Oklahoma! (DVD)
(Video)

Copyright: Rodgers & Hammerstein Pictures, Inc.; 13Oct55; LP5413.

Copyright notice on videodisc label: FoxVideo ; 1994.

Copyright notice on videodisc jacket: CBS/Fox Company ; 1994.

Title appears on videodisc jacket as Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!

Variety, 10/12/55 and other sources cited below list Gene Ruggiero as editor; shelflist card lists George Boemler as film editor.

Edition statement appears on credits and videodisc jacket as Special wide-screen edition; edition statement also appears on videodisc jacket as Wide-screen edition.

Film was shot both on 65 mm. using the Todd-AO process for the first time, which is projected at 30 frames per second, and on 35 mm. using the CinemaScope process; the first version released was the Todd-AO version, which was released in 1955 by Magna Theatre Corp., but since only certain theatres could show that version, the 35 mm. CinemaScope version was released in 1956 by Twentieth Century-Fox per videodisc jacket (DAA 2695), Parish, J.R. and M.R. Pitts. The great Hollywood musical pictures, p. 477 and Green, S. Encyclopaedia of musical film, p. 210-211.

On videodisc jacket: a Magna production; Magna Theatre Corp. was original distributor of film.

Originally produced on the stage by the Theatre Guild in 1943.

Produced in Todd-AO.

On credits: FoxVideo, CBS Fox Video; on videodisc label and jacket: FoxVideo; on videodisc jacket: CBS/Fox Video; Entertainment weekly, 12/23/94, p. 77 gives distributor as FoxVideo/Image.

On credits: The Samuel Goldwyn Company; unable to verify relationship to videodisc.

Videodisc is presented in original 2.2:1 Todd-AO aspect ratio.

Two videodiscs in one videodisc jacket.

LC holds videodisc reissue copy of the original Todd-AO version (viewing copy, DAA 2695); LC also holds Cinemascope reissue version (FGA 8245-8262) and videodisc reissue copy of the Cinemascope reissue version (DAA 0575).,DLC

Summary taken from videodisc jacket (DAA 0575).

On videodisc jacket: FoxVideo 4269-85.

Adapted from the musical play by Rodgers and Hammerstein based upon the a dramatic play by Lynn Riggs.

Sources used: Variety, 10/12/55; Parish, J.R. and M.R. Pitts. The great Hollywood musical pictures, p. 477; Green, S. Encyclopaedia of musical film, p. 210-211; Monthly film bulletin, v. 23, no. 273, p. 126; videodisc jacket and label; Entertainment weekly, 12/23/94, p. 77.

Music by Richard Rodgers ; book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II ; director of photography, Robert Surtees ; dances staged by Agnes DeMille ; editor, Gene Ruggiero.

Gordon MacRae (Curly), Gloria Grahame (Ado Annie), Gene Nelson (Will Parker), Charlotte Greenwood (Aunt Eller), Eddie Albert (Ali Hakim), Rod Steiger (Jud Fry), Shirley Jones (Laurey).

In the turn-of-the-century Oklahoma Territory on the brink of statehood, the story unfolds in peaceful Claremore. Laurey and Curley fuss and fight and will not admit that they love each other. Ado Annie cannot decide between Will, a handsome rodeo rider, and Ali Hakim, a smooth, citified travelling peddler. Curley and Jud Fry, the rough-edged hired hand, struggle over Laurey's affections. All will be settled at the Skidmore social.

Received: 1/10/95;,viewing copy;,purchase, paperwork in ACQ: LC Purchase, 1995;,LC Purchase Collection.