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Language: Silent film

Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Viking Video Classics, ©1986.

Notes: Originally a German silent film made in 1926 by F.W. Murnau Stiftung. This 1986 videocassette release contains intertitle captions and a musical score not in the original 1926 film (running time 120 mins.).

Summary: In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

OCLC #: 18671492

Added: November 30, 2011

Call Number: VHS01527

by: Charlie Chaplin; Madacy Music Group.

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: [St. Laurent, Québec, Canada] : Madacy Music Group, ©1993.

Notes: 1993 videocassette release of silent motion pictures produced in 1914, 1916, and 1920.  Total Running Time: 10 videocassettes (9 hr., 48 min.)

Summary: A masterful collection of Chaplin’s silent short films.

 Vol. 1: “Caught in a cabaret” (1920);  “Mabel’s busy day” (1914); “The masquerader” (1914) ; “The rounders” (1914) ; “In the park” (1920). Total Running Time (57 mins).

Vol. 2: “By the sea” (1916); “The bank” (1916); “Shanghaied” (1916); “A night in the show” (1916). Total Running Time (59 mins).

Vol. 3: “His new job” (1920); “The champion” (1916); “Face on the barroom floor” (1920). Total Running Time (60 mins).

Vol. 4: “A woman” (1916) ; “The count” (1916); “His trysting places” (1920). Total Running Time (60 mins).

Vol. 5: “The vagabond” (1916); “The fireman” (1916); “The fatal mallet” (1920). Total Running Time (59 mins).

Vol. 6: “Behind the screen” (1916); “The immigrant” (1916); “20 minutes of love” (1920). Total Running Time (57 mins).

Vol. 7: “The adventurer” (1916); “The cure” (1920); “Mabel’s strange predicament” (1920). Total Running Time(56 mins).

Vol. 8: “Easy street” (1916); “One a.m.” (1916); “A fair exchange” (1920). Total Running Time (59 mins).

Vol. 9: “The pawnshop” (1916); “The floorwalker” (1916); “His prehistoric past” (1920). Total Running Time (60 mins).

Vol. 10: “A burlesque on Carmen” (1920); “Laffing gas” (1920). Total Running Time (57 mins).

OCLC #: 29435169

Added: October 29, 2011

Call Number: VHS01526

by: Charlie Chaplin; Madacy Entertainment Group

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: St. Laurent, Quebec : Madacy Entertainment Group, ©1997.

Notes: Silent comedies with captions and musical sound track. Videocassette release of 1914-1919 films. Total Running Time: 7 videocassettes (404 min.)

 Summary: v. 1. His new job (1920). The champion (1916). Face on the barroom floor (1920)
v. 2. The vagabond (1916). The fireman (1916). The fatal mallet (1920)
v. 3. The adventurer (1916). The cure (1920). Mabel’s strange predicament (1920)

v. 4. A burlesque on Carmen (1920). Laffing gas (1920)

v. 5. Kid auto races in Venice (1914). The rival mashers (1914). A night out (1915)
v. 6. Dough and dynamite (1914). Jitney elopement (1915)
v. 7. Knock out (1914). Between showers (1914). A days pleasure (1919).

OCLC #: 48805438

Added: October 29, 2011

Call Number: DVD00636

by: Lesley Selander; Cherry Wilson; Frances Guihan; Buck Jones; Louise Brooks; Harvey Clark; Charles Middleton; Felix Mills; George Sherman; Luci Ward; Bernard McConville; Edmond Kelso; Wm Berke; John Wayne; Ray Corrigan; Max Terhune; William Colt MacDonald; Republic Pictures Corporation.; Classic Video Streams (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: Silent with English Intertitles

Publisher: Pleasanton, CA : Classic Video Streams, [2009?]

Notes: DVD includes “Empty Saddles (1936) and “Overland Stage Raiders” (1938). “Overland Stage Raiders” is based on characters created by William Colt MacDonald. Total Running Time: 116 min.

Summary: “Empty Saddles”: A cowboy learns that crooks are behind a range war threatening to destroy cattlemen and sheep ranchers alike. (62 mins.)

