| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Planet Group Entertainment in 2017. |
| Summary |
Filmmakers (and canyon residents) Alexander and Anne Christine Von Wetter filmed this documentary for German Television in the early 1970s as a revealing close-up of an extraordinary period in America. The camera masters and 16mm negative were consequently lost to a devastating fire. Luckily, a lone VHS copy had been made, which spent the next 30 years on the studio shelf. The VHS was found heavily damaged, but a restoration team managed to salvage a fair grade of quality, which has since been remastered. It is the story of a singular culture, told through interviews, musical celebrations, and theatrics from members of the magical ‘Theatricum Botanicum’, a natural amphitheater created in 1973 by popular actor and social activist Will Geer and his wife Herta Ware. To this day, their cultural open-air venue defines the artistic nature of Topanga. Herta is interviewed here, along with residents Dean Stockwell and Russ Tamblyn. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Subject |
History, Modern.
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Artists.
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Music.
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History.
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Americans.
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Documentary films.
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Arts.
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Social sciences.
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| Genre |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
VonWetter, Alexander, film director.
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Planet Group Entertainment (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
13564120 Kanopy |
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