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Title

  • West Side story

Summary

  • Maria and Tony are in love. There is trouble between the Jets, a gang of white youths, and the Sharks, a gang of Puerto Rican youths. When Riff is killed, Tony is forced to get involved, ending in tragedy.

Names

  • LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • United States : [United Artists Corporation], 1961 ; United States : CBS/Fox Video, [1984?]

Genre

  • Musicals
  • Adaptations
  • Features
  • Videodiscs

Notes

  • -  LP21934 U.S. Copyright Office
  • -  Copyright: Beta Productions; 18Oct61; LP21934.
  • -  Copyright notice on videodisc label: CBS/Fox Video ; 1984.
  • -  Copyright notice on videodisc jacket: CBS/Fox Company ; 1984.
  • -  Choreography by Jerome Robbins ; music by Leonard Bernstein ; lyrics by Stephen Sondheim ; film editor, Thomas Stanford.
  • -  Natalie Wood (Maria), Richard Beymer (Tony), Russ Tamblyn (Riff), Rita Moreno (Anita), George Chakiris (Bernardo).
  • -  On videodisc jacket: MGM/UA Home Entertainment Group, Inc.
  • -  Possible videodisc reissue date from copyright notice on videodisc jacket for videodisc packaging.
  • -  Originally filmed in Panavision on 70 mm. in Technicolor.
  • -  Two videodiscs in one videodisc jacket.
  • -  LC copy is videodisc reissue copy; LC also holds version with additional material (DAA 1144).
  • -  Summary adapted from videodisc jacket.
  • -  On videodisc jacket: CBS/Fox Video 4519-80.
  • -  Based upon the stage play produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince, conceived, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, book by Arthur Laurents.
  • -  Sources used: videodisc jackets and label (DAA 1600 and DAA 1144); Catalog of copyright entries : motion pictures, 1960-1969, p. 599.
  • -  Received: ca. 1984; viewing copy; purchase, paperwork in ACQ: LC Purchase, 1983 or 1984; LC Purchase Collection.

Medium

  • 2 videodiscs of 2 (laser) (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 in. viewing copy.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • DAA 1600 (viewing copy)

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 96508765

Online Format

  • web page
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Lc Purchase Collection. West Side story. [United States: United Artists Corporation, ; United States: CBS/Fox Video, 1984?, 1984] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/96508765/.

APA citation style:

Lc Purchase Collection. (1984) West Side story. [United States: United Artists Corporation, ; United States: CBS/Fox Video, 1984?] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/96508765/.

MLA citation style:

Lc Purchase Collection. West Side story. [United States: United Artists Corporation, ; United States: CBS/Fox Video, 1984?, 1984] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/96508765/>.