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Drama 16th century Drama 17th century Motion picture theaters Motion picture theaters Fiction Motion pictures Appreciation Motion pictures Production and direction Vocational guidance United States Popular culture History and criticism Sound Recording and reproducing Theater History 16th century Theater History 17th centuryDenson, Abby
Summary: "There's just one thing Kitty Sweet Tooth loves more than going to movies, and that's eating delicious desserts. Now that Pop-Pop's movie theater has fallen on hard times, Kitty decides that only dessert can keep it from closing its doors. With a coat of paint, a tasty new menu, and a lot of hard work, Kitty and her friends transform this ramshackle theater into the Taste-O-Rama, a combination...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DENSummary: When his curiosity leads him to investigate how the movie gets onto the screen, George, an inquisitive monkey, disrupts the show.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2008
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1 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE CURCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC REYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Rey 2008Stine, R. L.
Summary: "Ruthie and Ezra are eager to star in their family's films when their dad and uncle buy an old Hollywood movie studio, but as they explore the place, they have several strange accidents. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STISummary: Jimmy ventures out to locate a rare film print. The film, once it is shown, has been known to drive its audience into a crazed frenzy before the theatre goes up in flames. Jimmy finds that the film lives up to its reputation and the results are shocking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CIGSummary: The documentary portrait of theater operator Nicolas "Nick" Nicolaou moves from the 1970s Times Square adult film houses through decades of city regulation, chain takeovers, and cultural shifts, charting a charming odyssey through the history of film exhibition and New York City. Abel Ferrara traces the life and work of friend and fellow cinephile Nicolaou, a Cypriot immigrant who began working...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PROCousins, Lucy.
Summary: "Maisy and her friends are so excited! They're going to see a fun adventure film. With tickets and snacks at the ready, they scramble for seats and settle in for the movie to begin. Cyril's a little afraid of the dark, but Maisy is happy to hold his hand. When Eddie enthusiastically shouts at the screen, he quickly learns a lesson in movie etiquette! After little ones share this outing with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2014
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1 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE MAISummary: A young runaway breaks into an old movie palace in search of shelter on a snowy Christmas Eve. There, an old caretaker uses the ghosts and spirits of the abandoned building to turn the girl's life around. Features performances of Christmas favorites and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's arrangements of holiday classics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 2001
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC TRABowers, Q. David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vestal Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792 BOWSummary: The true story of Donald Rugoff, the crazy genius who kicked art films into the mainstream in the 1960's and 1970's with outrageous marketing schemes and pure bluster. Rugoff's impact on cinema culture in the United States is inestimable, and his influence on the art film business is undeniable. Yet, mysteriously, Rugoff has become a virtually forgotten figure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEASummary: A Japanese tourist takes refuge from a rainstorm inside a run-down movie theater and discovers that some of its patrons may actually be ghostly residents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Video 2005
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Summary: Back in the Pink City where he was once a wily street urchin, Malik, assigned to help Samir Singh's feckless son Ravi build the new public cinema, finds his livelihood, reputation and the people he loves most threatened after Ravi implicates him in a ruthless scandal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOSCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOSKovály, Heda
Summary: "In 1985, Czech Holocaust memoirist, literary translator, and political exile Heda Margolius Kovaly turned her pen to fiction. Inspired by the stories of Raymond Chandler, Kovaly knit her own terrifying experiences in early 1950s Socialist Prague--her husband's imprisonment and wrongful execution, her own persecution at his disgrace--into a gorgeous psychological thriller-cum-detective novel....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOVSummary: Shortly after the civil war, a six-year-old girl attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes haunted by her memory of it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SPISummary: A small-town cinema in rural Ireland in the 1950s becomes the setting for a dramatic struggle between Rome and Hollywood, and a man and his conscience. Father Daniel Berry and the townsfolk find themselves on the cusp of the modern, but still clinging to the traditions of the church and a cultural identity forged in very different times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Stella 2013Bourne, Holly
Summary: Audrey gave up on romance before meeting aspiring filmmaker Harry at the cinema where they work, but soon they are deeply in love--and not like it is portrayed in movies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Summary: Scooby-Doo and his friends investigate when the old Palace Theater develops a guitar-playing ghost just as it is about to be sold to former rock star turned real-estate magnate Stuart Banyon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GELMelnick, Ross.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MBI 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.43 MELStewart, Mariah
Summary: "From Mariah Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of The Chesapeake Diaries series, comes the next book in her popular Hudson Sisters series, which follows a trio of reluctant sisters who set out to fulfill their father's dying wish and discover themselves in the process in this "sweet reminder of the importance of family" (First for Women). California girl Allie Hudson Monroe can't wait...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION STEPildas, Ave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: C.N. Potter 1980
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.43 PILDiCamillo, Kate.
Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Watson and their porcine wonder, Mercy, are off to the Bijou Drive-In. What will happen when the Lincoln Sisters, Frank, Stella, and a gaggle of familiar characters get the same idea for a night out? With the tempting scent of hot buttered popcorn wafting through the air, everyone's favorite pig leads the way in this hilarious romp featuring movies, mayhem, and Mercy!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DiCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC DICSummary: This episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series from the National Archives and Records Administration was produced for American forces and their families in Europe. The purpose of this film was to entertain, to inform, and to keep the soldiers and their families aware of all facets of their mission abroad. Newsreel in style, the footage was originally released in motion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In this program, Channel 4 commissioning editor John Richmond, producer Rachel Gesua, director Tim Supple, screenwriter Andrew Bannerman, and members of the cast and crew talk about the business of making a modest TV adaptation of Twelfth Night. Step by step, they walk viewers through scripting; budgeting for talent, crew, cameras, sound, sets, blue screen, lighting, and costuming; casting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: When Tim Supple directed the filming of Twelfth Night, he was a stickler for sticking to the words as the Bard penned them. Everything else, though, was up for grabs as he and screenwriter Andrew Bannerman shifted and intercut scenes and in general translated the play into the all-encompassing language of film. In this program, members of the cast and crew use snippets of the screenplay to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program studies the art that underlies the craft of filmmaking-a painstaking process that culminates in the take, that shared moment of concentration when everything comes together. Twelfth Night director Tim Supple and his first assistant director, production designer, director of photography, costume designer, stunt coordinator, and others offer their insights into set design, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006