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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Tableau ferraille

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Tableau Ferraille
Call Number: VHS00276
by Moussa Sene Absa; California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French and Wolof with English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1997.
Notes: Originally released in 1997 (89 mins.);
Summary: Tells the story of an idealistic young politician’s rise and fall. Daam, a well-intentioned but vacillating European-trained politician, must choose between two social paradigms exemplified by his two wives. The film offers a view of how modernization, as practiced in today’s Africa, corrodes traditional communities and retards grassroots development.
OCLC #: 38208060
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Saaraba

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Saaraba
Call Number: VHS00272
by Amadou Saalum Seck; Abdoul Aziz Diop; California Newsreel (Firm); Azanie Films.; Société nouvelle de promotion cinématographique.;
Format: VHS
Language: Wolof and French with English subtitles; Title and credits in German
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel, 1988.
Notes: Originally released in 1988 (81 mins.);
Summary: A young man returns to his homeland after spending many years in Europe. He and his homeland have changed in the interval and he is caught between his simple upbringing, the Western influence he was exposed to, and the corruption existing around him.
OCLC #: 23137059
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Davy Crockett King of The Wild Frontier

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Davy Crockett king of the wild frontier by Norman Foster; Fess Parker; Buddy Ebsen; Walt Disney Home Video (Firm); Buena Vista Home Video (Firm);  
 Davy Crockett King of The Wild Frontier

Call Number: VHS00269
by: Bill Walsh; Thomas Wakefield Blackburn; Norman Foster; Fess Parker; Buddy Ebsen; William Bakewell; Hans Conried; Basil Ruysdael; Kenneth Tobey; Nick Cravat; Walt Disney Productions.; Walt Disney Home Entertainment.
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Walt Disney Home Video, [1995?]
Notes: Originally released in 1955 (93 mins.)
Summary: There’s never been a folk hero quite like Davy Crockett, and you’ll see why when you watch him “grin” down a bear, battle an Indian chief in a tomahawk duel, and fight for freedom at the Alamo.
OCLC #: 32345966
Added: November 4, 2008
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Teen Kanya

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Two Daughters
Call Number: VHS00265
by Satyajit Ray; Rabindranath Tagore; Anil Chatterji; Aparna Sen; Chandana Bannerji; Soumitra Chatterji; Janus Films.; Embassy Home Entertainment (Firm); Chhayabani Private, Ltd.;
Format: VHS
Language: Bengali with English subtitles
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Embassy Home Entertainment, ©1987.
Notes: Originally released in 1961 (115 mins.); Based on two stories by Rabindranath Tagore;
Summary: Two stories “The Postmaster” and “The Conclusion” express the hungers, pains and joys of youth in terms of compassionate understanding and truth.
OCLC #: 16988575
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Pièces d'identités

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Identity Pieces
Call Number: VHS00264
by Ngangura Mweze.; California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1998.
Notes: Originally released in 1998 (93 mins.);
Summary: A Congolese king searches for his daughter in Brussels where for a time he loses his royal fetishes, his identity, but finds a friend, a local cabdriver with a secret identity. With his help and a chain of coincidence (it must be destined), Mani Kongo is reunited with his daughter and his regalia and returns to Africa with a circle of friends.
OCLC #: 48443900
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