Description |
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([4] pages) : illustrations ; 19 cm). |
Physical Medium |
plastic rdamat http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAMaterial/1029 |
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4 3/4 in. |
Description |
mono rdacpc http://rdaregistry.info/termList/configPlayback/1001 |
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digital rdatr http://rdaregistry.info/termList/typeRec/1002 |
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video file rdaft http://rdaregistry.info/termList/fileType/1006 |
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DVD video |
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Region 1 rdare http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDARegionalEncoding/1002 |
Series |
Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.) |
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Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
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Language |
Black and white in color: In French, German, and English with optional subtitles in English. The sky above, the mud below: Narration in English. |
System Details |
DVD, Region 1, mono, widescreen presentation aspect ratio 1.66:1. |
Note |
Black and white in color originally titled: Noirs et blancs en couleur. |
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The sky above the mud below originally titled: Le ciel et la boue. |
Cast |
Black and white in color: Jean Carmet, Jacques Dufilho, Catherine Rouvel, Jacques Spiesser, Dora Doll, Maurice Barrier, Benjamin Memel Atchori, Peter Berling, Marius Beugre Boignan, Claude Legros, and the inhabitants of Niofouin, Cote d'Ivoire. |
Performer |
The sky above, the mud below: narrator, William Peacock. |
Credits |
Black and white in color: editors, Françoise Bonnot, Michele Böehm ; original music, Pierre Bachelet ; camera, Claude Agostini ; subtitles, Liliane Strauss. The sky above, the mud below: cameraman, Gilbert Sarthre ; editor, Georges Arnstam. |
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The sky above, the mud below: camera, Gilbert Sarthre ; editor, Georges Arnstam. |
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Black and white in color was originally produced as a French motion picture in 1976. |
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The sky above, the mud below was originally produced as a French documentary in 1962. |
Summary |
Black and white in color: A French colony in Africa's Ivory Coast discovers months after the fact that World War I has begun. Spurred on by a capricious patriotism, they figure they'll do their part by attacking the German colony up the river. After all, they have six rifles, and one of them is an automatic. So off to war they march -- or rather, their servants do, carrying the white folk on palanquins. They soon stop for a lovely picnic. When machine gun fire is heard in the distance, they run back to the safety of the colony. All goes well until a young geographer becomes the key strategist for the French, working with the local tribal chief and turning the old colonial social hierarchy on its head. |
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The sky above, the mud below: Long before PBS, National Geographic, and the Discovery Channel made documentaries ubiquitous, films like this seminal if straightforward work were only available via local art house theaters. One of the earliest looks into native life on Papua New Guinea, this documentary follows a group of Europeans on a seven-month trek to bisect the island. During the perilous expedition (450 miles, as a crow flies) through jungle and across high altitudes, the group encounters tribes of headhunters and cannibals, observing and filming their rituals and ceremonies. |
Contents |
Black and white in color: Opening credits -- The German army depends on us -- Just another day in the colony -- A simple geographer -- A matter of taste -- Vive le France! -- Conscripts -- Strategy -- Crossing the Rhine -- A patriotic spectacle -- A machine gun? -- Rising to the occasion -- Community support -- Terribly refined -- Decision #21 -- A Christian conscience -- The name is Bartheleme -- Staging the troops -- Peace & security -- Trench warfare -- A decent army of French savages -- I used to be a socialist -- End credits. |
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The sky above, the mud below (88 min.): Opening credits -- The excursion -- Island of the wicked -- We were off -- First encounter -- News of our arrival -- Mock birth -- Adoption -- Ghost tree cutting -- Back to the sea -- Must be realistic -- Progress delayed -- From another world -- A bridge -- Going on -- Off at dawn -- The last edge -- Which river? -- At last. |
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Special features: Interview with the filmmakers [director Jean-Jacques Annaud and producer Arthur Cohn] (14 min.); Arthur Cohn: producer's perspective (5 min.); filmographies [text feature]; essay by film historian Ronald Falzone [insert]. |
Awards |
Black and white in color: 1976 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film (Ivory Coast). |
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The sky above, the mud below (Le ciel et la boue): 1961 Academy Award winner for Best Feature Documentary. |
Subject |
Côte d'Ivoire -- Drama.
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Côte d'Ivoire -- Race relations -- Drama.
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France -- Colonies -- Africa -- Drama.
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Papua New Guinea -- Drama.
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Racism -- Drama.
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Papua New Guinea -- Description and travel.
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Papua (Indonesia) -- Discovery and exploration.
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Ethnology -- Indonesia -- Papua.
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Natural history -- Indonesia -- Papua.
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Headhunters -- Indonesia -- Papua.
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Cannibalism -- Indonesia -- Papua.
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Papua (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs.
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Papua (Indonesia)
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Cannibalism. (OCoLC)fst00845849
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Discoveries in geography. (OCoLC)fst00894950
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Ethnology. (OCoLC)fst00916106
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French colonies. (OCoLC)fst01930852
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Headhunters. (OCoLC)fst00952665
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Natural history. (OCoLC)fst01034268
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Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
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Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
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Côte d'Ivoire. (OCoLC)fst01219323
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Indonesia -- Papua.
(OCoLC)fst01297513
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Papua New Guinea. (OCoLC)fst01212610
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Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Foreign films.
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Feature films -- France.
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Foreign language films -- French.
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Foreign language films -- German.
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Nonfiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710269
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Fiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710264
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Ethnographic films. (OCoLC)fst01710263
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Comedy films. (OCoLC)fst01710291
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Documentary films. (OCoLC)fst01710390
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Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
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Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
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War films. (OCoLC)fst01710402
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Comedy films.
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War films.
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Fiction films.
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Documentary films.
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Ethnographic films.
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Nonfiction films.
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French language films.
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Sociological drama.
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Personal/independent works.
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Added Author |
Cohn, Arthur, 1928-
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Perrin, Jacques, 1941-2022
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Levine, Joseph E.
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Silvagni, Giorgio.
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Annaud, Jean-Jacques.
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Gaisseau, Pierre Dominique, 1923-1997.
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Conchon, Georges, 1925-
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LaFuite, Rene.
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Carmet, Jean.
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Dufilho, Jacques.
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Rouvel, Catherine, 1939-
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Spiesser, Jacques, 1947-
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Doll, Dora, 1922-2015.
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Peacock, William.
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Reggane Films.
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Société française de production.
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Artco Film Productions.
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Embassy Pictures Corp.
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Janus Films.
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Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
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Added Title |
Sky above, the mud below |
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Ciel et la boue. English.
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ISBN |
0780026489 |
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9780780026483 |
Standard No. |
037429176221 |
Music No. |
BLA 080 Home Vision Entertainment |