The American Novel

Documentary

...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him

Drama

Based on Tomas Rivera's classic novel "...y no se lo trago la tierra," this film tells the story of twelve year old Marcos Gonzalez, his migrant worker family, and a Chicano farm labor community in South Texas.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: KPBS-TV, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1994

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Paul Espinosa, Lindsay Law
PRODUCER: Paul Espinosa
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Severo Perez
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Virgil Harper
EDITOR: Susan Heick, Howard Heard
NARRATOR: Miguel Rodriquez
CAST: Jose Alcala, Rose Portillo, Marco Rodriguez, Daniel Valdez, Lupe Ontiveros, Sal Lopez, Art Bonilla, Evelyn Guerrero, Sam Vlahos

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Best of the Festival Audience Award; San Antonio Cine Festival, Best Feature; Cairo International Film Festival, Best Director; San Diego Filmmakers Showcase, Best Feature; San Sebastian (Spain) International Film Festival; Mill Valley Film Festival; Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Havana, Cuba; Hampton's International Film Festival, Long Island, New York; San Jose (CA) Cinequest International Festival; USA Film Festival, Dallas; Independent Feature Project Screening (NYC); Kennedy Center (DC), Hispanic Academy of Arts and Sciences Screening; Director's Guild of America, Special Screening; Rimini (Italy) Cinema Festival; Cruzando Fronteras Film Fest and Smithsonian Institution Screening, Washington, DC; California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation Screenings (Sacramento, Riverside, Long Beach); Annual Tom s Rivera Conference Screening (Riverside, CA)

FORMAT: Video (100:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino International

Audio Sketches of American Writers

Radio Series (Drama and Documentary)

Program 1
Literature of the Black Experience
This program considers African-American writing from the deep South to New York City, from the Harlem Renaissance to today. Writers included are W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Alice Walker, and Amiri Baraka.

READINGS: Christopher Moore, Al Freeman, Amiri Baraka, Carl Lumbly
COMMENTARIES: Julian Bond, Owen Dodson, Alice Walker, Amiri Baraka

Program 2
Socio-Political Literature
This segment explores the many forms that social and political commentary has taken in American literature, including autobiographies, addresses, memoirs, fiction, and poetry. Among the works considered are those by Thomas Jefferson, Margaret Fuller, Henry Adams, Emma Goldman, W.E.B. DuBois, and Theodore Dreiser, as well as literature of the Vietnam War.

READINGS: Frances Sternhagen, Jason Robards, Jr., William Hurt, Marsha Jean Kurtz, Christopher Moore, Harris Yulin, Tim O'Brien
COMMENTARIES: Ann Douglas, Otto Freidrich, Leo Marx, Richard Drinnon, Julian Bond, Alfred Kazin, James West, Peter Marin

Program 3
Cross-Currents of American Life
As American literature has broken away from British traditions, its diversity has increased to include Native American, Jewish, Chicano, and other immigrant experiences. Among the selections are writings by Alfred Kazin, Ralph Ellison, James Welch, and Gary Soto.

READINGS: Eli Wallach, Richard Bauer, Laura Esterman, June Gable
COMMENTARIES: Irving Howe, Pietro Di Donato, James Welch, Gary Soto

Program 4
Four Generations of Women Poets
Spanning nearly three hundred years of American literature, this program includes sketches of Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Muriel Rukeyser, Louise Bogan, and Denise Levertov.

READINGS: Charlotte Moore, Frances Sternhagen, Diane Wiest, Muriel Rukeyser, Marian Seldes, Denise Levertov
COMMENTARIES: Ann Stanford, Alfred Kazin, Jeffrey Kindley, Carolyn Kizer, Denise Levertov

Program 5
Women's Fiction
Selections from the following five writers provide a sense of the wide range of styles of women's fiction of the twentieth century: Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Ellen Glasgow, Carson McCullers, Joyce Carol Oates, and Katherine Anne Porter.

READINGS: Ann Stone, Frances Sternhagen, William Hurt, James Cunningham, Susan Sarandon
COMMENTARIES: Cynthia Wolfe, Alfred Kazin, Virginia Spencer Carr, Ellen Friedman, Jane de Mouy

Programs 6 and 7
Modern American Poets
These two programs trace important developments in modern American poetry.

Program 6 features Emily Dickinson, James Russell Lowell, Amy Lowell, Wallace Stevens, and Adrienne Rich.

Program 7 features Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Archibald MacLeish, and William Carlos Williams.

READINGS: Frances Sternhagen, Adrienne Rich, Ed Hermann, Maureen Anderman, Sam Waterston, Mark Hammer, William Atherton, Al Freeman, Diane Wiest, Micahel Moriarty, Michael Tolan
COMMENTARIES: Alfred Kazin, Peter Brazeau, Justin Kaplan, James Culvert, Owen Dodson, Jeffrey Kindley, Archibald MacLeish, Reed Whittemore

Programs 8-12
American Prose
The rest of the series surveys twenty of America's most widely read authors and discusses their significance to our literary tradition.

Program 8 features Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Crane, James Jones, and Raymond Chandler.

Program 9 concentrates on Mark Twain, John Dos Passos, Henry Miller, and Jack Kerouac.

Program 10 features Edith Wharton, Thomas Wolfe, Randall Jarrell, and Carson McCullers.

Program 11 includes Herman Melville, Theodore Dreiser, Zane Grey, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Program 12 features Jack London, Eugene O'Neill, James Agee, and Delmore Schwartz.

READINGS: Peter Weller, William Atherton, James Jones, Paul Dooley, Len Cariou, Mark Hammer, William Hurt, John Heard, Sam Waterston, Ann Stone, Frances Sternhagen, Tammy Grimes, George Hearn, Harris Yulin, James Cunningham, Henderson Forsythe

COMMENTARIES: Leslie Fiedler, James Culvert, Gloria Jones, Willie Morris, Frank McShane, Alfred Kazin, Dennis McNally, Townsend Luddington, James Atlas, Cynthia Wolfe, Virginia Spencer Carr, Ruth Matthewson, Mary Jarrell, James West, Ellen Friedman, Barbara Gelb, Mia Agee

SERIES PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: National Public Radio, Washington, DC
YEAR PRODUCED: 1981 (first broadcast on NPR's Morning Edition)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Joe Gwathmey
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Jo Ellyn Rackleff, Wendy Blair
WRITER: Jo Ellyn Rackleff
NARRATOR: Bob Edwards

FORMAT: Audiocassette
12 (45:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable

Beckett Directs Beckett:
Waiting for Godot and Krapp's Last Tape

Dramatic and Documentary Series

Program 1
Waiting for Godot (1955)
dramatizes the human condition through the plight of Vladimir and Estragon, who pass the time on the road as they wait in vain for the arrival of Godot.

YEAR PRODUCED: 1988
PRODUCERS: Mitchell Lifton, Jean-Pierre Cottet
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: John Fuegi
WRITER: Samuel Beckett
DIRECTOR: Walter D. Asmus from the mise-en-scene by Samuel Beckett
WRITER: Samuel Beckett
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Daniel Vogel
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Luc Herve, Guy Kartagener, Jean-Louis Angelini, Roger Wrona
EDITORS: Jacques Audoir, Christian Martin
CAST: The San Quentin Drama Workshop, featuring Rick Cluchey, Lawrence Held, Bud Thorpe, Alan Mandell, Louis Beckett Cluchey

AWARD: American Film and Video Festival, Blue Ribbon

PRINT MATERIAL: Study Guide forthcoming from Smithsonian Press

FORMAT: Video (150:00) on two cassettes
French version with different cast also available

Program 2
Krapp's Last Tape (1958)
concerns an old man, who reviews his life by listening to a recording he made at age 39 summarizing another tape made ten or fifteen years earlier. At each stage, Krapp sees the foolishness of his earlier self but not the fool he presently is.

YEAR PRODUCED: 1988
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: John Fuegi
PRODUCERS: Mitchell Lifton, Jean-Pierre Cottet
DIRECTOR: Walter D. Asmus from the mise-en-scene by Samuel Beckett
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Daniel Vogel
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tom Arnold, Francis Guilbert, Jean-Marc Zilbering
EDITOR: Christian Martin
CAST: Rick Cluchey

PRINT MATERIAL: Study Guide available

FORMAT: Video (60:00)
French version with different cast also available

Program 3
Beckett and the Television Text
is a roundtable discussion with scholars about Beckett's ideas for the staging of the plays and about the nature of "television texts."

YEAR PRODUCED: 1988
PRODUCERS: Mitchell Lifton, John Fuegi, Jean-Pierre Cottet
DIRECTOR: Jacques Audoir
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Daniel Vogel
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Luc Herve, Guy Kartagener, Jean-Louis Angelini, Roger Wrona
EDITOR: Christian Martin
MODERATOR: John Fuegi, University of Maryland, College Park
PARTICIPANTS: Herbert Blau, theater director, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Dr. Martin Esslin, Stanford University; Dr. Robert Corrigan, University of Texas, Dallas; and Dr. Kathleen Woodward, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

PRINT MATERIAL: Study Guide available

FORMAT: Video (27:00)
Available only as part of Beckett Directs Beckett package

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: The University of Maryland Visual Press, College Park, MD, in association with WGBH, Boston, MA; Cameras Continentales, La SEPT, Société Française de Production (SFP), and FR3, Paris, France; and Radioteleviseo Portuguesa-E.P. (RTP), Lisbon, Portugal
YEAR PRODUCED: 1988
SERIES PRODUCERS: Mitchell Lifton, Jean-Pierre Cottet, John Fuegi

FORMAT: Video (see individual listings)

DISTRIBUTOR: Smithsonian Institution Press

The Beckett Festival of Radio Plays

Radio Series (Drama and Documentary)

Program 1
All That Fall (1957)
Maddy Rooney's laborious trip to the Boghill railway station to meet her blind husband and their return home together.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Soundscape, Inc., Alexandria, VA; Voices International, New York, NY; and RIAS, Berlin, Germany
YEAR PRODUCED: 1986
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Louise Cleveland
PROJECT ORIGINATOR: Martha Fehsenfeld
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Everett C. Frost
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Faith Wilding
WRITER: Samuel Beckett
STUDIO SOUND EFFECTS: Charles Potter
RECORDING ENGINEER: Mike Moran
PRODUCTION ENGINEER: David Rapkin
HOST: Henry Strozier
CAST: Billie Whitelaw, David Warrilow, Alvin Epstein, Jerome Kilty, George Bartenieff, Susan Willis
COMMENTARY: Desmond Briscoe, Everett Frost, Billie Whitelaw, Richard Ellman, Linda Ben-Zvi, Enoch Brater, Hersh Zeifman, David Hesla

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: New York International Radio Festival, Gold Medal, Best Drama Special; Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Honorable Mention, Arts and Humanities Programming

FORMAT: Audiocassette (120:00)
2 (60:00) tapes: drama (89:00); documentary (31:00)

Program 2
Embers (1959)
Henry sits on the beach talking to his dead father who has drowned and does not answer, and to his wife Ada, who does.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Voices International, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1989
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Everett C. Frost
DOCUMENTARY PRODUCER: Charles Potter
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Faith Wilding
WRITER: Samuel Beckett
PANEL ENGINEER: Peter Novis
SEA SOUND EFFECTS: Liam Saurin
RECORDED SOUND EFFECTS: Bert Coules
SOUND EFFECTS: Mike Etherden
PRODUCTION ENGINEER: Stephen Erickson
HOST: Henry Strozier
CAST: Barry McGovern, Billie Whitelaw
COMMENTARY: Barbara Bray, Barry McGovern, Ruby Cohn, Linda Ben-Zvi

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: New York International Radio Festival, Gold Medal

FORMAT: Audiocassette (60:00)
1 tape: drama (48:00); documentary (12:00)

Program 3
Words and Music (1962)
Words, called Bob, and Music, called Joe, are forced to collaborate by the club-wielding Croak and under duress they produce two exquisite lyric poems.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Voices International, New York, NY, and WDR, Cologne, Germany
YEAR PRODUCED: 1986
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Everett C. Frost
DOCUMENTARY AND SOUND EFFECTS PRODUCER: Charles Potter
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Faith Wilding
WRITER: Samuel Beckett
RECORDING AND PRODUCTION ENGINEER: Mike Moran
COMPOSER: Morton Feldman
MUSIC: The Bowery Ensemble, conducted by Nils Vigeland
HOST: Henry Strozier
CAST: David Warrilow, Alvin Epstein
COMMENTARY: Morton Feldman, Everett Frost, Linda Ben-Zvi, Maurice Beja

FORMAT: Audiocassette (60:00) 1 tape: drama (40:00); documentary and commentary (20:00)

Program 4
Cascando (1963)
In this play, an Opener "opens" and "closes" two characters; Voice desperately promises to tell a story he can finish; and Music equally struggles to create a finished composition.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Voices International, New York, NY, and WDR, Cologne, Germany
YEAR PRODUCED: 1989
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Everett C. Frost
DOCUMENTARY PRODUCER: Charles Potter
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Faith Wilding
RECORDING AND PRODUCTION ENGINEERS: Mike Moran, Tony May, Stephen Erickson
HOST: Henry Strozier
CAST: Fred Neumann, Alvin Epstein
COMMENTARY: Alvin Epstein, William Kraft, Thomas Bishop, Porter Abbot
COMPOSER: William Kraft
MUSIC: Speculum Musicae, conducted by William Kraft

FORMAT: Audiocassette (60:00)
1 tape: drama (18:00); documentary (12:00); discussion by Beckett scholars (30:00)

Program 5
Rough for Radio II (1976)
An Animator, assisted by a Stenographer and the whip-wielding mute character Dick, has the task of eliciting from Fox some unknown testimony of unknown significance.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Voices International, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1989
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Everett C. Frost
DOCUMENTARY & SOUND EFFECTS PRODUCER: Charles Potter
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Faith Wilding
RECORDING ENGINEER: Mike Moran
PRODUCTION ENGINEER: Stephen Erickson
HOST: Henry Strozier
CAST: W. Dennis Hunt, Amanda Plummer, Barry McGovern, Charles Potter
COMMENTARY: Barry McGovern, Everett Frost, Rosette Lamont

FORMAT: Audiocassette (60:00)
1 tape: drama (24:00); documentary (6:00); discussion by Beckett scholars (30:00)

SERIES ORIGINATOR: Martha Fehsenfeld
PROJECT DIRECTOR FOR THE BECKETT FESTIVAL OF RADIO PLAYS: Everett C. Frost
PROJECT DIRECTOR FOR ALL THAT FALL: Louise Cleveland

SERIES AWARD: Gabriel Award
SERIES FORMAT: Audiocassette (360:00)
Five programs on six tapes: All That Fall, 2 (60:00); Programs 2-5 (60:00 each)

DISTRIBUTOR: Pacifica Program Service/Radio Archive

Born To Trouble: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WGBH, Boston, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 2000
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Jill Janows
WRITERS: Jill Janows, Leslie Lee
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Richard Dallett, Robb Moss
EDITOR: Jon Neuburger
NARRATOR: Courtney B. Vance
CAST: Voice of Mark Twain, Ken Richters; Voice of Huck Finn, Colin Welch

PRINT MATERIALS: Teaching guide available through WGBH, Educational Print & Outreach, 125 Western Ave., Boston, MA, 02134; Coursepack available through PBS Video.

FORMAT: Video (90:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

The Cafeteria

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Amram Nowak Associates, Inc., and Isaac in America Foundation, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1983 (first broadcast on American Playhouse)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Amram Nowak
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Kirk Simon
ADAPTATION: Ernest Kinoy
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jerry Pantzer
EDITOR: Jason Rosenfield
CAST: Zohra Lampert, Bob Dishy, Morris Carnovsky

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: CINE Golden Eagle: American Film Festival, Honorable Mention; San Francisco Film Festival; San Francisco Jewish Film Festival; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a MacArthur Video Classics Library selection

FORMAT: Video (58:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Direct Cinema Limited

Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences

Documentary and Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WNET/13, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1982
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Jac Venza
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Perry Miller Adato
WRITER: Paul Shyre
MUSIC: Scott Kuney
CAST: John Cullum, Frances Conroy, Michael Higgins

AWARDS: Directors Guild of America, Pinnacle Award for Television Documentary; Matrix Award for Broadcasting; Women in Communication, Achievement in Television Documentary

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (120:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable

Centennial Faulkner

Radio Series (Documentary and Drama)

Program 1
Spotted Horses
Looks at Faulkner as a renegade writer critic of Southern culture.

Program 2
Honor
Sees Faulkner as a born storyteller. The dramatized story is typical of Faulkner's more commercial fiction.

Program 3
Mountain Victory
Examines the current debate over Faulkner's treatment of women and African Americans. The dramatization is a dark brooding story that takes place in the wake of the Civil War.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Foundation for New Media, Inc.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1997
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Robert Clem
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Robert Clem
EDITORS: Donald Stark, David Rapkin
HOST/NARRATOR: Stacy Keach
CAST: Campbell Scott, David Strathairn, Betty Buckley, Jeffery Wright, Hope Davis, Michael O'Keefe, Will Patton, Jeff DeMunn, Lois Smith

FORMAT: Video 3 (58:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: New Media/Waterfront

Classic Theatre:
The Humanities in Drama and Classic Theatre Previews

Dramatic and Documentary Series

• The Tragedy of Macbeth (1606), by William Shakespeare
• Edward the Second (1593), by Christopher Marlowe
• The Duchess of Malfi (c. 1614), by John Webster
• Paradise Restored
• She Stoops to Conquer (1773), by Oliver Goldsmith
• Candide (1759), by Voltaire
• The Rivals (1775), by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• The Wild Duck (1884), by Henrik Ibsen
• Hedda Gabler (1890), by Henrik Ibsen
• Trelawny of the "Wells" (1898), by Arthur Wing Pinero
• The Three Sisters (1901), by Anton Chekhov
• The Playboy of the Western World (1907), by John Millington Synge
• Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893), by George Bernard Shaw

PRODUCER: Cedric Messina
DIRECTOR: John Gorrie
CAST: Eric Porter, Janet Suzman, John Alderton, Michael Goodliffe, John Thaw, John Woodvine

Classic Theatre Preview with Shakespeare scholar S. Schoenbaum of Northwestern University.

Program 2
Edward the Second (1593), by Christopher Marlowe
King Edward, a confused, weak, and foolish man ruled by personal passions, is ennobled in a horrifying death.

PRODUCER: Mark Shivas
DIRECTOR: Tony Robertson
CAST: Ian McKellen, Timothy West, Diane Fletcher, James Laurenson

Classic Theatre Preview with Clifford Leech of the University of Connecticut at Storrs.

Program 3
The Duchess of Malfi (c. 1614), by John Webster
Obsessed by his love for the Duchess, her brother Ferdinand imprisons her and subjects her to mental torture after she marries her steward.

PRODUCER: Cedric Messina
DIRECTOR: James MacTaggart
CAST: Eileen Atkins, Michael Bryant, Charles Kay, T.P. McKenna, Gary Bond

Classic Theatre Preview with Michael Goldman of Queens College.

Program 4
Paradise Restored
Based on the life and work of the English poet and author John Milton (1608-1674), this dramatization portrays some of the personal triumphs and defeats that lie behind Paradise Lost, his epic poem on the fall of man.

DIRECTOR/WRITER: Don Taylor
CAST: John Neville, Polly James, Anne Stallybrass

Classic Theatre Preview with Judith A. Kates of Harvard University.

Program 5
She Stoops to Conquer (1773), by Oliver Goldsmith
When Young Marlow, a bashful young man who feels at ease only with serving girls, mistakes Mr. Hardcastle's house for an inn, Miss Hardcastle takes advantage of the situation by posing as a barmaid.

PRODUCER: Cedric Messina
DIRECTOR: Michael Elliott
CAST: Sir Ralph Richardson, Tom Courtenay, Thora Hird, Juliet Mills, Elaine Taylor

Classic Theatre Preview with William Appleton of Columbia University.

Program 6
Candide (1759), by Voltaire
This is a dramatic adaptation of the philosophical novel which satirizes the optimistic creed of Leibnitz: "All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds," through the story of young Candide, and his series of misadventures.

PRODUCER: Cedric Messina
DIRECTOR/ADAPTATION/TRANSLATION: James MacTaggart
CAST: Frank Finlay, Ian Ogilvy

Classic Theatre Preview with Georges May of Yale University.

Program 7
The Rivals (1775), by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
This comedy of double identity features the legendary Mrs. Malaprop.

PRODUCER: Cedric Messina
DIRECTOR: Basil Coleman
CAST: John Alderton, Jeremy Brett, Andrew Cruikshank, Beryl Reid, Jenny Linden, T.P. McKenna

Classic Theatre Preview with William Appleton of Columbia University.

Program 8
The Wild Duck (1884), by Henrik Ibsen
A guilt-ridden loner and idealist sets out to rehabilitate an impoverished but basically compatible family, destroying the props of illusion that sustain their common existence.

PRODUCER: Cedric Messina
DIRECTOR: Alan Bridges
TRANSLATION: Rolf Fjelde
CAST: Denholm Elliott, Derek Godfrey, Mark Digham, Rosemary Leach, John Robinson, Jenny Agutter

Classic Theatre Preview with Rolf Fjelde of Pratt Institute and the Juilliard School of Music.

Program 9
Hedda Gabler (1890), by Henrik Ibsen
Married to a pedantic scholar for whom she has no affection and living in a small, slow, backward Norwegian town of the 1860s, Hedda devises schemes for subtly asserting power over the people who come into her life.

PRODUCER: Cedric Messina
DIRECTOR: Waris Hussein
TRANSLATION: Michael Meyer
CAST: Janet Suzman, Ian McKellen, Tom Bell, Jane Asher, Dorothy Reynolds

Classic Theatre Preview with Eva Le Gallienne, actress and translator of Ibsen as well as cofounder of the American Repertory Theater.

Program 10
Trelawny of the "Wells" (1898), by Arthur Wing Pinero
In this play about the social acceptability of the stage, the actress heroine breaks her engagement to a young aristocrat to return to the theater Undaunted, he follows and becomes an actor.

PRODUCER: Cedric Messina
DIRECTOR: Herbert Wise
CAST: John Alderton, Moira Taylor, Roland Culver, Elaine Taylor, Lally Bowers, Graham Crowden, Ian Ogilvy, Rachel Kempson, Elizabeth Seal

Classic Theatre Preview with Jane W. Stedman of Roosevelt University.

Program 11
The Three Sisters (1901), by Anton Chekhov
Through the experience of three sisters and their suitors, this play explores the need for illusion as a means of coping with a profoundly dispiriting reality.

PRODUCER: Gerald Savory
DIRECTOR: Cedric Messina
TRANSLATOR: Elisaveta Fen
CAST: Janet Suzman, Eileen Atkins, Michele Dotrice, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Bryant, Joss Ackland, Sarah Badel, Ronald Hines, Richard Pearson

Classic Theatre Preview with Victor Erlich of Yale University.

Program 12
The Playboy of the Western World (1907), by John Millington Synge
A playboy claims to have killed his tyrannical father and is lionized by the villagers for his boldness until his father arrives to reclaim his errant son.

PRODUCER: Cedric Messina
DIRECTOR: Alan Gibson
CAST: John Hurt, Sinead Cusack, Pauline Delany, Joe Lynch, Donal McCann

Classic Theatre Preview with Ann Saddlemyer of the University of Toronto.

Program 13
Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893), by George Bernard Shaw
To the horror of her daughter, Mrs. Warren runs a chain of brothels in the capitals of Europe because it offers good hours, good money, and a chance for advancement otherwise unavailable to women.

PRODUCER: Cedric Messina
DIRECTOR: Herbert Wise
CAST: Coral Browne, Penelope Wilton, James Grout, Derek Godfrey, Robert Powell, Richard Pearson

Classic Theatre Preview with Dan H. Laurence, literary advisor to the estate of George Bernard Shaw.

For Classic Theatre Previews and American Presentation of the Programs:
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WGBH, Boston, MA
YEAR CLASSIC THEATRE ACQUIRED & PREVIEWS PRODUCED: 1975
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Michael Rice
SERIES PRODUCER: Joan Sullivan
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Monia Joblin
DIRECTOR: David Atwood
RESEARCHER: Elizabeth Deane
MUSIC COMPOSED/CONDUCTED BY: Joseph Payne
VIDEOGRAPHY: Bill Charrette, Dick Holden, F.X. Lane, Larry LeCain, Greg MacDonald, Lee Smith, Skip Warehan, Bob Wilson

FORMAT: Video
Dramas: Programs 1,11 (150:00); Programs 2,3,5,7-10,12,13 (120:00); Programs 4,6 (90:00)
Documentary Previews: 13 (28:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: Public Media Inc. (plays only available)

Creeley

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Documentary Research, Inc., Buffalo, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1988
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS/WRITERS/EDITORS: Diane Christian, Bruce Jackson
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Bruce Jackson
INTERVIEWS: Alan Ginsberg, Ed Dorn, Diane Di Prima, Philip Whalen, Stan Brakhage, and others

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (59:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: contact Documentary Research, Inc.

Dead Souls

Dramatic Radio Series

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Globe Radio Repertory, Seattle, WA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1987
PRODUCERS/WRITERS: Jean Sherrard, John Siscoe
DIRECTOR: Jean Sherrard
CAST: John Gilbert, Ted D'Arms, Marjorie Nelson, John Aylward, Mark Drusch
COMMENTARY: Donald Farger, Harvard University; Willis Konick, University of Washington

FORMAT: Audiocassette
9 (30:000) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: University of Washington Press

Don Quixote de la Mancha

Dramatic Radio Series

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Globe Radio Repertory, Seattle, WA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1985
PRODUCERS/WRITERS: Jean Sherrard, John Siscoe
DIRECTOR: Jean Sherrard
CAST: Ted D'Arms, John Aylward, Glenn Mazen, Marjorie Nelson, JohnGilbert

PRINT MATERIAL: Study guide (24 pages) by Professors George Shipley, University of Washington; and Carrol Johnson, University of California, Los Angeles

FORMAT: Video
13 (30:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: University of Washington Press

Do You Speak American?

Documentary

Edgar Allan Poe, Terror of the Soul

Documentary and Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Film Odyssey, Inc., Washington, DC, in association with American Masters/WNET, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1995 (first broadcast on American Masters)
PRODUCER/WRITER: Karen Thomas
EDITOR: Mark Muheim
DIRECTOR OF DRAMATIC SEQUENCES: Joyce Chopra
EDITORS/DRAMATIC SEQUENCES: Mark Muheim, Joe Gutowski
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: Elizabeth Keyishian, Robert J. Sloane, Cindy E.Vaughn
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Kenneth Silverman, Daniel Blake Smith
CINEMATOGRAPHY: James Glennon (drama), Dyanna Taylor (documentary), Erich Roland and Foster Wiley (additional cinematography)
NARRATOR: Ruby Dee
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER for American Masters: Susan Lacy CAST:

The Tell Tale Heart: Treat Williams, Eric Christmas;

The Cask of Amontillado (story adapted by Joyce Chopra; music by Philip Glass): John Heard, Rene Auberjonois;

Dramatic Recreations: Anthony Maggio as Edgar Allan Poe, Eric Christmas, Sky Rumph, Pam Van Sant, Devyn Puett, Marianne Mullerleile, Robert Dowdell, Val Bettin
INTERVIEWS: Philip Glass, Richard Wilbur, Robert Regan, Joyce Carol Oates, Kenneth Silverman, Ira Levin, Stephen Nissenbaum, Alfred Kazin, Patrick Quinn

FORMAT: Video (58:00); Cask of Amontillado also available in single 16-minute version

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

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The Edith Wharton Series

Dramatic Series

This three-part series presents the life and work of Edith Wharton (l862-1937), whose long and prolific career included novels, short stories, novellas, poetry, travel books, and memoirs.

Program 1
The House of Mirth
dramatizes Wharton's novel about Lily Bart, a charming but penniless member of turn-of-the-century New York society who is intent on marrying a rich and socially prominent man.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Jack Willis
COPRODUCERS: Daniel A. Bohr, Dorothy Cullman
DIRECTOR: Adrian Hall
ADAPTATION: Adrian Hall, Richard Cumming
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Paul Goldsmith, Hart Perry
EDITOR: Charlotte Zwerin
CAST: Geraldine Chaplin, William Atherton

Program 2
Summer
is the story of seventeen-year-old Charity Royall's early disillusionment with life followed by her accomodation to reality.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Jack Willis
COPRODUCERS: Daniel A. Bohr, Dorothy Cullman
DIRECTOR/EDITOR: Deszo Magyar
ADAPTATION: Charles Gaines
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Michael Fash
CAST: Diane Lane, Michael Ontkean, John Cullum

Program 3
Looking Back
is a dramatic retrospective of Edith Wharton's life.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Jack Willis
COPRODUCERS: Dorothy Cullman, Sam Paul
DIRECTOR: Kirk Browning
WRITER: Steve Lawson
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Francis Kenny
CAST: Kathleen Widdoes, John Cullum, Richard Woods, John McMartin, Stephen Collins

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Cinelit, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1982 (first broadcast on Great Performances)
SERIES EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Jack Willis

FORMAT: Video
Programs 1, 2 (90:00), Program 3 (60:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable.

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Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea

Documentary

More than forty years after his death, Hemingway is one of the most widely read, and widely written about American authors. His distinct style and profound influence are indisputable; his larger-than-life persona is still the stuff of heated debate. As well known in his lifetime as any movie star, Hemingway was a dashing international figure who challenged the notion that writers exist in an ivory tower. There were the battles, the bull fights, the big game, the booze—and he channeled these experiences into stark prose, creating a new form of expression, describing action and emotion in simple, authentic terms. An enormous critical success, his major works—The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls—are still in print, some in as many as twenty languages. The recent excitement over Cuba's release of their Hemingway collection is unmatched in modern literature. It is the literature, it is the written word and the art of Hemingway's story telling that forms the heart and the freshness of this film, the point of departure from which Hemingway's life and work are uniquely explored.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Educational Broadcasting Corp., New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 2005
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Susan Lacy
PRODUCERS: DeWitt Sage, Catherine Collins, Allyson Luchak, Jenny Carchman
DIRECTOR/WRITER: DeWitt Sage
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Pierre Aim, Dyanna Taylor
EDITOR: Deborah Peretz
NARRATORS: Kate Burton, James Naughton

PRINT MATERIALS: Press materials through www.thirteen.org/pressroom

FORMAT: Video 90:00 mins
DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

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Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film

Documentary

This film tells the story of the life and work of America's only Nobel Prize-winning playwright, set within the context of the harrowing family relationships that shaped him and that he in turn sought to reflect and give form to in his writing. More than a biography of the greatest literary genius the American theater has produced, the film is a meditation on the costs and consequences of artistic creation and a poetic exploration of the dramatic masterpieces O'Neill wrenched from himself only at the very end of his career—brought to life in passages performed especially for the production by Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Zoe Caldwell, Liam Neeson, Robert Sean Leonard and Vanessa Redgrave. It also features penetrating on-camera reflections from a distinguished roster of directors, playwrights, artists, actors and scholars, including Jason Robards, Robert Brustein, Tony Kushner, John Guare, Arthur Gelb, Barbara Gelb, Sidney Lumet, Lloyd Richards, Edward Shaughnessy, and Robert Whitehead.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Steeplechase Films, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 2005
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Ric Burns, Donald Rosenfeld, Mark Samels
PRODUCERS: Marlyn Ness, Steve Rivo, Robin Espinola, Mary Recine
DIRECTOR: Ric Burns
WRITERS: Arthur Gelb, Barbara Gelb, Ric Burns
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Buddy Squires, Peter Nelson, Allen Moore
EDITOR: Li-Shin Yu
HOST: Christopher Plummer
CAST: Al Pacino, Zoe Caldwell, Christopher Plummer, Robert Sean Leonard, Callie Thome, Vanessa Redgrave, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, and Jason Robards

PRINT MATERIALS: American Experience, WGBH

FORMAT: Video 120 minutes
DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

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Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts

Drama and Documentary

Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts is a two-part exploration of the life and work of Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-1953) that blends segments of his plays with archival footage, photographs, and interviews.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WNET/13, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1985
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Susan Lacy, Jac Venza
PRODUCERS: Perry Miller Adato, Megan Callaway
DIRECTOR: Perry Miller Adato
WRITER: Paul Shyre
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robert Baldwin
EDITOR: Jason Rosenfield
CAST: Jeffrey DeMunn as the voice of O'Neill, Zoe Caldwell, Colleen Dewhurst, Frances Conroy, Frank Converse, Paul Coombe, Blythe Danner, Joel Fabiani, Bette Henritze, Tom Hulce, Tony Lobianco, James Naughton, Jason Robards, Mario Van Peebles

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Directors Guild of America, Top Prize in Television Documentary/Actuality Category; International Film and Television Festival of New York, Silver Award

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (150:00)
Part 1 (60:00), Part 2 (90:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable

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Eugene O'Neill: Journey Into Genius

Drama

Eugene O'Neill: Journey Into Genius dramatizes the early years of O'Neill's life, from his expulsion from Princeton at the age of eighteen to his first triumph as a dramatist in his early thirties.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Lumiere Productions, Inc., New York, NY, and Connecticut Public Television
YEAR PRODUCED: 1987 (first broadcast on American Playhouse)
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Calvin Skaggs
ADAPTATION: Lanie Robertson
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Frank Prinzi
EDITOR: Sonia Polansky
COPRODUCER: Terry Benes
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Stephanie Keys
CAST: Matthew Modine, Dylan Baker, Kate Burton, Jeffrey DeMunn, Chris Cooper, Jane Kaczmarek

FORMAT: Video (55:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Caridi Entertainment

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The Eugene O'Neill Radio Project

Radio Series (Drama and Documentary)

This series features several radio adaptations, with commentary, of works by American playwright Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953), as well as a documentary on famed O'Neill director Jose Quintero.

Program 1
S.S. Glencairn: Four Plays of the Sea(1916-1919)
describe life on a tramp freighter and reflect O'Neill's experiences as a seaman.

1: The Moon of the Caribbees

The S.S. Glencairn, anchored off a Caribbean Island, is visited and troubled by chants, women, and whisky from the shore. (29:24)

2: Bound East for Cardiff

The dying Yank and Driscoll confess to each other the unexpressed dream that has lain at the heart of their friendship. (30:00)

3. In the Zone

In a zone of war the enemy may already be aboard in the form of a "little black box" which Smitty hides under his mattress. (32:00)

4. The Long Voyage Home

Home is a longing never to be realized by those who have given themselves to the sea. (29:30)

DIRECTOR: Jose Quintero
PRODUCER: Erik Bauersfeld
SOUND DESIGN: Randy Thom
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CONSULTANT: Travis Bogard
CAST: Mike Genovese, Shay Duffin, Gisli Bjorgvinsson, Tim Choate, Ian Abercrombie, Jim Piddock, James Scally, Larry Drake, Christopher Grove, Antonie Becker, Erik Holland, and others

Program 2
Jose Quintero Directs O'Neill
is a documentary on the foremost director of O'Neill work, focusing on his method of direction and staging, rehearsal comments by the director and cast members, and aural excerpts from completed productions.

Part 1 emphasizes Quintero's style of direction with examples from rehearsals of each of the Glencairn plays.

Part 2 concentrates on the theme and continuity of one play, In the Zone (30:00).

PRODUCER: Erik Bauersfeld
TECHNICAL PRODUCTION: Jim McKee

Program 3
The Hairy Ape (1922)
O'Neill's Expressionist drama portrays the story of Yank, a fireman in the stokehole of a giant ocean liner. Branded "a beast" because of his size and appearance, Yank searches with disastrous results for a place to belong. (93:36)

DIRECTOR: Jose Quintero
PRODUCER: Erik Bauersfeld
SOUND DESIGN: Randy Thom
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CONSULTANT: Travis Bogard
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE: Jim McKee
PRODUCTION: Sprocket Systems/Lucasfilm
CAST: George Dzundza as Yank, Eric Christmas as Paddy, Christopher Grove as Long, Deborah May as Mildred, Mercedes Shirley as Aunt

Program 4
The Emperor Jones (1920)
A former Pullman porter, Jones has risen to Emperor of a Caribbean island, convincing his subjects that he has supernatural powers and that only a silver bullet can destroy him. And it does, to the sound of drums and the island's magic. (88:00)

DIRECTOR: Jose Quintero
PRODUCER: Erik Bauersfeld
SOUND DESIGN: Randy Thom
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CONSULTANT: Travis Bogard
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE: Jim McKee
PRODUCTION: Skywalker Sound, Lucasfilm
CAST: Joe Morton as Brutis Jones, Richard Riehle as Smithers

Program 5
Hughie (1958)
Erie, a small-time gambler, who has lost his luck and self-confidence with the death of Hughie, the night clerk of a small side street hotel, tries to convert the new night clerk into believing his pipe dreams about himself. (57:00)

DIRECTOR: Jose Quintero
PRODUCER: Erik Bauersfeld
SOUND DESIGN: Randy Thom
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CONSULTANT: Travis Bogard
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE: Jim McKee
PRODUCTION: Skywalker Sound, Lucasfilm
CAST: Jason Robards as Erie, Jack Dodson as Night Clerk

Program 6
Lazarus Laughed (1926)
Subtitled "a play for an imaginary theater" and originally requiring a minimum of 166 actors, O'Neill's work is an apocalyptic journey in which he has created a Lazarus, risen from the dead by Jesus, who returns with a message about death which confounds everyone, and a laughter which transforms all who hear it. (111:88)

PRODUCER: Erik Bauersfeld
DIRECTOR: Edward Hastings
MUSIC: Lou Harrison
SOUND DESIGN: Jim McKee
CHORUS DIRECTOR: Barney Jones
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CONSULTANT: Travis Bogard
STUDIOS: Earwax in San Francisco, Skywalker Sound, Lucasfilm, Nicasio Sony Studios
CAST: (Principals) Robert Foxworth as Lazarus, Barbara Bain as Miriam, Rene Auberjonois as Caligula, Sydney Walker as Tiberius, Fredi Olster as Pompeia, Ray Reinhardt as Crassus, William Patterson as Father, Will Marchetti as Priest

SERIES PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Bay Area Radio Drama (BARD), San Francisco, CA
YEARS PRODUCED: 1988-1995
SERIES PRODUCER: Erik Bauersfeld

FORMAT: Audiocassette (see various lengths above)

SERIES DISTRIBUTOR: contact Bay Area Radio Drama (BARD)

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Faces, Mirrors, Masks: Twentieth-Century Latin American Fiction

Radio Series (Documentary and Drama)

This series depicts the world and imagination of thirteen of Latin America's most esteemed twentieth-century authors.

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Solitude of Latin America
• Jorge Luis Borges: The Laughter of the Universe
• Jose Maria Arguedas: The Death of a Dancer
• Guillermo Cabrera Infante: Memories of an Invented City
• Miguel Angel Asturias: The President and Other Myths
• Jorge Amado: The Ballad of Bahia
• Carlos Fuentes: Beneath the Mask
• Luis Rafael Sanchez: Life as a Phenomenal Thing
• Clarice Lispector: The Poetry of Silence
• Juan Carlos Onetti: The Atmosphere of a Brief Life
• Alejo Carpentier: The Marvel of the Real
• Juan Rulfo: A Kind of Silence
• Elena Poniatowska: The Voice of the Powerless

Program 1
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Solitude of Latin America
features dramatic readings as well as interviews recorded in the author's hometown of Aracataca, Colombia.

PRODUCERS: Keith Talbot, Lois Fishman

Program 2
Jorge Luis Borges: The Laughter of the Universe
looks at the author's Argentine childhood and the influence of his father's library.

PRODUCER: Robert Montiegel

Program 3
Jose Maria Arguedas: The Death of a Dancer
examines Arguedas' divided allegiance between the Peru of the Quechua-speaking Indians and the Peru of the Spaniards.

PRODUCERS: Jay Allison, Katie Davis

Program 4
Guillermo Cabrera Infante: Memories of an Invented City
reveals the author's musical and cinematic influences and how these put him at odds with the leaders of the Cuban revolution, who were more interested in social realism.

PRODUCERS: The Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson)

Program 5
Miguel Angel Asturias: The President and Other Myths
considers the late Guatemalan writer's uneasy political relationship with his country's dictators.

PRODUCERS: Tom Lopez, Marcelo Montealegre

Program 6
Jorge Amado: The Ballad of Bahia
features Amado and his close friend, singer Harry Belafonte, discussing the writer's personal attachment to the people of Bahia, who are the subjects of his work.

PRODUCERS: Robert Malesky, Alfredo Cruz

Program 7
Carlos Fuentes: Beneath the Mask
considers the Mexican diplomat/writer's work and the role of the novelist as historian.

PRODUCERS: Robert Malesky, Alfredo Cruz

Program 8
Luis Rafael Sanchez: Life as a Phenomenal Thing
uncovers this Puerto Rican writer's celebration of the popular culture and forms of speech that flourish in San Juan.

PRODUCERS: Ignacio Acosta, Julio Marzan

Program 9
Clarice Lispector: The Poetry of Silence
features actress Colleen Dewhurst's portrayal of the writer who revolutionized Brazilian fiction by combining a unique poetic style and a deeply introspective philosophy.

PRODUCER: Frieda Werden

Program 10
Juan Carlos Onetti: The Atmosphere of a Brief Life
reviews the work of the writer, often called the "Faulkner of Uruguay," whose imaginary town of Santa Maria is inhabited by sinister and decadent characters.

PRODUCERS: Larry Massett, Jose McMurray

Program 11
Alejo Carpentier: The Marvel of the Real
features the late Cuban novelist's vision of the Americas as a land where Indian, African, and European mythologies merge.

PRODUCERS: Tom Lopez, Elizabeth Perez-Luna

Program 12
Juan Rulfo: A Kind of Silence
introduces the shy, mysterious author whose only two books changed Mexican writing.

PRODUCERS: Keith Talbot, Lois Fishman

Program 13
Elena Poniatowska: The Voice of the Powerless
shows how the popular Mexican author and journalist chronicles the heretofore ignored lives of her country's oppressed.

PRODUCER: Freida Werden

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: National Public Radio, Washington, DC
YEAR PRODUCED: 1984
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Frank Tavares
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Jo Ellyn Rackleff
SERIES PRODUCER: Frieda Werden
CAST: Hector Elizondo (Programs 3, 12); Colleen Dewhurst (9); RichardBauer (10); Edward James Olmos, Meredith Monk, Charles Ludlam, Lupe Ontiveros (12); and others

FORMAT: Audiocassette
13 (30:00) programs
Potentially offensive language in programs 1,4,13

DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable

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Fear and the Muse: The Story of Anna Akhmatova

Documentary

This program chronicles the life and times of one of the U.S.S.R.'s most celebrated cultural figures, the poet Anna Akhmatova (1899-1966), who served as the poetic "conscience of Russia" during the years of Stalinist repression.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: New York Center for Visual History, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1990
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Jill Janows
COPRODUCER: Molly Ornati
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Richard P. Rogers
EDITOR: Jon Neuburger
NARRATOR: Christopher Reeve
CAST: Claire Bloom as the voice of Anna Akhmatova

AWARDS: American Educational Film and Video Festival, Blue Ribbon; Chicago International Film Festival, Silver Plaque

FORMAT: Video (58:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Mystic Fire Video

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F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams

Documentary

Using the evocative lyricism of this very autobiographical writer, a tale of his life is told that breaks beyond 1920s caricature and Jazz Age stereotype. Original cinematic recreations of the texts—The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, Tender Is The Night, The Last Tycoon—are illuminated by insights from people who knew Fitzgerald and have never before been interviewed. From St. Paul, Minnesota, to the tip of Long Island to Paris, we are transported on F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's uniquely American journey and enveloped in their deeply emotional commentary.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: American Masters/WNET, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 2000
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Susan Lacy
PRODUCERS: Catherine Brown Collins, DeWitt Sage
DIRECTOR/WRITER: DeWitt Sage
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Dyanna Taylor
EDITOR: Kenneth Levis
VOICES: Campbell Scott, Amy Irving, Laura Linney, William Sadler

PRINT MATERIALS: Contact Matthew Baumoel at 212/560-3118.

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: 2001 Peabody Award; Gold Special Jury Award-Worldfest Houston 2002

FORMAT: Video (90:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Wellspring

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

Drama

Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin (1924-1987), this drama tells the story of John Grimes, a young black teenager who struggles to rid himself of a past that has left his family emotionally crippled.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Learning in Focus, Inc., New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1984
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Robert Geller
PRODUCER: Calvin Skaggs
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: Sue Jett, Tony Mark
DIRECTOR: Stan Lathan
ADAPTATION: Gus Edwards, Leslie Lee
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Hiro Narita
EDITOR: Jay Freund
CAST: Paul Winfield, Rosalind Cash, James Bond III, Olivia Cole

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: American Film and Video Festival, Blue Ribbon; San Francisco International Film Festival, Golden Gate Award, Best Television Feature of the Year; FILMEX (Los Angeles); Telluride International Film Festival; CINE Golden Eagle; New York Times, Best American Television Film of the Year; Time magazine, one of "Ten Best of 1985"; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a MacArthur Video Classics Library selection; Berlin Film Festival; New Delhi Film Festival; London Film Festival

FORMAT: 16mm (97:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Monterey Movie Company

