Summary: In 1964, author Ken Kesey and his friends, known as the Merry Pranksters, set out on a cross-country bus trip from California to New York to visit the World's Fair. They also decided to record it, with several 16 mm movie cameras and audio tape. Compiled from more than 40 hours of footage shot during the journey, it was the magical mystery tour--fueled by both the countercultural sentiments of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Pictures 2011
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Summary: Agent Jay must call agent Kay out of retirement in order to help rid the earth of a Kylothian monster who is threatening humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Men 2002Phoenix, Jess
Summary: "Volcanologist and natural hazards expert Jess Phoenix has dedicated her life to scientific exploration. Her career path--hard earned in the still male-dominated world of science--has shoved her headlong into deep-sea submersibles, congressional races, glittering cocktail parties at Manhattan's elite Explorers Club, and numerous pairs of Caterpillar work boots. Ms. Adventure is her riveting,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHOENIX, JESS PHOColumbia Pictures
Summary: Sean Porter was a football player who turned into a juvenile detention counselor. He wrestles a seemingly insolvable problem: the vast majority of young men who leave detention fall right back into crime. Looking for a way to give these not-yet-hardened kids a taste of self-esteem and discipline, Porter manages to persuade his superiors to let him teach the kids football - and then take on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures 2007
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Summary: Three childhood friends, after discovering a hidden treasure map that was left behind by a recently departed friend, go into the Oregon wilderness in search of lost treasure. They take a canoe upriver and everything that can go wrong, does. The three become hunted by two backwoods farmers, tree-hugging hippie chicks and a crazy old mountain man. All in the hopes of finding the D.B. Cooper...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parmount Pictures 2004
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Summary: "You're invited to celebrate America's favorite seasonal traditions like never before. Ambassador of Americana Charles Phoenix mixes and mingles spectacular vintage Kodachrome slides of New Year's, Valentine's Day, Easter, Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas with his eye-popping, original recipes for epic edible centerpieces and party pleasers from his colorful Test...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prospect Park Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.568 PHOPhoenix, Joaquin
Summary: Follows Joaquin Phoenix as he transitions from a career in acting to attempting a career as a rapper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1985
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 786.2 BES(ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE MUSIC.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC GOOSony Pictures Entertaiment.
Summary: Two junior executives callously plan to date, then dump a vulnerable young secretary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Entertaiment 1997
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD COMParamount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)
Summary: Jennings is the best reverse-engineer in the business. He is hired by his friend Rethrick to do a special job, with the promise of a multi-million dollar paycheck when successfully completed. When he is finished, all memory of what he had been working on is ereased from his mind. That's when his problem really start to begin. He is hunted by the FBI for something he has no recollection of doing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SERSummary: Documentary about a community of homeless people living in a train tunnel beneath Manhattan. Depicts a way of life that is unimaginable to most of those who walk the streets above: in the pitch black of the tunnel, rats swarm through piles of garbage as high-speed trains leaving Penn station tear through the darkness. For some of those who have gone underground, it has been home for as long as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RYKO Distribution 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DARSummary: "This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DAWSummary: During the summer of 2016, a fishing boat off the shores of Iceland made a most curious catch: four reels of 35mm film, seemingly of Soviet provenance. Unlike the film find explored in Bill Morrison's Dawson City: Frozen Time, it turned out this discovery wasn't a lost work of major importance, but an incomplete print of a popular comedy starring beloved Russian actor Mihail Zarov. Does that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC VILSummary: In late 2007, filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost sensed a story unfolding as they began to film the life of Ariel's brother, Nev. They had no idea that their project would lead to the most exhilarating and unsettling months of their lives. A reality thriller that is a shocking product of our times, Catfish is a riveting story of love, deception and grace within a labyrinth of online...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Universal 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOIVE CATSchwartz, Randal L.
Summary: "If you're just getting started with Perl, this is the book you want?whether you're a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker. Nicknamed "the Llama" by two generations of users, this bestseller closely follows the popular introductory Perl course taught by the authors since 1991. This 7th edition covers recent changes to the language up to version 5.24. Perl is suitable for almost any...
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Publisher / Publication Date: O'Reilly 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 005.13 PERL SCHSummary: Director Robert J. Flaherty journeyed with his wife, Frances, and their children to the South Seas island of Savai'i to capture on film the exotic lifestyles of the Samoan people. In doing so, they resurrected and dramatized the recently vanished customs and struggles of the people just before modernization permanently altered the cultural landscape of the island. In 1975, nearly 50 years after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MOASummary: Twenty-three illustrators of children's literature discuss their lives, inspirations, and creative backgrounds and present photographs of themselves and their work spaces along with examples of their illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2007
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: J Arts ArtistSummary: "Earthlings is a feature length documentary about humankind's absolute economic dependence on animals raised as pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research. Using hidden cameras and never-before-seen footage, Earthlings chronicles the day-to-day practices of some of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit. Earthlings is the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Earthlings.com 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EARHiggins, Jack
Summary: Twin boys Harry and Max Kelso are separated at the age of twelve when their parents divorce, leaving Harry in the U.S. with his father and sending Max to live in Germany with his mother, but the two meet again in the early days of World War II, this time as pilots on opposite sides of the conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2008
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HIGSummary: An intensely intimate look at one of the biggest hard rock/heavy metal bands of all time, with over 90 million albums sold. Takes you inside the studio, the counseling sessions the band went through together and the difficult process of finding a new band member.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2005
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC METSummary: The tragedy and horror of the 9/11 attacks triggered a host of changes in America, including a reassessment of the role of sports and its accompanying hero-worship. Batting averages and home run totals were no longer paramount, particularly in New York, but in the Fall of 2001 baseball played a significant role in the city's recovery efforts. Revisits that remarkable and inspiring phenomenon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NINGrogan, John
Summary: A collection of more than eighty newspaper articles witten by John Grogan when he was a columnist at the Philadelphia inquirer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Audio 2009