Amazing grace : with Bill Moyers / a production of Public Affairs Television, Incorporated ; produced and directed by Elena Mannes ; editor Donna Marino. [print]

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Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: AMP-8564 | AthenaLanguage: English Subtitle language: English Publication details: Silver Spring, Maryland : Athena : [(c)2011.; Acorn Media, [(c)2011.Description: 1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

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video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

9781598285642
1598285645

Uniform titles:

Bill Moyers journal.

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LOC classification:

BV317.A489.A439 2011
BV317.A49.M938.A439 2011

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Contents:

Amazing grace (80:00) ; Special features. Pure Pete Seeger (54:00) ; Bill Moyers biography Performer biographies.

Production credits:

Produced and directed by Elena Mannes ; editor, Donna Marino ; principal sound, Peter Miller ; photography, Gary Steele, Greg Andracke ; executive producers, Judith Davidson Moyers, Bill Moyers.

Judy Collins, Jean Ritchie, shape-note singers of Holly Springs, Geo., Dewey Williams, Jessye Norman, Johnny Cash, Marion Williams, the Boys' Choir of Harlem, and others ; words of John Newton read by Jeremy Irons.Summary: Bill Moyers tells the story of this song, one of the most popular pieces of music in the English language, through the people who have sung it. He also tells the story of John Newton, once the captain of an English slave ship, who came to faith after surviving a storm at sea in the eighteenth century and wrote the lyrics which across distances of time and culture have become, when set to music, a courier of the spirit to millions of people.

Item type: Multi-media (10-day check-out)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Multi-media (10-day check-out)	G. Allen Fleece Library Multimedia - Second Floor	Non-fiction	BV317.A49A43 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	WITHDRAWN		31923001828132

In English. Subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (South DakotaH).

Produced and directed by Elena Mannes ; editor, Donna Marino ; principal sound, Peter Miller ; photography, Gary Steele, Greg Andracke ; executive producers, Judith Davidson Moyers, Bill Moyers.

Originally aired on PBS in 1990.

Northern Mariana IslandsAA rating: Not rated.

Includes the documentary Pure Pete Seeger, originally broadcast in 1994 as a segment of the television program Bill Moyers' journal, in which Moyers interviews and provides a musical portrait of 75 year old folk singer and activist Pete Seeger.

12-page viewer's guide with articles on the inspiration for the program, the song's lyrics, shape-note singing, and facts about the song inserted in container.

Bill Moyers tells the story of this song, one of the most popular pieces of music in the English language, through the people who have sung it. He also tells the story of John Newton, once the captain of an English slave ship, who came to faith after surviving a storm at sea in the eighteenth century and wrote the lyrics which across distances of time and culture have become, when set to music, a courier of the spirit to millions of people.

Amazing grace (80:00) ; Special features. Pure Pete Seeger (54:00) ; Bill Moyers biography Performer biographies.

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