Film, Video Web Page The black stallion

Title

• The black stallion

Summary

• While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion who is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it sinks in a storm, only he and the horse survive. They are stranded on a desert island. Alec slowly befriends the horse, calling him the Black. Eventually they are rescued, and return to Alec's home, where his mother reluctantly agrees that the Black can stay in their yard, so he and Alec won't be separated. Alec meets Henry Dailey, a once-successful trainer. Together they begin training the Black to race against the fastest horse in the world.

Names

• Farley, Walter, 1915-1989
• Ballard, Carroll, film director
• Roos, Fred, film producer
• Sternberg, Tom, film producer
• Mathison, Melissa, screenwriter
• Rosenberg, Jeanne, screenwriter
• Wittliff, William D., screenwriter
• Coppola, Francis Ford, 1939- presenter
• Deschanel, Caleb, 1944- cinematographer
• Dalva, Robert, 1942- film editor
• Coppola, Carmine, 1910-1991, composer
• Preston, Earl, 1926-2015, art director
• Crugnola, Aurelio, 1928-2011, art director
• Reno, Kelly, 1966- actor
• Garr, Teri, 1944-2024, actor
• Rooney, Mickey, actor
• Muse, Clarence, actor
• Axton, Hoyt, actor
• Higgins, Michael, 1920-2008, actor
• United Artists Corporation, production company, film distributor
• Magnetic Video (Firm) film distributor

Created / Published

• United States : United Artists Corporation, 1979 ; United States : Magnetic Video Corporation, a Twentieth Century-Fox Company, [1981]

Headings

• -  Black--(Fictitious character from Farley)--Drama
• -  Arabian horse--Drama
• -  Human-animal relationships--Drama
• -  Boys--Drama
• -  Horses--Drama
• -  Shipwreck survival--Drama
• -  Horse racing--Training--Drama

Genre

• Animal films
• Action and adventure films
• Fiction films
• Feature films
• Videodiscs

Notes

• -  Based on the novel by Walter Farley.
• -  Director of photography, Caleb Deschanel ; editor, Robert Dalva ; music by Carmine Coppola ; art directors, Aurelio Crugnola, Earl Preston.
• -  Kelly Reno, Teri Garr, Clarence Muse, Hoyt Axton, Michael Higgins, Mickey Rooney.
• -  Videodisc distribution date from copyright notice on disc label and jacket.
• -  Filmed from July 4, 1977 to approximately mid-December, 1977 in Toronto, Canada, on the island of Sardinia, and in Rome, Italy.
• -  Parts of summary from the Internet movie database.
• -  On videodisc jacket: 4503-80.
• -  LC also holds a 35 mm. viewing print in the Copyright Collection. Additional holdings for this title may also be available. Contact reference librarian.
• -  This film was selected for the National Film Registry.
• -  Sources used: copyright data base; videodisc label and jacket; Internet movie database, July 27, 2020; Eagan, D. America's film legacy, 2010, p. 758-759; The Black Stallion WWW site, viewed July 27, 2020 (The First Black Stallion Movie); AFI catalog online, viewed July 27, 2020.

Medium

• viewing copy 1 videodisc of 1 (optical) (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

• DAA 1540 (viewing copy)

Source Collection

• LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)

Library of Congress Control Number

• 96505735

Online Format

• web page
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/96505735

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• MARCXML Record
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• Dublin Core Record