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Pre-Code Hollywood collection. Disc 1 [videorecording].
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1 videodisc (152 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
In 1934, Hollywood was turned upside down by the enforcement of a strict "Production Code" that would change the way movies were made for the next 34 years. But during the "pre-Code" period (1929-1934), censorship barely existed and filmmakers had free reign to make the movies they wanted and the public demanded. No subject was taboo including adultery, murder or sex.
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Pre-Code Hollywood collection. Disc 2 [videorecording].
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1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
In 1934, Hollywood was turned upside down by the enforcement of a strict "Production Code" that would change the way movies were made for the next 34 years. But during the "pre-Code" period (1929-1934), censorship barely existed and filmmakers had free reign to make the movies they wanted and the public demanded. No subject was taboo including adultery, murder or sex.
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Pre-Code Hollywood collection. Disc 3 [videorecording].
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1 videodisc (168 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
In 1934, Hollywood was turned upside down by the enforcement of a strict "Production Code" that would change the way movies were made for the next 34 years. But during the "pre-Code" period (1929-1934), censorship barely existed and filmmakers had free reign to make the movies they wanted and the public demanded. No subject was taboo including adultery, murder or sex.
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Peter Sellers 5-film collection. Disc 1, The smallest show on Earth [videorecording]
Lionsgate ; StudioCanal ; Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat present ; a British Lion Release ; a Relph-Dearden production ; screenplay by William Rose and John Eldridge ; produced by Michael Relph ; directed Basil Dearden.
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1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Comedy about a young couple who inherit a delapidated movie theater and must compete with a lavish movie theater next door.
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Remembrance of things to come [videorecording] = : Le souvenir d'un avenir
Les Films de l'equinoxe, ARTE France ; a film by Yannick Bellon & Chris Marker.
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1 videodisc (42 + 26 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
"... codirected by Chris Marker and Bellon's daughter Yannick, uses Bellon's photographs to create a ... historical portrait of the two decades between 1935 and 1955. Leaping back and forth in time, from family portraits of Bellon and her two daughters, to her unique photographic record of pre-war Paris - the first surrealist exhibition, the 1937 Paris World's Fair, the birth of the Cinématheque Française, and the Popular Front, - to images from France's African colonies, the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War and the German Occupation, the images in this ... "cineessays" are complemented by Chris Marker's ... commentary (read by ... Alexandra Stewart), a complex rumination on the interrelations between photography, memory, thought and history." -- cover sheet
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Respect yourself [videorecording] : the Stax Records story
produced by Tremolo Productions, Concord Music Group and Thirteen/WNET New York.
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
With rare performances, previously unreleased home movies and new recordings, filmmakers Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville present the first comprehensive look at Stax Records, the greatest soul label of all time. Provides first-hand accounts of what really happened on the streets and behind studio doors from celebrated musicians such as Isaac Hayes, Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper and Mavis Staples, as well as label president Al Bell, Rev. Jesse Jackson and others. -- Container.
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Revolutionary road [videorecording]
DreamWorks Pictures presents in association with BBC Films, an Evamere Entertainment, BBC Films, Neal Street production, a Sam Mendes film ; produced by John N. Hart, Scott Rudin, Sam Mendes, Bobby Cohen ; screenplay by Justin Haythe ; directed by Sam Mendes.
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1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Frank and April Wheeler live a life that appears to be perfect. They live in the Connecticut suburbs with two young children. Frank commutes to New York City where he works in an office job that he hates. One he places little effort at, but he has yet to figure out what his passion in life is. April is a housewife who forgoes her dream of being an actress. They are not happy. One day, April suggests that they move to Paris as a means to rejuvenate their life. Initially skeptical, Frank ultimately agrees to April's plan. When circumstances change around the Wheelers, April decides she will do whatever she has to to get herself out of her unhappy existence.
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Rough crossings [videorecording]
written and presented by Simon Schama ; produced and directed by Steven Condie ; a co-production of BBC and Thirteen/WNET New York.
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1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
The astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence.
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Science is fiction : 23 films [videorecording]
by Jean Painlevé ; producer, Kate Elmore.
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3 videodiscs (471 min.) : sd. and si., b&w and col. 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Focusing on the work of French filmmaker Jean Painlevé, this collection features twenty-three Painlevé nature films; a 2005 performance of the ninety-minute score, The sounds of science, written in 2001 by members of the rock group Yo La Tengo to accompany eight of Painlevé's films; an interview with Yo La Tengo; and the eight-part 1988 French television series, Jean Painlevé au fil de ses films, which explores Painlevé's life and work through interviews with the filmmaker.
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Second sight [videorecording] : Cinequest favorite short films volume four.
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1 videodisc (62 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
"What you hold in your hand is a rare collection of the choicest short films. Step into a stranger's bedroom, redefine the definition of a vice, meet fumi, and above all go with your gut instinct. There are snickers, chortles, groans, and screams with your name on them. All you've got to do is open your eyes and claim them"--Container.
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Second sight [videorecording] : Cinequest favorite short films volume one.
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Second sight [videorecording] : Cinequest favorite short films volume three.
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1 videodisc (72 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
"Watch as the stories of a toddler, an abused woman, an uncoventional couple, an Iraqi-American marine, a corporate worker, a disenfranchised youth, and the world through a moving camera unveil themselves"--Container.
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