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2 videodiscs (276 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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From great figures come our most noteworthy inventions, from the telephone to the theory of general relativity. But no great leader is perfect. H2 digs into the scandals and family secrets you won't find in textbooks in this special. Observing the lives of renowned leaders, brilliant scientists and notorious criminals, viewers get an inside peek into their unknown pasts, from Ben Franklin's nefarious history to Albert Einstein's hidden family drama....
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1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A tiny glitch in Wayne's infamous shrink machine causes Wayne, his brother, and their wives to shrink. Soon they must brave household insects the size of dinosaurs, a treacherous loop-the-loop track in a toy race car, dizzying "balloon" rides inside soap bubbles, and more.
4) The jerk
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, produces some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
5) Tomorrowland
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1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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After a woman discovers a secret place known as "Tomorrowland," she tries to find her way back to the magical place to speak to an inventor about the technology of Tomorrowland.
6) Pretty bird
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1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Three would-be entrepreneurs set out to invent a rocket belt. The venturesome partnership soon takes an unhealthy toll as their mismatched personalities clash and some unexpected success leads to retaliations, kidnapping, and murder.
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he wasn't quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon lady took him home to live with her family. So began Edward's fantastical adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia"--Container....
9) Tesla
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1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Nikola Tesla has come to be seen by many as a tragic figure, a visionary engineer who died impoverished and largely forgotten--eclipsed by names such as Edison and Marconi. A tireless inventor who registered numerous patents and developed many working prototypes, Tesla would become most famous for his dazzling demonstrations. Audiences flocked to see him send thousands of volts of electricity pulsing through his body, dazzled by the spectacle of...
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Recount the life of scientist, inventor, and visionary Nikola Tesla, often remembered as more of an eccentric cult figure than an electrical engineering genius. Tesla's surprising inventions are revealed in his autobiographical and scientific writings.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most complex and consequential figures, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States.
12) A bug's life
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2 videodiscs (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Cute and clever, "A Bug's Life" is a relatively straight retelling of Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai," except of course that the characters are bugs! Idealistic young ant Flik is a sweet-natured dreamer and inventor. But his innovative thinking makes him an outcast when one of his inventions goes awry and destroys the food sacrifice that the colony makes annually to a gang of grasshopper hooligans led by the sinister Hopper. Disgraced, Flik is sent...
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In a lively discussion with Lord Kelvin, inventor Phileas Fogg states his belief that it's possible for someone to travel around the globe in a mere 80 days. Kelvin challenges him to prove it, and adds a wager: if Fogg can't circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, he'll have to give up inventing forever. Fogg and his crew of two take the challenge. They travel by train, boat, balloon, horseback, or any other means at their disposal. However, Fogg and...
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4 videodiscs (approximately 597 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Join Marty McFly and Doc Brown, along with his wife Clara and their kids, Jules and Verne, as they travel throughout time. With a little help from a DeLorean, the time travelers find themselves back in the Prehistoric and Medieval Times, witnessing the Civil War and Salem Witch Trials and, of course, traveling to the future.
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1 videodisc (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks, some even 1700 years before him.
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1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Join a brilliant young inventor named Lewis as he sets off on a time-traveling journey to find the family he never knew. In the world of 2037, hip-hoppin' frogs and dogs that wear glasses are as common as talking dinosaurs. In an amazing twist, Lewis discovers that the fate of the future rests in his hands, but he can't save it alone. He meets the wacky Robinson family, who help him learn to keep moving forward and never stop believing in himself."--...
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1 videodisc (approximately 23 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An animated introduction to the world's most famous Renaissance man, Leonardo Da Vinci: painter, mathematician, scientist, and engineer. Includes footage of his works.
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Da Vinci's Demons volume 1
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3 videodiscs (466 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In a world where thought and faith are controlled, one man fights to set knowledge free. Leonardo Da Vinci is tortured by a gift of superhuman genius. He finds himself in a conflict between truth and lies, religion and reason, past and future. His quest for knowledge nearly becomes his undoing, but Da Vinci's genius prevails and he emerges as an unstoppable force that lifts an entire era out of darkness and propels it into light.
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Clyde Shelton is a brilliant planner and inventor. One night two robbers invade his Philadelphia home and brutally kill his wife and daughter, almost killing him. When the killers are caught, Assistant DA Nick Rice is assigned the case. Nick makes a deal with one of the killers to testify against his partner for a 10 year plea bargain prison sentence. Clyde doesn't want Nick to make the deal, but Nick says the deal is done. The other killer gets the...
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