“Overland Stage Raiders”: Gold that is shipped by motor coach is under constant attack, so the 3 Mesquiteers buy an airplane to transport the precious metal. But the owner of the coach line has forced the Mesquiteers’ partner to cooperate by threatening the partner’s daughter. (54 mins.)

OCLC #: 671488559

For Volumes 1-3 See: DVD00633, DVD00634, DVD00635

Added: October 12, 2011

Call Number: DV00635

by: Adolph Zukor; Jesse L Lasky; William Augustus Wellman; Jim Tully; Benjamin F Glazer; Louise Brooks; Wallace Beery; Richard Arlen; Blue Washington; Classic Video Streams.

Format: DVD

Language: Silent with English Intertitles

Publisher: Pleasanton, CA : Classic Video Streams, [2009]

Notes: DVD includes “Beggars of Life” (1928) and excerpts from the series “Hollywood” (1978). Total Running Time: 104 min.

Summary: “Beggars of Life”: After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada. (100 mins.)

OCLC #: 611566764

For Volumes 1, 2 & 4 See: DVD00633, DVD00634, DVD00636

Added: October 12, 2011

Call Number: DVD00634

by: Howard Hawks; Adolph Zukor; Jesse L Lasky; Malcolm St Clair; Frank Tuttle; Louise Brooks; Victor McLaglen; Robert Armstrong; Maria Casajuana; William Powell; James Hall; Jean Arthur; Fox Film Corporation.; Paramount Pictures.; Classic Video Streams.

Format: DVD

Language: Silent with English Intertitles

Publisher: Pleasanton, CA : Classic Video Streams, [2009]

Notes: DVD includes “A Girl in Every Port” (1928) and The Canary Murder Case (1929). Total Running Time: 142 min.

Summary: “Girl in Every Port”: A sea-faring Romeo finds himself a step behind the competition when he visits his girlfriends in various ports of call. (62 mins.) 

“Canary Murder Case”: Philo Vance tries to solve the murder of Margaret O’Dell, a blackmailing musical comedy star who was found strangled in her apartment. (80 mins.)

OCLC #: 613227141

For Volumes 1, 3 & 4 See: DVD00633, DVD00635, DVD00636

Added: October 12, 2011

Call Number: DVD00633

by: Adolph Zukor; Jesse L Lasky; Frank Tuttle; A Edward Sutherland; Louise Brooks; Evelyn Brent; Lawrence Gray; W C Fields; Blanche Ring; William Gaxton; Mary Foy; Paramount Pictures.; Classic Video Streams.

Format: DVD

Language: Silent with English Intertitles

Publisher: Pleasanton, CA : Classic Video Streams, [2009]

Notes: DVD includes “Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em” (1926) and “It’s the Old Army Game (1926). Total Running Time: 141 min.

Summary: “Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em”: Brooks as jazz-baby and flirtatious flapper is almost more than big sister can handle, who bails her out when she gambles away the department store’s party fund. (64 mins.) 

“It’s the Old Army Game”: An expansion on W.C. Fields stage skits, originally performed in the Broadway revue The Comic Supplement. Described in the opening title as “the epic of the American druggist,” the skits feature the trials and tribulations of druggist Elmer Prettywillie. (77 mins.)

OCLC #: 613230367

For Volumes 2,  3, 4 See: DVD00634, DVD00635, DVD00636

Added: October 12, 2011

Call Number: DVD00629

by: A Edward Sutherland; Ethel Doherty; Clara Bow; Jean Arthur; James Hall; Charles Sellon; Jean Harlow; Frank Tuttle; B P Schulberg; Tom Gibson; Eddie Cantor; Billie Dove; Lawrence Gray; Natalie Kingston; Classic Video Streams.;

Format: DVD

Language: Silent with English Intertitles

Publisher: Pleasanton, CA : Classic Video Streams, [2009]

Notes: DVD includes “The Saturday Night Kid” (1929) ; “Kid Boots” (1926); Special feature: “A singing and dancing Clara,” a clip from 1930 “Paramount on Parade” (4 mins.). Total Running Time: 126 min.

Summary: “The Saturday Night Kid”: Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg’s Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is Jean Harlow’s first credited role. (65 min)

“Kid boots”: A salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he agrees to help the playboy get a divorce from his wife, only to find himself falling for the girlfriend of the customer who got him in trouble in the first place. (61 mins.)

