Pull My Daisy

November 10, 2011
Pull My Daisy
Call Number: VHS01540
by:  Robert Frank; Jack Kerouac; Alfred Leslie;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [Houston, Tex. : Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1995], ©1959.
Notes: 1 videocassette (total running time: 29 min.)”First video release,” produced and distributed by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.Adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s play, The Beat Generation; Originally issued as 16 mm film reel in 1959 by G-String Enterprises.
Summary: Adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s play, The Beat Generation. The loosely narrated events unfold between the uninhibited poets, a proper bishop and his followers, who call on the poets’ friend and family.
OCLC #: 34483668
Added: November 10, 2011
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La Cane A Peche

April 27, 2011
La Cane A Peche
Call Number: VHS01480
by:  Fernand Dansereau; National Film Board of Canada 
Format: VHS
Language: French
Publisher: National Film Board of Canada .
Notes: Originally released in 1959 (29  min);
Summary: [?]. 
OCLC #: [?]
Added: April 27, 2011
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Mascarade

Mascarade or Masquerade
Call Number: VHS01479
by:  Co Hoedeman; Office national du film du Canada;
Format: VHS
Language: French
Publisher: Montréal : ONF, 1984.
Notes: Originally released in 1980 (115  min);
Summary: Film d’animation illustrant le processus de création par lequel passent divers enfants qui préparent des déguisements pour une mascarade. 
OCLC #: 77283467
Added: April 27, 2011
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Animastress

April 26, 2011
Animastress
Call Number: VHS01667
by: Myriame El Yamani, Anne-Marie Sirois; National Film Board of Canada
Format: VHS
Language: French
Publisher: [Montréal] : O.N.F., 1994.
Notes: Originally released in 1994 (6 min, 19 sec).
Summary: This consumer-social awareness cartoon tells the story of thousands of chickens crammed into the cruel and artificial universe of the poultry industry. One on top of the other, these chickens are mechanically force-fed, caged and tied to a timed laying schedule. This cartton asks important questions about the principles of profitability and conditioning in the manufacturing of human food.
OCLC #: [?]
Added: April 26, 2011
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What does she want : women with a past

April 7, 2011
What does she want : women with a past

Call Number: VHS01649

by Lyn Blumenthal, Maureen Clavel, Hannah Alderfer, Barbara Kruger, Lynn Tillman, Hene Seglove, Mindy Faber, Ardele Lister, Brana Miller, Fronza Woods, Max Almy, Willard Van Dyke
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: New York, NY : Video Data Bank, ©1987.
Notes: Originally released in 1987 (72mins.);” What does she want ; program six: We are not sugar and spice and everything nice” contains 8 shorts from a larger feminist project.
Summary: “We are not sugar and spice and everything nice” takes us from teenaged girls with their mothers, to a teenaged girl who leaves home; from girls constructing themselves in the “image” of women, to women deciding on a different image; and from the family that stays together, to the couple that is dissolving its marital bond, revealing many different views of relatedness and relationships.
Includes: Hene Seglove’s Mom Tapes (1972, b&w, 1 min); Mindy Faber’s Suburban Queen (1985, color, 7 min); Ardele Lister’s Split (1981, color, 20 min); Brana Miller’s That’s It Forget It (1985, color, 5 min); Fronza Wood’s Killing Time (1978, b&w, 9 min); Chevrolet Impala Commercial (1950, b&w, 2 min); Max Almy’s Modern Marriage (1979, color, 3 min); Willard Van Dyke’s This Charming Couple (1950, b&w, 22 min).
OCLC #: 317400053
Added: April 7, 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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Le sang des bêtes

April 1, 2011
Blood of the Beasts
Call Number: VHS01628
by Georges Franju;
Format: VHS
Language:  French
Publisher:  [USA] : Mad Phat, [2003?]
Notes: Originally released in 1949(Aprox. 22 mins.);
Summary: An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of the animals and that of the workers in graphic detail.
OCLC #: 318617730
Added: April 1, 2011
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Nuit et brouillard

Night and Fog
Call Number: VHS01625
by Alain Resnais; Olga Wormser-Migot; Video Images (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language:  English
Publisher: Sandy Hook, Conn. : Video Images, ©1996.
Notes: Originally released in 1955 (32 mins.); Based on the book Tragédie de la déportation by Olga Wormser and Henri Michel;
Summary: Briliant documentary graphically showing the horror of the Nazi concentration camps.
OCLC #: 36960322.
Added: April 1, 2011
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Kid ‘in’ Africa/ Pardon my Pups

