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- Loan Terms:
- Circulating
- Status:
- In
- DVD003100
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Joris Ivens Wereldcineast Disc 2, 1934-1940
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Ivens, Joris
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European Foundation Joris Ivens, 2008
- Description:
- DVD - Region free. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
b/w.
fullscreen. sound - Dolby.
Titles
+ Borinage
- Alternate Title:
- Misere au Borinage; Ellende in de Borinage; Misery in the Borinage
- Director:
- Ivens, Joris; Storck, Henri
- Production Co:
- Education par l'Image
- Running Time:
- Short. 34 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Belgium
- Year:
- 1934
- Language:
- French and Dutch intertitles with optional Dutch or English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A social documentary describing the fate of some 15,000 miners in the Borinage, who in 1932 staged a strike in protest against the announcement by Belgian mine-owners of a 5% cut in wages.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Spanish Earth, The
- Director:
- Ivens, Joris
- Production Co:
- Contemporary Historians; Prometheus Pictures
- Running Time:
- Short. 52 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1937
- Language:
- English with optional Dutch subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Documentary on the civil war in Spain seen from the side of the Republican Government, and the peasant fighting for his farm and livelihood. Narration written and spoken by Ernest Hemingway. Disc also includes a version with narration read by Orson Welles, available from the ‘Extras’ menu.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ 400 Million, The
- Alternate Title:
- The Four Hundred Million; China’s 400 Million; The 400,000,000; 400 Million With You
- Director:
- Ivens, Joris; Ferno, John
- Production Co:
- History Today
- Running Time:
- Short. 54 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1939
- Language:
- English with optional Dutch subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- A documentary on the resistance of the Chinese to Japanese aggression. Filmed in 1938 and focusing on the battle of T’aiertshwang, this documentary tries to show all aspects of a war: the battle itself, the preparations, the refugees, the casualties, the fear and distress, the human misery and courage.
- Link to:
- FII catalog | AFI catalog
+ Power and the Land
- Director:
- Ivens, Joris
- Production Co:
- US Rural Electrification Administration
- Running Time:
- Short. 37 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1940
- Language:
- English with optional Dutch subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- A day in the life of an American farm, centring around the coming of electricity to rural districts and the advantages it brings.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |