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Paul Robeson:
Portraits of
the Artist

(1925-1979)

 

Contents: Body and Soul (1925), Borderline (1930), The Emperor Jones (1933), Sanders of the River (1935), Jericho (1937), The Proud Valley (1940), Native Land (1942) and Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979).

coverThe Criterion Collection
2007 DVD edition

Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist (1925-1979), black & white and color, 586 minutes total. not rated, including Body and Soul (1925), black & white, 79 minutes, not rated, Borderline (1930), black & white, 65 minutes, not rated, The Emperor Jones (1933), black & white, 105 minutes, not rated, Sanders of the River (1935), black & white, 91 minutes, not rated, Jericho (1937), black & white, 75 minutes, not rated, The Proud Valley (1940), black & white, 76 minutes, not rated, Native Land (1942), black & white, 89 minutes, not rated, and Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979), black & white and color, ? minutes, not rated.

The Criterion Collection, unknown catalog number (collection number 369),
unknown UPC number, unknown ISBN number.
Four single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, optional English language SDH subtitles; chapter stops; insert booklet; four plastic DVD trays in cardboard wraps in cardboard slipcase; $99.95.
Release date: 13 February 2007.
Country of origin: USA
This quality DVD collection contains a high-quality edition of Body and Soul (1925).

The silent films are accompanied by music scores by Wycliffe Gordon and Courtney Pine.

Supplemental material includes audio commentary by Pearl Bowser on Body and Soul; audio commentary by Jeffrey C. Stewart on The Emperor Jones; a 1958 Pacifica Radio interview with Paul Robeson; four programs featuring interviews with actors Ruby Dee and James Earl Jones, filmmaker William Greaves, cinematographer Tom Hurwitz, film historians Ian Christie and Stephen Bourne, and Paul Robeson Jr., and including film clips from Song of Freedom (1936), King Solomon's Mines (1937), and Big Fella (1938); and an insert booklet with an excerpt from Paul Robeson's Here I Stand; essays by Clement Alexander Price, Hilton Als, Charles Burnett, Ian Christie, Deborah Willis, and Charles Musser; a reprinted article by Harlem Renaissance writer Geraldyn Dismond; and a note from Pete Seeger.

 
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