Viridiana

March 16, 2012
Viridiana
Call Number: VHS01699
by: Luis Buñuel; Silva Pinal; Paco Rabal; Fernando Rey; Uninci Films 59.; Hen’s Tooth Video (Firm)
Format: VHS
Language: Spanish with English subtitles.
Publisher:  Las Cruces, NM : Distributed by Hen’s Tooth Video, [1992]
Notes: Originally produced as motion picture in Spain in 1961. Spanish censorship resulted in the film’s first being released in France and widely circulated by the Mexican distributor. Won Grand Prix Award, 1961 Cannes Festival. 90 min.
Summary: Viridiana, about to take final religious vows, visits her uncle at his country estate. He drugs her and attempts rape, finds he cannot go through with it, and hangs himself, leaving the estate to Viridiana and his illegitimate son, Jorge. While Jorge purues plans to modernize the estate, Viridiana attempts to convert it into a haven for derelicts. Left alone, the beggars take over the house for a feast which becomes an orgy; one of the beggars rapes Viridiana when she and Jorge return home. After the beggars are dispersed by police, Viridiana assumes more modern dress and joins in a card game with Jorge and his mistress. A powerful film widely considered to one of Buñuel’s most important works.
OCLC #: 27073974
Added: March 16, 2012
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Running Wild

Running Wild
Call Number: VHS01698
by: W C Fields; Mary Brian; Marie Shotwell; Gregory La Cava; Roy Briant; Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Video, ©1987.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1927. 67 min.
Summary: Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. He enters a contract with a fifteen-thousand dollar payoff, so his courage can last beyond the hypnosis.
OCLC #: 18341908
Added: March 16, 2012
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Craig’s Wife

December 3, 2011
Craig’s Wife
Call Number: VHS01570
by: Rosalind Russell; John Boles; Billie Burke; Jane Darwell; Dorothy Wilson; Alma Kruger; Thomas Mitchell; Dorothy Arzner; George Kelly; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; RCA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Publisher: Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, ©1986.
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1936 motion picture. Based on the Pulitzer Prize play by George Kelly. Running Time: 75 min.
Summary: A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.
OCLC #: [?]
Added: December 3,2011
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Casablanca

November 30, 2011
Casablanca
Call Number: VHS01567
by:  Michael Curtiz; Humphrey Bogart; Ingrid Bergman; Paul Henreid; Sydney Greenstreet; Peter Lorre; Murray Burnett; Warner Bros. Pictures.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1988.
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1943 motion picture (running time 76 mins.) Based on the unproduced play, “Everybody comes to Rick’s,” by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison. Nominated for eight Oscars in 1944.
Summary: Suspenseful, sweepingly romantic, and epicly exciting – the time: World War II; the place: unoccupied Morroco seething with European refugees depserate for passage out of Europe. Casablanca is the story of Rick, a world-weary, broken hearted cynical nightclub owner at the heart of the city. Ilsa, fleeing the Nazis with her Resistance-hero husband crosses paths with Rick, but not for the first time. As intrigue, seduction, and betrayal threaten to destroy everything that Rick has worked for and Ilsa’s husband has fought for, only Rick holds the key to freedom. Faced with the choice to follow his heart or his idealism, this story has it all!
OCLC #: 18671492
Also Available on DVD
Added: November 30, 2011
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The Adventures of Tarzan Vol. 1 – 4

November 11, 2011
The New Adventures of Tarzan Vol. 1-4
Call Number: VHS1550
by: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Viking Entertainment : Viking Video Classics, ©1986.
Notes: Based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Originally released as a motion picture serial in the U.S. in 1935 ; originally produced by Dearholt, Stout, & Cohen; an Ashton Dearholt Expedition picture. 4 videocassettes, each approx 60 mins.
Summary: “An educated Tarzan must go to Guatemala to help a friend find a lost fortune. They brush against violent revolutionaries and the lurking Secret Service” Contents: 1. A new adventure; 2. Crossed trails; 3. Devil’s noose; 4. River perils; 5. Unseen hands; 6. Fatal fangs; 7. Flaming waters; 8. Angry gods; 9. Doom’s brink; 10. Secret signals; 11. Death’s fireworks; 12. Operator 17.
OCLC #: 61723963
Added: November 11, 2011
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A Letter to Three Wives

