Nesbet, Anne
Summary: It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world - she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star - in the make-believe world of the movies. But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC NESContents: 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: 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: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grapevine Video 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TILSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allday Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FALStevens, Dana
Summary: "As one of the most famous faces of silent cinema, Buster Keaton was and continues to be revered for his stoic expressions, clever visual gags, and acrobatic physicality in classics such as Sherlock Jr., The General, and The Cameraman. In this spirited biography, every aspect of Buster Keaton's astonishing life is explored, from his humble beginnings in vaudeville with his parents to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEASummary: "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: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brentwood Home Video 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WORRussell, Craig
Summary: "A riveting 1920s Hollywood thriller about the making of the most terrifying silent film ever made, and a deadly search for the single copy rumored still to exist. This is the breakout from Craig Russell, author of The Devil Aspect. 1927: Mary Rourke-a Hollywood studio fixer-is called urgently to the palatial home of Norma Carlton, one of the most recognizable stars in American silent film....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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Summary: "It's 1915, and "missing" heiress Victorine Berryman is living incognito as "Bella Mae Goodwin" with her best friend, Darleen Darling, star of the exciting photoplay serials adventure-loving audiences crave. When the girls travel cross-country to set up roots in Hollywood, California, home of the developing film industry, they find themselves mixed up in a plot as dramatic as anything on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC NESSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corp. 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MARSummary: An epic adaptation of Bulwer-Lytton's novel about the final hours of residents of Pompeii before the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2000
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LASSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LosSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 1998
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BLASummary: The true dauphin is kidnapped and imprisoned, but the villains fail to take into account D'Artagnan and the three musketeers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE IROSummary: Ahmed The Thief is happy to be a vagabond rogue until he falls in love with the beautiful Princess. He must prove himself worthier of her hand than his rival, the evil Prince of the Mongols, who has come to seize the Princess, and Bagdad, for his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY ThiSummary: 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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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE UNSLoop, Liza.
Summary: An expressionistic drama about authoritarianism and revolt in an industrialized metropolis of the 21st century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment Group 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN METSummary: In The navigator, Keaton stars as Rollo Treadway, an inexperienced lad of extraordinary wealth, and surprisingly little common sense, who finds himself adrift on an immense 500 ft. yacht.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NAVSummary: Chaney is the double amputee out for revenge on the family of the doctor who mutilated him. As Blizzard, he has become the master of the underworld and plans to use his power to destroy the city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 1998
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PENSummary: [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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: Made in response to charges of racial prejudice following Griffith's Birth of a nation. Film uses four separate historical events from the fall of Babylon to the twentieth century to show that intolerance pervades in the minds of all people. Each story has its own set of characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackhawk 1916
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INTSummary: His picture in the papers: A young man can marry his sweetheart only if he becomes famous enough to have his picture printed in the paper; Mystery of the leaping fish: A satire on Sherlock Holmes which concerns a professional incident in the life of the world's greatest scientific detective; Flirting with fate: A struggling artist whose heart is broken when his sweetheart is promised in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flicker Alley 2008