ZELIG (dvd) *NEW* Woody Allen mockumentary, and 12 similar items

Brand new factory sealed dvd is Out Of Print (OOP) and no longer being manufactured. A no frills disc from Deuce Entertainment it does boast a good sourceprint as it is licensed by MGM. It's a pop-n-go video with no menus to mess with. Since it has old film clips, these scenes are in Black White, the rest is in color. The movie is a documentary, a film that claims to tell the story of Leonard ZELIG, a once famous American who suffered from a most curious disease: He was a human chameleon. So eager to please, so loath to give offense, so willing to blend right in, that a change would take place on the cellular level, and Zelig would take on the social, intellectual, and even physical characterics of people that he would spend time with. Put him with a psychiatrist and he would begin to discuss complexes. Put him next to a Chinese man, and he began to look oriental. This ability to fit right in propelled Zelig, we are told, to the heights of fame in the early decades of the 20th century. He hobnobbed with presidents, was honored with ticker tape parades, and his case was debated by learned societies. We are introduced (always through the documentary means of newsreel film, still photos, old radio broadcasts, and narration) to one Dr. Eudora Fletcher, who is a psychiatrist. She takes Zelig as a patient, and eventually they fall in love (we see it happening, by implication, in documentary footage that concerns other things). The best thing about Zelig is the technical achievement that paved the way for 'Forrest Gump' to make those realistic appearences with famous historical figures. The actors Woody Allan, Mia Farrow, and dozens more are so successfully integrated into old footage that we give up trying to tell the real from the fictional. Easily fitting into the 'found footage' category, it pre-dates the explosion of that genre by almost a couple of decades!