April 25, 2011
A Letter to Three Wives
Call Number: DVD00996
by Sol C Siegel; Joseph L Mankiewicz; Jeanne Crain; Linda Darnell; Ann Sothern; Kirk Douglas; Paul Douglas; Barbara Lawrence; Jeffrey Lynn; Connie Gilchrist; Florence Bates; Hobart Cavanaugh; Arthur C Miller; J Watson Webb; Alfred Newman; Vera Caspary; John Klempner; Christopher Mankiewicz; Kenneth L Geist; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.; 
Format: DVD
Language: English  
Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2005].
Notes: Originally released in 1949 (103 mins; Black & White); Adapted by Vera Caspary from the novel : Letter to Five Wives / by John Klempner; Nominated for three 1950 Academy Awards; Special features: optional commentary by Christopher Mankiewicz with Joseph L. Mankiewicz biographers Kenneth Geist and Cheryl Lower ; “Linda Darnell: Hollywood’s Fallen Angel”, an A & E Network Biography program (45 min.); Fox Movietone News (Oscar footage); restoration comparison; theatrical trailer (3 min.)
Summary: Slice of Americana about three women on a group vacation receiving a letter from a flirt who has run off with one of their husbands- but who leaves the wives guessing as to whose husband has been stolen.
OCLC #: 57300248
Added: April 25, 2011
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Call Number: DVD00838
by Stephen Roberts; Edward Kaufman; Anthony Veiller; James Edward Grant; William Powell; Jean Arthur; James Gleason; RKO Pictures.; Warner Home Video (Firm).; 
Format: DVD
Language: English  
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2010.
Notes:Originally released in 1936 (80 mins; Black & White);
Summary: Amateur sleuth Dr. Bradford teams up with his ex-wife to solve the race track murders.
OCLC #: 670484697
Added: April 25, 2011
Also: Available on VHS at VHS00078
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Kacho Kamplo

April 24, 2011
Kacho Kamplo
Call Number: VHS01667
by Marie-Jo Thério; Paul Bossé; Jacques Turgeon; Païens (Groupe musical); Office national du film du Canada. Studio documentaire Acadie.;
Format: VHS
Language: French
Publisher:  [Montréal] : L’Office, ©2002.
Notes: Originally released in 2002 (52 min). Black and White Sequences
Summary:
OCLC #: 51551698
Added: April 24, 2011
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Barack Obama

April 22, 2011

Barack Obama

Call Number: DVD00659

by Maurice Bisaillon; Samantha Sanders; Julie Trueman; Rodd Houston; Towers Productions, Inc.; Biography Channel (Firm); Arts and Entertainment Network.; New Video Group.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [New York, NY] : A & E Television Networks : Distributed by New Video, [2008], ©2005.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2008 (47 min). Black and White and color.
Summary:Follow Obama through his teenage struggles for self-identity, his student days at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, and his political career in Chicago. Go behind the scenes of Obama’s extraordinarily successful presidential campaign and his journey towards the 2008 Democratic Convention.
OCLC #: 232161697
Added: April 22, 2011
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La maternelle

April 18, 2011
La Maternelle (“The Kindergarten”)
Call Number: VHS01660
by Paulette Elambert; Madeleine Renaud; Sylvette Fillacier; Léon Frapié; Richard Peña; Jean Benoit-Lévy; Marie Epstein; Water Bearer Films (Firm); Metropolis Pictures Corp.;
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher:  [S.l.] : Waterbearer Films, ©1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1933 (83 min. Black & White) Based on a novel by Léon Frapié.
Summary: A compassionate story of the sad faced, squalid children of the Paris slums who find daily sanctuary in “La Maternelle” from the ugliness and terror of their lives at home.
OCLC #: 27375438
Added: April 18, 2011
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Pas de deux

