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Title

  • Casablanca

Summary

  • Rick Blaine, an American expatriate with a shady past, runs the very popular night-spot, Rick's Cafe Americain in Casablanca, French Morocco. Everybody comes to Rick's--gamblers, smugglers, spies, counter-spies, refugees, and more. Rick and his best friend Sam, the club's piano player, keep out of politics and ignore the war. Rick's friend Captain Renault, prefect of the Vichy police, agrees with Rick. But the war will not leave him alone. Ugarte asks Rick to hide two letters of transport that were stolen from a murdered Nazi officer. Rick wants no part of it, but has them when Ugarte is arrested. Rick hears Sam playing a song, which he asked Sam never to play. Ilsa Lund, Rick's true love, requested it. Rick thinks that she abandoned him in Paris when the Nazis invaded the city. Now she is the wife of Victor Laszlo, an underground leader who is the target of a massive Nazi search. Suddenly Rick's letters of transport loom large.

Names

  • Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
  • LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • United States : Warner Brothers, 1942 ; United States : RCA SelectaVision VideoDiscs, [1981?] ; United States : CBS/Fox Video, [1983?]

Genre

  • War films and programs
  • Drama
  • Features
  • Videodiscs

Notes

  • -  LP11818 PA431-870 (Colorized version) U.S. Copyright Office
  • -  Copyright: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; 23Jan43; LP11818.
  • -  Minor change version: [Colorized version] / a ColorImage Film by American Film Technologies. -- United States : Turner Entertainment Co., 1988.
  • -  Copyright for minor change version: Turner Entertainment Co. DCR 1988; PUB 9Nov88; PA431-870.
  • -  Copyright notice on CED videodisc jacket: RCA Corporation ; 1981.
  • -  Copyright notice on laser videodisc label: CBS/Fox Video ; 1983.
  • -  Copyright notice on laser videodisc jacket: Twentieth Century-Fox Video, Inc. ; 1982.
  • -  Copyright notice on laser videodisc label: CBS/FOX Company ; 1983.
  • -  Camera, Arthur Edeson ; music, Max Steiner ; songs, M.K. Jerome and Jack Scholl ; editor, Owen Marks.
  • -  Humphrey Bogart (Rick), Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa Lund), Paul Henried (Victor Laszlo), Claude Rains (Capt. Louie Renault), Conrad Veidt (Major Strasser), Sydney Greenstreet (Senor Ferrari), Peter Lorre (Ugarte).
  • -  On laser and CED videodisc jackets: United Artists.
  • -  Possible CED videodisc reissue date from copyright notice on videodisc jacket; possible laser videodisc reissue date from copyright notice on videodisc jacket for videodisc packaging.
  • -  LC holds original release copy (ref prints and arch pos), 1981? CED videodisc reissue copy (DAA 0168), 1983? laser videodisc reissue copy (DAA 1509), and colorized version (1/2 in. viewing copy); LC also holds version with additional material (DAA 1146).
  • -  Summary taken from laser videodisc jacket.
  • -  On videodisc laser jacket: CBS/Fox Video 4514-80.
  • -  On videodisc CED jacket: RCA01420; WM11E-V105098.
  • -  Based on a play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.
  • -  Sources used: Catalog of copyright entries : motion pictures, 1940-1949; New York times, 11/27/42, p. 27; Variety, 12/2/42; videodisc jackets and label.
  • -  Received: 12/18/89; 1/2 in. viewing copy; copyright deposit--RNR; Copyright Collection.
  • -  Received: 8/25/65; ref print, copy 1; replacement for nitrate original received as copyright deposit; Copyright Collection.
  • -  Received: 5/10/68; ref print, copy 2; replacement for nitrate original received as copyright deposit; Copyright Collection.
  • -  Received: 12/18/89; arch pos; deposited with colorized version received as copyright deposit--RNR; Copyright Collection.
  • -  Received: ca. 1984; 12 in. (laser) viewing copy; purchase, paperwork in ACQ: LC Purchase, 1983 or 1984; LC Purchase Collection.
  • -  Received: 10/29/82; 12 in. (CED) viewing copy; purchase, paperwork in ACQ: LC Purchase, 1982; LC Purchase Collection.

Medium

  • 1 videocassette of 1 (VHS) (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. viewing copy.
  • 11 reels of 11 on 3 (ca. 3240 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 16 mm. ref print.
  • 8 reels of 11 on 2 (r4-11) (ca. 2193 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 16 mm. ref print (copy 2)
  • 11 reels of 11 on 6 (ca. 8100 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 35 mm. archival pos.
  • 1 videodisc of 1 (laser) (ca. 102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 12 in. viewing copy.
  • 1 videodisc of 1 (CED) (ca. 103 min.) : sd., b&w ; 12 in. viewing copy.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • VAB 1817 (viewing copy)
  • FCA 4441-4443 (ref print)
  • FCA 4703-4704 (ref print, copy 2)
  • FQA 7218-7223 (arch pos)
  • DAA 1509 (viewing copy)
  • DAA 0168 (viewing copy)

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 89716138

Online Format

  • web page
  • image

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Copyright Collection, and Lc Purchase Collection. Casablanca. [United States: Warner Brothers, ; United States: RCA SelectaVision VideoDiscs, 1981? ; United States: CBS/Fox Video, 1983?, 1983] Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/89716138/.

APA citation style:

Copyright Collection & Lc Purchase Collection. (1983) Casablanca. [United States: Warner Brothers, ; United States: RCA SelectaVision VideoDiscs, 1981? ; United States: CBS/Fox Video, 1983?] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/89716138/.

MLA citation style:

Copyright Collection, and Lc Purchase Collection. Casablanca. [United States: Warner Brothers, ; United States: RCA SelectaVision VideoDiscs, 1981? ; United States: CBS/Fox Video, 1983?, 1983] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/89716138/>.