Summary: "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: "Cora and her younger sister Alice are on their way to Fort William Henry, escorted by the treacherous Magua. They are unaware that the fort, under the command of their father, is besieged by Indians who are in league with the French. The sisters are saved by Hawkeye and his Indian companions Uncas and Chingachgook. Cora falls in love with the noble Uncas, the last of his tribe. But Magua still...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Slingshot Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LASSummary: [Carmen] A beautiful gypsy girl uses her irresistable charms to seduce a faithful military guard so that a band of smugglers can penetrate his stronghold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: Set in the Limehouse district of London, this is the story of Lucy, a 15-year-old living under the violent, abusive hand of her resentful prizefighter father, Battling Burrows. Driven from her home, she finds love and protection in the home of a gentle Chinese man. Together they begin to discover the joys that life has denied both of them until that time. Then Lucy's father finds her, brutally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BROSummary: Professor Challenger, the man of vision who persuades his skeptical colleagues to return with him to a remote South American plateau where he has discovered living dinosaurs. Resisting danger and death, Challenger's party return to London in triumph with a captive Brontosaurus. But the beast excapes, turning the city into a shambles and standing the 20th century on it's head.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LosSummary: In a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that witches of the middle ages and turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients suffer from the same type of hysteria. Its a witches brew of the scary, the gross and the darkly humorous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Over 160 films survey the hitherto unknown accomplishments of pioneer filmmakers working in the United States and abroad during the formative period of American film. The series postulates an innovative and often controversial view of experimental cinema as a product of avant-garde artists, of Hollywood directors, and of amateur movie-makers working collectively and as individuals at all levels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anthology Film Archives 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An experimental film which uses numerous cinematic techniques (split screens, multiple superimpositions, variable speeds, et cetera) to present a dawn to dusk view of the Soviet Union to study the relation between cinema and reality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Film Preservation 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MANSummary: About 1830, Dr. Caligari exhibits a somnambulist, Cesare, in a fairground. Cesare tells a student that he will die "before dawn." The student is murdered and his friend suspects Caligari. Caligari orders Cesare to kill a young woman but he attempts to kidnap her instead, is hunted, and dies from exhaustion. Caligari escapes into a lunatic asylum, of which it is learned he is the director, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 1996
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CABSummary: Potemkin re-creats the 1905 mutiny on the battleship "Prince Potemkin." It focuses a mutiny by the battleship's crew and the subsequent massacre of civilians - that reflects the spirit of the times.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment, Inc. 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BATSummary: A boy (Matahi) and a girl (Reri) are in love. She is chosen by a high priest to join the ranks of the sacred virgins, thereby becoming tabu to all men. The two escape by canoe to another island for awhile but Matahi becomes indebted to a Chinese merchant. The story ends tragically when Matahi is left to drown by the high priest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lumivision 1992
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TABContents: Vol. 1: The gorilla / The Ritz Brothers -- All over town / Olsen & Johnson -- Private Snuffy Smith -- Mr. Wise Guy / The East Side Kids -- Bonus feature: famous comedy teams. Vol. 2: Half shot at sunrise / Wheeler & Woolsey -- Africa screams / Abbott & Costello -- Check and double check / Amos and Andy -- Bonus feature: Abbott & Costello radio broadcast with photo gallery. Vol. 3: Speak easily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Clair Vision 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MASSummary: The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914): Patrick Couderc is cast in female drag as the Patchwork Girl brought to life by charlatan Dr. Pipt (Raymond Russell). Also stars Jessie Mae Walsh, Mildred Harris and (briefly) Harold Lloyd.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Brentwood Home Video 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WORSummary: Tillie's Punctured Romance (71 min.) : Charlie, the dapper city guy, woos Tillie, the farmer's daughter, to get her father's money. However he just can't seem to get the money away from Tillie to enjoy time with his other girl.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Grapevine Video 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TILSummary: Most commonly known as the principle screenwriter for director William Desmond Taylor, Julia Crawford Ivers was a filmmaker of diverse talents, working as director, scenarist, production supervisor, and editor at Paramount. This collection includes The Intrigue, directed by Frank Lloyd, screenplay by Ivers. The Majesty of the Law (reel 4 only), and A Son of Erin written and directed by Julia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INTSummary: In an aristocratic English family the young lord finds to his horror, while painting his wife's portrait, that as the work progresses life drains from his lady. In this poetic horror film, called by some the most outstanding achievement of this genre, an absolute mastery of editing and rhythm is employed with lighting and Gothic sets combining to impart an unearthly sense of mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Allday Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FALSummary: An epic adaptation of Bulwer-Lytton's novel about the final hours of residents of Pompeii before the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2000
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LASSummary: In Utopia, Stan and Oliver travel to London so that Stan can claim an inheritance; "Mud & sand" is a slapstick parody of a Rudolph Valentino film of the same name; "Stan Laurel home movies" is a collection of footage shot during a tour; In The hobo, Oliver tries to keep his sweetheart; "West of Hot Dog" is a western parody; In Oranges and lemons, Stan works in an orange grove; In Should sailors...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Brentwood 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UTOLoop, Liza.
Summary: An expressionistic drama about authoritarianism and revolt in an industrialized metropolis of the 21st century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment Group 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN METSummary: MARK OF ZORRO: As the famous Mexican Robin Hood, Don Diego springs into action as Zorro, the crusader for the rights of the Mexican people.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corp. 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MARSummary: The sole survivor of a ship pillaged by buccaneers poses as a pirate to recover the ship and its treasure and to rescue a captive princess.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 1998
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BLASummary: A master filmmaker and comic genius rolled into one, Charlie Chaplin set a standard for comedy that has inspired artists for over 70 years. This set is an example of Chaplin and his trademark "Little Tramp" at their best.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment Group 1998
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHASummary: The true dauphin is kidnapped and imprisoned, but the villains fail to take into account D'Artagnan and the three musketeers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002