Summary: This 1953 classic spotlights the careers of W.S. Gilbert (Robert Morley, The African Queen), a barrister turned-comic-writer, and Arthur Sullivan (Maurice Evans, Planet Of The Apes), a classic composer (converted against his will) to light music, who together wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and Iolanthe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS STOSummary: Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her; Anne, now a young woman, has become a teacher and dreams of meeting her ideal man; After a series of disappointments, Anne and her husband Gilbert return to Avonlea in search of happiness,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sullivan Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANNSummary: Presents the four complete one-hour Ed Sullivan Shows that launched the "British Invasion" of the music industry and introduced the Beatles to America. Includes the original commercials.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SOFA Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC FOUSummary: "Cloaked in the guise of a Japanese musical drama, The Mikado is a spoof of Victorian English society. Centered on Ko-Ko, a lowly tailor, it chronicles his transformation from prisoner in a country jail to the rank of Lord High Executioner. But Ko-Ko is plagued by a terrible quandary: the emperor has instructed him to produce a head -- or forfeit his own!"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the U.S. by Acorn Media 1999
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MIKSummary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Holmes and Dr. Watson must use all their cunning and detective skills in some risky operations to foil the criminal element in each of these 5 mysteries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2003
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHESummary: Now in her twenties, Anne returns to Avonlea for the first time since Marilla's death. Gilbert is offered a position in New York and he convinces Anne to go with him. Big city life isn't what they expected. After her script is stolen, they travel from New York to the war effort in Europe and they eventually return to Prince Edward Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sullivan Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANNCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANNSummary: Follows the adventures of Sara Stanley who is forced to live with her deceased mother's relatives in the town of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island. Sara's antics and misadventures lead her through tales of romance and fancy, and tragedy and comedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sullivan Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ro 6Summary: Anne leaves Green Gables and Gilbert Blythe's proposal of marriage for a teaching position. When she returns, she finds Gilbert ill with a scarlet fever and is forced to re-evaluate her true feelings for him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sullivan Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANNSummary: Follows the provocative life drama of orphan Anne Shirley, from her struggles as an adolescent to her triumphs as a young woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sullivan Entertainment 1995
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANNSummary: Follows the life of Anne Shirley, a spirited orphan with a vivid imagination, from her struggles as an adolescent to her triumphs as a young woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Co. 1985
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANNCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ANNSummary: Tensions abound and the music swells in the story about the famous musical team of Gilbert and Sullivan. The two men who were extremely different in size and stature were even more different in temperament and style. Yet, they still managed to create memorable theater. This is the story of the making of one of their most famous collaborations, The Mikado.
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Publisher / Publication Date: USA Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: A dramatization of the story about the struggle of a Boston teacher, Annie Sullivan, to communicate with and teach the deaf, blind, and mute child, Helen Keller.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family MiracleSummary: Follows the adventures of Sara Stanley who is forced to live with her deceased mother's relatives in the town of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island. Sara's antics and misadventures lead her through tales of romance and fancy, and tragedy and comedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sullivan Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ro 5Summary: "Chronicles the struggles of the Bailey family--torn apart by economic hard times while trying to survive in the Great Depression of the 1930's. Blamed by her in-laws for the tragic death of her hustand, Honey Bailey finds herself penniless and homeless. She is forced to leave her boys, Jub and Fat, with their wealthy and controlling grandmother, in the picturesque mining town of New Bedford....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WINSummary: HMS Pinafore: Ralph Rackstraw, a humble sailor, is smitten with the captain's daughter, Josephine, a woman far above his social rank. When Josephine declares her love for Ralph, the couple decide to elope. Their plans are thwarted, but the lovers are reunited when Ralph's true social position is revealed. Trial by jury: Jurors and reporters gather in a courtroom for a much-publicized case...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2005
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA GILSummary: Iolanthe used to be the life and soul of Fairyland but was banished 25 years ago for marrying a mortal. Now, pardoned by the Fairy Queen she returns as a beautiful teenager, but with a 24-year-old son, Strephon, who is half fairy, half mortal. He is in love with Phyllis, a ward of the rather susceptible Lord Chancellor. For a while, these complications wreck havoc with the proceedings of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2002
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA IOLSummary: Cinemax's first scripted primetime drama series returns. A high-octane, globe-spanning thriller, Strike Back focuses on two members of Section 20, a secret British anti-terrorist organization: Michael Stonebridge (Philip Winchester), a consummate British soldier still struggling to overcome tragedy in his life, and Damien Scott (Sullivan Stapleton), a disgraced U.S. Delta Force operative who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STRSummary: Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a third strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn't recognize, including trying to learn how to use the internet, he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast-food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ADOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ADOCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ADOSummary: All dogs go to heaven: Set in 1939 New Orleans, the story centers on Charles B. Barkin, a roguish German shepherd with the charm of a con man and the heart of a marshmallow. Out for revenge against his double-crossing former partner, a cigar-chomping pit bull known as Carface, Charlie finds himself guardian to a lonely little orphan named Anne-Marie. Her astounding ability to talk to animals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ALLSummary: London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022