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Summary: 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WOR
Call number: DVD 709 WOR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Summary: 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HIS

Summary: Presidential campaign of 1912. Shots of Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt campaigning.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1912

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Summary: Demonstration of “liquid fire” (flamethrower) English title refers to beating the "huns" (Germans) at their own game.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917

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Summary: World War I: US General Pershing decorates French General Petain

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1918

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Summary: “America's pirate chasers”: American speed boats in action (high-speed wooden craft)

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1918

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Summary: WWI - American celebration of Armistice

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1918

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Summary: Dublin destruction after Easter Rising.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916

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Summary: American airplane factory, WWI era: title says "Americans bid for Air Mastery"; early assembly line; workers tune engines on row of biplanes; shots of planes taking the air and maneuvering.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917

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Summary: World War I: "80 Minutes To Berlin": squadron of biplanes in flight; aviation.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916

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Summary: Dublin destruction after Easter Rising.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916

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Summary: WWI - Liberty Loan Parade and Rally

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917

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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: World War I: Bombed-out city near Verdun; France; destruction; devastation.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916

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Summary: David Lloyd George. He became Secretary of War and then Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1916.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916

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Summary: WWI - Allied military leaders: Douglas Haig, General Petain, Clemenceau, US Secretary of War Newton Baker, General Tasker Bliss, General Lejeune

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917

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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Washington, D.C.: Striking close-up views of President-elect Roosevelt's arrival at the White House to take President Hoover to the Capitol for the Inaugural ceremony, and the historic ride of the celebrated pair down Pennsylvania Avenue, with a Congressional escort, as cheering thousands, massed on the sidewalks,...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010

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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fireside Chat No. 4. Washington D.C.: In a dramatic message to the nation, the Chief Executive outlines in clear terms the steps the Government will take to speed economic recovery in America. Mr. Roosevelt describes striking plans for the stabilization of currency, and for mortgage and home relief.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010

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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the repeal of Prohibition. As the December 5th deadline for the ratification of the 21st Amendment approaches, work is rushed at distilleries and bottling plants to prepare for the renewal of alcohol sales. In some towns, though, the lid is already off as the repeal of Prohibition is celebrated with old-time abandon. Gone are the days when federal agents could...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010

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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Hindenburg disaster. Lakehurst, N.J.: Thirty-five persons die and scores of others are injured as the mighty dirigible Hindenburg explodes 300 feet over the landing field at the end of her first voyage of the season from Europe. A terrific burst of flame engulfs the stern of the ship and spreads with the rapidity of lightning to the bow. The inferno of...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010

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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on a Nazi SA parade. Berlin, Germany: An unprecedented display of power and organization by the brown-shirted forces of the German Chancellor marks the final pre-election activities of the Social Democrats, with long columns of uniformed men in spirited procession down Unter den Linden from Brandenburg Gate to the Lustgarten, with Swastika banners fluttering over...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010

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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the killings of Alexander I of Yugoslavia and France's Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. Universal Newsreel brings you the first actual motion pictures of the murder of King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Barthou, shot down in the streets of Marseilles; furious spectators batter the killer to death!

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010

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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, Washington, D.C.: J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, attacks the methods of lenient parole boards in releasing known criminals. Reel 2, Quantico, Va.: Machineguns rattle as Federal agents "raid" a prop gangster hideout.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010

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Greenberg, Robert

Summary: Examines the life and works of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TCHAIKOVSKY, PETER ILICH GRE

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