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Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Wrong again: The Boys confuse a lost painting with a plug horse. (MGM, 1929, 20 min.).
Habeas corpus: A mad scientist hires The boys to steal a corpse from the graveyard. This is the first release of the incredible 1929 original sound-on-disc Vitaphone soundtrack. (MGM, 1929, 21 min.).
Duck soup: The Boys hide out in a mansion and pretend to be the owner and his maid. Long thought lost until discovered in a Belgian archive in the 1980s. (Pathe',...
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Language
English
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Description
"In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Jack Kerouac wrote this manuscript when he was 22 years old and attending Columbia University. Originally intended as a three-part novel, only this first 20,000-word section was ever finished. Upon its completion, Kerouac promptly lost his only handwritten final draft in a New York taxicab, remaining unknown to the public until its appearance at Christie's about ten years ago. Kerouac's family has now decided to share this manuscript with the world....
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Susette Kelo was just trying to rebuild her life when she purchased an old house perched on the waterfront in New London, Conn. It wasn't fancy, but with hard work she was able to turn it into a home that was important to her. Little did she know that the City of New London, desperate to revive its flailing economy, wanted to raze her house and others along the waterfront in order to win a lucrative Pfizer pharmaceutical contract that would bring...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Perry Wallace was born at an historic crossroads in U.S. history. He entered kindergarten the year that the Brown v. Board of Education decision led to integrated schools, allowing blacks and whites to learn side by side. A week after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, Wallace enrolled in high school and his sensational jumping, dunking, and rebounding abilities quickly earned him the attention of college basketball recruiters from...
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Publisher
Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The National Football League is a towering, distinctly American colossus taking in $14 billion in annual revenue and provoking intense national debate over issues from player safety to political protest. Yet its current dominance obscures a surprising origin story. As it turns out, in the beginning most people found the very idea of professional football absurd. In The League, acclaimed author John Eisenberg reveals how the five men who built the...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Contains the first nine episodes from the original series of 90-minute shows broadcast on NBC.
One on the town: The first 90-minute show to be broadcast on NBC-TV ; it mostly features material from the previous three years of 20-minute syndicated episodes. Highlights include the "Leave it to Beaver 25th Anniversary," "Masterpiece Theatre: All the long-leggedy beasties" and "Play it again, Bob," a superb parody of Woody Allen and Bob Hope's comedic...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The holiday season is in full swing when a cultured gentleman with twinkling eyes, an ample belly, and a snowy beard is hired as the Macy's department store Santa. He claims his name is Kris Kringle, and soon fills everyone with the Christmas spirit. Everyone that is, except Doris Walker, his boss, who is raising her daughter not to believe in Santa. But when Kringle is declared insane, and put on trial, everyone's faith is put to the test as young...
13) Artaud
Publisher
Arte Vidéo
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) remains one of the most influential figures in 20th century art, theatre, and cinema. His influence is evident in the works of such theatre luminaries as Jean Genet and Peter Brook, and extends into the world of rock 'n' roll through artists like Jim Morrison and Patti Smith. This amazing collection sheds light on the enigmatic genius who penned some of theatre's most sacred texts, in addition to starring in early classics...
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Keystone Film Company, under the guidance of pioneering producer and director Mack Sennett, was the birthplace of classic American slapstick comedy. This historic studio was at one time home to nearly every major silent screen comedian! Now, for the first time, thanks to FlickerAlley, CineMuseum, and Keystone FIlms, 50 of the best surviving Sennett comedies have been gathered from around the world to be fully restored and digitally remastered...
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
None
Description
In the early decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated filmmakers in America were women. Alice Guy-Blaché helped establish the basics of cinematic language, while others boldly continued its development: slapstick queen Mabel Normand (who taught Charlie Chaplin the craft of directing), action star Grace Cunard, and LGBTQ icon Alla Nazimova. Unafraid of controversy, filmmakers such as Lois Weber and Dorothy Davenport Reid tackled...
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A unique and wonderful collection of 54 rare and restored short films from the inflammable years of cinema. Movies were once made on nitrate film stock, which has a chemical composition similar to gunpowder and is highly vulnerable to fire and decay. This remarkable seven-hour anthology, organized in eight thematic groups over three DVDs, presents amazing treasures from the vaults of Lobster Films in Paris and from the Blackhawk Films Collection,...
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Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Known for many years as Barron's Easy Way Series, the new editions of these popular self-teaching titles are now Barron's E-Z Series. Brand-new cover designs reflect all new page layouts, which feature extensive two-color treatment, a fresh, modern typeface, and more graphic material than ever-charts, graphs, diagrams, instructive line illustrations, and where appropriate, amusing cartoons. Meanwhile, the quality of the books'...
Series
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arranged in chronological order, this comprehensive thirteen hour collection gathers for the first time nearly all surviving films of Georges Méliès from his first (Card party, 1896) to his last (The voyage of the Bouririchon Family, 1913), bracketing more than 170 others. Beautiful new music has been prepared by ten leading practitioners of silent film accompaniment.
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