Research Catalog

Title

ABC's silver anniversary celebration--trailer [videorecording] / ABC-TV.

Publication

[196-?]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• ABC Television Network.
• Durante, Jimmy, 1893-1980.
• Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993,
• Seymour, Lynn, 1939-

Description

1 videocassette (6 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation.

Series Statement

Rudolf Nureyev Collection.

Uniform Title

Sylphide (Choreographic work)

Subjects

• Dance
• Trailers and promo's
• Pas de deux
• Video
• Satire in dance

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Trailers and promo's.
• Video.

Note

• Title from accompanying data sheet.
• Time code across bottom of screen.
• Unedited (?) footage.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-4085 RNC

Title

ABC's silver anniversary celebration--trailer [videorecording] / ABC-TV.

Imprint

[196-?]

Series

Rudolf Nureyev Collection.

Summary

Compilation of very brief excerpts of music and dance performances telecast by ABC-TV. Among the many artists appearing are Julie Andrews, Ethel Merman and Fred Astaire (in a song duet), Bing Crosby, ice skater Dorothy Hamill, the Vienna Boys Choir, Joan Sutherland, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Liza Minnelli. Rudolf Nureyev and Lynn Seymour dance a brief excerpt from Act II of La sylphide, which was telecast in 1965 on the special Jimmy Durante meets the lively arts. The special included a parody of La sylphide by Durante, an excerpt from which is recorded here. Selected segments from the special, including longer footage of both Nureyev's performance and Durante's parody, appear on *MGZIA 4-4007 RNC Jimmy Durante meets the lively arts.

Local Subject

Satire in dance.

Added Author

Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993, dancer.

Seymour, Lynn, 1939- dancer.

Durante, Jimmy, 1893-1980. Performer

ABC Television Network.

Added Title

Sylphide (Choreographic work)

Gift of the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-4085 RNC