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Hard Times

Drama

An adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens, this four-part series centers on two men caught up in a utilitarian philosophy of hard work and hard facts, with no time for imagination or human warmth.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: WNET/13, New York, NY, in co-production with Granada Television/U.K.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1977 (first broadcast on Great Performances)
PROJECT DIRECTOR FOR WNET: Robert B. Kotlowitz
PRODUCER: Peter Eckesley
PRODUCERS FOR GREAT PERFORMANCES: Ronald F. Maxwell, Jac Venza
DIRECTOR: John Irvin
ADAPTATION: Arthur Hopcraft
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ray Goode, Andy Stephens
EDITOR: Anthony Ham
CAST: Patrick Allen, Timothy West, Alan Dobie, Jacqueline Tong, Michelle Dibnah, Rosalie Crutchley, Barbara Ewing, Ursula Howells, Richard Wren
POSTSCRIPTS: Lord Asa Briggs, Worcester College, Oxford; and Professor George Ford, University of Rochester

FORMAT: 16mm, Video
4 (60:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable

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Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise

Documentary

This film tracks the personal and intellectual experiences that influenced such works as Moby Dick and Billy Budd.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The Film Company, Washington, DC
YEAR PRODUCED: 1985
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Robert D. Squier
PRODUCERS: Robert D. Squier, Karen Thomas
WRITERS: George Wolfe, Robert D. Squier, Patricia Ward, Carter Eskew
NARRATOR: John Huston
CAST: F. Murray Abraham as Herman Melville

AWARD: Chicago International Film Festival, Gold Plaque

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (90:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Pyramid Film and Video

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The Hollow Boy

Drama

An adaptation of a short story by Hortense Calisher, The Hollow Boy tells of the friendship between two young men whose families live in apartments that face each other across a courtyard in New York City in 1936. (See also Love and Other Sorrows, Pigeon Feathers, and The Revolt of Mother .)

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Learning in Focus, Larchmont, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1990 (first broadcast on American Playhouse)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Robert Geller, Brian Benlifer
PRODUCER: David Kappes
WRITER: Jay Neugeboren
CINEMATOGRAPHY Declan Quinn
EDITOR: Sandra Adair
CAST: Alexis Arquette, Marty Finkelstein, Jerry Stiller, Kathleen Widdoes

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (54:46)

DISTRIBUTOR: Coronet/MTI Film and Video, Inc.

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The Human Language

Documentary Series

This series explores the nature of language and how it works—from language structure, meaning, and evolution to recent developments in the field of linguistics, particularly the "Chomskyan Revolution." The programs feature a wide range of linguists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, authors, comedians, and others.

Program 1
Colorless Green Ideas
deals with words, sentences, syntax, and Universal Grammar, the system claimed by many linguists to be common to all the world's languages.

Program 2
Playing the Language Game
examines the way children "acquire" language, presenting the innateness theory versus the imitation theory.

Program 3
With and Without Words
traces theories about how and why the human species evolved the capacity to talk to one another and how language is a mixed system of verbal communication, body language, hand gestures, and facial expressions.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Ways of Knowing, Inc./Equinox Films, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1994
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Gene Searchinger
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Gene Searchinger
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gene Searchinger, John Hazard, Michael Male
EDITORS: Sara Fishko, Sharon Sachs, Tom Haneke, Jeffrey Stern
FEATURING: George A. Miller, Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, Deborah Tannen, Dan Slobin, Jerry Fodor, Lila Gleitman, Ursula Bellugi, Stephen Jay Gould, Jill DeVilliers, Frederick Newmeyer, Judy Kegl, George Carlin, Sid Caeser, Russell Baker, and others

SCREENINGS: Linguistic Society of America; American Psychological Association; Modern Language Association; Northeast Linguistics Society; Boston University Conference on Language Development; American Association of Applied Linguistics

FORMAT: Video, 3 (56:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: Equinox Films, Inc.

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Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer

Documentary and Drama

This program explores aspects of the life and work of Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), combining documentary footage with dramatized scenes from A Day in Coney Island which describe the author's first impressions of America. (See also The Cafeteria .)

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Amram Nowak Associates, Inc.; and the Isaac in America Foundation, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1985 (first broadcast on American Masters)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Manya Starr
PRODUCER: Kirk Simon
DIRECTOR: Amram Nowak
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jerry Pantzer with Greg Andracke, Brian Kellman, David Lerner, Kirk Simon, Burleigh Wartes
EDITOR: Riva Friefield
STORY NARRATED BY: Judd Hirsch

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Academy Award nominee, Best Documentary Feature; American Film and Video Festival, Finalist; National Educational Film and Video Festival, Gold Apple; New York Film Festival; CINE Golden Eagle; San Francisco Film Festival, Golden Gate Award; Denver Film Festival; Sundance Film Festival; Moscow Jewish Film Festival; Berlin Film Festival; San Francisco Jewish Film Festival; Nyon (Switzerland) Film Festival, Sestere d'Argent (Second Grand Prize); U.S.A. (Dallas) Film Festival

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (58:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Direct Cinema Limited

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James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

Documentary

This film examines the life and work of the American writer and civil rights activist, James Baldwin (1924-1987).

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Nobody Knows Productions in association with Maysles Films, Inc., WNET/New York, and American Masters
YEAR PRODUCED: 1989 (first broadcast on American Masters)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Albert Maysles, Susan Lacy
PRODUCERS: Karen Thorsen, William Miles
COPRODUCER: Douglas K. Dempsey
DIRECTOR: Karen Thorsen
WRITERS: Karen Thorsen, Douglas K. Dempsey
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: Joy Birdsong, Joe Wood
CINEMATOGRAPHY: David Lenzer
EDITORS: Steve Olswang, Sandra Guthrie

AWARDS: 17 awards including The Academy of Motion Pictures, Top Ten Documentary; The National Educational Film and Video Festival, Gold Apple; CINE Golden Eagle; Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy, Premiodi Ricerca; Chicago International Film Festival, Silver Hugo; Nyon (Switzerland) Documentary Film Festival, Silver Sesterce; American Filmand Video Festival, Red Ribbon; Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Award; Atlanta Film Festival, Special Jury Award; Sydney (Australia) Film Festival, Audience Approval Award; Sinking Creek Film and Video Festival, Sinking Creek Award; North Carolina Film Festival, Documentary Award; International Film and Television Festival (New York), Finalist; Banff International Television Festival (Alberta, Canada), Finalist; Sundance Film Festival, Special Tribute; Sundance in Tokyo Film Festival, Special Tribute, one of the "Ten Best American Independent Films" from the past two years; Istanbul (Turkey) International Film Festival, Special Tribute

FESTIVALS: Over 50 film festivals worldwide including the Margaret Mead Film Festival; Virginia Festival of American Film; INPUT Conference; London International Film Festival, Cinema du Reel, Paris; International Filmfestspiele, Berlin, West Germany; Weekly Mail Film Festival, Johannesburg, South Africa; International Documentary Film Festival, Vienna, Prague, and Budapest

FORMAT: Video (87:00)

DISTRIBUTORS: California Newsreel

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Joseph Brodsky: A Maddening Space

Documentary

In this profile of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, the artist and others speak about his work, his life in the Soviet Union, and his experience as an exile.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: New York Center for Visual History, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1988
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Lawrence Pitkethly
PRODUCER: Sasha Alpert
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Yuri Neyman
EDITOR: Richard Smigielski
NARRATOR: Jason Robards

FORMAT: Video (58:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Mystic Fire Video

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Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening

Documentary

The production revisits the life and work of renowned nineteenth-century author Kate Chopin. She is best known for her novel The Awakening, a story of a woman’s personal self-realization that shocked the Victorian establishment. The documentary presents key biographical details set against events of the times, and emphasizes influences that prompted Chopin’s interest in societal and cultural expectations and their impact on women. Selections from her fiction are interwoven at appropriate points.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Louisiana Public Broadcasting, Baton Rouge, LA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1998
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Clay Fourrier
PRODUCERS: Tika Laudun, Lucille McDonell
DIRECTOR: Tika Laudun
WRITER: Anna Reid Jhirad
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Rex Forten Berry
EDITOR: Randy Ward
NARRATORS: Kelly McGillis, JoBeth Williams

FORMAT: Video (30:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Louisiana Public Broadcasting

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Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of Memory

Documentary and Drama

Featuring a full dramatization of her short story, The Grave, and excerpts from The Witness and The Circus, this program shows the central Texas milieu that shaped Porter's writing.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: KERA-TV, Dallas, TX
YEAR PRODUCED: 1986 (first broadcast on American Masters)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Patricia P. Perini
PRODUCER: Calvin Skaggs
DIRECTOR: Ken Harrison
WRITERS: Jordan Pecile, Ken Harrison
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Bert Guthrie
EDITOR: Jay Freund
CAST: Dina Chandel, Paul Winfield, Bill Irwin, Yankton Hatten
COMMENTARY: Eudora Welty, Robert Penn Warren, Eleanor Clark, Peter Taylor, Joan Givner, Paul Porter

FORMAT: Video (58:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Films for the Humanities and Sciences

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Love and Other Sorrows

Drama

This adaptation of Harold Brodkey's short story First Love and Other Sorrows looks at the effect of courtship on an American family in 1950. (See also The Hollow Boy, Pigeon Feathers , and The Revolt of Mother .)

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Learning in Focus, Inc., New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1987 (first broadcast on American Playhouse)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Robert Geller
PRODUCER: Brian Benlifer
DIRECTOR: Steven Gomer
ADAPTATION: Dick Goldberg
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Edwin Lynch
EDITOR: Pam Wise
CAST: Elizabeth Franz, Stephen Mailer, Haviland Morris, Christopher Collet, Sheila Ball, Tim Ransom, Spencer Garrett

AWARD: Houston International Film Festival, Gold Award

FORMAT: Video (56:09)

DISTRIBUTOR: Coronet/MTI Film and Video, Inc.

