritance and succession -- Drama
- Loss (Psychology)
- Mothers and sons
- Mothers and sons -- Drama
- Social change
- Social change -- Drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Loss (Psychology) -- Drama
- Children of the rich
- Children of the rich -- Drama
- Domestic drama (Motion pictures)
- Domestic drama (Motion pictures)
- Drama
- Families
- Families -- Indiana -- Drama
- Feature films
- Feature films
- Fiction films
- Fiction films
- Film adaptations
- Film adaptations
- Language
-
- eng
- eng
- eng
- Summary
- "Orson Welles's beautiful, nostalgia-suffused second feature--the subject of one of cinema's greatest missing-footage tragedies--harks back to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Indianapolis, chronicling the inexorable decline in the fortunes of an affluent family. Adapted from an acclaimed Booth Tarkington novel and featuring restlessly inventive camera work and powerful performances from a cast including Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, and Agnes Moorehead, the film traces the rifts deepening within the Amberson clan--at the same time as the forces of progress begin to transform the city they once ruled. Though RKO excised over forty minutes of footage, now lost to history, and added an incongruously upbeat ending, The Magnificent Ambersons is an emotionally rich family saga and a masterful elegy for a bygone chapter of American life"--Container
- Awards note
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- National Board of Review, USA, 1942: NBR Award in Best Acting (Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead).
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards, 1942: NYFCC Award in Best Actress (Agnes Moorehead).
- National Film Preservation Board, USA 1991: National Film Registry.
- Cataloging source
- TEFMT
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/collectionName
- Magnificent Ambersons (Motion picture)
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/relation/composerexpression
- ljKPcH1ZBk8
- Credits note
- Director of photography, Stanley Cortez ; editor, Robert Wise ; original score, Bernard Herrmann
- Dewey number
- 791.43/72
- Intended audience
- MPAA rating: Not rated
- Language note
- In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
- LC call number
- PN1997
- LC item number
- .M25433 2018
- PerformerNote
- Narrator, Orson Welles ; cast, Joseph Cotten, Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead, Dolores Costello, Tim Holt, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Richard Bennett
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
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- 1915-1985
- 1905-1994
- 1906-1974
- 1905-1979
- 1918-1973
- 1889-1965
- 1885-1969
- 1873-1944
- 1914-2005
- 1911-1975
- 1869-1946
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Welles, Orson
- Cotten, Joseph
- Baxter, Anne
- Moorehead, Agnes
- Costello, Dolores
- Holt, Tim
- Collins, Ray
- Sanford, Erskine
- Bennett, Richard
- Cortez, Stanley
- Wise, Robert
- Herrmann, Bernard
- Tarkington, Booth
- Mercury Productions, Inc
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Runtime
- 88
- Series statement
- The Criterion collection
- Series volume
- 952
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Families
- Children of the rich
- Inheritance and succession
- Mothers and sons
- Social change
- Loss (Psychology)
- Loss (Psychology)
- Children of the rich
- Families
- Inheritance and succession
- Mothers and sons
- Social change
- Indiana
- Technique
- live action
- Label
- The magnificent Ambersons, an RKO Radio picture ; a Mercury Production by Orson Welles ; [screenplay, production & direction by Orson Welles]
- Note
-
- Title from title frame
- Credits from booklet; most film credits are spoken aloud
- Based on the novel by Booth Tarkington
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1942
- Features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; Two audio commentaries, featuring scholars Robert L. Carringer, and James Naremore and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum; New interviews with film historians Simon Callow and Joseph McBride; video essay "The cinematographers" by Orson Welles scholar François Thomas; video essay "The score" by Bernard Herrmann scholar Christopher Husted; Director Orson Welles on The Dick Cavett Show in 1970; Segment from a 1925 silent film adaptation of The Magnificent Ambersons; Audio from a 1978 AFI symposium on Welles, and audio interviews with Welles conducted by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich; Two Mercury Theatre radio plays: Seventeen (1938), an adaptation of another Booth Tarkington novel by Welles, and The Magnificent Ambersons (1939); Trailer; and a booklet with an essays by authors and critics Molly Haskell, Luc Sante, Geoffrey O'Brien, Farran Smith Nehme, and Jonathan Lethem, and excerpts from an unfinished 1982 memoir by Welles
- Accompanying material
- 1 booklet (57 pages ; 18 cm)
- Carrier category
- videodisc
- Carrier category code
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- vd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Configuration of playback channels
- monaural
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
-
- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1056157976
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. +
- Dimensions
-
- 4 3/4 in.
- other
- Edition
-
- Blu-ray special edition.
- Blu-ray edition
- Extent
- 1 videodisc (88 min.)
- Isbn
- 9781681435244
- Media category
- video
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- v
- Medium for sound
- videodisc
- Other control number
- 715515223515
- Other physical details
- sound, black and white
- Publisher number
- CC2967BD
- Recording technique
- stamping
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
- videodisc
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1056157976
- System details
- Blu-ray; region A; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; LPCM monaural
- Video recording format
- Blu-ray disc
- Label
- The magnificent Ambersons, an RKO Radio picture ; a Mercury Production by Orson Welles ; [screenplay, production & direction by Orson Welles]
- Note
-
- Title from title frame
- Credits from booklet; most film credits are spoken aloud
- Based on the novel by Booth Tarkington
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1942
- Features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; Two audio commentaries, featuring scholars Robert L. Carringer, and James Naremore and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum; New interviews with film historians Simon Callow and Joseph McBride; video essay "The cinematographers" by Orson Welles scholar François Thomas; video essay "The score" by Bernard Herrmann scholar Christopher Husted; Director Orson Welles on The Dick Cavett Show in 1970; Segment from a 1925 silent film adaptation of The Magnificent Ambersons; Audio from a 1978 AFI symposium on Welles, and audio interviews with Welles conducted by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich; Two Mercury Theatre radio plays: Seventeen (1938), an adaptation of another Booth Tarkington novel by Welles, and The Magnificent Ambersons (1939); Trailer; and a booklet with an essays by authors and critics Molly Haskell, Luc Sante, Geoffrey O'Brien, Farran Smith Nehme, and Jonathan Lethem, and excerpts from an unfinished 1982 memoir by Welles
- Accompanying material
- 1 booklet (57 pages ; 18 cm)
- Carrier category
- videodisc
- Carrier category code
-
- vd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Configuration of playback channels
- monaural
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
-
- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1056157976
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. +
- Dimensions
-
- 4 3/4 in.
- other
- Edition
-
- Blu-ray special edition.
- Blu-ray edition
- Extent
- 1 videodisc (88 min.)
- Isbn
- 9781681435244
- Media category
- video
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- v
- Medium for sound
- videodisc
- Other control number
- 715515223515
- Other physical details
- sound, black and white
- Publisher number
- CC2967BD
- Recording technique
- stamping
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
- videodisc
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1056157976
- System details
- Blu-ray; region A; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; LPCM monaural
- Video recording format
- Blu-ray disc
Subject
- Indiana
- Inheritance and succession
- Inheritance and succession -- Drama
- Loss (Psychology)
- Mothers and sons
- Mothers and sons -- Drama
- Social change
- Social change -- Drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Loss (Psychology) -- Drama
- Children of the rich
- Children of the rich -- Drama
- Domestic drama (Motion pictures)
- Domestic drama (Motion pictures)
- Drama
- Families
- Families -- Indiana -- Drama
- Feature films
- Feature films
- Fiction films
- Fiction films
- Film adaptations
- Film adaptations
Genre
- Feature films
- trueDrama
- Domestic drama (Motion pictures)
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Film adaptations
- Fiction films
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