Archive for the ‘Film Catalog’ Category

The Early Years of Mary Pickford, Vol. 1

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
The Early Years of Mary Pickford, Vol. 1
Call Number: VHS00286
by Mary Pickford; Independent Film Exchange.;
Format: VHS
Language: Silent film with music and English title cards 
Publisher: [United States? : s.n., 199-?]
Notes: Originally released between 1909 – 1911;
Summary: A complete showing of Sweet memories, with excerpts from the remaining films
Chapters: Sweet memories — All on account of the milk — Arcadian maid — Never again — The unchanging sea — Artful Kate — In old Madrid.
OCLC #: 268677426
Added: November 4, 2008

Big Timber

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Big Timber
Call Number: VHS00284
by Warren Wilson; Jean Yarbrough; Roddy McDowall; Jeff Donnell; Monogram Pictures Corporation.; Video Yesteryear (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher:  [Sandy Hook, Conn.] : Video Yesteryear, [©1995]
Notes: Originally released in 1950 (73 mins.); Edition includes program card;
Summary: A young tree surgeon finds big trouble among the big trees.
OCLC #: 268678964
Added: November 4, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

That Darn Cat

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
 
That Darn Cat
Call Number: VHS00283
by:  Robert Stevenson; Hayley Mills; Dean Jones; Dorothy Provine; Roddy McDowall; Neville Brand; Elsa Lanchester; William Demarest; Frank Gorshin; Ed Wynn; Gordons.; Walt Disney Home Video (Firm); Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher:  [United States] : Walt Disney Home Video ; Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc., [2005]
Notes: Originally released in 1965 (116 mins.)
Summary: His name is D.C. – short for “Darn Cat”–And the sleekest sleuth to grace the silver screen. Hayley Mills stars as a young woman with an active imagination who contacts the FBI when D.C. suddenly sports a wristwatch around his neck
OCLC #: 32934425
Added: November 4, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

Tall Tale

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
 
Tall Tale
Call Number: VHS00282
by: Patrick Swayze; Scott Glenn; Oliver Platt; Nick Stahl; Stephen Lang; Roger Aaron Brown; Catherine O’Hara; Jeremiah Chechik; Steven L Bloom; Robert Rodat; Walt Disney Pictures.; Caravan Pictures.; Walt Disney Home Video (Firm); Buena Vista Home Video (Firm); Walt Disney Company
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher:  [United States] : Walt Disney Home Video ; [Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, 1995]
Notes: Originally released in 1995 (97 mins.)
Summary: The dynamic Pecos Bill teams with larger-than-life heroes Paul Bunyan and John Henry to help a brave young man in the fight against a greedy land-grabber who’ll stop at nothing to get his hands on the deed to the youngster’s family farm.
OCLC #: 34343077
Added: November 4, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

Scorchers

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
 
Scorchers
Call Number: DVD00044
by Faye Dunaway; Denholm Elliott; James Earl Jones; Fox Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English  
Publisher: [S.l.] : Trinity Home Entertainment, 2004.
Notes: Originally released in 1991 (88 mins.);
Summary: Louisiana sizzles as the Cajun town celebrates the wedding of Splendid and Dolan. The trouble comes on the wedding night when Splendid is determined to maintain her innocence. On the other side of town Splendid’s cousin is having her own problems.
OCLC #: 61208032
Added: November 4, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

The Amazing Panda Adventure

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
The Amazing Panda Adventure
Call Number: VHS00280
by: Stephen Lang; Ding Yi; Ryan Slater; Christopher Cain; Warner Bros.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1995 (85 mins.)
Summary: “On a trek into the lush bamboo forests, Ryan is unexpectedly separated from his father. With the help of a young Chinese girl, he aims to bring to safety a baby panda that he’s boldly taken away from heartless poachers. They’d better move fast, however: the poachers are coming after them and the baby panda cannot survive much longer without its mother.”
OCLC #: 63159935
Added: November 4, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

Quiet Cool

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
 
Quiet Cool
Call Number: DVD00043
by Clay Borris; James Remar; Adam Coleman Howard; Daphne Ashbrook;
Format: DVD
Language: English  
Publisher: Chatsworth, CA : New Line Home Video/Turner Home Entertainment, ©2006.
Notes: Originally released in 1986 (81 mins.);
Summary: Hard-core New York City cop travels to northern California to investigate the disappearance of a former girlfriend’s brother and sister-in-law.
OCLC #: 74180968
Added: November 4, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

The Drowning Pool

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
The Drowning Pool
Call Number: VHS00279
by Ross Macdonald; Paul Newman; Joanne Woodward; Tony Franciosa; First Artists Production Company.; Coleytown Productions.; Warner Bros.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, ©1984.
Notes: Originally released in 1975 (109 mins.); Based on the novel by Ross MacDonald;
Summary: A nervous and neurotic oil heiress, Iris Devereaux, lands her ex-flame Harper in hot water when she hires him to get to the bottom of an anonymous blackmail threat.
OCLC #: 10987243
Added: November 4, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

Babe

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
 
Babe
Call Number: VHS00277
by: Dick King-Smith; George Miller; Chris Noonan; Doug Mitchell; Bill Miller; James Cromwell; Magda Szubanski; Universal Pictures (Firm); Kennedy Miller (Firm); MCA Home Video (Firm)
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Universal City, CA : MCA Home Video, [1996]
Notes: Originally released in 1995 (1 hr. 32 mins.) Nominated for 6 academy awards
Summary: An orphaned piglet, Babe, is cared for by a sheepdog and soon thinks he is one too. The farmer senses something special in Babe and enters him in the National Sheepdog Championships
OCLC #: 34405644
Added: November 4, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

Southern Comfort

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Southern Comfort
Call Number: VHS00278
by Keith Carradine; Powers Boothe;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : dist. by Embassy Home Entertainment, ©1983.
Notes: Originally released in 1981 (105 mins.);
Summary: A weekend of maneuvers for nine National Guardsmen inadvertently violates the rights of the Cajun natives. A practical joke escalates into an uncontrollable full-scale skirmish between the untrained civilians and the bayou’s inhabitants
OCLC #: 81691632
Added: November 4, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection