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Series
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (274 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Poor little right girl: Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only with making money, and her mother cares only about her social position. But one day a servant's irresponsibility creates a crisis that causes everyone to rethink what is important to them.
Hoodlum: Pampered Amy Burke gets bored living with her wealthy grandfather in a New York...
82) Chicago
Series
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Deluxe edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 213 min.) : sound, black and white and tinted ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
The story of jazz-loving flapper Roxie Hart, put on trial for the murder of her lover, who hits the headlines with her courtroom theatrics.
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (169 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
An early silent film describing a journey by rocket ship to the moon. Rather than a flight of pure fantasy, director Fritz Lang conceived a modernized "trip to the Moon" grounded in state-of-the-art astrophysics & spiced with romance and espionage. One of the most influential science fiction films of its era, in many respects technically accurate.
Publisher
Kino Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Deluxe collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (189 min.) : sound, black and white, some color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a love triangle between a self-absorbed husband, the neglected wife, and her opportunistic lover. The Great Gabbo is the story of Gabbo, a ventriloquist and a supreme egotist, Mary, his assistant, and Little Otto, Gabbo's dummy. Gabbo drives away Mary, then realizes too late how much he loves her.
85) Mr. Wu
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Raised by his grandfather to adhere to the ancient laws of China, Mandarin Wu is a strict authoritarian. However, he is a doting father to his beautiful daughter Nang Ping. Nang Ping is to be married to a man of her father's choosing, a man she does not even know. But she falls in love with a dashing British visitor to China, Basil Gregory. Basil informs Nang Ping that he must return to Britain with his family, but she surprises him with the revelation...
86) Mockery
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While scavenging for food among dead bodies during the Russian Revolution, a slow-witted peasant named Sergei is hired by a desperate woman to guide her out of the carnage. In exchange for promises of friendship and a secure future, he endures torture to save her. The woman turns out to be a countess, the friendship and secure future become a degrading job in her kitchen and Sergei, inflamed by proletarian ideals, embraces violence.
88) Origins of the fantasy feature: The patchwork girl of Oz (1914) and A Florida enchantment (1914)
Series
Library of Congress video collection volume 4
Publisher
Unapix Consumer Products
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
1 video cassette (129 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in. + 1 guide.
Language
English
Description
A whimsical fairy tale about munchkins in the land of Oz (1st work) and an unusual fable about a woman who discovers magic seeds that transform women into men and men into women (2nd work).
89) Tartuffe
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (63 min.) : silent, color tint ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A religious hypocrite insinuates himself into a wealthy Parisian family.
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A conman is entrusted to take care of a young orphan girl until he can return her to her grandparents, but learns that the grandfather of the girl is a judge who despises conmen.
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Deluxe edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A bridegroom is riding to his marriage when his horse eats a straw hat hanging on a branch while its owner, a married lady, enjoys a tryst behind the bush with her lover, a fierce hussar. She cannot go home without her hat, so the groom interlaces his wedding with an attempt to find madam a twin chapeau, launching a series of misunderstandings and embarrassments.
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : silent, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Bells (1926, 68 min.). An ambitious innkeeper murders a wealthy traveller to settle his debts and is haunted by a hypnotist in a traveling carnival. His conscience is tormented by an apparition of the dead man seeking a confession of his own. At 3:25 (1922, 19 min.). A surreal fantasy in which an eccentric scientist freezes the population of Paris with a mechanical ray of his own invention. The American edition of the French film.
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Jane Vale is a tough-as-nails businesswoman who lives by her late father's edict: "Let no man be necessary to you." When Robert Elliot, an employee twenty years her junior, questions Jane's authority, her immediate response is to fire him. But something about the young man's spirit (and handsome good looks) makes her go against her father's credo. She gives him a job as her personal secretary. Robert becomes the butt of jokes among the staff, who...
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (151 min.) : sound, black and white and color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
True heart Susie: A young girl sells the family cow to anonymously finance her sweetheart's education, only to find he's left her for a modern woman.
Hoodoo Ann: An orphaned girl's life is cursed and she thinks that the cause is a doll.
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 video cassette (70 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
A documentary in which Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack and Marguerite Harrison travel through Asia Minor and Iraq to reach a tribe of nomads in Iran known as the Bakhtyari. They follow the tribe on its forty-eight day trek across deserts, streams and mountains to reach pasture for their flocks. These three people were the first Westerners to cross the Zardeh Kuh Pass and the first to make this migration with the tribes.
99) The freshman
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs + 1 Blu-ray (76 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
English
Description
Though he dreams of being a big man on campus, the freshman's careful plans inevitably go hilariously awry, be it on the football field or at the Fall Frolic. But he gets a climactic chance to prove his mettle, and impress the sweet girl he loves, in one of the most famous sports sequences ever filmed. This crowd-pleaser is a gleeful showcase for Lloyd's slapstick brilliance and incandescent charm.
Series
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (67 min.) : silent, black and white and color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Premiered in Germany in 1926 and is based on the stories from "The Arabian nights", this movie has been hailed as the first full-length animated film. This is the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse that sends the rider off on a flight to his death.
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