History of the world--part I / a Brooksfilms production ; directed, produced and written by Mel Brooks.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmPublisher: United States : Twentieth Century-Fox, 1981Publisher: United States : Twentieth Century-Fox VideoDescription: 1 dvd sound, color ; 12 in. viewing copyContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Audience:
  • General
Other title:
  • Mel Brooks' History of the world--part I
  • History of the world--pt. 1
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DAA 1386 (viewing copy)
Production credits:
  • Narrated by Orson Welles ; music by John Morris ; special visual effects by Albert J. Whitlock ; director of photography, Woody Omes ; edited by John C. Howard.
Cast: Mel Brooks (Moses, Comicus, Torquemada, Jacques, King Louis XVI), Dom DeLuise (Emperor Nero), Madeline Kahn (Empress Nympho), Harvey Korman (Count de Monet), Cloris Leachman (Madame Defarge), Ron Carey (Swiftus), Gregory Hines (Josephus), Shecky Greene (Marcus Vindictus), Sid Caesar (Chief Caveman).Summary: Traces history from the dawn of the first people through the chaos of the French Revolution, with stops along the way in the Stone Age, Moses and the Children of Israel, the Last Supper, the Roman Empire, and the Spanish Inquisition. Introduces some of history's greats, like Moses, Jesus, Nero, and Torquemada, and some unknown people.
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DVD Idaho Springs Public Library DVDFIC DVD FIC HISTORY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3ISPL00300773T

Copyright: Brooksfilms, Ltd. Appl. au.: Brooksfilms, Ltd. Prev.: Appl. states copyright claimed on all portions of motion picture except original music on soundtrack. DCR 1981; PUB 29Apr81; REG 6Jul81; PA108-617.

Copyright notice on videodisc label: Twentieth Century Fox Video, Inc. ; 1982.

Copyright notice on videodisc label: Twentieth Century-Fox Video, Inc. ; 1982.

Title also appears on videodisc jacket as Mel Brooks' History of the world--part I; title appears in copyright data base as History of the world--pt. 1.

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Running time given as 93 minutes on videodisc jacket and as 97 minutes in copyright data base.

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On videodisc jacket: Twentieth Century-Fox Video 1114-80.

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Narrated by Orson Welles ; music by John Morris ; special visual effects by Albert J. Whitlock ; director of photography, Woody Omes ; edited by John C. Howard.

Mel Brooks (Moses, Comicus, Torquemada, Jacques, King Louis XVI), Dom DeLuise (Emperor Nero), Madeline Kahn (Empress Nympho), Harvey Korman (Count de Monet), Cloris Leachman (Madame Defarge), Ron Carey (Swiftus), Gregory Hines (Josephus), Shecky Greene (Marcus Vindictus), Sid Caesar (Chief Caveman).

Traces history from the dawn of the first people through the chaos of the French Revolution, with stops along the way in the Stone Age, Moses and the Children of Israel, the Last Supper, the Roman Empire, and the Spanish Inquisition. Introduces some of history's greats, like Moses, Jesus, Nero, and Torquemada, and some unknown people.

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