Jane Sloan Media Librarian jsloan@rci.rutgers.edu June 2006

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: Media Collections:
Motion Picture History

This guide is a browsing aid to selected titles in the video/DVD collections at Rutgers Libraries. The most up-to-date, accurate, and complete information regarding the libraries' holdings is available only through IRIS, our online catalog.

The African American cinema I, Oscar Micheaux's Within our gates (1919) 1993

The earliest surviving feature directed by an African-American, Within our gates tells the story of a young African-American woman who seeks a Northern white patron for a Southern school for Black children. The scenes of lynching and attempted white-on-Black rape may be a response to D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation.

1 videocassette (79 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2805

The African American cinema. II, The scar of shame (1923) and Sissle and Blake (1926) 1993

Sissle and Blake is a short filmed in Lee De Forest's New York studio with his sound-on-film process in 1923, four years before Hollywood began to experiment with sound. Pianist Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle perform their jazz composition "Affectionate Dan" and a jazzed-up spiritual. Scar of shame: In no film was the racial theme more apparent than in this story about an ill-matched marriage between a black concert painist and a poor, lower class black woman. Secretly ashamed of her, the young man keeps his wife hidden from his socially-prominent middle-class mother.

1 videocassette (80 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2809

Almonds and raisins a history of Yiddish cinema 1988

Includes scenes from The Cantor's son, Overture to glory, Yidl Mitn Fidl, and Tevye, to show a film history of the Yiddish cinema.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-869

The Art and science of making movies 1983

Origins of the motion picture (1956) / United States Department of the Navy -- Film editing : interpretation and values (1957) / American Cinema Editors -- The soundman (1949) / produced in cooperation with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and SciencesThree fascinating, unique films on the art, techniques, and magic of the movies. "Origins of the motion picture" covers the history of the movies, from Leonardo da Vinci to the turn of the century. "Film editing" features a scene from "Gunsmoke," edited three different ways by three different editors. "The soundman" is about the advent of talking movies.

1 videocassette (58 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1561

Basic film terms a visual dictionary 1970

Basic film terms: The shot -- Lenses -- Camera movement -- Sound -- Editing -- Pablo's sequencesBasic film terms presents precise visual examples of important film terms. Shows the different ways of preparing a film script, provides "visual definitions" of sound recording and editing methods and demonstrates the various kinds of camera movements, shots, and lenses. Basic film terms is narrated by and features film editor Leon Barsha. Uses a scene from "Baby Face Nelson" (1957) to demonstrate the effect of good film editing technique.

1 videocassette (23 min.) :

MEDIA D-90

Basic principles of film editing 1957?

Narrated by and featuring film editor, Leon Barsha. Uses a scene from Baby Face Nelson (1957), produced by Al Zimbalist, directed by Don Siegel, starring Mickey Rooney, Carolyn Jones & Sir Cedric Hardwicke, to demonstrate the effect of good film editing technique.

1 film reel (8 min.) :

MEDIA 1-3

The Battleship Potemkin 1998

Re-creates the 1905 mutiny on the battleship "Prince Potemkin." It focuses on a mutiny by the battleship's crew and the subsequent massacre of civilians, reflecting the spirit of the times.

1 videodisc (74 min.)

MEDIA 10-240

Behind the screens Hollywood goes hypercommercial 2000

This program examines the invasion of mainstream big-budget movies by advertising and marketing. Five leading scholars and a screenwriter discuss the consequences of an ever-accelerated concentration of media ownership and suggest that this continues to have profound effects on contemporary American cultural life.

1 videocassette (37 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5195

Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman 1996

Part one opens with Akerman in her apartment describing the problems she encountered making this film. Part two lets Akerman's films speak for her, taking clips from her extensive filmography.

1 videocassette (64 min.)

MEDIA 2-6331

Cinéma vérité defining the moment 1999

Free cinema -- Leacock's lessons -- Working history -- Engineering art -- Camera as eye -- Active eye -- Absolute truth -- Verite direct -- Schmeering truth -- Art vs. truth -- Dramatic conflict -- Politics of truth -- Subjective objectivity -- Living words -- The gaze -- Cutting truth -- Legacy -- Truth and consequences -- Fiction or faction -- Verite goes Hollywood -- Verite soap -- Re/processed verite -- Chimera verite -- Witness to the world"The cinéma vérité (or direct cinema) movement of the 1950's and 60's was driven by a group of rebel filmmakers tired of stilted documentaries. They wanted to show life as it really is: raw, gritty, dramatic. Rich in excerpts from vérité classics with commentary by filmmakers, this is the first film to capture all the excitement of a revolution that changed movie-making forever, with its influences on everything from TV news to music videos to Webcams"--Container.

