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Drama 16th century Drama 17th century Motion pictures Appreciation Motion pictures Production and direction Vocational guidance United States Popular culture History and criticism Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Drama Theater History 16th century Theater History 17th century Theater Production and direction Theaters Stage-setting and scenerySegel, Jason
Summary: Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, and other Muppets join with friends to save their theater from Tex Richman who is scheming to acquire the property, tear down the theater, and drill for oil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MUPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MUPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUP RATED PGSummary: Jimmy ventures out to locate a rare film print. The film, once it is shown, has been known to drive its audience into a crazed frenzy before the theatre goes up in flames. Jimmy finds that the film lives up to its reputation and the results are shocking.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CIGSummary: A young runaway breaks into an old movie palace in search of shelter on a snowy Christmas Eve. There, an old caretaker uses the ghosts and spirits of the abandoned building to turn the girl's life around. Features performances of Christmas favorites and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's arrangements of holiday classics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 2001
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC TRASummary: Julia is a true diva: beautiful, talented, wealthy and famous. She has a devoted husband who has masterminded her brillant career - but after years of the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. She finds what she is looking for in a handsome young American fan, who adds a few more sparks than...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A koala impresario stages a grand singing competition for the world's animals in order to save his elegant theater and bring it back to its former glory.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SiSummary: A small-town cinema in rural Ireland in the 1950s becomes the setting for a dramatic struggle between Rome and Hollywood, and a man and his conscience. Father Daniel Berry and the townsfolk find themselves on the cusp of the modern, but still clinging to the traditions of the church and a cultural identity forged in very different times.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Stella 2013Summary: A Japanese tourist takes refuge from a rainstorm inside a run-down movie theater and discovers that some of its patrons may actually be ghostly residents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Shortly after the civil war, a six-year-old girl attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes haunted by her memory of it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SPISummary: An intimate look inside a living time capsule, this program explores the planning and reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, presenting a day in the working life of the unique artistic institution. The video guides viewers through the facility, painstakingly designed and built to resemble the original Elizabethan playhouse, and offers commentary from the actors, artisans, and educators...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: When Tim Supple directed the filming of Twelfth Night, he was a stickler for sticking to the words as the Bard penned them. Everything else, though, was up for grabs as he and screenwriter Andrew Bannerman shifted and intercut scenes and in general translated the play into the all-encompassing language of film. In this program, members of the cast and crew use snippets of the screenplay to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In this program, Channel 4 commissioning editor John Richmond, producer Rachel Gesua, director Tim Supple, screenwriter Andrew Bannerman, and members of the cast and crew talk about the business of making a modest TV adaptation of Twelfth Night. Step by step, they walk viewers through scripting; budgeting for talent, crew, cameras, sound, sets, blue screen, lighting, and costuming; casting...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program studies the art that underlies the craft of filmmaking-a painstaking process that culminates in the take, that shared moment of concentration when everything comes together. Twelfth Night director Tim Supple and his first assistant director, production designer, director of photography, costume designer, stunt coordinator, and others offer their insights into set design, the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Computers are changing everything, including filmmaking. This program illustrates the digital postproduction process through numerous editing examples taken from Twelfth Night. Key crew members-a film editor, sound designer, sound recording engineer, digital effects artist, and others-share their expertise with setting the film's pace and rhythm, constructing sequences with different types of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Follow a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczynska's imagining. The director gives fierce teeth to her viscerally sensual, darkly feminist twist on Hans Christian Andersen's "The...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LURSummary: As World War II ends, thousands of British soldiers get 'demobbed', demobilized and sent back into civilian life. Among them are Captain Ian Deasey and Lance Corporal Dick Dobson. Deasey and Dobson have had a 'good war, ' much of it spent entertaining the troops with their bawdy stage routines. But after serving four years in the North African desert, they find it hard to adjust to peacetime...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEMAndrews, Julie.
Summary: A woman singer masquerades as a man impersonating a woman in Paris, circa 1934. This brings her success in her professional life but complicates her personal life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS VICSummary: It's Easter time in Crisper County and cable news reporter Marlee Meade is hunting for a way to help others. On a tip that the old town theater will be shut down, Marlee cooks up a plan to save the stage and make a difference through the power of musical theater. With a cast of costume-clad townies, massive props and a twenty-foot robot rabbit, 'Up With Bunnies' is hatched!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: DVD JUV VEGO'Connor, Joseph
Summary: "Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OCOSummary: Over the course of a single year at the RSC, 150 actors play 500 different roles, each requiring authentic period costuming and makeup. In this remarkable program, master costumers and makeup artists demonstrate their crafts as expressed in productions of The Tempest, Measure for Measure, and Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy. How does cleverly designed clothing help make Pompey more arrogant...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: It can take more than 100 specialists working 8,000 hours to create the set for a single stage production. How is it done? In this extraordinary program, the dynamic process of set design for RSC productions of Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, and Measure for Measure is described by the people who make it all happen. From creating a full-size tree for Benedick to climb that can be removed...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Viewed by many as the preeminent dramatist of our time, Nobel laureate Harold Pinter was also an accomplished actor, steeped in the relationship between text and performance. In this program, produced two years prior to his death, he advises a group of actors as they conduct staged readings of scenes from his plays. In addition, Pinter grants a candid and detailed interview, accompanied by his...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The theater familiar to most modern viewers had a lowly medieval birth-in churches, on festival platforms, and in the great halls of the European nobility. Hosted by Professor Richard Beacham of King's College London, this program weaves together elaborate visual tours and the latest scholarly research, surveying the evolution of Elizabethan and Renaissance stage formations and the conventions...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006