Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

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Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb / Hawk Films Ltd. ; directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick ; screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern & Peter George. - Great Britain : BLC : Columbia, 1963 ; United States : Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1964 ; United States : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, [2001] - 10 film reels of 10 on 5 (ca. 95 min., 8,516 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 35 mm.

Author

Kubrick Stanley direction, Southern Terry writing. George Peter 1924-1966, writing. Lyndon Victor production. Taylor Gilbert camera. Adam Ken 1921- production design. Harvey Anthony 1931- editing. Johnson Laurie 1927- music. Sellers Peter 1925-1980, cast. Scott George C. 1927-1999, cast. Hayden Sterling 1916-1986, cast. Wynn Keenan 1916-1986, cast. Pickens Slim cast. Jones James Earl cast. George Peter 1924-1966. Red alert.

Subject

Nuclear warfare United States Soviet Union

Genre/Form

Comedy Adaptation War Videodiscs. gmgpc

Availability:

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Copies are only available in the library: sygn. FC (1 egz.)

Notes:

General note

Videodisc distribution date from copyright notice on disc label.

Theatrical projection print, copy 1 was printed from Stanley Kubrick's restoration per paperwork in M/B/RS Acquisition files (Sony Pictures Entertainment file). DLC

Theatrical projection prints, copies 3 and 4, were acquired for LC's National Film Preservation Tour, featuring titles from the National Film Registry. DLC

On cans and paperwork: 35 mm. interneg appears to have been made at Rank Labs in 1990 and 35 mm. mag track appears to have been made at Pinewood Studios Sound Dept. in 1992. DLC

Summary from M/B/RS preliminary catalog card.

On videodisc jacket: VLD 3134.

Based on the book Red alert by Peter George.

LC also holds Criterion collection videodisc version with additional material. DLC

Sources used: Monthly film bulletin, v. 31, p. 19; New York times, 1/30/1964; Film daily, 1/22/1964; videodisc label and jacket; M/B/RS paperwork.

Creation/production credits note

Associate producer, Victor Lyndon ; director of photography, Gilbert Taylor ; production designer, Ken Adam ; film editor, Anthony Harvey ; music, Laurie Johnson.

Participant or performer note

Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones.

Summary, etc.

Streszczenie: A satire in which the president of the U.S. and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a nuclear holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears the Soviets are poisoning the U.S. water supply.

Immediate source of acquisition note

Received: 11/7/1991; purchase, purchase order no. 172525; LC Purchase Collection.

Received: 3/23/1966; copyright deposit; Copyright Collection.

Received: 12/8/1992; gift; Sony Pictures Entertainment Collection.

Received: 9/23/1995; gift; Sony Pictures Entertainment Collection.

Received: ca. 1996; gift; Sony Pictures Entertainment Collection.

Received: 2/23/1998; gift; Sony Pictures Entertainment Collection.

Awards note

This film was selected for the National Film Registry.