The Internationale / a First Run Features presentation ; a film by Peter Miller ; produced and directed by Peter Miller ; produced in association with Crawford Communications, Atlanta

Published:: [New York, NY] : Peter Miller Films, 2006.
[New York, NY] : Distributed by First Run Features
Copyright Date:: ©2000
Physical Description:: 1 videodisc (approximately 30 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Creators:: Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014, Bragg, Billy, Miller, Peter, 1961-, Toscanini, Arturo, 1867-1957, Peerce, Jan, 1904-1984, Meredith, Burgess, 1907-1997, Sarton, May, 1912-1995, Hammid, Alexander, Lerner, Irving, 1909-1976, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Peter Miller Films, Crawford Communications, Inc, and First-Run Features (Firm)

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Language Note:

English audio.

Contents:

Special features: Featurette Hymn of the Nations / Arturo Toscanini ; the NBC Symphony Orchestra ; soloist Jan Peerce ; Burgess Meredith, narrator ; script, May Sarton ; director, Alexander Hammid ; produced by Irving Lerner ; Meyer/Burstyn, Inc. (1946) (28 min.); Text features: A brief history of 'The Internationale'; Lyrics to 'The Internationale' (French, American English, British English, Zulu, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Billy Bragg's English version); Director biography; Trailers (9 min.).

Summary:

This documentary film recreates the history, memory, and meanings of a song that has shaped the imagination and practice of internationalism for over a century and whose continuing popularity is a sign of "globalization from below." Eugène Pottier wrote the original French verses in the aftermath of the Paris Commune in 1871, and seventeen years later Pierre Degeyter put the words to music. A remarkable collection of sound recordings, film footage, and still images trace how the song has changed, developed, and sometimes stagnated in specific historical and political contexts. The contested meanings of the song are discussed, along with its use in a globalizing world shaped by migration, diaspora, and multi-national activism, to negotiate rather than suppress differences--of gender, ethnicity, and sexuality--that compose our common humanity.

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Note:

Originally produced as motion picture in 2000.

Creation/Production Credits Note:

Edited by Amy Carey Linton ; camera, Mike Harlow, Kevin Keating.

Participant/Performer Note:

Commentators, Pete Seeger, Annette Rubenstein, Bill Susman, Vladimir Zak, Yehoshua Zamir, Marina Feleo Gonzalez, Dorothy Ray Healy, Archie Green, Maurice Jackson, Jeff Lacher, Li Lu, Billy Bragg.

Technical Details:

DVD.

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased with funds from the Henry Levine Memorial Libraries Endowment; 2016

Endowment Note:

Henry Levine Memorial Libraries Endowment

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