| Description |
1 videodisc (90 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD; 16 x 9 anamorphic presentation. |
| Performer |
Graham Dorrington, Mark Anthony Yhap, Anthony Melville, Michael Wilk, Jan-Peter Meewes, Jason Gibson. |
| Credits |
Camera, Henning Brümmer, Klaus Scheurich ; editor, Joe Bini ; music, Ernst Reijseger, Eric Spitzer-Marlyn ; based on an idea by Rainer Bergomaz, Marion Pöllmann. |
| Note |
Originally produced as a German documentary in 2004. |
| Summary |
Graham Dorrington is an enthusiastic English aeronautical engineer on a mission to revive the airship, that ill-fated aeronautic conveyance otherwise known as the dirigible or zeppelin, to fly over the Amazon canopy. His eagerness is diminished by the memory an incident 10 years earlier, in which photographer Dieter Plage was killed. This film records an expedition to Guyana, where Dorrington and his small crew of researchers, technicians, and porters struggle with the elements, the laws of physics, and one another as they try to get a new vessel off the ground. Mr. Herzog, who has made a specialty of finding obsessives and eccentrics who push themselves to extremes, asks questions, films, and narrates the result. |
| Contents |
Opening -- New breed -- Let's go fly -- Dieter Plage -- 9.7 meter diameter -- 7,900 miles of rock -- Stupid stupidities -- Canopy -- Dangerous dream -- Completely free -- Real white diamond -- Closing credits. |
| Note |
Special features: Werner Herzog Filmography [text feature]; Trailer gallery (12 min.); Coming attractions [trailers] (7 min.). |
| Language |
In English. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Dorrington, Graham.
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Airships -- Testing.
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Airships -- Accidents.
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Guyana -- Description and travel.
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Foreign films.
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Nature films.
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Documentary films.
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Nature films -- Germany.
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Documentary films -- Germany.
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| Added Author |
Herzog, Werner, 1942- Producer. Director.
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Scheurich, Annette.
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Stipetić, Lucki.
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Herzog, Rudolph.
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Dorrington, Graham.
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Marco Polo Film (Firm)
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Wellspring Media.
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| ISBN |
0794205909 |
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9780794205904 |
| Standard No. |
720917546926 |
| Music No. |
FLV5469 Wellspring Media |
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