1 videocassette (102 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5390

Le cinématographe Lumière en 1895 (Motion picture) n.d

Earliest films of cinematography pioneers, Louis and Auguste Lumière.

11 min. si. b&w. 16 mm

MEDIA 1-27

Classics of early Soviet cinema 1996

Blackhawk Films collection [sides 1-2.] Chelovek s kino-apparatom = [The man with the movie camera] (1929, 68 min.) / proizvodstvo VUFKU ; avtor-rukovoditel eksperimenta Dziga Vertov -- [sides 3-4.] Stachka = [Stirke] (1925 82 min.) / proizvodstvo 1y Goskinofabriki ; postanovka Sergeia Eizensteina -- [sides 4-5.] The fall of the Romanov dynasty = [Padeniye dinastii Romanovikh] (1927, 90 min.) / joint presentation of Sovkino and the Museum of the Revolution ; by Esther Shub -- [sides 6-7.] Konyets Sankt-Peterberga = [The end of Saint Petersburg] (1927, 89 min.) / directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin ; scenarist, Natan Aarkhi ; produced by Mezhrabpom-Rus Studio -- [sides 7-8.] Zemlia = [Earth] (1930, 69 min.) / avtor stsenaria i rezhisser Aleksandr DovzhenkoMan with the movie camera is a documentary without a plot, showing through a succession of street and interior scenes, the tricks which the camera is capable of, creating a boldly detailed portrait of the Moscow of the 1920s. In Strike a 1912 work stopage by Russian factory workers is brutally put down by the authorities. The Fall of the Romanov dynasty is a documentary portrait of the fall of the Russian Czarist regime and the rise of communist rule using clips from many films, including personal footage by the Czar's own cameramen. The End of Saint Petersburg, follows a young worker and his growing dedication to the revolutionary movement in Russia in the years 1914-1917. In Earth trouble arises in a Ukrainian village when a landowner refuses to hand over his land for a collective farm. This film features scenes of rustic beauty and of life and death in the Ukrainian countryside.

4 videodiscs (ca. 398 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA 7-137 disc 1 7-138 disc 2 7-139 disc 3 7-140 disc 4

David Puttnam Hollywood's role in shaping values 1994

Filmmaker David Puttnam talks with Bill Moyers about the state of American cinema today and how films can reflect society.

1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)

MEDIA 2-6939

Denmark 1902-1914 she! 1989

Examines the psychological realism and innovative filmmaking techniques exhibited in early Danish silent films. Shows how the creativity of key figures in early Danish cinema and the feminism and liberal sexual attitudes in Denmark contributed to the sophistication found in these early films.

1 videocassette (26 min.) :

MEDIA 2-674

Erotikus a history of the gay movies 1986?

An extremely well produced, excellently written, and cleverly edited film history of gay movies from the earliest art-pose films, the films first seen in male movie houses, the gay movie as an art form, and finally the hardest of the hard-core.

1 videocassette (54 min.) :

DOUGLASS. DOUGLASS 83 83

Experimentation and discovery 1994

Hepworth Manufacturing Company: How it feels to be run over (1900) -- Explosion of a motor car (1900) -- Rescued by Rover (1905) -- The other side of the hedge (1905) -- That fatal sneeze (1905) -- Cricks and Martin: A visit to Peak Frean and Co.'s biscuit works (1906) -- Kineto Production Company: A day in the life of a coalminer (1910) -- Pathe Freres: Par le trou de serrue (1901) -- Histoire d'un crime (1901) -- Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs (1902/1905) -- Reve et réalité (1901) -- La revolution en Russe (1905) -- Aladin ou la lampe merveilleuse (1906) -- Le Cheval emballé (1902) -- A narrow escape (1908) -- Magic bricks (1908) -- Edison Manufacturing Company: Devar's-it's-scatch (1897) -- The gay shoe clerk (1903) -- The dream of a rarebit fiend (1906)More than any other decade, the first the years of the moving picturesaw the greatest amount of experimentation and development.

