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Title Tabu [videorecording] : a story of the South Seas / Paramount Publix Corporation ; distributed by Image Entertainment ; Paramount presents [a] Murnau-Flaherty production ; director, F.W. Murnau ; screenplay, R.J. Flaherty, F.W. Murnau.

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Chatsworth, CA : Milestone Film & Video, 2002.

Location		Call No.	Status
GDL Casa Verdugo Library DVD		TAB	DUE 08-12-22

Description	1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Series	Milestone collection
Note	"Restored by UCLA Film and Television Archive."
	Originally released as a motion picture in 1931.
	Special features: Audio commentary by UCLA Film Professor Janet Bergstrom ; still gallery ; outtake footage ; short film: "Reri in New York" ; theatrical trailer.
Credits	Photography, Floyd Crosby ; music, Hugo Riesenfeld.
Cast	Matahi (the boy), Reri (the girl), Jean (the policeman), Hitu (the old warrior).
Summary	Two lovers are doomed by a tribal edict decreeing that the girl is "tabu" to all men.
Audience	MPAA rating: Not rated.
System Details	DVD, region 1 ; Dolby Digital mono.
Language	Silent film with music and English captions.
Subject	Taboo -- French Polynesia -- Bora-Bora -- Drama.
Genre/Form	Silent films
Added Author	Murnau, F. W. (Friedrich Wilhelm), 1888-1931.
	Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951.
	Crosby, Floyd, 1899-1985.
	Riesenfeld, Hugo, 1879-1939.
	Matahi.
	Reri.
	Jean.
	Hitu.
	Milestone Film & Video.
	Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927.
	Paramount Publix Corporation.
	UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Added Title	Story of the South Seas
Note	Title from container: F.W. Murnau and Robert Flaherty's Tabu
Added Title	Reri in New York.
Standard No.	014381593129
Music No.	ID5931MLSDVD Milestone Film & Video