Louisiana Story

Academy Award nominated classic docu-drama of how a Cajun boy's life changes when oil drillers enter the Bayou. A true work of art.

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DVD Features:

Rated: Not Rated
Run Time: 1 hours, 18 minutes
Video: Black & White
Released: April 29, 2008
Originally Released: 1948
Label: Alpha Video
Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
Packaging: Keep Case
Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring		E. Bienvenu, C.P. Guedry, Joseph Boudreaux, Lionel Le Blanc & Frank Hardy
Directed by		Robert J. Flaherty
Edited by		Helen van Dongen
Music by		Virgil Thomson
Screenwriting by		Frances H. Flaherty & Robert J. Flaherty
Composition by		Virgil Thomson
Produced by		Robert J. Flaherty
Director of Photography:		Richard Leacock

Entertainment Reviews:

New York Times

May 20, 2003

Video-Reviewmaster.com

Feb 24, 2008

Apollo Guide

Oct 29, 2003

Filmcritic.com

May 17, 2003

Combustible Celluloid

Sep 18, 2005

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Jun 9, 2010

Variety

Feb 26, 2008

Description by OLDIES.com:

The innocent, routine life of Alexander Napolean Ulysses Latour, a young Cajun boy raised on the Louisiana Bayou, is forever changed when his family allows an oil derrick to be erected in their area of the swamp.

Louisiana Story was Robert J. Flaherty's final and most controversial film - mired in suspicion about its praise for the minimal ecological effect of oil drilling on the environment, while being sponsored by the oil companies. Nominated for Best Story as well as for Best Picture, Louisiana Story won Best Documentary in the 1949 British Academy Awards and a spot on the New York Times' Ten Best Films list that same year. Virgil Thomson's compelling score won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Musical Composition.

Awards:

1949 Pulitzer Prize - Music Composition
1949 Academy Award Nominee - Best Writing
1949 British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Documentary
1949 Writer's Guild of America - WGA Award Nominee

Product Description:

A Cajun boy living in the Marshlands of Petit Anse Bayou observes the growing industrialization of his state as he watches oil drillers at work in this production filmed entirely in Louisiana. Academy Award Nominations: Best Motion Picture Story.

Keywords:

Documentary

Production Notes:

THE LOUISIANA STORY, Robert Flaherty's final film, was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1994.
Virgil Thomson's musical score received a Pulitzer Prize.

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