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| Genre/Form: | Drama Feature films Science fiction films Video recordings for the hearing impaired Films de science-fiction Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives |
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| Material Type: | Videorecording |
| Document Type: | Visual material |
| All Authors / Contributors: | Michael Rennie; Patricia Neal; Hugh Marlowe; Julian Blaustein; Robert Wise; Edmund H North; Leo Tover; William Reynolds; Bernard Herrmann; Harry Bates; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.,; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, |
| Language Note: | English, French or Spanish dialogue; Spanish, English, Cantonese or Mandarin subtitles; closed-captioned. |
| OCLC Number: | 285603988 |
| Notes: | Title from opening screens. Originally released as a motion picture in 1951. Based on a story by Harry Bates. Special features: Interactive theremin: create your own score and Gort command!; interactive game; commentary by director Robert Wise and Nicholas Meyer; all-new commentary by film and music historians John Morgan, Steven Smith, William Stromberg and Nick Redman; isolated score track; all-new featurettes: The mysterious, melodious theremin; Main title live performance by Peter Pringle; The making of The day the Earth stood still; Decoding "Klaatu barada nikto" ' Science fiction as metaphor; A brief history of flying saucers; The astounding Harry Bates; Edmund North: the man who made the Earth stand still; Race to oblivion, documentary short; Farewell to the master: a reading by Jamieson K. Price of the original Harry Bates short story; Fox movietonews (1951); trailers, interactive pressbook and still galleries |
| Credits: | Director of photography, Leo Tover ; music, Bernard Herrmann ; editor, William Reynolds. |
| Cast: | Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe. |
| Target Audience: | Rating: G; CHV rating: G. |
| Description: | 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Details: | Blu-ray Disc; 5.1 DTS-HD master audio, mono (English), 5.1 Dolby Digital (French, Spanish); requires Blu-ray player. |
| Other Titles: | Day the earth stood still (Motion picture : 1951) Day the earth stood still (Motion picture : 1951). Day the earth stood still (Motion picture : 1951). |
| Responsibility: | Twentieth Century Fox ; produced by Julian Blaustein ; directed by Robert Wise ; screenplay by Edmund H. North. |
Abstract:
A spaceship lands in Washington, D.C., capturing the attention of the world. But the peaceful alien emissary it brings fails to earn the public's trust. When a young woman and her son befriend him, they soon realize they may be all that stands between the human race and total destruction.
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