Posts Tagged ‘Black and White’
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Anna Karenina
Call Number: VHS00088
by Leo Tolstoy, graf; Vivien Leigh; Ralph Richardson, Sir; Kieron Moore; London Film Productions.; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.;
Language: English
Publisher: [United States?] : Video Specials, 1990.
Notes: Originally released in 1948 (112 mins) in the UK; Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy;
Summary: Presents a dramatization of Tolstoy’s novel of passion and family conflict set in 19th century upper-class Russia.
Also: See the Clarence Brown directed Anna Karenina (
VHS00180)
OCLC #: 35573148
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Black and White, Books on Film, Julien Duvivier
Posted in Drama, Film Catalog, Romance | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Blondie & Dagwood: No. 4 Blondie in Society
Call Number: VHS00087
by Penny Singleton; Arthur Lake; Chic Young; King Features Syndicate.; Hearst Entertainment.; NPS Home Video.;
Language: English
Publisher: [S.l.] : NPS Home Video, ©1941.
Notes: Originally released in 1941 (75 mins.); Based on the comic strip by Chic Young;
Summary: Classic films based on the comic strip created by Chic Young. In this film, Dagwood acquires a prize Great Dane, and enters it in a dog show. However, one of Mr. Dithers’ clients has a dog in the show, and he doesn’t want to compete against Dagwood’s champion. Mr. Dithers promises to keep the Great Dane out of the show, but Blondie, not knowing what has transpired, enters the dog anyway.
OCLC #: 29661416
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Black and White, Frank R. Strayer
Posted in Comedy, Film Catalog | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Blondie & Dagwood: No. 1 Blondie
Call Number: VHS00086
by Penny Singleton; Arthur Lake; Chic Young; King Features Syndicate.; Hearst Entertainment.; NPS Home Video.;
Language: English
Publisher: [S.l.] : NPS Home Video, ©1938.
Notes: Originally released in 1938 (75 mins.); Based on the comic by Chic Young;
Summary: Classic films based on the comic strip created by Chic Young. The first, Blondie, deals with Dagwood’s problems at work, and Blondie’s mistaken impression that Dagwood has taken up with another woman.
Also: See the film Blondie in Society (
VHS00087);
OCLC #: 29661272
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Black and White, Frank R. Strayer
Posted in Comedy, Film Catalog | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Home Sweet Home
Call Number: VHS00084
by D W Griffith; Lillian Gish; Dorothy Gish; John Howard Payne;
Language: English
Publisher: [Sandy Hook, Conn.] : Video Yesteryear, ©1985.
Notes: Originally released in 1914 (76 mins.); Edition includes one program note-card featuring a photo of Lillian Gish; Silent film with musical accompianment of Rosa Rio at the Hammond Organ;
Summary: The biographical sketch of a dissipated young man (reputedly John Howard Payne) is followed by three vignettes, each illustrating how Payne’s title song inspired people to strengthen their weakening morals.
OCLC #: 19932898
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Black and White, D.W. Griffith, Dorothy Gish, Lillian Gish, Silent Films
Posted in Biography, Drama | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Rebecca
Call Number: VHS00083 Copy 1
VHS00083 Copy 2
by Laurence Olivier; Joan Fontaine; David O Selznick; Judith Anderson, Dame; Alfred Hitchcock; Daphne Du Maurier, Dame; Selznick Studios.; Key Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Copy 1: Livionia, MI : Key Video, ©1988.; Copy 2: Beverly Hills, CA : CBS/Fox Video, ©1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1940 (131 mins.); Nominated for 11 1941 Academy Awards; Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier;
Summary: A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband’s first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman’s death.
OCLC #: Copy 1: 17626322; Copy 2: 39248160
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Alfred Hitchcock, Award, Black and White, Books on Film
Posted in Drama, Film Catalog, Thriller | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
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Little Women
Call Number: VHS00081
by George Cukor; Katharine Hepburn; Joan Bennett; Frances Dee; Louisa May Alcott; RKO Radio Pictures, inc.;
Language: English
Publisher: New York : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1983.
Notes: Originally released in 1933 (116 mins.); Nominated for three 1934 Academy Awards; Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott;
Summary: The story of four sisters who grow up in Massachusetts during the Civil War. The story follows their joys and sorrows as they become the “little women” their father so proudly calls them.
OCLC #: 20237395
Also: See the later-released movie adaptation Little Women directed by Mervyn LeRoy ( VHS00348) or the even later-released movie adaptation Little Women directed by Gillian Armstrong ( VHS00017)
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Black and White, Books on Film, George Cukor
Posted in Comedy, Drama, Film Catalog | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Madame Bovary
Call Number: VHS00079
by Pandro S Berman; Vincente Minnelli; Gustave Flaubert; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1983.
Notes: Originally released in 1949 (114 mins.); Nominated for one 1950 Academy Award; Based on Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Summary: A story concerning a woman’s abandoned pursuit of love and the three men who loved her.
OCLC #: 26694575
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, Black and White, Books on Film, Vincente Minnelli
Posted in Drama, Film Catalog, Romance | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Dr. Kildare’s Strange Case
Call Number: VHS00078
by Max Brand; Harold S Buquet; Willis Goldbeck; Harry Ruskin; Lew Ayres; Lionel Barrymore; Laraine Day; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.;
Language: English
Publisher: [United States?] : Star Classics, ©1986.
Notes: Originally released in 1940 (76 mins.);
Summary: Our medical hero tries to help an unlucky brain surgeon and his seemingly insane patient by using newfangled psychological techniques.
OCLC #: 48019873
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Black and White, Harold S. Bucquet
Posted in Drama, Film Catalog | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
His Double Life
Call Number: VHS00076
by Arnold Bennett; Lillian Gish; Roland Young; Arthur Hopkins; Atlantic Pictures, Inc.; Kartes Video Communications.;
Language: English
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. : Kartes Video Communications, 1984
Notes: Originally released in 1933 (67 mins.); From the novel ‘Buried Alive’ and the play ‘Great Adventure’ by Arnold Bennett
Summary: A reclusive painter flees to London with his valet to escape a woman who wants to marry him. When the valet dies, the painter assumes his identity. All goes well until he is forced to resume painting to make a living
OCLC #: 11635040
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Arthur Hopkins, Black and White, Lillian Gish
Posted in Comedy, Drama, Film Catalog | Comments Closed
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Gene Autry
Call Number: DVD00028
by Gene Autry; Platinum Disc Corporation.;
Language: English
Publisher: La Crosse, WI : Platinum Disc Corp., 2004.
Notes: Two-disc DVD set containing eight TV films; From the series TV Classic Westerns
Chapters: Disc 1. The man from Music Mountain — Oh, Susanna! — The old barn dance — The old corral —
Disc 2. Public cowboy no. 1 — Ride, ranger, ride — Rim of the canyon — Yodelin’ kid from Pine Ridge..
OCLC #: 62164046
Added: October 14, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Black and White
Posted in Film Catalog, Television Series, Western | Comments Closed
