TY - ADVS ED - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) TI - History of the world--part I AV - DAA 1386 (viewing copy) PY - 1981/// CY - United States PB - Twentieth Century-Fox KW - Mel Brooks Classic Movie KW - Comedies KW - gsafd KW - Historical re-creations KW - local KW - Features KW - mim KW - Videodiscs KW - gmgpc N1 - 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; Possible videodisc reissue date from copyright notice on videodisc jacket for videodisc packaging; Running time given as 93 minutes on videodisc jacket and as 97 minutes in copyright data base; Summary taken from videodisc jacket; On videodisc jacket: Twentieth Century-Fox Video 1114-80; Sources used: videodisc jacket and label; copyright data base; 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) N2 - 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 ER -