The loss of nameless things
(Video)

Subtitle on container: The true story of the playwright who fell to earth.

Includes interviews with Oakley Hall III as well as with family, colleagues from the Lexington Conservatory Theatre, and others who got to know him after his fall, including: Bruce Bouchard, George Crane, Bob Currier, Stephen Nisbet, Robin Campbell, Sands Hall, Oakley and Barbara Hall, Blair Fuller, Michael J. Hume, Steven Patterson, Richard Zobel, Kate Kelly Bouchard, Sophia Landon Geier, Patricia Charbonneau, Steve Rotblatt, Brett Hall-Jones, Dr. Steven Bock, Hilde Schuster McNeil, Sigrid Heath, James Rice, Tracy Hall, Ramona Moon, Deborah Hedwall, Molly Fisk, Louis B. Jones, and Philip Charles Sneed.

Videodisc version of the documentary film released in 2004. An 83-minute version was broadcast on February 28, 2006 as part of the PBS television series "Independent Lens."

Editor, Rick LeCompte ; photography, Mickey Freeman, Jerry Slick, Bill Bishop ; music, Barney Jones, Joan Jeanrenaud ; video/sound, Jim Rolin, Conrad B. Slater.

"In 1979 Oakley Hall III was a promising playwright on the verge of national recognition when a mysterious fall from a bridge took his artistic life away. He suffered horrific head injuries, was hospitalized nearly a year and incapacitated much longer. The Loss of Nameless Things is the haunting tale of Hall's fall from grace and what happens when, twenty five years later, a theater company stages the very play he was writing the night he fell"--IMDb website (written by the director).

Additional information available online at the PBS website and at the film's website.

DVD.