DVD
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Birth of the living dead
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.).