March 31, 2011

Kid ‘in’ Africa/ Pardon My Pups
Call Number: VHS01622
by Shirley Temple; Danny Boone Jr.;
Format: VHS
Language:  English
Publisher: New York Kids Klassics, Inc. ©1985.
Notes: Released in 1933 (30 mins.);
Summary: Kid ‘in’ Africa: ”Shirley is a missionary in Africa, determined to make the cannibals into Christians.”
Pardon My pups: Sonny wants a motorcycle for his birthday. Pa wants him to have a hunting dog. When Sonny finds his own dog, the little mongrel, who is about to have pups, doesn’t meet Pa’s requirements. Shirley Temple has a small part as Sonny’s younger sister.
OCLC #: 556324642, 19871045, 47833759
Added: March 31, 2011
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Les Fables de la Fontaine

March 30, 2011
Les Fables de la Fontaine or The Fables of the Fountain.
Call Number: VHS01609
by MPA Video Production.;
Format: VHS
Language: French
Publisher: MPA Video Production 1983.
Summary: 85 Min. Contains six animated shorts: Le Chat et un Vieux Rat, Le Grenouille Qui Veut Se Faire Aussi Grosse Que Le Boeuf, Le Loup Et Le Chien, Le Lion Et Le Moucheron, La Tortue Et Les Deux Canards, La Cigale Et La Fourmi; or The Cat and Old Rat, The Frog Who Wants to be as big as the Ox, The Wolf And The Dog, The Lion and the Gnat, The Tortoise And The Two Ducks, The Grasshopper and the Ant.
OCLC #: [?]
Added: March 30 , 2011
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Sea dream

March 29, 2011
Sea Dream and two other titles for family enjoyment.
Call Number: VHS01608
by National Film Board of Canada.; Smarty Pants Audio & Video.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Lakewood, OH : Smarty Pants Audio & Video, Inc., ©1990.
Notes: Previously issued as separate motion pictures. 1 video cassette (30 min.);
Summary: Presented are three award-winning animated films from the National Film Board of Canada. Featured is “Sea dream,” the story of a little girl who escapes into an underwater fantasy after having a bad day. Contents: “Sea dream”; “Nébule”; “The sound collector”
OCLC #: 24252322
Added: March 29, 2011
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Every child and four other titles for family enjoyment

Every Child and four other titles for family enjoyment
Call Number: VHS01607
by National Film Board of Canada.; Smarty Pants Audio & Video.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Lakewood, Ohio : Smarty Pants, ©1990.
Notes: Previously issued as separate motion pictures. 1 video cassette (30 min.); Nominated for an Academy Award
Summary: “Every Child” (6:13); Catour (3:53); The Magic flute (7:41); Log driver’s waltz (3:00); The Town mouse and the country mouse (5:25).
OCLC #: 42509730
Added: March 29, 2011
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The sweater and two other titles for family enjoyment

The Sweater and two other titles for family enjoyment
Call Number: VHS01606
by National Film Board of Canada.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Montreal : National Film Board of Canada ; Lakewood, Ohio : Smarty Pants, ©1991.
Notes: Previously issued as separate motion pictures. 1 video cassette (30 min.);
Summary: “The Sweater” tells the tale of a mail order mix up and the trauma of a small boy passionate about hockey. “The Ride” shows a Rolls Royce turned into a runaway tobbagan when a chauffer daydreams that it’s winter, the dizzying ride includes some unforgettable antics like a piggyback ride on a skier! “Getting Started” a story about procrastination featuring a concert pianist with only two days to rehearse for a recital becoming distracted by everything around him.
OCLC #: 24766909
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The sand castle and three other titles for family enjoyment

The Sand Castle and Three Other Titles for Family Enjoyment
Call Number: VHS01605
by National Film Board of Canada.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Montreal : National Film Board of Canada ; Lakewood, Ohio : Smarty Pants Audio and Video, ©1991.
Notes: Previously issued as separate motion pictures. 1 video cassette (30 min.); Nominated for an Academy Award.
Summary: “The Sand castle” features a Sandman that sculpts magical creatures who build a castle and then celebrate their new home; “The North wind and the sun” features and Aesop fable in which the warm sun proves to the cold wind that persuasion is better than force; “Alphabet” shows each letter with its own objects, animals or actions, none however, retain their shape for long, fading and changing at the artist’s whim; “The Owl and the Lemming” feature short-legged plumply stuffed puppets in an Eskimo legend all children will enjoy.
OCLC #: 24766801
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The Tender tale of Cinderella Penguin and four other titles

The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin and Four Other Titles
Call Number: VHS01604
by National Film Board of Canada.; Smarty Pants Audio & Video.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Lakewood, Ohio : Smarty Pants Audio & Video, 1990.
Notes: Previously issued as separate motion pictures. “NFV 14001”; Originally released in 1982; (30 min.); Nominated for an Academy Award.
Summary: “The tender tale of Cinderella Penguin” (10 min.); “Metamorphoses” (2 min.); “Mr. Frog went a-courting” (5 min.);” The sky is blue” (5 min.); “The owl and the raven” (7 min.)
OCLC #: 24181998
Added: March 29, 2011
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Joséphine