OCLC #: 614444708

For Volumes 1 & 2 See: DVD00627 , DVD00628

Added: October 12, 2011

Call Number: DVD00628

by: Frank O’Connor; Dallas M Fitzgerald; Doris Schroeder; Victor Fleming; Clara Bow; Donald Keith; Raymond McKee; Winter Hall; Charles H Mailes; Carmelita Geraghty; Francis McDonald; Lee Moran; Clive Brook; Arlette Marchal; Albert Gran; Agostino Borgato; Classic Video Streams.

Format: DVD

Language: Silent with English Intertitles

Publisher: Pleasanton, CA : Classic Video Streams, [2009]

Notes: DVD includes “Free to Love” (1925) ; “My Lady of Whims” (1925); “Hula” (1927). Total Running Time: 169 min.

Summary: “Free to love”: After serving time for a crime she did not commit, Clara Bow tries to kill the judge but can’t go through with it. She becomes his ward instead and falls in love with a family friend — a minister whose father has a weakness for jewels. Clara becomes unwittingly involved with the criminals who deal in stolen gems; but in the end she and her suitor are free to love. (61 mins.)

“My Lady of Whims”: Prudence is actually a nice girl at heart, even though she’s led her indulgent but worried Dad to believe she’s kicking up her heels and living life to the full in Greenwich Village. So Dad hires a muscle man to track down his “wayward” daughter and see that she stays out of trouble. (44 mins.)

“Hula”: The daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English engineer. (64 mins.)

OCLC #: 614444706

For Volumes 1 & 3 See: DVD00627, DVD00629

Added: October 12, 2011

Call Number: DVD00627

by: Adolph Zukor; Jesse L Lasky; Herbert Brenon; Victor Fleming; Clara Bow; Conway Tearle; Alice Joyce; Donald Keith; Dorothy Cumming; Ernest Torrence; Ralph Prescott; Paramount Pictures.; Classic Video Streams.;

Format: DVD

Language: Silent with English Intertitles

Publisher: Pleasanton, CA : Classic Video Streams, [2009]

Notes: DVD includes “Dancing Mothers” (1926) and “Mantrap” (1926) Total Running Time: 130 min.

Summary: “Dancing Mothers”: Set during the 1920’s flapper era a wealthy family is torn apart when the wife discovers that her husband is cheating on her. The shock opens her eyes for the first time to the selfishness and shallowness of her daughter and husband. (64 mins.)

“Mantrap”: A young woman’s flirtatious nature leads her to romantic adventures at a back woods outpost along the Canadian border in the 1920’s. (66 mins.)

OCLC #: 613230362

For Volumes 2 & 3 See: DVD00628, DVD00629

Added: October 12, 2011

Call Number: VHS01669

by: Abel Gance; Séverin Mars; Ivy Close; Gabriel de Gravone;

Format: VHS

Language: Silent film, French intertitles

Publisher: Foreign Film Classics Presents The Silent Screen Movie Classics

Notes: Originally broadcast in 1922 (130 min). Originally running nine hours, this epic tragedy is notable for the way it foreshadows Gance’s later ‘Napoleon’ in its use of innovative cinematic devices, particularly rapid cutting.

Summary: Sisif, a railwayman, and his son Elie fall in love with the beautiful Norma, whom Sisif rescued from a train crash and raised as his daughter, with tragic results.

OCLC #: [?]

Added: April 26, 2011

Call Number: VHS01505

by: Louis Feuillade; Fabrice Zagury; Musidora.; Jean Ayme; Edouard Mathé; Louis Leubas; Marcel Levesque; Moriss.; Gaumont (Firm);

Format: VHS

Language: French

New York, N. Y.] : Water Bearer Films, [199-].

Notes: Originally released 1915 (400 mins. Black & White);

Summary: The Vampires (Les Vampires) is the name of an arch-criminal gang of brilliant and bloodthirsty Parisian thieves led by the electrifying Irma Vep. The gang’s exploits include the use of kidnapping, poisonous gas, heavy artillery, sexual domination, and murder to gain physical and psychological power over Paris’ elite. Each episode features the crusading journalist Phillipe Guèrande and his comical side kick Mazamette, as they relentlessly track down the brazen and resourceful gang.

