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Greenberg, RobertSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: A fresh and relevant narrative about the men who led this country through change and the lives they affected, from an early idea of democracy to our first African-American President.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AMESummary: A fresh and relevant narrative about the men who led this country through change and the lives they affected, from an early idea of democracy to our first African-American President.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMESummary: Only the off-beat humor of writing great James Thurber could bring to life a “hero” like Jack Smurch, played by Brad Davis (Midnight Express) Fortified only with a gallon of gin and a salami, Smurch bests even Lindbergh with the first non-stop around-the-world flight. During the four days he’s airborne, this unknown kid becomes a world hero. But on the ground a young reporter, anxious to tell...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1980
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Summary: Powers of ten ... illustrates a picnic in Chicago and then begins moving ten times farther out every ten seconds, until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light. Then, we move inward into the hand of a sleeping picnicker with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. A rough sketch ... is an earlier version of the same concept illustrated in Powers of ten. 901, after 45 years of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: Astonishing ways to share scientific data are emerging in the digital age. This program explores the phenomenal growth of supercomputing and its impact on medicine, oceanography, air traffic control, law enforcement, and other fields. Showcasing practical examples of dynamic visualization technology, the video looks at three-dimensional renderings of cities accurate to the square foot, medical...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: From Pong and Donkey Kong to Final Fantasy and Tomb Raider, this program traces the remarkable history of video games by studying the companies, technologies, and economics that are fueling the industry in Japan, the U.S., and France. It also seeks to understand the driving force behind the video game's phenomenal cultural penetration while offering insights into the rigorous development and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Video games have come a long way since Pong and Pac-Man, and the development of that
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Graphic designers with the consulting firm Navy Blue must produce a new corporate identity for Digital Animations Group, a Scottish company on the cutting edge of 3-D technology. Their task is to create a logo that captures the company's spirit and works across different formats, such as on paper, signs, windows, and Web pages. This program follows the entire process, from sitting down with the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: There is plenty to learn from women who have found success in the video game industry. This program profiles Sophie Gagnon, a background modeler who helps build game environments; Chantal Fournier, a 2-D animator with a background in fashion and a passion for games; and Erin Olorenshaw, a 3-D animator who has helped her company win several prestigious awards. Interviews with co-workers and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Infrared headlights, joysticks instead of steering wheels, engine tune-ups via modem: this Science Screen Report showcases the rapidly changing field of car design. Looking at the dominant role of digital technology in automotive engineering and testing, the program demonstrates that computers are becoming more than tools-in some cases, they actually generate ideas and give feedback. Other...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: With annual sales figures mounting up into the billions of dollars, video games have reshaped the leisure landscape. Who are the brains behind the big-budget masterpieces such as Star Wars: Force Commander and the Turok series, and what is it like to be part of a game development team? In this program, creative directors, writers, designers, artists, programmers, composers, sound effects...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This Bill Moyers program features news correspondent Richard Strout, who covered Washington and the White House from 1925 to his retirement in 1984. Strout's reports, filed for the Christian Science Monitor and The New Republic, are studied here not only as chronicles of American history but as milestones circumscribing our nation's capital-and its evolution from a "small town" to the nerve...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The 20th century began with enormous hopes for a future made safe and humane by technology. Although it realized some of these hopes, the century neared its end under the shadow of superweapons that still threaten the earth with annihilation. In this program, Bill Moyers traces the evolution of three instruments that enabled combatants to mass-produce death-the machine gun, the submarine, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The outbreak of World War II saw two motion picture experts from Germany and the United States battle each other with as much ferocity as any army or navy. Their respective missions: to ignite a public desire to wage and win a global conflict. This Bill Moyers program contains an interview with Fritz Hippler, chief filmmaker for the Nazi Party. Hippler unrepentantly claims to have spoken to the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: In 1911, the first newsreels flickered in America's nickelodeons. In the mid-1960s, they vanished from movie theaters as nightly television newscasts came to dominate visual journalism. In between, newsreels grew into a unique 20th-century institution that informed and entertained whole generations. In this program, Bill Moyers conducts a tour of the cultural and political landscape so...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: General John Joseph Pershing retrospective: Pershing at desk, cavalry in Mexican expedition against Pancho Villa; Pershing observing troops.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916
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Summary: This A&E Special chronicles the dual climax of World War II: the sweeping Allied advance in Europe that crushed the Third Reich and the final thrust in the Pacific that destroyed Imperial Japan. The Nuremberg trials and the start of the Cold War are also discussed.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: Gregory Petsko is a biochemist who studies proteins in the human body. Working with Dagmar Ringe, Petsko has reinvented our view of protein compounds, their biochemical functions, and their relationship to disease. In this TEDTalk, he makes a convincing argument that, in the next 50 years, we'll see an epidemic of neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's, as the world population ages. His...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: The Civil Rights movement becomes the most effective social movement in U.S. history. During this era, Martin Luther King, Jr. marches on Washington, and Little Rock's high school is integrated. John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as President of the United States.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: During this episode of New York: A Documentary Film, filmmaker Ric Burns explores how the post-World War I economic boom, the rise of consumer culture, and the birth of new mass media industries fueled the convergence of an incredible array of human and cultural energies, ending with the stock market crash of 1929 and the construction of the Empire State Building. In just over a decade, New...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Greenberg, Robert
Summary: Examines the life and works of Gustav Mahler.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAHLER, GUSTAV GRESummary: In the postwar free world, America becomes the acknowledged leader, striving to rebuild democracies abroad. As the Iron Curtain falls and the Cold War begins, fear of communism spreads through the country, sparking Joseph McCarthy's communist witch-hunts. At the same time, the U.S. finally faces up to racial separatism when the groundbreaking Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002