1 videocassette (93 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2397

The eye of the dictator 1995

Examines the way Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, controlled the work of German film cameramen and how the use of film and particularly the weekly newsreel was used to inform, disinform, and persuade Germany during years of the Nazi regime.

1 videocassette (55 min.)

MEDIA 2-6908

Film firsts, part 1-2 Motion picture 1963

A survey of ideas, techniques, and stories of the films, ranging from the first time the camera moved to the first talkie and the first Tarzan. Spotlights the achievements of a quartet of film pioneers, Edwin S. Porter, Georges Méliès, Thomas H. Ince, and D. W. Griffith, who in a few years prior to 1914 brought imagination, drama, technical innovations, and photographic trickery to the screen.

54 min. sd. b&w. 16 mm

MEDIA. MEDIA 4-9 reel 1 4-10 reel 2

The film music of Bernard Herrmann 1997

In a program from the television series Camera three, David Raksin examines the film music composed by Bernard Herrmann. Included are analyses of techniques used to achieve special effects and film clips illustrating Herrmann's work.

1 videocassette (27 min.) :

MUSIC 432

Film: the art of the impossible Motion picture 1972

Discusses the art of film directing and presents excerpts from number of famous motion pictures in order to illustrate the art.

27 min. sd. col. 16 mm

MEDIA 4-162

France, 1904-1912 the enemy below 1989

Examines the appeal of early French cinema to the working class audience and the populist themes that dominated the earliest films. Shows how bourgeois values found their way into popular cinema only with the devistataions of the First World War.

1 videocassette (26 min.) :

MEDIA 2-675

Germany 1926-1932 under two flags 1989

Examines "populist" cinema in Germany of the 20s showing the influence of Soviet cinema in the German social workers' movements.

1 videocassette (26 min.) :

MEDIA 2-677

Great Britain, 1900-1912 along the great divide 1989

Uses extremely rare and obscure films to explore the origins of cinema in Great Britain. Examines the development of filmmaking techniques and how the early films reflected the social concerns and class divisions in British society of the period.

1 videocassette (26 min.) :

MEDIA 2-672

Great escape, 1927 1998

By the mid-1920s, millions were already confirmed "moviegoers". Movies reflected and affected the way people dressed, thought and spoke, teaching the inexperienced about love, courage, and how to dress, while the governments around the globe were quick to realize the power of film: this new mass entertainment would also prove an unrivaled tool of mass persuasion. Here moviegoers reminisce, revealing how the new medium persuaded, influenced and entralled them, as it offered a welcome refuge from the century's pressures.

1 videocassette (56 min) :

MEDIA 2-3844

The Great primitives 1978

A compilation of works from the early primitive years of the cinema, 1894-1905. Includes several works by the Edison Co. and the Lumière Brothers, Méliès' A trip to the moon, Porter's The life of an American Fireman and The great train robbery, and Hepworth's Rescued by Rover.

1 videocassette (43 min.) :

MEDIA D-339

The Great train robbery and other primary works 1994

Series photography (1877-1885) -- Edison kinetoscope films (1894-1896) -- Lumiere films (1895-1897) -- A trip to the moon /George Méliés (1902) -- Actualities (1897-1910) -- The Dog and his various merits /Pathé Freres, 1908 -- Moscow clad in snow -- Blue movies -- The Great train robbery /Edwin S. Porter (1903) -- The Whole Dam family and the Dam dog /Sigmund Lubin -- The Golden beetle /Segundo de Choron (1907)This, the first blockbuster in American film history, was part of a popular cycle of crime pictures. Only several years later would this film be seen as a western. More than crucial historical artifacts, this film reveals the foundation from which the styles and stories of the contemporary cinema would later arise.

1 videocassette (75 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2395

Gunsmoke editing film editing : interpretation and values 195

Three directors edit different versions of the same dramatic sequence from the TV program, Gunsmoke, in order to illustrate the variety of interpretations and approaches involved in film-making.

1 film reel (28 min.) :

MEDIA 4-374

The haunted screen German film after World War One : a film essay 2000

This film essay explores the German cinema of the 1920s.The program provides an introduction to Weimar cinema, narrated over the images from film clips of 1920s era German films.

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5457

The history of the cinema (Motion picture) An animated cartoon presenting a satirical review of the follies of motion pictures - past, present, and future.

9 min. sd. color. 16 mm

MEDIA 1-14

Hitch the genius of Alfred Hitchcock 2004

This two-part series presents an examination of the life and works of Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense, whose career spannned over 60 years. Each program features extensive film clips, interviews, commentary, and previously unavailable materials, including outtakes, filmed auditions, and Hitchcock's own home movies.

2 videodiscs (102 min.)

DANA 144 v.1-2

Hollywood and the American image the golden years 1988

Writer-narrator Tony Thomas takes us back to the Golden Age of the American film, the year from the early thirties to the late forties when the movies were the principle means of entertainment. They were the years in which Hollywood dwelt mostly upon the virtues of American character, when Gary Cooper and James Stewart personified the American male and Barbara Stanwyck and Carole Lombard were the ideals of American womanhood. It was potent and persuasive and important. This is how we saw ourselves--thanks to Hollywood and the American image.

1 videocassette (58 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1499

Hollywood DC a tale of two cities 2000

A documentary exploring the sometimes cozy, often contentious relationship between the U.S. federal government and the Hollywood entertainment industry.

1 videocassette (97 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6041

Hollywood on trial 1989

A courageous and true recording of the story of "The Hollywood Ten" who, in 1947, would not cooperate when accused by the United States government of possible Communist loyalties.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1246

Hollywood: the golden years Motion picture 1961

Traces the growth of the motion picture industry from nickelodeon days to the advent of sound. Features such stars as Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Rudolph Valentino, and Greta Garbo, and points out the important contributions of men like director D. W. Griffith. Includes clips from the Mack Sennett comedies and from the films Flesh and the devil, Wings, and The big parade. Ends with Al Jolson in The jazz singer, a film important in the beginning of the sound era.

60 min. sd. b&w. 16 mm

MEDIA. MEDIA 4-19 reel 1 4-20 reel 2

IA i loshad', ia i byk, ia i baba, ia i muzhik I am an ox, I am a horse, I am a woman, I am a man 1990

A group of motion picture actresses and women motion picture writers and directors in the Soviet Union discuss their work. Included are film clips of examples of their work.

1 videocassette (52 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3101

The Illustrated Hitchcock 1997

Alfred Hitchcock talks with Pia Lindstrom about actors and actresses he has directed and with film historian William Everson about the development of his film-making style.

1 videocassette (56 min.) :

DANA 1899

John Huston & the Dubliners on the set of "The dead" 1990

Provides an inside account of the production of John Huston's last film, "The Dead." Also provides insight into and understanding of the work of Joyce.

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

DANA 312

The Killing screens media and the culture of violence 1994

Dr. George Gerbner discusses the depiction and marketing of graphic violence by the media and its cumulative effects on society as illustrated by interspersed scenes from popular movies and television programs.

1 videocassette (40 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2400

Kuxa kanema la naissance du cinema = Kuxa kanema : the birth of cinema 2003

Discusses the history of Mozambique's National Institute of Cinema's weekly newsreel entitled Kuxa kanema. Shows the relationship between the films and President Samora Machel and FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front). The original filmmakers discuss their work as a testimonial to the country, its struggles and wars.

1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-6745

Landmarks of early film 1994

Series photography (1877-1885) -- Edison kinetoscope films (1894-1896) -- Lumière films (1895-1897) -- A trip to the moon (1902) -- Actualities (1897-1910) -- The great train robbery (1903) -- The whole dam family and the dam dog (1905) -- The golden beetle (1907) -- The policemen's little run (1907) -- Troubles of a grasswidower (1908) -- Nero, or The fall of Rome (1909) -- Winsor McCay and his animated pictures (1911) -- The girl and her trust (1912) -- Bangville police (1913)A selection of early silent films made in Europe and the U.S., starting with moving images (Eadweard Maybridge), continuing with the progress made by the Kinetoscope, the Méliès "real" ironies, and some of the other early cinematographers, such as Max Lierder, D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille.

1 videodisc (117 min.) :

MEDIA 7-80

The lost garden the life and cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché 1995

Explores the life of pioneer filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché, who in 1910, while married and with her first child, founded her own production company, Solax. Includes television interviews from the sixties, interviews with her relatives and film historians as well as photographs and excerpts from her films.

