Posts Tagged ‘Black and White’
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
Tags:Black and White, Short, Silent Films, Thomas H. Ince
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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
Tags:Black and White, Jean Yarbrough
Posted in Action, Drama | Comments Closed
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
Added: November 4, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Black and White, Foreign Film, Satyajit Ray
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
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Princess Tam Tam
Call Number: VHS00261
by Edmond T Gréville; Josephine Baker; Albert Préjean; Germaine Aussey; Axlixo Grenet; Jacques Dallin; Kino International Corporation.;
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: [S.l.] : Arys Production ; [New York, N.Y.] : Kino International Corp., ©1989.
Notes: Originally released in 1935 (80 mins.);
Summary: An exotic Pygmalion-like musical comedy about a French author who goes to North Africa to write a novel but becomes distracted and entranced by a native girl whom he transforms into a princess.
OCLC #: 84395093
Added: November 4, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Black and White, Edmond T. Gréville, Foreign Film
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
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Jean-Luc Godard’s Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux
Call Number: VHS00259
by Jean Luc Godard; Anna Karina; Saddy Rebbot; Marcel Sacotte; New Yorker Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: New York : New Yorker Video, ©1991.
Notes: Originally released in 1962 (85 mins.); based on a work by Marcel Sacotte;
Summary: Nana leaves her husband and child, turns to casual prostitution, meets a pimp and becomes a professional and tries to quit when she falls in love.
OCLC #: 37799492
Added: November 4, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Black and White, Foreign Film, Jean-Luc Godard
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
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Victim
Call Number: VHS00258
by Basil Dearden; Michael Relph; Dirk Bogarde; Sylvia Syms; Dennis Price; Nigel Stock; Public Media Incorporated.; Home Vision (Firm); Janus Films.; Allied Film Makers.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Chicago : Home Vision Cinema, ©1997.
Notes: Originally released in 1961 (100 mins.);
Summary: Dramatization of the problems of the criminalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults. Bogarde plays a successful barrister who places his career on the line by ‘coming out’ in order to expose a blackmail racket. It was the first British film to concentrate on male homosexuality and was made with the specific intention of supporting the new recommendations of the 1957 Wolfenden Committee for the partial decriminalization of male homosexual acts.
OCLC #: 37729923
Added: November 4, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Basil Dearden, Black and White, Crime
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Pépé le Moko
Call Number: VHS00253
by Julien Duvivier; Ashelbe.; Jean Gabin; Murray Hill Video.;
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill Video, [198-?]
Notes: Originally released in 1937 (90 mins.); Based on the novel by Roger d’Ashelbé (Henri La Barthe);
Summary: A Parisian gangster is safe from the police while hiding in the Casbah section of Algiers, but he falls in love and follows the lady into danger.
OCLC #: 19686306
Added: November 3, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Black and White, Books on Film, Crime, Foreign Film, Julien Duvivier
Posted in Drama, Romance | Comments Closed
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
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The Rules of the Game
Call Number: VHS00252 Copy 1
VHS00252 Copy 2
by Jean Renoir; Nora Gregor; Nouvelles éditions de films (Firm); Murray Hill Video.;
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: Copy 1: New York : Murray Hill Video, ©1985?.; Copy 2: [Chicago, Ill.] : Home Vision Cinema, [after 1992].
Notes: Originally released in 1939 (107 mins.);
Summary: A satire on the decadence of the pre-World War II French aristocracy. Renoir paints a picture of a social world where pleasure is the prize, where intrigue, guile and the lack of honesty are part of the “rules” of a dying class. Unpopular on its first release at the eve of World War II, the film was withdrawn and suppressed until the late 50’s when a complete print was found and restored.
OCLC #: 11743875
Added: November 3, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Black and White, Foreign Film, Jean Renoir
Posted in Comedy, Drama | Comments Closed
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
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Black and White, Oscar Micheaux, Silent Films
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Come Back, Africa
Call Number: VHS00234
by Lionel Rogosin; Lewis Nkosi; William Modisane; Mystic Fire Video, Inc.;
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
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Black and White, Foreign Film, Lionel Rogosin
Posted in Documentary, Drama | Comments Closed
