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Fear and desire [videorecording (DVD)].

Kino Classics, 2012.

Seafarers International Union of North America. Atlantic and Gulf District.

Combat -- Psychological aspects -- Drama.

Merchant mariners -- Labor unions -- North America.

Video Difference legacy collection.

Alternate title:

Stanley Kubrick's Fear and desire [videorecording (DVD)]

The seafarers [videorecording (DVD)].

[videorecording (DVD)].

35mm archival restoration ed.

1 videodisc (60, 28 min.) : Dolby digital sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Originally released as a motion picutre in 1953.

Special features: Mastered in HD from archival 35mm elements newly restored by the Library of Congress ; Kubrick's 1953 short "The Seafarers", restored by the Museum of Modern Art.

Anamorphic (1.33:1).

At head of container title: Stanley Kubrick's.

Running times: Fear and desire (60 min.) ; The seafarers (28 min.).

Joseph Burstyn presents ; written by Howard Sackler ; produced, directed, photographed and edited by Stanley Kubrick.

Frank Silvera, Paul Mazursky, Kenneth Harp, Steve Coit and Virginia Leith.

"Virtually unseen since its theatrical premiere in 1953, Fear And Desire was the ambitious first feature film by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. An existential war film often compared with the director's Paths and Glory (1957) and Full Metal Jacket (1987), Fear And Desire follows a squad of soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines and must work their way downriver to rejoin their unit. In the process, they encounter a peasant girl (Virginia Leith) and bind her to a tree, where she is tormented by a mentally unbalanced soldier (future director Paul Mazursky). Before making their escape, the soldiers determine the location of an enemy base and formulate a plot to assassinate its commanding officer. The film has been restored at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Virginia, from first-generation film elements. Also included on this disc is Kubrick's documentary short The Seafarers, newly preserved by The Museum Of Modern Art, with support from The Film Foundation and The Franco-American Cultural Fund."--Container.

"The seafarers: In 1951, a twenty-three year old New Yorker, Stanley Kubrick, began his film career by directing and filming the black and white RKO newsreels Day of the Flight and The Flying Padre. These short films brought the aspiring director little notoriety, but they proved essential to developing his technique and securing financing his first feature length film, the ill-fated Fear and Desire in 1953. The same year, Kubrick was commissioned by the Seafarers International Union to film a documentary extolling the benefits of membership of the Seafarers Union. The film marked his first exploration into color cinematography. Kubrick provided his own sound and camera equipment and marshaled the Seafarers Log editorial staff as his crew. The film's design was to showcase the Seafarers Union service to its members and to recruit young men into a life at sea by explaining the benefits and job security of being part of a union. In the decades that followed, aspiring directors would hone their technique in specialized film schools, but for the young Kubrick, the short documentaries he made were his film school."--Container (from Indian Relay Films 2008 DVD release).

Adventure films.

Military films.

Melodrama and tearjerker films.

Documentary films.

Promotional films.

Kubrick, Stanley.

Silvera, Frank, 1914-1970.

Mazursky, Paul.

Leith, Virginia, 1932-

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