The Incredible Shrinking man

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Call Number: DVD Science-Fiction Incredible
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch

Based on the novel by Richard Matheson.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1957.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Special features: New audio commentary with Tom Weaver and David Schecter; new program on the film's special effects by Craig Barron and Ben Burtt; new conversation between Joe Dante and Dana Gould; Auteur on campus: Jack Arnold at Universal (Director's cut) (2021); interview from 2016 with Richard Cristian Matheson; interview with Jack Arnold from 1983; 8mm home-cinema version from 1957; trailer and teaser narrated by Orson Welles; essay by Geoffrey O'Brien.
disc 1. Feature film -- disc 2. Special features.
Randy Stuart, Grant Williams, April Kent, Paul Langton, Raymond Bailey, William Schallert, Frank Scannell, Helene Marshall, Diana Darrin, Billy Curtis.
Existentialism goes pop in this benchmark of atomic-age science fiction, a superlative adaptation of a novel by the legendary Richard Matheson that has awed and unnerved generations of viewers with the question, What is humanity₂s place amid the infinity of the universe? Six months after being exposed to a mysterious radiation cloud, suburban everyman Scott Carey finds himself becoming smaller⁵ and smaller⁵ and smaller until he₂s left to fend for himself in a world in which ordinary cats, mousetraps, and spiders pose a mortal threat, all while grappling with a diminishing sense of himself. Directed by the prolific creature-feature impresario Jack Arnold with ingenious optical effects and a transcendent metaphysical ending, The Incredible Shrinking Man gazes with wonder and trepidation into the unknowable vastness of the cosmic void.
DVD; region 1, NTSC; wide screen (1.85:1); mono.
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