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Author:

Things to come (Motion picture)

Title:

H.G. Wells' things to come [videorecording] / a London Film production ; produced by Alexander Korda ; directed by William Cameron Menzies.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Edition:

Blu-ray special ed.

Publisher:

Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([22] p. : ill. ; 17 cm.)

Subject:

War and society--Drama.
War--Drama.
Interplanetary voyages--Drama.
Wells, H. G.--(Herbert George),--1866-1946--Film adaptations.
Dystopian films.
Science fiction films.
Fantasy films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Motion pictures--Great Britain.

Other Authors:

Menzies, William Cameron, 1896-1957, film director.
Korda, Alexander, Sir, 1893-1956, film producer.
Massey, Raymond, actor.
Chapman, Edward, 1901-1977, actor.
Richardson, Ralph, Sir, 1902-1983, actor.
Scott, Margaretta, actor.
Hardwicke, Cedric, 1893-1964 actor.
Braddell, Maurice, actor.
Stewart, Sophie, 1909-1977, actor.
De Marney, Derrick, 1906-1978, actor.
Todd, Ann, 1909-1993, actor.
Argyle, Pearl, 1910-1947, actor.
Villiers, Kenneth, 1912-1992, actor.
Brandt, Ivan, 1903-1972, actor.
McLaren, Anne, actor.
Hilliard, Patricia, 1916-2001, actor.
Carson, Charles, 1885-1977, actor.
Korda, Vincent, 1896-1979, set designer.
Périnal, Georges, 1897-1965, director of photography.
Bliss, Arthur, 1891-1975, composer (expression)
Mathieson, Muir, musical director.
Armstrong, John, 1893-1973, costume designer.
Hubert, Rene, 1895-1976, costume designer.
Mann, Cathleen, 1896-1959, costume designer.
Crichton, Charles, 1910-1999, editor of moving image work.
Lyon, Francis D., 1905-1996, editor of moving image work.
Kalat, David, 1970- commentator.
Frayling, Christopher, interviewee (expression)
Eder, Bruce, interviewee (expression)
Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946, artist.
O'Brien, Geoffrey, 1948- author.
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946. Things to come.
London Film Productions.
Criterion Collection (Firm)

Notes:

Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Maurice Braddell, Sophie Stewart, Derrick De Marney, Ann Todd, Pearl Argyle, Kenneth Villiers, Ivan Brandt, Anne McLaren, Patricia Hilliard, Charles Carson. Originally released as a motion picture in 1936. Blu-ray release date: Jun. 18, 2013. Special features: New high-definiton digital film restoration; Audio commentary featuring film historian and writer David Kalat; Christopher Frayling on the design (interview with writer and cultural historian Christopher Frayling); Bruce Eder on the score (film historian Bruce Eder on Arthur Bliss's musical score); László Moholy-Nagy (unused footage by special effects artist Moholy-Nagy); The wandering sickness (audio recording from 1936 of a reading from H.G. Wells's writing). Booklet features an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien.

Summary:

A hundred-year journey beginning with the start of a war that leaves the world living in underground cities, and ends in 2036 A.D. when a man and a woman are rocketed to the moon.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 660

ISBN:

1604657340
9781604657340

OCLC:

(OCoLC)846867294

UPC:

715515106917

Locations:

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)