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Madame Bovary

Dramatic Radio Series

Madame Bovary is a thirteen-part radio dramatization of the novel by Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), a chronicle of the rise and fall of Emma Bovary, the Norman bourgeoise whose dreams of romantic love remain unfulfilled.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Globe Radio Repertory, Seattle, WA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1988
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: John P. Siscoe, Jean R. Sherrard
DIRECTOR: Jean R. Sherrard
WRITERS: John P. Siscoe, Jean R. Sherrard
SOUND DESIGN/EDITOR: Jerry Thompson
NARRATOR: Glenn Mazen
TRANSLATION: Francis Steegmuller
CAST: Mary Ann Owen, Bill Terkuile, Ted D'Arms Frank Corrado, Dan Renner, John Aylward, John Gilbert, Karen Cody, Michael MacRae, Michael Santo, Marjorie Nelson
COMMENTARY: Roger Shattuck, Boston University

FORMAT: Audiocassette
13 (30:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable.

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The Mahabharata

Dramatic Series

Based on a Sanskrit poem written more than two thousand years ago, The Mahabharata is a three-part dramatization of a feud of royal succession fought in northern India during the first millennium B.C. One of India's two major epics, it combines military and spiritual conflicts to instruct on dharma, the moral order in the universe, and includes the Bhagavad Gita, a mystical dialogue between a warrior and the god Krishna. Peter Brook, who first brought the epic to the West in a nine-hour stage version, provides the introductions.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, in association with Les Productions du 3eme Etage, Le Centre National du Cinema, Paris, France, Channel 4/U.K., and Reiner Moritz Associates, Ltd.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1988 (originally presented as a six-hour miniseries on Great Performances)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Michael Birkett, Michael Kustow, Harvey Lichtenstein
PRODUCER: Michel Propper
COPRODUCERS: Ed Myerson, Rachel Tabori, Micheline Rozan
DIRECTOR/HOST: Peter Brook
WRITERS: Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carriere, Marie-Helene Estienne
CINEMATOGRAPHY: William Lubtchansky
EDITOR: Nicolas Gaster
MUSIC: Toshi Tsuchitori
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Chloe Obolinsky
CAST: Georges Corraface, Mamadou Dioume, Urs Bihler, Ryszard Cieslak, Sotigui Kouyate, Tuncel Kurtiz, Miriam Goldschmidt, Jeffrey Kissoon, Robert Langdon Lloyd, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Bruce Myers, Yoshi Oida, Helene Patarot, Mallika Sarabhai, Andrzej Seweryn
INTRODUCTIONS: Peter Brook

FESTIVAL: Venice Film Festival

PRINT MATERIAL: 24-page booklet comes with the video set

FORMAT: Video (360:00)
3 (120:00) programs
Theatrical film (180:00) also available

DISTRIBUTORS:

Parabola Video

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Marcel Proust: A Writer's Life

Documentary

This film examines the life and work of one of France's most celebrated writers, including his struggle to create the 3,000-page masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past, and his treatment of the nature of time and memory, sex and society, and the creative process itself. (Proust, 1871-1922)

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Wolfe-Carter Productions, Inc., Birmingham, AL
YEAR PRODUCED: 1992
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Paul Wagner
PRODUCERS: William C. Carter, George Wolfe, Sarah Patton, Sarah Mondale
DIRECTOR: Sarah Mondale
WRITER: Terence Monmaney
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jean-Claude Larrieu, Dominique Gentil, Allen Moore
EDITOR: Marian Hunter
NARRATOR: Kate Nelligan
INTERVIEWS: Dame Iris Murdoch, Shelby Foote, Roger Shattuck, and others

AWARDS/SCREENINGS (selected): American Film and Video Festival, Red Ribbon; National Educational Film and Video Festival, Gold Apple; Houston International Film Festival, Finalist, Gold Medal; CINE Golden Eagle; Cindi Silver Award; Baltimore (MD) Film Forum, Honorable Mention; International Documentary Film Festival (L.A.); Breckenridge Film Festival, Colorado; American Film Institute Washington, DC; The French Embassy, Washington, DC; German Cultural Television; French Institute/Alliance Française, NYC; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; University of Rome; broadcast on German, Austrian, Swiss, Australian, and Japanese television

FORMAT: Video (60:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Direct Cinema Limited

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Mark Twain: Beneath the Laughter

Drama

In this program, Samuel Clemens (1835-1910), known as Mark Twain, reviews his life as if he were writing a story: the young Sam joins and then deserts the Confederate army, becomes a newspaper reporter, and learns to pilot a Mississippi riverboat.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Foundation for American Letters and Media, Los Angeles, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1979
PRODUCER: Marsha Jeffer
DIRECTOR: Larry Yust
WRITERS: Gill Dennis, Larry Yust
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Howard Wexler
CAST: Dan O'Herlihy, Lynn Seibel, Kay Howell

AWARDS: CINE Golden Eagle; American Film Festival, Honorable Mention

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (58:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Pyramid Film and Video

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The Mark Twain Series

Dramatic Series

The series presents dramatizations of several works by Mark Twain.

Program 1
Life on the Mississippi
grew out of Twain's experiences when, as a young man, he fulfilled his boyhood ambition to become a river-boat pilot.

YEAR PRODUCED: 1980 (first broadcast on Great Performances)
DIRECTOR: Peter H. Hunt
ADAPTATION: Philip Reisman, Jr.
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Walter Lassally
EDITOR: Cynthia Schneider
MUSIC: William Perry
HOST: Kurt Vonnegut
CAST: Robert Lansing, David Knell, James Keane, Donald Madden, John Pankow, Jack Lawrence, Stanley Reyes, Marcy Walker

AWARDS: CINE Golden Eagle; International Film and TV Festival of New York, Silver Medal; Prix d'Italia, Silver Award; American Cinema Editors (ACE), Eddie Award; TV Guide, Top Ten Films of the Year

FORMAT: Video (120:00) Public Media Inc.

Program 2
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
concerns a group of fifteen boys from Hannibal, Missouri, who face the reality of the war. Twain's later anti-war essay, "The War Prayer," has been dramatized as an epilogue to the production.

YEAR PRODUCED: 1981 (first broadcast on Great Performances)
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Peter H. Hunt
ADAPTATION: Philip Reisman, Jr.
DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH: Laurie Zwicky
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Walter Lassally
EDITOR: Herbert H. Dow
MUSIC: William Perry
CAST: Pat Hingle, Edward Herrmann, Joe Adams, Garry McCleery, Henry Crosby, Kelly Peese

AWARDS: George Foster Peabody Award; CINE Golden Eagle; TV Guide, Top Ten Films of the Year

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (90:00)

Program 3
The Mysterious Stranger
is set in a medieval Austrian town and involves the arrival of a supernatural being, Number 44, at the town's printing shop.

YEAR PRODUCED: 1982 (first broadcast on Great Performances)
DIRECTOR: Peter H. Hunt
ADAPTATION: Julian Mitchell
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Walter Lassally
MUSIC: William Perry
CAST: Lance Kerwin, Chris Makepeace, Fred Gwynne, Bernhard Wicki

FORMAT: Video (90:00)

AWARDS: CINE Golden Eagle; Association of Visual Communicators (formerly IFPA), Silver Cindy Award; American Film Festival, Special Screening

Program 4
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
tells how Roxy, a light-skinned young slave of the 1830s, fears separation from her newborn son and switches him with her white master's child.

YEAR PRODUCED: 1983 (first broadcast on American Playhouse)
PRODUCER: Jane Iredale
DIRECTOR: Alan Bridges
ADAPTATION: Philip Reisman, Jr.
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Walter Lassally
MUSIC: William Perry
CAST: Ken Howard, Lise Hilboldt, Steven Weber, Tom Aldredge

FORMAT: 35mm, Video (90:00)

AWARDS: CINE Golden Eagle; National Educational Film and Video Festival, Special Screening and Bronze Apple

Program 5
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
traces Huck's development from a trusting follower of Tom Sawyer to an independent-minded individual who is willing to risk eternal damnation rather than betray the black man he has come to understand and love.