April 3, 2011
Pas de deux or duo.
Call Number: VHS01638
by Norman McLaren; Les Grands ballets canadiens.; National Film Board of Canada.; Simon and Schuster Communications, inc;
Format: VHS
Language:  French, English subtitles?
Publisher: Northbrook, Ill. : Simon & Schuster Communications, 1969.
Notes: Originally released in 1968 (14 mins. Black & White); Nominated for one 1969 Academy Award;
Summary: Illuminates the grace, beauty, and movement of the classical ballet form through the use of strobe-like or multi-image patterns. Features Margaret Mercier and Vincent Warren of Les Grands ballets canadiens.
OCLC #: 80787901.
dded: April 3, 2011
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Los olvidados

April 1, 2011
The Young and the Damned.
Call Number: VHS01632
by Luis Buñuel;
Format: VHS
Language:  English
Publisher:Mount Vernon, NY : Audio Brandon, 1950.
Notes: Originally released in 1950(Aprox. 81 mins.); In Black and White. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Summary:This study of searing poverty, set in the outskirts of Mexico City, follows the lives of a group of young boys caught in an endless cycle of violence. Pedro, an innocent youth, becomes corrupted by Jaibo and a group of juvenile delinquents. Bunuel mixes harsh realism with his signature surrealistic touches.
OCLC #: 317359649.
dded: April 1, 2011
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Documentary Masterpieces By John Grierson: Five Documentaries Circa 1931 to 1960

Documentary Masterpieces By John Grierson: Five Documentaries Circa 1931 to 1960
Call Number: VHS01631
by John Grierson; Robert Joseph Flaherty; Len Lye; Julian Huxley; Hilary Harris; Gaumont British Picture Corp.; Templar Film Studios.; Great Britain. Post Office. Film Unit.; New Era Films, Ltd.; Treasure Chest (Firm); Contemporary Films (Firm); Clyde Shipbuilders’ Association.; Films of Scotland (Organization); Hollywood’s Attic (Firm;
Format: VHS
Language:  English
Publisher:Burbank, Calif. : Hollywood’s Attic, 1996.
Notes: Originally released between 1931-1960(Aprox. 75 mins.); In Black and White and Color
Summary: A compilation of documentary films. Industrial Britain examines Britain’s factories and mines during the early 1930s. A colour box is an experimental film in which abstract images dance across the screen to Latin music. Granton trawler is about fishermen engaged in dragnet fishing off the coast of Scotland. The private lives of the gannets is a study of the behaviour patterns and lives of a bird colony of gannets situated on Grassholm Island, Wales. Seawards the great ships examines the Clyde River in Scotland to observe men assembling materials, constructing, and launching a variety of vessels.
OCLC #: 40795621
dded: April 1, 2011
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September 1939

September 1939
Call Number: VHS01629
by Fredrick Gavsie; Frank Willis; Video Images (Firm); Zodiak Films;
Format: VHS
Language:  English
Publisher:  Sandy Hook, Conn. : Video Images, 1985.
Notes: Originally released in 1961(Aprox. 60 mins.); Black andWhite
Summary: Documentary of the Nazi attack of Poland in September, 1939, the Polish surrender, and the beginning of World War II.
OCLC #: 19997276
Added: April 1, 2011
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The Red Kimona

The Red Kimona
Call Number: VHS01624
by Priscilla Bonner; Tyrone Power; Dela Rogers St Johns; Reel Images;
Format: VHS
Language:  English
Publisher: Sandy Hook, Conn. : Reel Images, ©1981.
Notes: Originally released in 1925 (95 mins.  Black & White, Silent); Based on the novel of the same name by Dela Rogers St. Johns;
Summary: A vulnerable young woman, whose blind trust in a man leads her into a New Orleans bordello, endures the hardships of that life, but is eventually driven to murdering her lover. A sympathetic jury acquits her and after a period of hardship she ultimately finds happiness.
OCLC #: 12279462
Added: April 1, 2011
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Un chapeau de paille d’Italie

