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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 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 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...
25) Oh my darling
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
None
Description
Honored as Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival, OH MY DARLING is an Oscar-nominated animated short about parents who love their daughter too much, or perhaps not? This delightful film covers the changing relationship between a child and her parents as she grows up and flies the nest, and reveals in a masterly fashion in the complexities and dynamics of the modern family.
26) The door
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Russian
Description
This Oscar-nominated film opens with an absurd act: stealing a door. Then, what had seemed an absurd act turns into a simple statement of human dignity, of people making sense of loss through ritual. THE DOOR reflects on the fact that it is based on someone's testimony. Images are impressionistic, haunting, like fragments of memories which the viewer must piece together. Although the main character, Nikolai, gives us the facts, he himself is trying...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As one of the most iconic personalities of the silent film era, Rudolph Valentino achieved an unprecedented level of fame, due in part to his exotic good looks and a magnetic personality that leapt from the screen. His undeniable cultural resonance, coupled with his untimely death in August of 1926, has made him a recognizable and still-relevant figure throughout the world. The Valentino collection is the definitive video compilation featuring digital...
28) The Lost Letter
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Language
English
Description
This is the short tale of a young boy as he prepares his neighborhood for Christmas. That is until he confronts the one lady who doesn't want the holiday to come at all.
29) Eleanor's catch
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Eleanor's catch is a delightful short, directed by and starring Cleo Madison. A successful actress, Madison was one of many women who directed films at Universal, particularly in the mid 1910s. In this two-reeler, she stars as a young city girl dragged into a life of crime by a ne'er-do-well suitor. A terrific surprise ending gives Eleanor and Cleo an early claim to promoting women's equality in the workforce. Rousing Melodrama.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Documentary Red top snuff (shot 1975, edited 1999) (8:43) (co-produced with Barbara Ayres; Noah Bishop editor) Ben Pearson's family has been milling on the Parker River in Massachusetts since colonial times and began grinding snuff when the industrial revolution brought textile mills to the Merrimack Valley. The Byfield Snuff Company continued making snuff until 1990 and its most popular product was called Red top. Yoyo man (1978) (12:03) (co-produced...
31) Litterbugs
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Helped by her self-made flying mechanical creatures, a young inventor and a pint-sized superhero defeat the town bullies and find an unexpected friendship.
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Rupert, a ten year old boy, falls hopelessly in love for the first time. When it all goes terribly wrong, he wishes never to experience heartache again. Turning to a book of magic, he invokes a spell to shield him from emotion forever. Winner of Best Animation and nominated for Best Short Film at the 2012 **Irish Film and Television Awards**.
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
2001?]
Language
English
Description
W.C. Fields stars in three comedy films. In the first he portrays "The Golf Specialist" giving a lesson to a house detective's flirtatious wife. In "The Dentist" he portrays a dentist who faces unusual and comic patients. In "The Fatal Glass of Beer" he portrays a trapper in the great northwest who tells a wild tale about his son being lured by the temptation of the big city. Includes the famous "Ain't fit for man nor beast" routine.
34) Casablanca
Publisher
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of the dream, Nadine is handed a picture of herself playing the violin. Stanley, a man in clunky glasses who accompanies Nadine through her dream, demands a performance, and a chorus of suited men on the other side of a wall of windows stare at her expectantly. Throughout the dream, Stanley repeatedly nags Nadine about not cheating. Nadine finds herself in a kitchen, mixing flour and other ingredients in a bowl. She stops before dumping...
36) Once Upon a Line
Publisher
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A man leads a monotone, humdrum existence until he suddenly falls in love. His world turns upside down after he meets a red-haired woman who manages to break his established routine. What follows is a short portrait of a difficult relationship marked by a struggle for control and preserving one’s identity, and finally loss and depression. Shortlisted for Best Short Film at the **Academy Awards**.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This atmospheric short drama was made on film in 1998 and serves as a showcase for some of the outstanding talent nurtured by CAAMA at that time, supported by filmmaking talent from elsewhere including Safina Uberoi and Jackie McKimmie. In a sequence of simple, emotionally charged scenes, MY COLOUR, YOUR KIND gives a powerful impressionistic insight into the feelings of alienation experienced by a teenaged albino Aboriginal girl. In a convent boarding...
40) The Talk
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the film, adults share memories of the time when their parents first tried to explain sex to them. Using actual recordings of these recollections and a mix of hand drawn images, photographs, computer generated images as well as stop frame animated toys and props, the memories of several individuals have been caringly recreated in order to best present the awkwardness of one of life's strangest occurrences. Nominated for Best Animated Short at the...
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