OCLC #: 46632825

Added: March 4, 2011

Call Number: VHS01472

by :Edwin Carewe; Finis Fox; Dolores Del Rio; Roland Drew; Alec B Francis; Donald Reed; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Edwin Carewe Productions.; Mary Pickford Foundation.; UCLA Film and Television Archive.; Milestone Film & Video.

Format: VHS

Language:  English

Publisher: Harrington Park, NJ : Milestone Film & Video, 2000.

Notes: Approx 87 min. Based on the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Originally produced as a motion picture by Edwin Carewe Productions in 1929. Silent with intertiles and musical accompaniment. Black and white.

Summary: The love story of a young Acadian girl who, separated from her betrothed during the French and Indian War, spends years in fruitless searching, becomes a Sister of Mercy in Philadelphia and there, in her old age, is reunited with her former lover when he is dying of a pestilence.

OCLC #: 45990433

Added: February 11, 2011

Call Number: DVD00682

by  D W Griffith; Frank E Woods; G W Bitzer; Lillian Gish; Mae Marsh; Ralph Lewis; Wallace Reid; Henry B Walthall; Thomas Dixon; Alpha Video Distributors.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Narberth, PA : Alpha Video, 2005

Notes: Approx. 192 min. Black and white. Silent film. Originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1915. Based on the novel The Clansman, by Thomas Dixon.

Summary: Recounts the events leading up to and immediately fter the Civil War. Ben Cameron, a brave yet disillusioned Confederate soldier, creates a covert group of impassioned Southerners called the Ku Klux Klan as an answer to the supposed problem of the rise and rule of blacks and carpetbaggers. Bent on revenge, Ben leads his KKK followers in a war to suppress the black threat to white society, ultimately restoring “order” to his beloved South

OCLC #: 60756779

Added: January, 26 2011

Call Number: DVD01075

by  Frank Lloyd; Charles Dickens; Lon Chaney; Jack Coogan; Lloyd Weil; Harry Weil; Glen MacWilliams; John Muri; Clarence Brown; William Dudley Pelley; Alfred Ortlieb; Hope Hampton; Hank Troy;

Format: DVD

Language: English (Silent)

Publisher: Alpha Home Entertainment (2009)

Notes: Originally released in 1922 (74 mins. Black & White);

Summary: Lon Chaney, “The Man Of A Thousand Faces,” stars with Jackie Coogan in this spectacular 1922 interpretation of Charles Dickens’ immortal classic, Oliver Twist.Orphaned at birth, Oliver Twist toils in the workhouse under brutal conditions while he and his fellow inmates struggle to avoid starvation. Oliver manages to escape to the bitter streets of London’s slums. “The Artful Dodger,” an older lad, finds the homeless Oliver and offers him food and lodging. The Dodger takes Oliver to the lair of Fagin, a heinous old man who teaches his young wards the art of pickpocketing. While Oliver’s life spins downward into depravity, the mystery of his origins will bring a glimmer of hope and salvation to the resilient and resourceful boy.

OCLC #: 316048491, (Additional information taken from publisher website)

Added: January 21, 2011

Also: See the Roman Polanski version at DVD00381

Call Number: DVD01043

by  Charlie Chaplin; Paulette Goddard; Charles Chaplin Productions.; Janus Films.; Criterion Collection (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2010].

Notes:  Originally released as a motion picture in 1936 (87 mins, Black & White); copyright held by Charlie Chaplin. Special features: [disc 1] audio commentary by Chaplin biographer David Robinson; two new visual essays; new program on film’s visual and sound effects; interview from 1992 with Modern times music arranger, David Raskin; Chaplin today: “modern times” (2004); two segments removed from the film; 3 theatrical trailers; [disc 2] All at sea (1933), a home movie; The rink (1916), a Chaplin two-reeler; For the first time (1967), a Cuban documentary short; Chaplin today (2003) by Philippe Truffault.

Summary: The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

OCLC #: 665161080

Added: November 23, 2010

Also: Availiable on VHS at VHS00161