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Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
2011]
Language
English
Description
Nine animated shorts from around the world. A cat and a mouse carry on a dysfunctional relationship in a futuristic landscape. A Chinese monk sets out on foot with a tiger during the Tang dynasty and happens upon the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. Two blue-collar workers dissect the meaning of normal life as the world crumbles around them. A box of matches succumb to the appeal of a cigarette. Four people recount their various encounters with an unforgettable...
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
From Walt's earliest work in the 1920s to some of his most sophisticated shorts of the 1950s and '60s, he captured the imaginations of millions, plus two Academy Award wins - including Ferdinand The Bull, Best Short Subject 1938 - and eight nominations.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This collection of nine enchanting silent films offers a nostalgic view into the Yuletide pleasures of the early 1900s. Evoking the Victorian charm of Currier and Ives prints, these picturesque comedies and tender dramas were produced as cinematic Christmas cards offered to moviegoers of the silent era.
Series
Ironweed film club volume no. 23
Publisher
Ironweed Film Club
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Three films explore controversial men and the visions to which they are passionately devoted. An Unreasonable Man looks at the career of Ralph Nader, a political figure responsible for numerous consumer protection acts. Robinson Crusader introduces Keith Robinson, one of two brothers who own the remote Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau and fight to protect its sovereignty. Paul Conrad : Drawing Fire features the three-time Pulitzer prize-winning political...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Experience these masterpieces of storytelling. With revolutionary animation, unforgettable music and characters you love, these dazzling short films have changed the face of animation and entertainment and are sure to delight people of all ages.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Before Mickey, there was Oswald, the floppy-eared star of Walt Disney's first cartoon series. Disney created a bounty of legendary and rarely seen Oswald cartoons between 1927 and 1928 presented in this definitive collection of shorts."--Container.
Publisher
National Film Preservation Foundation
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
An anthology of films from 18 American film archives. Films include documentaries, newsreels, the earliest American movies, avant-garde and independent works, pioneering special effects, amateur and home movies, animated and industrial films, and silent movies from the earliest years of motion pictures (1893-1985).
15) September 11
Publisher
Distributed by Empire Pictures Inc
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Multiple
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Description
11 directors from different countries and cultures. 11 visions of the tragic events that occurred in New York City on September 11th 2001. 11 points of view committing their subjective conscience. Complete freedom of expression. Reflecting on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in short films lasting 11 minutes, 9 seconds and 1 frame each. In subject matter, they range from the very personal, to an oscillation between didacticism and relativism,...
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It's very late, and Stanley is up to something... -- Mysterious noises keep waking up the Wimbledon family. When Mr. Wimbledon returns from checking on the sounds, he's always reassuring: "It's only Stanley." But what Stanley the dog is actually doing while his oblivious family goes back to bed is deliciously absurd: he's preparing for an interplanetary trip!
Series
Ironweed film club volume no. 25
Publisher
Ironweed Film Club
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Three films explore the human capacity for creative thinking and solving problems. The future we will create provides a tour of the world-renowned TED Conference, a meeting of visionaries from around the world to discuss and propose solutions to some of the world's most serious problems. Challenges is an excerpt from the documentary film "Nobelity" featuring an interview with Rick Smalley (Nobel Prize in chemistry, 2006) about the world energy crisis...
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Pauline the Hen's efforts to lay eggs result in unusual eggs in the image of whatever she was looking at while concentrating. A windfall for her Easter egg selling owner, her ability produces a bigger surprise when the eggs begin to hatch!
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