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DVD

Birth of the living dead

Author

Rob Kuhns

Call Number

  • DVD 791.4372 N687B (CEN)

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Languages

Closed-captioned.

Performers

George A. Romero, Larry Fessenden, Mark Harris, Gale Anne Hurd, Elvis Mitchell, Sam Pollard, Chiz Schultz, Jason Zinoman.

Publication Information

[New York] : First Run Features, [2014]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

In 1968 a young college drop-out named George A. Romero directed Night of the Living Dead, a low budget horror film that shocked the world, became an icon of the counterculture, and spawned a zombie industry worth billions of dollars. Birth of the Living Dead shows how Romero gathered an unlikely team of Pittsburghers--policemen, iron workers, teachers, ad-execs, housewives and a roller-rink owner--to shoot a revolutionary film, guerrilla-style, at the height of race riots and the Vietnam War, that went on to become a cinematic landmark at a singular time in American history.

Notes

Title from disc surface.

"George A. Romero and the making of a classic"--Container.

Originally released as a documentary in 2013.

Bonus materials: Extended interview with George A. Romero (33 min.) ; George A. Romero at the Museum of Modern Art, June 16, 1970 (audio; 10 min.) ; Bill Hinzman and the world-record-breaking Monroeville Zombie Walk (video; 7 min.).

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