Josephine
Call Number: VHS01599
by  Anne-Marie Sirois,  Pierre Hébert, Marcel Jean,  Ivan Vanhecke, Pierre Landry, France Dubé,  Marc Poirier
Yves Chiasson, Marc Arsenault, Jean Paul Vialard  
 Format: VHS
Language: French
Publisher: National Film Board of Canada; the Animation/Youth Studio of the NFB French Program [2000]
Notes: Videocassette release of the 2000 Animated Short film (4 mins, 11 sec); Winner of the Audience Award at Le Festival du Cinéma Francophone en Acadie in 2000.
Summary:  Fable that invites meditation on the illusion of love, Josephine is a short animated film that combines delicacy of line and the fluid fitting and unexpected images on the folk rhythms of the Acadian group Zéro ° Celsius.  Everyone will recognize in this tender hearted boy who fantasizes and succumbs to all the pitfalls of seduction.  Stumbling on successive rejection of his beautiful, turn-ocean mermaid and woman, drawn by the lure of his illusions, he rebuilt his castle every defeat in Spain and the daisy leaf by leaf in vain.
OCLC #: [?]
Movie Info found at  www.amsirois.com/josephine.htm
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Heaven touches Brooklyn in July : a film

March 24, 2011
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July: a Film by Tony De Nonno
Call Number: VHS01573
by: Tony De Nonno; Michael Badalucco; John Turturro; De Nonno Productions.; WLIW (Television station : Long Island, N.Y.);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Brooklyn, NY : De Nonno Productions, ©2001.
Notes: Originally released as a documentary for home video in 2001; Running Time Approx 105 min. Other title: “Dance of the giglio.”
Summary: For 300 years in Italy, and the past century in communities throughout the greater New York area, the ritual known as “The dance of the giglio” has been celebrated each summer, honoring a Roman Catholic saint, San Paolino di Nola and his act of sacrifice in the ancient Italian city of Nola in the year 409 A.D. 125 men carry a five-ton, five-story tower and a 12-piece brass band on their shoulders and dance it through their neighborhood in tempo to Italian folk songs. Includes interviews with Italian American men, women and children.
OCLC #:47932313
Added: March 24, 2011
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Marc and Ann

March 22, 2011
Marc and Ann
Call Number: VHS01552
by: Les Blank; Susan Kell; Maureen Gosling; Chris Simon; Real Videos from New Video Group; Flower Films
Format: VHS
Language: English and Cajun French, in part with English subtitles.
Publisher: El Cerrito, CA : Flower Films ©1991
Notes: Released for television in 1991. Running Time Aprox 30 mins. Music performed by Marc Savoy, Ann Allen Savoy, Michael Doucet.
Summary: A portrait of Marc and Ann Savoy, the Cajun musical couple : Marc, accordion builder and player, Cajun cook and outspoken defender of his culture, and Ann, an adopted “Cajun” who authored Cajun music: a reflection of a people. A more personal look at one Cajun family and their appreciation for their culture in the face of encroaching American mall culture.
OCLC #: 27928137
Added: March 22, 2011
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The blues accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins/The sun’s gonna shine

March 3, 2011
 

The blues accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins/The sun’s gonna shine
Call Number: VHS01498

by: Les Blank; Skip Gerson; Lightnin’ Hopkins; Billy Bizor; Mance Lipscomb; Flower Films (Firm);

Publisher: El Cerrito, CA : Flower Films, [198-?]
Notes: Originally released [1969]; Running Time for “The sun’s gonna shine” Approx 10 min.;
“The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins” Running Time Approx. 31 min.; color; not rated;
Summary: A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for his living (1st work) ; Hopkins’ words and songs provide a musical portrait of the black culture of Texas, which reaches back to poverty, hard times, and a deep love of the land.
OCLC #: 34856846
Added: March 4, 2011
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Sworn to the drum: a tribute to Francisco Aguabella

Sworn to the Drum: a tribute to Francisco Aguabella 

Call Number: VHS01497
by: Francisco Aguabella; Les Blank; Tom Luddy; Chris Simon; Armando Peraza; Carlos Valdez; Cachao.; Dizzy Gillespie; Daniel Ponce; Bobbi Cespedes; Carlos Santana; John Santos; Katherine Dunham; Robert Farris Thompson; Flower Films (Firm);
Publisher: El Cerrito, CA : Flower Films, 1995.
Notes: Originally released [1995]; Running Time Approx. 35 min.; color; not rated;
Summary: A film-portrait of the Afro-Cuban master drummer, Francisco Aguabella. Born in Cuba, he immigrated to the U.S. in 1957 where he made outstanding contributions to Latin popular music while maintaining his roots in traditional Afro-Cuban religious drumming. Film explores Aguabella’s role both as a sacred drummer and a figure of historical influence in Latin Jazz, Pop and Fusion. Included are many interviews with musicians who have worked with him and have been influence by his music.
OCLC #: 33938401
Added: March 4, 2011
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