The sound of music [videorecording] / Argyle Enterprises, Inc. and Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation ; [music by Richard Rodgers ; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II ; screenplay by Ernest Lehman ; produced and directed by Robert Wise ; associate producer, Saul Chaplin]
Accompanied by The sound of music : the saga of a screenplay / researched and compiled by Michael Matessino (62 p. ; 28 cm.), and by a compact disc of the original motion picture soundtract (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) Based on the musical of the same title with music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hammerstein and book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse Originally released in 1965 as a motion picture Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Eleanor Parker "4267-85." Includes a guide (8 p. ; 31 cm.) for the feature presentation and for the supplemental materials Supplemental features on sides four, five and six include: Salzburg : sight and sound : the complete 1965 featurette starring Charmian Carr; The sound of music : from fact to phenomenon (87-minute documentary); Ernest Lehman, master storyteller (36-minute audio supplement); theatrical previews and radio & television advertisements and interviews; interactive still archives, featuring storyboards, sketches, hundreds of exclusive phpotographs, background study and complete production diary Audio features: Robert Wise running commentary plus isolated stereo music, featuring background score and songs without vocal accompaniment
Summary:
A musical dramatization of the story of the Trapp Family Singers and their escape from Austria in 1938, when Austria became a unified state with Hitler's Germany
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