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The First Picture Show: a silent movie-dance-comedy-drama-musical-history (work-in-progress), 1997 October 5

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division

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David Gordon Video Archive

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The First Picture Show

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Title
The First Picture Show: a silent movie-dance-comedy-drama-musical-history (work-in-progress), 1997 October 5
Additional title: David Gordon archive
Additional title: First picture show (Choreographic work : Gordon)
Names
Gordon, David, 1936- (Author)
Gordon, David, 1936- (Stage director)
Gordon, David, 1936- (Choreographer)
Gordon, Ain (Author)
Tipton, Jennifer (Lighting designer)
Fitzgerald, Ed (Stage manager)
Marks, Ken (Composer)
Gould, Peggy (Production personnel)
Byrsted, Tine (Performer)
Danson, Randy, 1950- (Performer)
Fire, Norma (Performer)
Gould, Peggy (Performer)
Greenspan, David, 1956- (Performer)
Kux, Bill (Performer)
Marks, Ken (Performer)
McAfee, Eli (Performer)
Parsons, Estelle (Performer)
Ramirez, Jule J (Performer)
Sakata, Jeanne (Performer)
Setterfield, Valda (Performer)
Shalet, Diane (Performer)
Thorne, Tracy (Performer)
Wallace, Gregory (Performer)
David Gordon/Pickup Company (Performer)
Collection

David Gordon Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1997-10-05
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 3894
Topics
Drama
Genres
Filmed dance
Filmed performances
Notes
Statement of responsibility: written by Ain Gordon and David Gordon ; directed and choreographed by David Gordon ; performed by Pick Up Performance Company.
Creation/production credits: Lighting Designer, Jennifer Tipton ; Production Stage Manager, Ed Fitzgerald ; Ornamental Music Devised & Coordinated by Ken Marks ; Assistant to the Director, Peggy Gould ; video documentation by Peter Richards.
Performers: Tine Byrsted (Mover, Extra, Nell Shipman), Randy Danson (Anne First, ages 15-45), Norma Fire (May Furstman, Connie Gardner, Steven Bush, Gene Gauntier), Peggy Gould (Mover, Extra), David Greenspan (Carl Laemmle, Frederick Howe, Henry Hooks, MacFarland, Cleo Madison), Bill Kux (Louis Furstmann, Mr. La Tour, Mr. Slicklen, Margery Wilson, Exhibitor), Ken Marks (Pianist, Billy Friend, Dudley Hughes, Judge, Dorothy Davenport), Eli McAfee (Mover, Extra), Estelle Parsons (Anne First, age 99), Jule J. Ramirez, Jeanne Sakata (Nurse Sato, Cindy, Marion E. Wong), Valda Setterfield (Mrs. Klinkman, Reverend Wilbur Crafts, Alice Guy Blache), Diane Shalet (Thelma March, Naomi), Tracy Thorne (Jane Furstman, Louis Weber) and Gregory Wallace (Doctor, Ben, Percy Waters).
Venue: Videotaped during performance at St. Clement's Church, New York, N.Y., 1997 October 5.
Acquisition: Gift; David Gordon / Pick Up Performance Co(s). 2014.
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (124 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 898128129
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20496811
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 00579670-9e7f-0132-bc1d-3c075448cc4b
Rights Statement
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MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "The First Picture Show" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1997. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/018bfcc0-9e7f-0132-b457-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "The First Picture Show" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 29, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/018bfcc0-9e7f-0132-b457-3c075448cc4b

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1997). The First Picture Show Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/018bfcc0-9e7f-0132-b457-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia Citation

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The First Picture Show