The Horse Ate the Hat or The Italian Straw Hat
Call Number: VHS01623
byRené Clair; Eugène Labiche; Video Yesteryear;
Format: VHS
Language:  [?]
Publisher: Sandy Hook, Conn. : Video Yesteryear, ©1985.
Notes: Origonally released in 1928 (107 mins. Black & White, Silent); Based on: Un chapeau de paille d’Italie / Eugene Labiche, Marc Michel;
Summary: Satirical comedy of manners concerning a young man who, on his wedding day, becomes entangled with a married lady and her lover and has to find an exact replica of a special straw hat, essential to saving the lady’s honor.
OCLC #: 26693888
Added: April 1, 2011
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Bacchantes

March 25, 2011

 Bacchantes
Call Number: VHS01590
by: Giorgio Ferroni; Giorgio Stegani; Taina Elg; Pierre Brice; Alberto Lupo; Alessandra Panaro; Akim Tamiroff; Euripides.; International Film Forum);
Format: VHS
Language:English
Publisher:[S.l.] : International Film Forum, ©1988.
Notes: Originally released in 1988 (aproox. 100 min.)  Based on The Bacchae / by Euripides. Black and White.
Summary:A provocative ballerina explores her sensuality in a series of love affairs and sexual adventures. Set against a backdrop of hard work and dedication, this story portrays the professional life of a dancer, amidst her personal world of turmoil and triumph.
OCLC #:20590935
Added: March 25, 2011
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Maedchen in Uniform

Maedchen in Uniform
Call Number: VHS01585
by: Leontine Sagan);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Los Angeles : The Voyager Company, 1931.
Notes: Originally released in 1931 (runtime 87 min.)In German with English subtitles.Based on the play, Yesterday and today, by Christine Winsloe. Black and White
Summary: This study of life in an aristocratic boarding school for girls explores anti-Fascist and anti-patriarchal themes and was shot in Germany two years before Hitler’s rise to power. A young girl, who is nearly crushed by the strict Prussian regimentation, falls in love with one of her teachers but is victimized by the principal’s harsh disciplinary action. Sagan utilized innovative cinematic techniques to capture the oppressive atmosphere of the school as a microcosm of German society.
OCLC #:317360540

Added: March 25, 2011
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The Bishop’s Wife

March 23, 2011

The Bishop’s Wife
Call Number: DVD00683
by: Samuel Goldwyn; Robert E Sherwood; Leonardo Bercovici; Henry Koster; Cary Grant; Loretta Young; David Niven; Monty Woolley; James Gleason; Gladys Cooper; Elsa Lanchester; Gregg Toland; Perry Ferguson; Monica Collingwood; Hugo Friedhofer; Robert Nathan; RKO Radio Pictures, inc.; Samuel Goldwyn Co.; MGM Home Entertainment Inc;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment Inc., ©2001
Notes: Originally released in 1947 (109 mins. Black & White); edition contains the original theatrical trailer; From the novel by Robert Nathan; Nominated for five 1948 Academy Awards;
Summary: Cary Grant stars as an angel who materializes in answer to the prayers of a harried young bishop, David Niven. Niven’s efforts to raise money for a new cathedral have endangered his marriage to beautiful Loretta Young. Grant enters the bishop’s household hoping to end the problems plaguing the family, but instead the bishop’s negelected wife becomes infatuated with him.
OCLC #: 46417557
Added: March 23, 2011
Also: Available on VHs at VHS000716
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Il Bidone

March 20, 2011
The Swindle
Call Number: VHS01523
by:  Federico Fellini; Ennio Flaiano; Tullio Pinelli; Broderick Crawford; Giulietta Masina; Richard Basehart; Franco Fabrizi; Titanus (Firm); Image Entertainment (Firm;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, ©2000.
Notes: Originally released in 1955 (91 mins).Black and White. In Italian with English subtitles.
Summary:An aging swindler, ringleader of a trio of petty thieves who impersonates priests to cheat peasants, finally realizes the futility of his life.
OCLC #: 44756845
Added: March 20, 2011
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