Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Contents: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Clair Vision 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAS

Summary: Collection of the Stooges' filmography.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image/Madacy Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THR

Summary: The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Curly) are on a mission. Left on the doorstep of an orphanage run by nuns, the young trio grows up finger-poking, nyuk-nyuking, and woo-woo-wooing their way into trouble. Now years later, with the orphanage forced to close its doors, the Three Stooges embark on a wacky mission to save it. Hilarious mischief and mayhem ensue.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Th

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THR RATED PG

Summary: "Duck soup": To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs Teasdale agrees to donate 20 million dollars if Rufus T. Firefly is appointed its new president. "Horse feathers": Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. "Monkey business": While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAR

Summary: Here's how it all began-the classic episodes that started America's long-running love affair with everyone's favorite madcap redhead, Lucille Ball. Plus the rarely seen pilot episode that sold the I Love Lucy series. By the end of its initial season, I Love Lucy was TV's first bona fide smash-hit-the very first program seen in more than 10 million homes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD I

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV I

Summary: Peter reveals his sweet K-pop dance moves, Stewie lands a sticky gig as a peanut butter spokesbaby, Brian fetches true love in India, and the gang spends a terrifying night in a totally insane asylum. It's a haunting and hilarious complete season.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FAM

Summary: The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA CAR

Summary: Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the servants at Tottney Castle have a betting pool on who Lady Alyce will choose. Features the Academy Award-winning dance number "Fun house" with Astaire, Burns and Allen.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS DAM

Summary: A fugitive, falsely accused of murder, is aided by a schoolteacher and a Supreme Court nominee in George Stevens' serio-comic look at law and justice in America.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TAL

Summary: Cuban-born bandleader Ricky Ricardo and his wife, Lucy, live in a Brownstone apartment building on East 68th Street in New York City. The beautiful, but daffy Lucy has the nasty habit of getting into jams, scrapes, and predicaments of all kinds. Their best friends and landlords, Fred and Ethel Mertz, frequently find themselves in the middle of Lucy's outlandish escapades. Now in the third...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2012

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV I

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV I 3

Summary: Nanny enrolls Eloise in the prestigious Hawthorne Academy, but she soon finds out it isn't exactly what she was expecting. There are mean girls on the playground, very strict teachers, and so many rules. Eloise decides it is time to make school fun again, she's teaching her new friends to stand up to bullies, helping her teacher understand there are a lot of different ways to learn and having...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ELO

Summary: "Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts of the Rhythm Boys...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS KIN

Summary: A gambler on the run meets and marries a librarian after she wins a coin toss.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NO

Summary: In a re-telling of Cinderella, an independent young woman in the sixteenth century overcomes all odds to win the heart of the crown prince; Ben Wrightman's girlfriend Lindsey must compete with the Red Sox for his attention once baseball season starts; An ex-nerd reporter goes undercover as a high school student to learn about today's teens.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DRE

Summary: London-based thirty-something Bridget Jones continues her romantic relationship with Mark Darcy, despite many humorous complications.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRI

Summary: A family must use a magical box of animal crackers to save a run-down circus from bing taken over by their evil uncle Horatio P. Huntington.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANI

Summary: Max Skinner is a ruthless, successful English investment broker with no time for life outside of his job. When his uncle dies, Max inherits the chateau and vineyard in the south of France where he grew up, but he then meets a potential rival to the inheritance, a young American who claims to be his illegitimate cousin. His first intention is to sell the vineyard as quickly as possible, but...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOO

Summary: A frustrated city girl decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE MAJ

Summary: Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THE