Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Pratt, John, 1912?-1986.
2. Dunham, Katherine.
3. Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts and Humanities.
4. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance Collection.

Description

1. 1 videocassette (7 min.) : si., b&w NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

1. Views of various sites in Europe ; there is no dance content in this film. Katherine Dunham and her husband John Pratt are seen walking in an unidentified location. The film also includes scenes from a bullfight in Spain (?) ; Venetian gondolas and glimpses of the Piazza San Marco, Doge's Palace, and other buildings ; ruins of Greek temples at Paestum ; caryatids, possibly filmed at the Acropolis in Athens.

Series statement

1. Katherine Dunham Centers Collection

Subject

1. Caryatids
2. Temples, Greek > Italy > Paestum (Extinct city)
3. Venice (Italy) > Pictorial works
4. Bullfights

Contents

1. Bullfight -- Katherine Dunham and John Pratt -- Venice -- Greece, Paestum.

Call number

1. *MGZIA 4-5213

Note

1. Originally filmed on Regular 8mm ; transferred to videotape by the Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, in 2000.

Event (note)

1. Filmed at various locations in Europe in 1950.

Title

1. Europe, 1950 [videorecording] / [presented by] the Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts and Humanities ; produced by Katherine Dunham.

Imprint

1. 1950.

Series

1. Katherine Dunham Centers Collection

Event

1. Filmed at various locations in Europe in 1950.

Added author

1. Pratt, John, 1912?-1986.
2. Dunham, Katherine.
3. Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts and Humanities.
4. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance Collection.

Research call number

1. *MGZIA 4-5213