King of jazz
DVD - 2018
Long available only in incomplete form, this film appears here newly restored to its original glory, offering a fascinating snapshot of the way mainstream American popular culture viewed itself at the dawn of the 1930s.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Musical films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[New York, New York] :
The Criterion Collection
[2018]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Criterion collection
- Item Description
- Title from web page.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1930.
Full screen (1.33:1).
Special features: New audio commentary featuring jazz and film critic Gary Giddins, music and cultural critic Gene Seymour, and musician and bandleader Vince Girodano; new introduction by Giddins; new interview with musician and pianist Michael Feinstein; four new video essays by authors and archivists James Layton and David Pierce on the development and making of "King of jazz"; deleted scenes and alternate opening-title sequence; All Americans, a 1929 short film featuring a version of the "Melting pot" number that was restaged for the finale "King of jazz"; "I know everybody and everybody's racket", a 1933 short film featuring Paul Whiteman and his orchestra; Two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from "King of jazz". - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- Region 1 DVD, color, full screen (1.37:1) presentation; monaural.
- Audience
- Rating: Not rated.
- ISBN
- 9781681434179
- Disc 1. Feature film
- disc 2. Special features.