David Shepard
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Georges Méliès : first wizard of cinema - Volume one. Georges Méliès built the world's first movie studio in 1896 near Paris; from it cascaded fantastic magic films, dream films, historical reconstructions, imaginary journeys, melodramas, slapstick comedies -- even erotic films. A genuine virtuoso, Méliès produced and directed his films while also devising the narratives; designing the sets, costumes and props; and frequently performing the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Georges Méliès built the world's first movie studio in 1896 near Paris; from it cascaded fantastic magic films, dream films, historical reconstructions, imaginary journeys, melodramas, slapstick comedies -- even erotic films. A genuine virtuoso, Méliès produced and directed his films while also devising the narratives; designing the sets, costumes and props; and frequently performing the leading parts. Arranged in chronological order, this comprehensive...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Georges Méliès : first wizard of cinema Volume four. Georges Méliès built the world's first movie studio in 1896 near Paris; from it cascaded fantastic magic films, dream films, historical reconstructions, imaginary journeys, melodramas, slapstick comedies -- even erotic films. A genuine virtuoso, Méliès produced and directed his films while also devising the narratives; designing the sets, costumes and props; and frequently performing the leading...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Georges Méliès : First wizard of cinema Volume 2. Georges Méliès built the world's first movie studio in 1896 near Paris; from it cascaded fantastic magic films, dream films, historical reconstructions, imaginary journeys, melodramas, slapstick comedies -- even erotic films. A genuine virtuoso, Méliès produced and directed his films while also devising the narratives; designing the sets, costumes and props; and frequently performing the leading...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Georges Méliès : first wizard of cinema Volume five. Georges Méliès built the world's first movie studio in 1896 near Paris; from it cascaded fantastic magic films, dream films, historical reconstructions, imaginary journeys, melodramas, slapstick comedies -- even erotic films. A genuine virtuoso, Méliès produced and directed his films while also devising the narratives; designing the sets, costumes and props; and frequently performing the leading...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to more than 250,000 people in Washington, DC about his dream of racial equality. His message of peaceful protest inspired a generation to stand up for their rights. Find out how a boy who was not allowed to go to school or the movies with white people blazed a trail in civil rights"--Publisher.
8) Intolerance
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Comprised of four separate, interwoven stories, unified by the common theme of man's inhumanity to man. The Babylonian story deals with the fall of Babylon in 538 B.C. The Judean story features the life of Christ. The French story centers on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572. The modern story is set in an American mill town and the slum area of an American city.
9) The general
Series
Language
English
Description
[The general] A locomotive is beloved by its engineer, who sets out to win the Civil War single handedly. [The playhouse] A comedy in which Keaton plays a stage manager, an actor, a monkey and other parts. [Cops] A comedy of errors in which Buster Keaton attempts to win his sweetheart's hand in marriage by becoming a successful businessman. His exploits climax in a chase with an entire police precinct.
10) The general
Series
Publisher
Kino International Corporation
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Remastered version of the Keaton classic in which he plays an engineer unable to register for service during the Civil War because he is needed to run his train. Instead, he inadvertantly becomes a hero without enlisting.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
D'Artagnan is a naive and ambitious farm boy who yearns to join the Musketeers, the elite regiment of guards under King Louis XIII. Riding into 1625 Paris on the back of a weathered plowhorse, the young rapscallion quickly wins the respect and friendship of the Musketeers' most valiant trio in a breathtaking display of a acrobatic swordsmanship. When Queen Anne is maneuvered into a political scandal by the devious Cardinal Richelieu, D'Artagnan and...
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Four early films in which Chaplin plays a variety of comedic characters. The Immigrant: Charlie and Edna are immigrants to the land of Liberty. The Adventurer: Charlie, an escaped convict, impersonates a wealthy yachtsman. The Cure: Chaplin is a wealthy inebriate drying out at a sanitarium. Easy Street: Charlie become a policemen in the city's toughest neighborhood.
Series
Movies begin volume 4
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A collection of 15 early motion picture films by Georges Méliès for his Star Film company. Also includes a documentary on the life and career of Méliès.
16) Seven chances
Series
Publisher
Kino International Corporation
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Keaton as a romantically jinxed young man who must marry by 7:00 p.m. to inherit 7 million dollars. While contending with hundreds of would-be-brides who have learned of his predicament, he tries to find the object of his true affections.
Series
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
None
Description
Nanook of the North: 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. Contains both documentary footage and staged scenes.
The wedding of Palo, Nanook's obvious successor, is the last beautiful work of the famed Danish polar explorer and anthropologist...
18) The spiders
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
Deutsch
Description
An adventure story about an organized band of criminals who scheme to dominate the world.
Series
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
The first vampire movie. Count Orlock (Nosferatu, the vampire) leaves his castle in the Carpathians and travels by ship to Bremen, bringing coffins filled with dirt and plague rats, where he is destroyed by sunlight.
