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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1938. The Golden Age of Hollywood. Palm trees and movie stars. Film studios pumping out musicals, westerns, and gangster films at a furious pace. Everyone wants to be a star--except society girl and aspiring astronomer Kate Hildebrand, who'd rather study them in the night sky. She's already famous after a childhood tragedy turned her into a newspaper headline. What she craves is stability. But when Kate has to move to Hollywood to live with her washed-up...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world - she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star - in the make-believe world of the movies. But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes all too real. Now she is in the hands of the dastardly...
Series
Criterion collection volume 79
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This compilation of films pays tribute to America's cantankerous comedy genius, W.C. Fields. Legendary one-liners and slapstick routines are preserved in these early shorts that chronicle the development of Fields' irascible screen persona.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (251 min.) : silent, black and white (with tinted sequences) ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (14 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm).
Language
None
Description
Having pioneered the art and technology of cinema during its infancy (organizing a system of film production at the Gaumont Studios in France), Alice Guy Blache moved to the United States where she co-founded the Solax Company, where she served as head of a production. Enjoying complete creative freedom, she explored long-form storytelling, alternating between serious dramatizations of the early Twentieth-century American experience.
Series
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
[Steamboat Bill, Jr.] Follows the adventures of a spoiled young man forced by his father to learn the ropes of riverboating. [Convict 13] Keaton struggles for survival inside prison walls. [Daydreams] Keaton tries to find his niche by trying out various professions.
Series
Publisher
Milestone Films & Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (71 min.) : silent, black and white (tinted) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Flying high above the clouds in her dirigible, Filibus, the mysterious sky pirate, is a master of disguise and the scourge of millionaires, banks, and the police. Lowered in a gondola by her henchmen, Filibus steals from the rich and then mysteriously vanishes into the clouds. However, with the famed Detective Kutt-Hendy on her trail, Filibus must up her game. Posing as the Baroness Troixmond, the jewel thief volunteers to help the local police catch...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"[Vaudeville actress turned Hollywood insider] Jessie's thrilled when Bruno Heilmann, a movie studio bigwig, invites her to a party. Shes even more delighted to run into a face from her past at that party. But the following day, Jessie learns that sometime in the wee hours of the morning both her old friend and Bruno Heilmann were brutally murdered. She's devastated, but with her skill as an actress, access to the wardrobes and resources of a film...
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
3-Disc Deluxe Set.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (502 min.) : sound and silent, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shirley Clarke was brilliant, scandalous, bold, and incredibly talented. Had she been a man, film historians would have long ago placed her in the pantheon of great auteurs, alongside Orson Welles and John Cassavetes. Today, her triumph can be recognized in her ability to be herself--one of the great originals of her time. A true artist, Clarke combined her innate impishness and sense of adventure with a dancer's aesthetic and her tremendous drive...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina, a sleepy little place with all the trappings of an ordinary Southern town: two Baptist churches, friendly smiles coupled with silent judgments, and an unquenchable appetite for pork products. Beneath the town's cheerful faade, however, Bleak Creek teens live in constant fear of being sent to The Whitewood School, a local reformatory with a record of putting unruly teens back on the straight and narrow--a...
11) Play me a movie
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Folkways
Pub. Date
[200-?], c1971
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
None
Author
Publisher
Focal Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Technique of Film & Video Editing provides a detailed, precise look at the artistic and aesthetic principles and practices of editing for both picture and sound. Analyses of photographs from dozens of classic and contemporary films and videos provide a sound basis for the professional filmmaker and student editor. This book puts into context the storytelling choices an editor will have to make against a background of theory, history, and practice....
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (4 hr., 48 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (22 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Language
None
Description
"What for some audiences may be a delightful introduction, and others a fresh re-discovery, The Extraordinary World of Charley Bowers offers a rare portal into the imagination of one of the great innovators and creators of early cinema. Featuring new 2K transfers and new discoveries never been seen before, Flicker Alley, in association with Lobster Films and Blackhawk Films, invite you to experience the genius of cartoonist, animator, director, and...
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 630 minutes) : sound, black & whtie ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (49 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
The Marx Brothers became entertainment icons through a long and brilliant career on vaudeville and Broadway stages, and they sealed their immortality in a string of celebrated feature films. But the end of their film career was perfectly timed for a collision with the birth of television. The new medium provided Groucho, Chico and Harpo with unprecedented exposure: which meant, of course, an opportunity to bring laughter to millions of people all...
Publisher
National Film Preservation Foundation
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (596 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (xxi, 110 pages : ill. ; 20 cm)
Language
English
Description
Celebrated is the dynamic, gender-bending, ethnically diverse West that flourished in early movies. Presented is the American West as it was recorded and imagined in the first decades of motion pictures. "Brings together 40 silent and early sound films--narrative shorts and features, documentaries, promotional films, newsreel stories, and travelogues--showcasing the American West as it was recorded and imagined from 1898 to 1938." -- Booklet, p. viii....
Series
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-Ray edition.
Physical Desc
32 Blu-rays (6,253 min.) : silent and sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 x 27 cm).
Language
English
Description
Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Games, this set is the culmination of a monumental, award-winning archival project encompassing dozens of new restorations by the International Olympic Committee. The documentaries collected here cast a cinematic eye on some of the most iconic moments in the history of modern sports, spotlighting athletes who embody the Olympic motto of "Faster, Higher, Stronger": Jesse Owens shattering...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
28 Blu-rays (approximately 4,980 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tony Soprano is a middle-aged, Italian-American businessman in New Jersey with a wife, a daughter, a son, and an elderly mother. He's got a psychiatrist to tell all his secrets to, except the one she already knows. He's also a mob boss facing several crises. Rival boss Johnny Sack is in prison and the always tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack's surrogates.
Publisher
Severin Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
12 Blu-rays (1,894 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 CDs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) + 1 booklet (154 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
Multiple
Description
The most comprehensive collection of its kind begins with the definitive genre documentary of our time, Kier-La Janisse's 'Woodlands dark and days bewitched.' From there, experience 19 of the best-known, least-known, rarely-seen, and thought-lost classics of folk horror from around the world.
19) Film
Series
Publisher
Milestone film & video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (22 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
A man goes to considerable lengths to avoid being seen. Beckett's first venture into the film medium is a one-character production without dialogue, based on Berkeley's theory Esse est percipi, or "to be is to be perceived."
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