The conquest of Everest
2014
DVD
Story of the first successful attempt on the peak of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. The team included John Hunt, Edmund Hillary, Tensing Norgay and Tom Stobart the film technician. The documentary details the history, preparation and description of the route.
Item Details
Description:
- 1 videodisc (1 hr., 16 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- digital video
- videodisc
- DVD
- video file DVD
- polychrome
Target Audience Note: CHVR: NR
Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.
- This disc is a recorded DVD and may fail to play on some DVD equipment.
- Region 0 (worldwide), standard screen.
- Photography, Thomas Stobart (1953 expedition), George Lowe (high altitude photography, 1953 expedition), Captain J.B.L. Noel (1922 and 1924 expeditions) ; commentary writer, Louis MacNeice ; music composer, Arthur Benjamin ; editor, Adrian de Potier ; narrator, Meredith Edwards.
- DVD-R.
- BAFTA Film Award: Best Documentary Film, 1954.
- BAFTA Awards, Certificate of Merit: Thomas Stobart, 1954.
- "Best Documentary" Oscar nomination, 1954.
- English dialog.
Publisher or Distributor Number: ALP7277D
UPC: 089218727794
Publisher: [United Kingdom] : Alpha Home Entertainment, [1953]Subjects:
- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
- Hillary, Edmund, 1919-2008.
- Himalaya Mountains.
- Mount Everest Expedition (1953)
- Mountaineering -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
- Mountaineering.
- Tenzing Norkey, 1914-1986.
Genre:
Other Authors:
- Alpine Club (London, England)
- Benjamin, Arthur, 1893-1960, composer.
- Clore, Leon, producer.
- Countryman Films.
- Edwards, Meredith, 1917-1999, narrator.
- Group 3 (Firm)
- London Films.
- Lowe, George, 1924-2013, director, director of photography.
- MacNeice, Louis, 1907-1963.
- Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
- Stobart, Tom, director of photography.
- Taylor, John, 1914-1992, producer.
- Tharp, Grahame, 1912- producer.