YEAR PRODUCED: 1985 (first broadcast on American Playhouse)
PRODUCER: Jane Iredale
DIRECTOR: Peter H. Hunt
ADAPTATION: Guy Gallo
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Walter Lassally
EDITOR: Jerrold L. Ludwig
CAST: Jim Dale, Frederic Forrest, Lillian Gish, Barnard Hughes, Richard Kiley, Butterfly McQueen, Geraldine Page, Sada Thompson, Samm-Art Williams, Patrick Day
MUSIC: William Perry

FORMAT: Video (240:00)
4 (60:00) programs

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: American Film Institute, Special Screening

SERIES PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: The Great Amwell Company, New York, NY; Nebraskans for Public Television, Inc.; and Taurus Film, Germany
YEARS PRODUCED: 1980-1985
SERIES EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: William Perry
SERIES PRODUCER: Marshall Jamison

FORMAT: see individual listings

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The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe

Documentary and Drama

This program examines the life and work of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), mixing dramatization of his stories with new footage, still photographs, and interviews.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Film Odyssey, Inc., Washington, D.C.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1991
PRODUCER: Karen Thomas
DIRECTOR OF DRAMATIC SEQUENCES: Joyce Chopra
WRITERS: Karen Thomas, Daniel Blake Smith
CINEMATOGRAPHY: James Glennon, Dyanna Taylor, Erich Roland, Foster Wiley
EDITOR OF DRAMATIC SEQUENCES: Joe Gutowski CAST: Treat Williams, John Heard, Rene Auberjonois
INTERVIEWS: Joyce Carol Oates, Ira Levin, Philip Glass, and others

FORMAT: Video (58:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

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Nabokov on Kafka

Drama

Adapted from Vladimir Nabokov's lectures on literature, which were delivered to undergraduates at Wellesley and Cornell between 1940 and 1948, this program features his account of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosi.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Metropolitan Pittsburgh Public Broadcasting, Inc. (WQED),
Pittsburgh, PA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1986
EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATOR: Danforth Fales
PRODUCER/WRITER: James Fleming
DIRECTORS: Gilbert Cates, Paul Bogart
CAST: Christopher Plummer

FORMAT: Video (28:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Monterey Movie Company (home video)

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The O/Aural Tradition: Beowulf

Radio Drama and Documentary

These two dramatic radio programs are based on the medieval epic poem, Beowulf, with readings from both the original Old English text and the modern translation by Burton Raffel. Each program includes short segments featuring interviews with scholars about the poem and related issues.

Part 1
Beowulf and the Grendel Kind
recounts the hero Beowulf's early battles with the monster Grendel and its mother.

Part 2
Beowulf and the Dragon
relates the later adventures of the old Beowulf and his final battle against a dragon, with flashbacks to his youthful exploits.

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Charles B. Potter
YEAR PRODUCED: 1978
ADAPTATION: Robert P. Creed
MUSIC: Mary Remnant
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: David Rapkin
NARRATOR: Earl Hammond
PERFORMERS: Robert P. Creed, readings; Mary Remnant, music
COMMENTARIES: John M. Foley, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Donald K. Fry, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; Mary Remnant, Royal College of Music, London, England; Bruce A. Rosenberg, Brown University, Providence, RI

AWARD: CPB Award, Best Public Radio Local Program and Best Drama

FORMAT: Audiocassette
2 (59:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: contact Charles B. Potter

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The Odyssey of Homer

Radio Series (Drama and Documentary)

This eight-part series dramatizes Homer's epic about the Greek hero Odysseus (Ulysses), King of Ithaca, who is lost at sea and given up for dead after the Trojan War. For twenty years he struggles to return home, as his wife, Penelope, wards off aggressive suitors and his son, Telemachus, searches for him. Each program dramatizes a portion of the work and contains a documentary segment analyzing an aspect of ancient Greek civilization.

Program 1
The Suitors of Penelope
Odysseus' palace has been overrun by arrogant young nobles seeking Penelope's hand and humiliating Telemachus. Athena, Odysseus' patron, appeals to Telemachus to search for his father.

Richard Posner of the University of Chicago discusses law and government in Homeric times.

Program 2
The Voyage of Telemachus
In his journey, Telemachus meets Nestor, aged counselor of the Greeks at Troy, and Menelaus, king of Sparta, who reports on the possible whereabouts of Odysseus.

Charles Bye, visiting professor at the University of Athens, explores ancient Greek concepts of host, guest, and gifts.

Program 3
Free at Last
Odysseus has been shipwrecked and held prisoner since leaving Troy by the nymph Calypso. The gods persuade Calypso to release Odysseus, who then travels to the enchanted island of the Phaeacians.

Arthur Adkins and Wendy O'Flaherty of the University of Chicago and Gregory Nagy of Harvard University discuss how the ancient Greeks envisioned their gods and how they sought to gain their favor.

Program 4
The Great Wanderings
The Phaeacians implore Odysseus to tell them about his trials.

Wendy O'Flaherty of the University of Chicago examines the women, both earthly and divine, who Odysseus meets in his wanderings.

Program 5
Monsters of the Sea
Continuing his saga, Odysseus describes his interviews in the Land of the Dead and his subsequent adventures.

Arthur Adkins of the University of Chicago explores Homeric notions of happiness and fulfillment.

Program 6
The Swineherd's Hut
After describing the destruction of his crew and his own escape to Calypso's island, Odysseus returns to Ithaca, learns of the designs against his family, and with Telemachus plots the downfall of the suitors.

Arthur Adkins of the University of Chicago examines the hierarchical structure of ancient Greek society and the relationship between noble freeman and slaves.

Program 7
A Beggar's Homecoming
Disguised as a beggar, Odysseus returns to his palace where he is abused by the suitors and made to fight a much younger man.

Eric Hamp of the University of Chicago discusses Homeric concepts of morality.

Program 8
The Contest of the Bow
When none of the suitors has the strength to bend the bow, Odysseus seizes it, kills over 100 men, and at last reveals his identity to Penelope.

Albert B. Lord of Harvard University discusses elements of oral epic poetry and Homeric style.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: National Radio Theatre of Chicago, Chicago, IL
YEAR PRODUCED: 1981
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Yuri Rasovsky
DOCUMENTARY PRODUCER/WRITER: Kerry Frumkin
MUSIC: Eric Salzman
CAST: Irene Worth, Barry Morse, Shepperd Strudwick, John Glover
HOST/NARRATOR: Ed Asner

AWARD: George Foster Peabody Award

FORMAT: Audiocassette
8 (60:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable.

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The Odyssey of John Dos Passos

Documentary

This program chronicles the life and work of a major American writer, who, from his U.S.A. trilogy to the anti-war novel Three Soldiers, chronicled the first half of the twentieth century and helped effect social and cultural change. (Dos Passos, 1896-1970)

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Educational Film Center, Annandale, VA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1993
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Ira H. Klugerman, Ruth Pollak
PRODUCER: Stephen Talbot
WRITERS: Ruth Pollak, Stephen Talbot
EDITORS: Judith Sobol, Penny Trams
NARRATOR: Robert MacNeil
VOICE OF DOS PASSOS: William Hurt

INTERVIEWS: Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Daniel Aaron, William Buckley, Townsend Luddington, Virginia Carr, Elizabeth Dos Passos, and others

AWARD: CINE Golden Eagle

FORMAT: Video (60:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

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O. Henry's Jimmy Valentine

Drama

In 1899, William Sydney Porter, who wrote under the name of O. Henry, was sentenced to serve five years in the Ohio State Penitentiary for embezzling bank funds. This is a dramatization of his short story inspired by that experience.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Family Communications and Learning Corporation of America, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1985
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Fred Rogers, Frank Doelger
PRODUCER: Robert McDonald
DIRECTOR: Paul Saltzman
ADAPTATION: Paul Lally
CAST: Victor Ertmanis, Marc Strange, Gary Reinecke, Chris Wiggins, Gerard Parkes, Wendy Lyon

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Birmingham International Film Festival; Columbus (OH) International Film Festival; National Educational Film Festival, Selected Films for Young Adults (American Library Association)

PRINT MATERIAL: Teacher's Guide available

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (two versions, 55:00 and 30:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Coronet/MTI Film and Video, Inc.

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Peephole Art: Beckett for Television

Drama

This program contains three full-length performances of Samuel Beckett's work written or adapted especially for the screen - a medium Beckett called "peephole art" because "it allows the viewer to see what was never meant to be seen." Introduced by Irish actor Chris O'Neill, the featured works are: Not I, Quad I and II, and What Where. (See also Waiting for Beckett .)

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Global Village, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1993
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: John L. Reilly
ASSOCIATEPRODUCER: Melissa Shaw-Smith
WRITERS: Melissa Shaw-Smith

PRINT MATERIAL: Study Guide

FORMAT: Video (36:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Global Village

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Pigeon Feathers

Drama

Adapted from the short story by John Updike, this film follows the way a thoughtful teenager's realization of his own mortality causes him to question what he has been taught about God and the immortality of the soul. (See also The Hollow Boy, Love and Other Sorrows, and The Revolt of Mother .)

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Learning in Focus, Inc., Larchmont, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1987 (first broadcast on American Playhouse)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Robert Geller
PRODUCER: Brian Benlifer
DIRECTOR: Sharron Miller
ADAPTATION: Jan Hartman
CINGMATOGRAPHY: Hiro Narita
EDITOR: Rachel Igel
CAST: Christopher Collet, Lenka Peterson, Jeffrey DeMunn, Caroline McWilliams

AWARDS: CINE Golden Eagle; American Film and Video Festival, Finalist

FORMAT: Video (38:30)

DISTRIBUTORS:

Coronet/MTI Film and Video, Inc.

Monterey Movie Company (home video)

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Poets in Person

Radio Series (Interviews/Discussion/Readings)

This thirteen-part series presents and interprets the poetry of twelve contemporary American poets, from well-known authors to younger talents. Each program focuses on one poet and typically features readings of five or more poems.

Program 1
This introduction to Poets in Person traces the evolution and varieties of poetry since the 1950s, examining the trend toward finding poetry in ordinary American speech and personal experience.

Program 2
Allen Ginsberg discusses the Beat writers, the counter-culture of the 1960s, and the continuing influence of earlier poets.

Program 3
Karl Shapiro explains why he first attacked T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and the academic establishment, what he loves