Summary: Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder, ' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks/Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TROSummary: Sy works in photo processing. His favorite customers are the Yorkin family. Sy dotes on the Yorkins whenever they drop off film to be processed and they are indulgent of Sy's attentions. What the Yorkins don't know is Sy has been obsessively making copies of their photos, imagining himself to be "Uncle Sy," a member of the family. Sy's tenuous hold on reality begins to collapse when he develops...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ONESummary: Will Caludia's pregnancy make her any less hot? Why is Sean dressed as J.J. Bodybuddy? Who is displaying nude photos of Uncle Eddie? What is the dirty secret of Jimmy's Sciencenauts club? How far will Lily go to make Brad jealous? Why does the entire neighborhood think the Finnertys are trashy? And what is Sister Helen doing in a lingerie store?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GROSummary: Brock Blennerhasset makes a living out of photographing the dead in Victorian Ireland. When a series of murders threatens to sully Blennerhasset's reputation, a tenacious detective drags him into an investigation of Dublin's criminal underbelly. Set within the fascinating historical period of postmortem portraiture, this darkly comic series blends murder mystery with delightfully macabre humor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEASummary: A Cinderella story about an inconspicuous salesgirl who is whisked off to Paris by a group of fashion magazine sophisticates and is transformed into a dazzling model with whom the magazine's photographer falls in love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic FunnyCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD FUNCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FUNSummary: Pecker tells the story of a goofy 18-year-old who works in a Baltimore sandwich shop and takes photos of his loving but peculiar family and friends on the side. Pecker, so named for his childhood habit of "pecking" at his food, stumbles into fame when his work is "discovered" by a savvy New York art dealer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PECSummary: Katie and Micah are a young middle class couple who are engaged to be married. After moving into a suburban 'starter' house in San Diego, California, they begin hearing noises while trying to sleep. Not knowing if the presence is demonic or not, they attempt communicating through a Ouija board, angering the spirit further. Now they may never sleep again, or they may never wake up!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PARSummary: The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DVD MOVIECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FLA RATED RShefveland, Michelle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jasc Software 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.593 SHEMay-Levenick, Denise S.
Summary: A practical how-to guide for organizing your growing digital photo collection, digitizing and preserving heirloom family photos, and sharing your treasured photos.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Family Tree Books 2015
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.1 MAYSummary: National Geographic follows Pete Souza, the President's photographer inside the Obama White House, aboard Air Force One, backstage at the State of the Union, and into the heart of the West Wing. It's a behind-the-scenes look at the everyday grit of the American presidency and a chance to see what it's like to cover the most powerful man in the world, for history. Features intimate interviews...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRESummary: "Centers on a revolutionary machine that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After it is stolen, a fearless detective and a brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a 'dream terrorist'"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PAPSouza, Pete
Summary: During Barack Obama's two terms, Pete Souza was with the President during more crucial moments than anyone else--and he photographed them all. Souza captured nearly two million photographs of President Obama, in moments highly classified and disarmingly candid. Obama: An Intimate Portrait reproduces more than 300 of Souza's most iconic photographs with fine-art print quality in an oversize...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B OBAMA SOUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.932 SOUSummary: This compilation of five early short films by Martin Scorsese offers a fascinating window onto his artistic development. Spanning the years from Scorsese's time at NYU in the mid-1960s to the late '70s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SCOSummary: When famed photographer Christina Eames unexpectedly dies, she leaves her estranged daughter Mae Morton hurt, angry and full of questions. When a photograph tucked away in a safe-deposit box is found, Mae finds herself on a journey delving into her mother's early life and ignites a powerful, unexpected romance with a rising-star journalist, Michael Block.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE PHOAirey, Theresa.
Summary: Artist and teacher Theresa Airey introduces a variety of hands-on and software techniques that can turn conventional photographs into visually exciting masterpieces. From processing color infrared pictures to printing on Washi papers or wood panels, virtually any photo can be transformed into an unforgettable work of art.--From publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pixiq 2012