1 videocassette (53 min.) :

MEDIA 2-64

Lumiere's first picture show 197

Employees leaving Lumiere Factory -- Arrival of Express at Lyons -- Friendly party in the garden of Lumiere -- Feeding the baby -- Boys sailing boats, Twilleries Garden, Paris -- The falling wall -- Baths at Milan, Italy -- French dragoonsA compilation of eight of the earliest silent film shorts produced by the Lumiere brothers.

1 film reel (14 min.) :

MEDIA 2-47

The magic of Méliès 1994

Side 1. Georges Méliès: cinema magician (c1978) / by Patrick Montgomery and Luciano Martinengo -- Le voyagé a travers l'impossible (c1904) -- side 2. The untamable whiskers (c1904) -- The cook in trouble ([c1904]) -- Tchin-Chao: the Chinese conjurer (c1904) -- The wonderful living fan (c1904) -- The mermaid (c1904) -- The living playing cards (c1905) -- The black imp (c1905) -- The enchanted sedan chair (c1907, 1905) -- The scheming gamblers paradise (c1906, 1905) -- The hilarious posters (c1907, 1906)-- The mysterious retort (c1906) -- The eclipse : the courtship of the Sun and Moon (c1907) -- Good glue sticks (c1907) -- Long distance wireless photography (c1908)Beginning with a documentary surveying Geroges Méliès life, influences, and cinematic accomplishments and pioneering work, this release showcases just 15 of the over 500 films he produced during his lifetime.

1 videodisc (101 min.) :

MEDIA 7-79

Mamadrama the Jewish mother in cinema 2001

"A unique exploration of the maligned mother figure in Jewish twentieth century culture"--Container.

1 videocassette (52 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5615

Midnight ramble Oscar Micheaux and the story of race movies 1994

A documentary recounting the history of the independent film industry that produced close to 500 "race movies" for African-American audiences between 1910 and 1940. Focuses especially on the work of Oscar Micheaux, a controversial filmmaker who wrote, produced, and directed over 40 features.

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

MEDIA 2-4052

Midwest roots, Hollywood dreams 1982

Program 5. Buffalo Bill and the movies (30 min.) -- program 6. Omaha's Black motion picture company (30 min.) -- program 7. Women in early film (30 min) -- program 8. Harry Langdon and Harold Lloyd : comic characters from mid-America (30 min.)Traces the origin and development of early filmmaking efforts in Nebraska. Features such unusual topics as Buffalo Bill Cody, an early black film company, and women filmmakers.

1 videocassette (120 min.) :

DANA 52

The movies learn to talk 1960

Traces the development of sound movies from early experiments with clumsy systems at the turn of the century to The jazz singer in 1927 and the polished and sophisticated sound film of today. Includes glimpses of film personalities and excerpts from silent and sound movies.

1 videocassette (26 min.) :

MEDIA D-141

Music and comedy masters 1996

Minnie the moocher / Cab Calloway -- Jittering jitterbugs / Hamtree Harrington -- Heavenly choir / Bessie Smith -- St. Louis Blues / Bessie Smith -- Showtime at the Apollo / Mantan Moreland, Lionel Hampton, Nat King Cole -- Hi de ho / Cab CallowayA collection of comedy, jazz and musical shorts featuring the greatest names in Afro-American entertainment in some of their earliest filmed performances. Includes Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Lionel Hampton and other performers.

1 videocassette (75 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6193

Muskateers of Pig Alley ; Battle of Elderbush Gulch 1912-1914

Muskateers of Pig Alley is a drama in which the happiness of a struggling musician is threatened by the warfare between two rival bands of gangsters. Battle at Elderbush Gulch is a drama in which the arrival of two orphans and their puppies at the Western frontier leads to an Indian uprising.

1 videocassette (40 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1230

The National Film Board of Canada a history 199

Tape 1. Animation: Neighbors -- Begone dull care -- The romance of transportation in Canada -- Universe -- Pas de deux -- The street -- The Bead game -- The Sand castle -- George and Rosemary -- Strings -- tape 2. Documentary I: Paul Tomkowicz, street-railway switchman -- City of Gold -- Lonely boy -- waiting for Fidel -- tape 3. Documentary II: VTR St-Jacques -- Not a love story, a film about pornography -- If you love this planet -- tape 4. French film production at the NFB: Les raquetteurs -- La paysagiste/mindscape -- Mon oncle Antoine -- tape 5. Yesterday, today and tomorrow: the NFB at 50 plus: The Magical eye -- Strangers in good company -- Forbidden love, unashamed stories of lesbian lives -- Minoru, memory of exilePresents an array of documentaries, animation films and fiction features which are offered as a sample of the films the Film Board has produced over the years.

