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3 videodiscs (280 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
In the late twenties and early thirties, Yasujiro Ozu was working steadily for Shochiku studios, honing his craft on dozens of silent films in various genres, from romantic melodramas to college comedies to gangster pictures -- and, of course, movies about families. In these three droll domestic films -- Tokyo Chorus, I Was Born, But, and Passing Fancy, presented here with all-new scores by renowned silent-film composer Donald Sosin -- Ozu movingly...
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 program notes
Language
English
Description
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928): Follows the adventures of a spoiled young man forced by his father to learn the ropes of riverboating. Convict 13 (1920): Keaton struggles for survival inside prison walls. Daydreams (1922): Keaton tries to find his niche by trying out various professions.
Series
Criterion collection volume 33
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1 videodisc (79 min.) : black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents a documentary on the life of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs.
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viii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"American silent film comedies were dominated by sight gags, stunts and comic violence. With the advent of sound, comedies in the 1930s were a riot of runaway heiresses and fast-talking screwballs. It was more than a technological pivot -- the first feature-length sound film, The Jazz Singer (1927), changed Hollywood"--
Series
Laurel and Hardy collection volume 4
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Be big! (The boys duck out on a vacation with their wives in order to attend a stag party. The lucky dog (silent film): In their first screen appearance together, Stan plays a penniless dog lover and Oliver plays a crook who tries to rob him.
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The director of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari adapted Fyodor Dostoyevsky's literary masterwork Crime and Punishment for the screen with this feature made at the height of the Expressionist movement in German cinema. The story concerns a poor, imperious former law student who believes that he is a special kind of person exempt from any moral law. He murders a woman and her sister and is sent to prison for years.
13) Blood & sand
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
A romantic tragedy about the rise and fall of a matador. Juan Gallardo, Spain's most idolized matador, returns to his home town and finds himself the victim of his own desires and the sinister charms of the exotic Dőna Sol.
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2 videodiscs (95 min.) : sound, black and white, color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
The quintessential silent vampire film, crafted by legendary German director F. W. Murnau. Rather than depicting Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok is a nightmarish, spidery creature of bulbous head and taloned claws, perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism yet envisioned.
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4 videodiscs (642 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An anthology of films from American film archives. In addition to rare silent-era features, includes landmark independent and avant-garde works, documentaries and newsreels, earliest American movies, pioneering special effects, one-reel adventures and comedies, cartoons and experimental animation, home movies, travel films from the 1910s, working training films from the 1920s, political ads from the 1930's, and other film types invented during the...
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2 videodiscs (69 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (7 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of actual events in Czarist Russia (1905). Shows the fierce mutiny aboard the battleship "Prince Potemkin" and the bloody aftermath in Odessa, where the Czar's troops ruthlessly massacred hundreds of innocent civilians who had sympathized with the mutineers. The film is notable for its use of non-actors in roles.
18) Die Nibelungen
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2 videodiscs (291 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a dramatization of the Norse myth, Siegfried fights dragons and ogres while traveling through the mystical Woden Wood, but his greatest challenge is the battle for the love of Kriemhild, King Gunther's sister ; Kriemhild is obsessed with avenging the death of Siegfried, and enlists the assistance of Attila the Hun to destroy her brother's kingdom in this dramatization of the thirteenth-century Norse legend.
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1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story about a wild and independent Kentucky mountain girl who saves her mother's land from land sharks, rides with a group of night riders, avenges the murder of her father, and eventually marries her mountaineer sweetheart.
20) The kid
Series
Criterion collection volume 799
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out booklet.
Language
None
Description
The Tramp and his ragamuffin sidekick, a young boy rescued from the streets, triumph over life's hard knocks in the landmark film that changed the notion of what a screen comedy could be.
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