Product Details

• Actors: Alfred Eisenstaedt
• Directors: David Hoffman
• Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Varied Directions
• DVD Release Date: January 1, 2003
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001LQJWG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168,770 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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David Hoffman's Alfred Eisenstaedt is 30 minutes of absolute delight.

Product Description

This is THE documentary film on great photojournalists, Life Magazine, and Eisenstaedt. It was produced with him at the height of his career. He tells all about photography, Hitler, Hollywood, the 1950s, and so much more.

In this Emmy-award-winning program, Eisenstaedt, at age 82, returns to his German homeland. all along the way, he tells stories, reveal secrets, shows his techniques. A charming funny Emmy award-winning documentary film that first ran on prime time PBS.

This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Remembering Alfred Eisenstaedt, March 18, 2009

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M. Kusumoto "Window warrior" (CA USA) - See all my reviews
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I bought my DVD of the "Alfred Eisenstaedt Photographer" through Amazon.com. While the sound quality was good, the reproduced video image quality was horrible. The colors throughout the whole DVD were badly faded and all the images looked like you were viewing everything through a snow storm. The DVD appeared to be a poorly prepared copy from VHS tape or film original.

I've always had greatest respect for Alfred Eisenstaedt for all his Life magazine covers and photo documentaries. The man had a special gift for capturing the critical moment of an event and leaving future generations a powerful visual memory of the past.

This documentary followed an elderly Alfred Eisenstaedt taking photographs of modern Germany for a 10th book. He left a his homeland and a successful photographic career in Europe after Hitler took power in Germany during the 1930s. He described a few of his famous photographs, but only few of his many important images from his long photographic career were presented on the DVD.

As an amateur photographer, I thought it was odd that the documentary film makers didn't know very much about 35mm film cameras. They showed Eisenstaedt aiming his Leica at a scene inside a museum holding the camera vertically and then they cut away to show a black and white image of same scene in a wide horizontal format. That would have been a lot of image cropping for a photo editor.

I was hoping the documentary would be at least as interesting as the BBC's documentary treatment of Alfred Eisenstaedt that is posted on YouTube. It wasn't.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incorrect description., September 22, 2010

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Ann Ivins (Milbridge, ME United States) - See all my reviews

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This video is 30 minutes long, not 60 minutes as is listed in the Amazon description. Misrepresentation should not be tolerated. Wake up, Amazon.

5.0 out of 5 stars alfred eisenstaedt photographer, August 28, 2008

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This review is from: Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt (DVD)

very good video of a all together person and photographer.

Very inspiring about his life.

Good coverage about candid type photography.