5 videocassettes (582 min.) :

DANA. DANA. DANA. DANA. DANA 253 cassette 1 253 cassette 2 253 cassette 3 253 cassette 4 253 cassette 5

The Origins of cinema Volume 2 rare film masterpieces from the Library of Congress 198

Chapter 1: The dude and the burglars (1903) -- The story the biograph told (1904) -- Personal (1904) -- The widow and the only man (1904) -- The lost child (1904) -- Chapter 2: The suburbanite (1904) -- Tom, Tom, the piper's son (1905) -- An Acadian elopement (1907) -- Chapter 3: Grandpa's reading glass (1902) -- Mr. Hurry-Up of New York (1907) -- The tired tailor's dream (1907) -- The sculptor's nightmare (1908) -- Chapter 4: A search for evidence (1903) -- The moonshiner (1904) -- The hero of Liao Yang (1904)A selection of early comedies and motion pictures produced by American Mutoscope and Biograph; the films illustrate early film comedy, the chase, use of special effects, delayed suspense, unusual camera movement, etc.

1 videocassette (112 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1532

The Origins of cinema Volume 4 rare film masterpieces from the Library of Congress 198

Chapter 1: Balked at the altar (1908) -- Faithful (1910) -- A dash through the clouds (1912) -- Chapter 2: A calamitous elopement (1908) -- Where breakers roar (1908) -- An awful moment (1908) -- The cord of life (1909) -- Chapter 3: The girls and daddy (1909) -- Chapter 4: The golden Louis (1909) -- At the altar (1909) -- Fools of fate (1909).Chapter 1: Early examples of narrative films from the Edison Company, most photographed by Edwin S. Porter. Charter 2: Thomas Edison films. Chapter 3: Three early examples of original plots written especially for the screen. Chapter 4: Three Edison Company comedies.

1 videocassette (108 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1534

The Origins of cinema Volume 5 rare film masterpieces from the Library of Congress 198

Chapter 1: His trust (1911) -- His trust fulfilled (1911) -- Chapter 2: Enoch Arden (1911) -- Chapter 3: A temporary truce (1912) -- A girl and her trust -- Chapter 4: The bold bank robbery (1904) -- She would be an actress (1909) -- Drunkard's child (1909) -- An unexpected guest (1909)Chapter 1: One of Griffith's and Biograph's first attempts at two-reel films. Chapter 2: The first Biograph film released and publicized as a two-reel drama. Chapter 3: Two films showing a transition between Griffith's early style and his later pictures. Chapter 4: 4 examples of films produced by Siegmund Lubin Manufacturing Company.

1 videocassette (102 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1535

The Origins of cinema Volume 6 rare film masterpieces from the Library of Congress 198

Chapter 1: Love and war (1899) -- The girl from Montana (1907) -- His first ride (1907) -- The bandit king (1907) -- The bank robbery (1908) -- Chapter 2: The inn where no man rests (1903) -- A spiritualist photographer (1903) -- The magic latern (1903) -- The clock maker's dream (1903) -- The cook in trouble (1904) -- The mermaid (1904) -- Chapter 3: How the old woman caught the omnibus (1903) -- The eviction (1904) -- The bewitched traveler (1904) -- An Englishman's trip tp Paris from London (1904) -- The lover's ruse (1904) -- A race for a kiss (1904) -- The other side of the ledge (1904) -- Fine feathers make fine birds (1905) -- Chapter 4: The pickpocket (1903) -- The child stealers (1904) -- Raid on a coiner's den (1904) -- Revenge (1904) -- A railway tragedy (1904) -- Decoyed (1904) -- Rescued by Rover (1905)Chapter 1: 5 examples of films from independent producers. Chapter 2: Examples of films of French filmmaker Georges Melies. Chapter 3: Comedies produced in Great Britain by Clarendon, Gaumont and Hepworth. Chapter 4: Britain's first documentary dramas pointing out social evils.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1536

Origins of the motion picture 1955

An historical record of the development of the machinery and arts of the motion picture, from the earliest suggestion of Leonardo da Vinci to the perfected sound motion picture of Edison.

