The Resource Notes on blindness
Notes on blindness
Resource Information
The item Notes on blindness represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Notes on blindness represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- In the summer of 1983, just days before the birth of his first son, writer and theologian John Hull went blind. In order to make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began keeping a diary on audiocassette. Upon their publication in 1990, Oliver Sacks described the work as 'the most extraordinary, precise, deep and beautiful account of blindness I have ever read. It is to my mind a masterpiece.' With exclusive access to these original recordings, NOTES ON BLINDNESS encompasses dreams, memory and imaginative life, excavating the interior world of blindness
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 DVD-video (90 minutes)
- Note
-
- Catalogued from container
- Rialto Distribution : RIA211
- Originally released in Japan in 2015 as: Umimachi diary
- Voices of John and Marilyn Hull are lip-synched on screen by actors
- Based on the audio diaries of John Hull, later transcribed and published under the title Touching the rock
- Extras: Introduction to soundtrack options; Notes on Notes on blindness; Directing as a team; Lip synching; John and Marilyn
- Label
- Notes on blindness
- Title
- Notes on blindness
- Title variation
- Umimachi diary
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In the summer of 1983, just days before the birth of his first son, writer and theologian John Hull went blind. In order to make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began keeping a diary on audiocassette. Upon their publication in 1990, Oliver Sacks described the work as 'the most extraordinary, precise, deep and beautiful account of blindness I have ever read. It is to my mind a masterpiece.' With exclusive access to these original recordings, NOTES ON BLINDNESS encompasses dreams, memory and imaginative life, excavating the interior world of blindness
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- Credits note
- Produced by Mike Brett, Jo Jo Ellison ; produced by Peter Middleton, James Spinney, Alex Usborne ; written and directed by Peter Middleton & James Spinney
- Intended audience
- Exempt from classification : E
- Language note
- In English
- PerformerNote
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- Dan Skinner, Simone Kirby
- John Hull, Marilyn Hull
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1973-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Middleton, Peter
- Spinney, James
- Brett, Mike
- Ellison, Jo Jo
- Usborne, alex
- Hull, John M
- Hull-Stewart, Marilyn
- Skinner, Dan Renton
- Kirby, Simone
- Runtime
- 90
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Hull, John M.
- Blind
- Blind
- Target audience
- adult
- Technique
- live action
- Label
- Notes on blindness
- Note
-
- Catalogued from container
- Rialto Distribution : RIA211
- Originally released in Japan in 2015 as: Umimachi diary
- Voices of John and Marilyn Hull are lip-synched on screen by actors
- Based on the audio diaries of John Hull, later transcribed and published under the title Touching the rock
- Extras: Introduction to soundtrack options; Notes on Notes on blindness; Directing as a team; Lip synching; John and Marilyn
- Carrier category
- videodisc
- Carrier category code
-
- vd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Configuration of playback channels
- quadrophonic multichannel or surround
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
-
- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059824842
- Dimensions
- 12 cm.
- Dimensions
- other
- Extent
- 1 DVD-video (90 minutes)
- Media category
- video
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- v
- Medium for sound
- videodisc
- Other control number
- 9341005008105
- Other physical details
- sound, colour
- Publisher number
- RIA211
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
- videodisc
- System details
- DVD video, Dolby digital 5.1 surround, PAL, Region 4, widescreen 2.35:1
- Video recording format
- DVD
- Label
- Notes on blindness
- Note
-
- Catalogued from container
- Rialto Distribution : RIA211
- Originally released in Japan in 2015 as: Umimachi diary
- Voices of John and Marilyn Hull are lip-synched on screen by actors
- Based on the audio diaries of John Hull, later transcribed and published under the title Touching the rock
- Extras: Introduction to soundtrack options; Notes on Notes on blindness; Directing as a team; Lip synching; John and Marilyn
- Carrier category
- videodisc
- Carrier category code
-
- vd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Configuration of playback channels
- quadrophonic multichannel or surround
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
-
- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059824842
- Dimensions
- 12 cm.
- Dimensions
- other
- Extent
- 1 DVD-video (90 minutes)
- Media category
- video
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- v
- Medium for sound
- videodisc
- Other control number
- 9341005008105
- Other physical details
- sound, colour
- Publisher number
- RIA211
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
- videodisc
- System details
- DVD video, Dolby digital 5.1 surround, PAL, Region 4, widescreen 2.35:1
- Video recording format
- DVD
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