Swiss family Robinson [videorecording] /Walt Disney presents ; screenplay by Lowell S. Hawley ; produced by Bill Anderson ; directed by Ken Annakin.
Contributor(s): Mills, John | McGuire, Dorothy | MacArthur, James | Munro, Janet | Hayakawa, Sesshū | Kirk, Tommy | Corcoran, Kevin | Parker, Cecil | Hawley, Lowell S. (Lowell Stillwell) | Anderson, Bill | Annakin, Ken | Alwyn, William | Wyss, Johann David. Schweizerische Robinson | Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm) | Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm) | Walt Disney Company.
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Visual materialSeries: Disney DVD: ; Vault Disney collection: Publisher: Burbank, CA : Walt Disney Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2002], c1960Edition: Widescreen format.Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.ISBN: 0788826417; 9780788826412.Subject(s): Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Juvenile fiction | Families -- Juvenile fiction | Shipwrecks -- Juvenile fiction | Video recordings for the hearing impaired | Survival -- Fiction | Family life -- Fiction | Shipwrecks -- Fiction | Video recordings for the hearing impaired | Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction | Family life -- Fiction | Shipwrecks -- Fiction | Closed caption video recordings | VideodiscsGenre/Form: Robinsonades. | Adventure films. | Film adaptations. | Feature films. | Video recordings for children. | DVD-Video discs.DDC classification: [Fic] 3-6 Follett Library Resources
DVD; Dolby digital 5.1 surround; region 1.
Soundtrack in English or Spanish; subtitles in English.
Closed-captioned.
John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Sessue Hayakawa, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Cecil Parker.
Director of photography, Harry Waxman ; film editor, Peter Boita ; music by William Alwyn.
Based on the novel by Johann Wyss.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960.
Disc 1 includes feature, optional feature-length commentary by cast and crew, and cartoon short "Sea salts."
Disc 2 includes Adventure in the making production featurette, conversations with James MacArthur, Pirates! featurette, archival Disneyland footage, production gallery, trailers and TV spots, storyboard to scene comparison, Walt Disney presents Escape to paradise featurette, excerpts from 1940 Swiss family Robinson motion picture, image galleries, and audio archives.
The members of a shipwrecked family learn to subsist on the natural endowments of the island on which they are stranded, and become so adept and comfortable they decide to stay when a ship arrives to take them home.
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