Jacksonville Public Library

Le silence de la mer = The silence of the sea, Gaumont présente ; Melville Productions ; Pierre Braunberger présente ; producteur délégué, Marcel Cartier ; adaptation et réalisation de Jean-Pierre Melville

From the novel by Vercors (Jean Marcel Bruller)Originally released as a motion picture in 1949Special features: Disc 2: 24 hours in the life of a clown (1946, Melville's seventeen-minute first film); Melville steps out of the shadows (2010, a 42-minute documentary about Le Silence De La Mer); Code name Melville (2008, a 76-minute documentary on Melville's time in the French Resistance and his films about it); Ginette Vincendeau (new interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau about the film); Cinépanorama (interview with Melville aired on the April 18, 1959 episode of the French television program Cinépanorama, conducted by François Chalais). Booklet includes essay "Stranger in the House" by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and a selection from Rui Nogueira's 1971 book Melville on Melville

Midwest Tape

black and white

monaural

Director of photography, Henri Decae ; music, Edgar Bischoff ; Grand Orchestre des Concerts Colonne ; conductor, Paul Bonneau ; production director, Edmond Vaxelaire

other

Two-DVD special edition.

Classroom use may be subject to licensing restrictions

9781604659870

videodisc

Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane, Jean-Marie Robain, Ami Aaröe, Georges Patrix, Denis Sadier

2 videodiscs (87 min.), sound, black and white, 4 3/4 in. +, 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

sound on medium

videodisc

1318633(Sirsi) o905120981(OCoLC)905120981

DVD, NTSC region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural

715515145015

CC2479DDVD -- The Criterion CollectionCC2479D -- The Criterion CollectionCC2479D-1 -- The Criterion Collection (disc 1)CC2479D-2 -- The Criterion Collection (disc 2)

DVD