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Ralph Lee : masks, festival figures & theater designs

Title
Ralph Lee : masks, festival figures & theater designs [videorecording] / [video director] Mark Robison ; [video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc.
Publication
New York, c1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Lee, Ralph.
  • Lee, Ralph
  • Cohen-Stratyner, Barbara Naomi.
  • Robison, Mark (Cameraman)
  • Shelby Cullum Davis Museum.
  • New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
  • Character Generators/Video.
  • Jim Henson Foundation.
  • Jim Henson Foundation, donor.
Description
1 videodisc (DVD) (123 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  • Ralph Lee, designer of masks and puppets, puppeteer, director, and sometime performer, fields questions about his career from an audience attending the exhibition devoted to his work at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Mr. Lee speaks of his early productions in the 1970's at Bennington College in Vermont, where he was an instructor, his work in collaboraton with Theater for the New City which resulted in the establishment of the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, and of more recent projects, such as annual performances at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, produced under the auspices of his Mettawee River Theater Company. He also discusses the theatrical functions of masks and puppets in a more general sense, as well as detailing his construction techniques.
  • After Mr. Lee concludes his presentation, at 78:00, there is a brief blackout, which is followed by a video 'walking tour' of the Ralph Lee exhibit; Mr. Lee is not present, but, following a silent segment of about ten minutes, informal narration is occasionally supplied by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Curator of Exhibitions.
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Note
  • This program was presented in conjunction with an exhibit entitled Ralph Lee: Masks, Festival Figures and Theatre Designs, which occupied the Main Gallery of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts from February 6 to May 2, 1998.
  • Technical problems occur at three points during the first cassette, causing the video camera to cease operating temporarily; an indeterminate amount of material was not recorded during these breaks in the continuity. These breaks occur at 29:09, 48:20, and 56:00.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped for the Shelby Cullom Davis Museum of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in its Main Gallery, March 24, 1998.
Funding (note)
  • Recorded with the financial assistance of The Jim Henson Foundation Collection on Puppet Theatre of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
Call Number
NCOW 217
OCLC
NYPG00-F1
Title
Ralph Lee : masks, festival figures & theater designs [videorecording] / [video director] Mark Robison ; [video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc.
Imprint
New York, c1998.
Event
Videotaped for the Shelby Cullom Davis Museum of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in its Main Gallery, March 24, 1998.
Funding
Recorded with the financial assistance of The Jim Henson Foundation Collection on Puppet Theatre of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
Local Note
DVD playback copy donated by the Jim Henson Foundation.
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Local Subject
Tributes.
Added Author
Lee, Ralph.
Lee, Ralph, speaker.
Cohen-Stratyner, Barbara Naomi.
Robison, Mark (Cameraman), videographer.
Shelby Cullum Davis Museum.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Character Generators/Video.
Jim Henson Foundation.
Jim Henson Foundation, donor.
Research Call Number
NCOW 217
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