Common threads / stories from the quilt a Telling Pictures and The Couturie Company production.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, N.Y. HBO Video 1989Description: 1 videocassette (79 min.) sd., col. 1/2 inISBN:
  • 1559833955
Subject(s): Abstract: The story of the AIDS Memorial Quilt established by the San Francisco N AMES Project Foundation in 1987 to commemorate the lives lost to AIDS. From th e thousands memorialized in the quilt, profiles five individuals--including a r ecovered IV drug user, a former Olympic decathlon star and a boy with hemophili a--whose stories reflect the diversity and common tragedy of those who have die d from AIDS. Celebrates their unique personalities and achievements, interweav ing these personal histories with a chronology of the epidemic's development an d the negligence of the government.
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The story of the AIDS Memorial Quilt established by the San Francisco NAME S Project Foundation in 1987 to commemorate the lives lost to AIDS. From the t housands memorialized in the quilt, profiles five individuals--including a reco vered IV drug user, a former Olympic decathlon star and a boy with hemophilia-- whose stories reflect the diversity and common tragedy of those who have died f rom AIDS. Celebrates their unique personalities and achievements, interweaving these personal histories with a chronology of the epidemic's development and t he negligence of the government.

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

VHS.

Videocassette release of the 1989 documentary.

Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, directors and editors ; Bill Couturie, Rober t Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, producers.

Dustin Hoffman, narrator.

The story of the AIDS Memorial Quilt established by the San Francisco N AMES Project Foundation in 1987 to commemorate the lives lost to AIDS. From th e thousands memorialized in the quilt, profiles five individuals--including a r ecovered IV drug user, a former Olympic decathlon star and a boy with hemophili a--whose stories reflect the diversity and common tragedy of those who have die d from AIDS. Celebrates their unique personalities and achievements, interweav ing these personal histories with a chronology of the epidemic's development an d the negligence of the government.

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