Born free

Resource Information

The work Born free represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Born free

Statement of responsibility

Columbia Pictures and Carl Foreman present ; an Open Road-Atlas co-production ; written for the screen by Gerald L.C. Copley ; produced by Sam Jaffe and Paul Radin ; directed by James Hill

Creator

• Born free (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Keen, Geoffrey, 1916-2005
• McKenna, Virginia, 1931-
• Radin, Paul B., 1913-2001
• Talbot, Kenneth, 1920-1993
• Travers, Bill
• Hill, James, 1919-1994
• Columbia Pictures
• Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Open Road Films
• trueAdamson, Joy
• Barry, John, 1933-2011
• Cole, Lester, 1904-1985
• Foreman, Carl
• Atlas Films
• Jaffe, Sam, 1901-2000

Actor

• McKenna, Virginia, 1931-
• Travers, Bill
• Keen, Geoffrey, 1916-2005

Cinematographer

• Talbot, Kenneth, 1920-1993

Composer

• Barry, John, 1933-2011

Film director

• Hill, James, 1919-1994

Film producer

• Radin, Paul B., 1913-2001
• Jaffe, Sam, 1901-2000
• Foreman, Carl

Screenwriter

• Cole, Lester, 1904-1985

Subject

• Feature films
• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• Félidos -- Conducta -- Teatro
• Lion
• Lion -- Africa -- Drama
• Lion -- Behavior
• Lion -- Behavior -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Wildlife reintroduction
• Wildlife reintroduction -- Drama
• Félidos -- África -- Biografía | Teatro
• Adamson, Joy
• Adamson, Joy -- Film adaptations
• Africa
• DVD-Video discs
• Drama
• Elsa, (Lion)
• Elsa, (Lion) -- Drama

Genre

• DVD-Video discs
• trueFilm adaptations
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Feature films
• Biografía
• Teatro
• trueDrama

Language

• eng
• eng
• fre
• jpn
• kor
• spa
• eng

Summary

When game warden George Adamson is forced to kill a lion and lioness, he and his wife Joy adopt their three cubs. Two are sent off to zoos but the third is kept, a female they name Elsa. When Elsa is fully grown, the Adamsons realize she must be taught to survive on her own

Awards note

Academy award winner. Best score and best song, 1967.

Cataloging source

SDE

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Kenneth Talbot ; editor, Don Deacon ; music composer and conductor, John Barry

Dewey number

791.43/72

Language note

English dialogue with optional Japanese, French, Spanish or Korean subtitles; Closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.B676 2003

PerformerNote

Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen, Peter Lukoye, Omar Chambati, Bill Godden, Robert Young

Runtime

95

Target audience

general

Technique

live action