1 videocassette (21 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2139

Passing girl; riverside an essay on camera work 1997

A young American ethnolographic researcher in Ghana discusses issues raised by filming, the ways he uses his subjects and the ways they use him as well.

1 videocassette (30 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3903

A personal journey with Martin Scorsese through American movies 1995

Featuring extracts from American movies, filmmaker Martin Scorsese shares his personal view and knowledge of films, directors and actors.

3 videocassettes (225 min.) :

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Representation & the media 1997

Hall, a renown public speaker and teacher, lectures on the central ideas of cultural studies--that reality is not experienced directly, but through the lens of culture, through the way that human beings represent and tell stories about the world in which they live. Using visual examples, Hall shows how the media--and especially the visual media--have become the key players in the process of modern story telling.

1 videocassette (55 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2925

That's Black entertainment 1996

v. 1. Race movies : the early history of Black cinema -- St. Louis Blues -- Hi-De-Ho -- Boogie-Woogie Dream -- v. 2. The soundies era : Black music video's from the 1940's -- Murder in Harlem (1935) -- Souls of sin (1949) -- Blood of Jesus (1941) -- Juke joint (1947) -- Miracle in Harlem (1948) -- Broken heart (1939) -- Rufus Jones for president (1933)2 videocassettes (ca. 106 min.) :

DANA. DANA 1190 cassette 2 1190 cassette1

U.S.S.R. 1926-1930 born yesterday 1989

Examines early cinema and its relationship to society in six countries: Great Britain, United States, Denmark, France, Soviet Union and Germany. Each program includes excerpts from several films.

1 videocassette (26 min.) :

MEDIA 2-676

United States, 1902-1914 tomorrow the world 1989

Examines early filmmaking in the United States. Shows how America's immigrant masses were the earliest audience for films but also the ridiculed and stereotyped subjects of these films. Illustrates how American filmmakers discovered narrative but avoided social content and criticism as the middle class came to dominate the film audience. Includes excerpts from numerous erly films.

1 videocassette (26 min.) :

MEDIA 2-673

What do those old films mean history, cinema, society 1999

v. 1. Great Britain 1900-1912 : along the Great Divide. United States. 1902-1914 : tomorrow the world -- v. 2. Denmark 1902-1914 : She!. France 1905-1922 : the enemy below -- v. 3. Germany 1925-1932 : under two flags. USSR 1924-1928 : born yesterdaySix-part series explores the early hears of motion pictures through the use of archival footage.

3 videocassettes (156 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA 2-5476 cassette 1 2-5477 cassette 2 2-5478 cassette 3

Women of vision 18 histories in feminist film and video : a documentary 1998

Pt. 1. Creating an infrastructure: Carolee Schneemann, Pearl Bowser, Julia Reichert, Margaret Caples, Kate Horsfield, Constance Penley -- pt. 2. Lovers, mothers and mentors: Barbara Hammer, Michelle Citron, Susan Mogul, Juanita Mohammed, Vanalyne Green, Victoria Vesna -- pt. 3. Reassembly required: Carol Leigh, Frances Negron, Yvonne Welbon, Megan Cunningham, Eve Oishi, Valerie SoeProfiles a variety of women active in independent-feminist film and video, including production, distribution and education, whose work expresses a variety of political and esthetic viewpoints. The three-part video begins by profiling 6 women whose careers began in the Fifties and Sixties, then six women whose work coincided with the emergence of the women's movement in the Seventies; and six women whose careers began in the Eighties and Nineties.

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MEDIA 2-5349

Women who made the movies 1990

Although women have been making films as long as men, their contribution has been largely ignored.

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MEDIA 2-5428

The Wonderful horrible life of Leni Riefenstahl 1995

Interviews with Leni Riefenstahl, now in her nineties, flashbacks and modern film sequences tell the story of the most famous woman film director of all time. Known for her films made during the Third Reich, Riefenstahl's story is a controversial one. Best known for her "Triumph of the will" (1935), the film made of the 1934 Nazi Party Congress, it proved to be her undoing.

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Yaacov Ben-Dov father of Hebrew cinema 1993

1 videocassette (30 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2750