Gone with the wind

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Gone with the wind / Selznick International in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; directed by Victor Fleming ; produced by David O. Selznick ; screenplay by Sidney Howard. - 50th anniversary edition. - United States : MGM/UA Home Video, 1989. - 2 videocassettes of 2 (VHS) (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. viewing copy.

Author

Fleming Victor 1883-1949, direction. Selznick David O. 1902-1965, production. Howard Sidney Coe 1891-1939, writing. Steiner Max 1888-1971, music. Haller Ernest 1896-1970, camera. Gable Clark 1901-1960, cast. Leigh Vivien 1913-1967, cast. Howard Leslie 1893-1943, cast. De Havilland Olivia cast. Mitchell Thomas 1892-1962, cast. McDaniel Hattie 1895-1952, cast. Mitchell Margaret 1900-1949. Gone with the wind.

Subject

Plantation life O'Hara, Scarlett (Fictitious character) Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) United States

Genre/Form

Historical re-creations. mim Epics. mim Videodiscs. gmgpc

Notes:

General note

Originally released in 1939. The 1989 release is described as the new digitally remastered edition.

Videocassette copy only contains excerpts from the documentary, The making of a legend: Gone with the wind, following the feature.

Videodisc copy has two discs in one jacket.

On disc labels and jacket: MGM/UA ML 101678.

Based on the book by Margaret Mitchell.

Sources used: New York times, 1/29/89; M/B/RS Descriptions files.

Creation/production credits note

Musical score by Max Steiner ; photographed by Ernest Haller ; production designed by William Cameron Menzies ; art direction by Lyle Wheeler.

Participant or performer note

Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Thomas Mitchell, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen.

Summary, etc.

Streszczenie: Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara. The story begins on the O'Hara's Georgia plantation of Tara in antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Immediate source of acquisition note

Received: 11/15/89; gift; Turner Entertainment Co. Collection.

Received: ca. 1991; purchase; LC Purchase Collection.