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Fintar O Destino

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Dribbling Fate
Call Number: VHS00251
by Fernando Vendrell; Carlos Germano; Betina Lopes; Manuel Estevão; David & Golias (Firm); Radiotelevisão Portuguesa.; California Newsreel (Firm); et al
Format: VHS
Language: Portuguese and Criolo with English subtitles 
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, ©1998.
Notes: Originally released in 1944 (124 mins.); Based on the novel by Enid Bagnold; Nominated for 5 Academy Awards
Summary: Fintar o destino is the Library of African Cinema’s first sports film — but a sports film with a distinctly African twist. It is the story of the aging sport hero who holds onto his past so strongly he destroys his present. At the same time, this film explores a much broader tension, personal and political, between remaining true to one’s dreams or making the best of the limited opportunities around us
OCLC #: 41109731
Added: November 3, 2008
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La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
Call Number: VHS00250
by Lissa Baléra; Taïrou M’Baye; Djibril Diop Mambéty; Silvia Voser; Wasis Diop; Cephéide Productions.; Maag Daan.; Waka Films.;
Format: VHS
Language: Wolof with English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel [distributor], 1999.
Notes: Originally released in 1999 (45 mins.);
Summary: Parable uses the struggles of a young crippled girl in Dakar trying to earn her living in the market place selling newspapers to mirror Africa’s role in the international marketplace.
OCLC #: 42662780
Added: November 3, 2008
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Body and Soul

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Black Artists of the Silver Screen: Body and Soul
Call Number: VHS00248
by Paul Robeson; Oscar Micheaux; Hollywood’s Attic (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Silent film with English subtitles
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Hollywood’s Attic, ©1996.
Notes: Originally released in 1925 (80 mins.);
Summary: Paul Robeson in his first screen role plays two parts, an evil preacher and his good brother, who wage a personal war for the body and soul of the heroine.
OCLC #: 39124902
Added: November 3, 2008
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A Little Princess

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
 
A Little Princess
Call Number: VHS00246
by: Eleanor Bron; Liam Cunningham; Alfonso Cuarón; Frances Hodgson Burnett;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1995 (97 mins.);  Nominated for 2 Academy Awards; based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett;
Summary: Sara Crewe, the pampered daughter of an Army officer, is left in a strict boarding school when her father goes off to war. When he is reported dead, her world is turned upside down and she is made a servant at the school, yet she refuses to let her spirit be broken
Also: See the Walter Lang-directed The Little Princess (DVD00087);
OCLC #: 33157515
Added: November 3, 2008
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Napumoceno's Will

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
O Testamento do Senhor Napumoceno
Call Number: VHS00242
by Francisco Manso; Nelson Xavier; Maria Ceiça; Chico Diaz; Zezé Motta; Vya Negromonte; Milton Gonçalves; Francisco de Assis; Germano Almeida; J.L. Vasconcelos, Lda.; California Newsreel (Firm); et al
Format: VHS
Language: Portuguese with English subtitles 
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, ©1998.
Notes: Originally released in 1997 (110 mins.); Based on the novel by Germano de Almeida;
Summary: O Testamento do Senhor Napumoceno is an epic, or at least an epic farce, from one of the world’s least known but most culturally complex societies – Cape Verde. This classic tale of the hollowness at the core of provincial bourgeois life introduces English speaking audiences to Germano Almeida, one of the outstanding writers in Portuguese today. With its novelistic breadth, the film offers a bildungsroman of a man and a society so caught up in the pursuit of conventional success and prestige it overlooks its true self almost until it is too late.
OCLC #: 41180395
Added: November 3, 2008
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National Velvet

Thursday, October 30th, 2008
National Velvet
Call Number: VHS00240
by Clarence Brown; Mickey Rooney; Elizabeth Taylor; Donald Crisp; Enid Bagnold; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1971.
Notes: Originally released in 1944 (124 mins.); Based on the novel by Enid Bagnold; Nominated for 5 Academy Awards
Summary: Elizabeth Taylor is Velvet Brown, an English schoolgirl who has very big dreams. She falls for a thoroughbred rogue horse and with the help of Mi Taylor (Mickey Rooney), she trains him for steeplechase racing
OCLC #: 42511445
Added: October 30, 2008
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Samba Traore

Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Samba Traoré
Call Number: VHS00238
by Jacques Arhex; Santiago Amigorena; Pierre-Laurent Chenieux; Mathieu Vadepied; Faton Cahen; Laminé Konté; Bakary Sangaré; Mariam Kaba; Irène Tassembedo; Abdoulaye Komboudri
Format: VHS
Language: Mooré and French?
Publisher: N/A – Taped off the television
Notes: Originally released in 1992 (52 mins.?);
Summary: A man returns home rich and uses the money to get a wife and open a bar. But the money makes everyone, including the police, question how the man became rich.
OCLC #: 33111529
Added: October 29, 2008
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Clando

Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Clandestine
Call Number: VHS00236
by Jean-Marie Téno; Paulin Fodouop; Caroline Redl; Films du Raphia (France); California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [1996]
Notes: Originally released in 1996 (96 mins.);
Summary: Sobgui, a former computer programmer, drives a “clando” cab in Douala, Cameroon’s streets. He is clandestine, not just because his cab is unlicensed, but because he is hiding from his past. When a radical political group involves him a revenge slaying of an informer, Sobgui knows that it is time to get out of Douala. He gets his chance when he is asked to find a wealthy villager’s son in Germany. The film represents a dilemma facing educated Africans: whether to work to change the autocratic regimes at home or seek their fortunes abroad.
OCLC #: 38137686
Added: October 29, 2008
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Finzan: A Dance for the Heroes

Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Finzan: A Dance for the Heroes
Call Number: VHS00235
by Cheick Oumar Sissoko; Kora Films (Firm); Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen.; Centre national de production cinématographique du Mali.; California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Bambara and French with English subtitles  
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel [distributor], ©1990.
Notes: Originally released in 1989 (107 mins.);
Summary: Tells the story of two women’s rebellion. Nanyuma, a young widow, refuses her brother-in-law, the village fool, when he asserts his traditional right to “inherit” her. Fili, a young girl sent from the city by her conservative father, is brutally circumcised by the village women who are scandalized that she resists the age-old custom.
OCLC #: 24261948
Added: October 29, 2008
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Come Back, Africa

Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Come Back, Africa
Call Number: VHS00234
by Lionel Rogosin; Lewis Nkosi; William Modisane; Mystic Fire Video, Inc.;
Format: VHS
Language: English and Afrikaans with English subtitles  
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Mystic Fire Video, [1987?]
Notes: Originally released in 1960 (83 mins.);
Summary: Documentary-style film which tells the story of Zacariah, an African who, after being forced off his land by the government, must then go to work in the gold mines.
OCLC #: 26693910
Added: October 29, 2008
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