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Liberty Weekend : opening ceremony

Title: Liberty Weekend : opening ceremony, 1986-07-03.
Publication: 1986.

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Found In

Mikhail Baryshnikov archive, 1960-2010.

Description

1 streaming video file (161 min.) : sound, color.

Summary

The ABC News presentation of Liberty Weekend 1986, a celebration of the centennial and restoration of the Statue of Liberty. Presidents Ronald Reagan and François Mitterrand deliver addresses commemorating the occasion; Chief Justice Warren Burger of the U.S. Supreme Court administers the Oath of Allegiance to a group of new citizens (including an off-camera Mikhail Baryshnikov); and ABC newscaster Ted Koppel introduces those distinguished, naturalized citizens awarded the Medal of Liberty. Hollywood entertainers and Reagan administration officials introduce parts of the event, which includes speeches, history segments, and performances. Baryshnikov's new status as a citizen is alluded to by Robert DeNiro, then directly reported by Peter Jennings and Barbara Walters before he arrives to perform a Balanchine pas de deux with Leslie Browne. Overall visual quality fine, but there are several seconds of audio and video dropout at 1:26:33, 1:27:23, and 2:28:45. This recording includes commercials. Writing on the original videocassette label: "Date Misha Became US Citizen".

Alternative Title

Mikhail Baryshnikov archive. Moving image materials.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Filmed dance.
Dance.
Music.
Video.
Filmed performances.

Note

Title and date transcribed from label on the original container, title screen and audition.
Video and audio drop out for several seconds.

Access (note)

Patrons can access streaming video file online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Credits (note)

Roone Arledge, David L. Wolper, executive producers; Gary Smith, Dwight Hemion, Jeff Gralnick, producers; Dwight Hemion, Roger Goodman, directors; Buz Kohan, writer; Ian Fraser, musical director and conductor; Scott Salmon, choreographer; Pete Menefee, costume designer; Greg Brunton, Danny Franks, Red McKinnon, lighting directors; John Williams, composer and conductor.

Source (note)

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Mikhail Baryshnikov Archive, 1960-2010.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 335

OCLC

900089042

Title

Liberty Weekend : opening ceremony, 1986-07-03.

Publisher

1986.

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Restricted Access

Patrons can access streaming video file online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Credits

Roone Arledge, David L. Wolper, executive producers; Gary Smith, Dwight Hemion, Jeff Gralnick, producers; Dwight Hemion, Roger Goodman, directors; Buz Kohan, writer; Ian Fraser, musical director and conductor; Scott Salmon, choreographer; Pete Menefee, costume designer; Greg Brunton, Danny Franks, Red McKinnon, lighting directors; John Williams, composer and conductor.

Performer

Peter Jennings, Barbara Walters, hosts ; Warren Burger, judge ; Hue Cao, Donald Hodel, Lee Iacocca, John Lehman, Edwin Meese, François Mitterrand, Emil Mosbacher, Jr., Ronald Reagan,speakers; Robert DeNiro, Helen Hayes, Ted Koppel, Shirley MacLaine, Gregory Peck, Kenny Rogers, Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Winkler, David L. Wolper, presenters; Neil Diamond, Kenneth Mack, Jr., Mireille Mathieu, Diane Schuur, Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams, singers; Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, dancers; Debbie Allen, José Feliciano, Larry Gatlin, performers; Mandel Kramer, announcer; Franklin Chang-Díaz, Kenneth Clark, Hanna Holborn Gray, Bob Hope, Henry Kissinger, I.M. Pei, Itzhak Perlman, James "Scotty" Reston, Albert Sabin, An Wang, Elie Wiesel, honorees; John Denver, Bob Dole, Barry Manilow, Danielle Mitterrand, Nancy Reagan, guests.

Event

Broadcast by ABC television station 1986 July 3 Ellis Island, Governor's Island, and Liberty Island, New York, New York.

Original Version

Original format: 1 videocassette (VHS) ; 1/2 in.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Mikhail Baryshnikov Archive, 1960-2010.

Source

Gift; Mikhail Baryshnikov, 2011.

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Added Author

Jennings, Peter, 1938-2005, host.

Walters, Barbara, 1929-2022, host.

Burger, Warren E., 1907-1995, judge.

Cao, Hue, speaker.

Hodel, Donald Paul, 1935- speaker.

Iacocca, Lee A., speaker.

Lehman, John F., speaker.

Meese, Edwin, speaker.

Mitterrand, François, 1916-1996, speaker.

Mosbacher, Emil, Jr., speaker.

Reagan, Ronald, speaker.

De Niro, Robert, presenter.

Hayes, Helen, 1900-1993, presenter.

Koppel, Ted, 1940 February 8- presenter.

MacLaine, Shirley, 1934- presenter.

Peck, Gregory, 1916-2003, presenter.

Rogers, Kenny, presenter.

Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932-2011, presenter.

Winkler, Henry, 1945- presenter.

Wolper, David L., presenter.

Wolper, David L., television producer.

Diamond, Neil, singer.

Mack, Kenneth, Jr., singer.

Mathieu, Mireille, 1946- singer.

Schuur, Diane, singer.

Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998, singer.

Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998, speaker.

Williams, Andy, 1927-2012, singer.

Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1948- dancer.

Browne, Leslie, dancer.

Allen, Debbie, 1950- performer.

Feliciano, José, 1945- performer.

Gatlin, Larry, performer.

Kramer, Mandel, announcer.

Chang-Díaz, Franklin R., 1950- honoree.

Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914-2005, honoree.

Gray, Hanna Holborn, honoree.

Hope, Bob, 1903-2003, honoree.

Kissinger, Henry, 1923-2023, honoree.

Pei, I. M., 1917-2019, honoree.

Perlman, Itzhak, 1945- honoree.

Reston, James, 1909-1995, honoree.

Sabin, Albert B. (Albert Bruce), 1906-1993, honoree.

Wang, An, 1920-1990, honoree.

Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016, honoree.

Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989, honoree.

Denver, John, guest.

Dole, Robert J., 1923-2021, guest.

Manilow, Barry, guest.

Mitterrand, Danielle, guest.

Reagan, Nancy, 1921-2016, guest.

Arledge, Roone, television producer.

Gralnick, Jeff, television producer.

Hemion, Dwight, television producer.

Hemion, Dwight, television director.

Smith, Gary, television producer.

Goodman, Roger, television director.

Kohan, Buz, screenwriter.

Fraser, Ian, 1933-2014, musical director.

Fraser, Ian, 1933-2014, conductor.

Salmon, Scott, choreographer.

Menefee, Pete, costume designer.

Brunton, Greg, lighting designer.

Franks, Danny, lighting designer.

McKinnon, Red, lighting designer.

Williams, John, 1932- conductor.

Williams, John, 1932- composer.

ABC News.

Smith-Hemion Productions.

Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.

Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1948- donor.

Added Title

Mikhail Baryshnikov archive. Moving image materials.

Found In:

Mikhail Baryshnikov archive, 1960-2010.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 335

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