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1) Grace notes
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 43 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Rare musical performances: Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grapelli and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in Jazz hot (1939), Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club Orchestra featured in Black and tan (1929), Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen, 1934, and a 1929 performance from the Utica Jubilee Singers.
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Remix ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
This 2-disc Remix Edition features hours of all-new bonus features, including: Dance Along (as seen on Disney Channel); 2 exclusive remixed songs; 3 new music videos; new cast interviews; and a behind-the-scenes look at the premiere events.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 62 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
One of Hollywood's earliest -- and most peculiar -- musicals, The Great Gabbo stars von Stroheim as an egotistical ventriloquist who casts a Svengali-like spell upon an ingenue (Betty Compson), against a backdrop of singularly strange numbers (including "Icky" and the spider-and-fly-themed "Caught in a Web"). Director James Cruze (The Covered Wagon) allowed von Stroheim to endow the character with his signature flourishes, resulting in a wicked cocktail...
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1951.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Fred Astaire and Jane Powell star as a brother and sister dance team that is invited to England to perform at the same time as the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth.
Author
Publisher
The Sager Group LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
350 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Notes from the Road: A Filmmaker's Journey through American Music, Mugge describes the genesis of his twenty-five key music films, the methods employed in making them, and the experiences shared by him, his crews, and his subjects. This retrospection is organized not so much chronologically as thematically, in order to reveal connective tissue among efforts made over multiple decades.As William Reynolds Ferris writes in the foreword to the book,...
6) Persuade me
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 80 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Eleven films designed to influence, including a vintage promotional film of a French-dubbed Laurel & Hardy, theatrical advertisements featuring Michel Simon and Jacques Tati, a 1938 George Pal puppet animation, three WW-II era musical shorts, two political campaign films, and the National Film registry selection Master Hands, a paean to the 1936 Chevrolet automobile.
Publisher
Great Musical Treasures
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 128 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of Hollywood musical films. This program covers the 1950s, exploring how the post-war years were alive with bold experimentation. Later in the decade, rock & roll became the musical of choice for the younger generation and movie musicals followed suit. Highlights include films based on Broadway musicals like "The king and I," "Oklahoma!," "Carousel," and "South Pacific," and stars including Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Esther...
Publisher
Great Musical Treasures
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of Hollywood musical films. This program covers the 1930s, including the magic of director/choreographer Busby Berkeley; the screen partnership of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; musical child stars such as Jane Withers, Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and Shirley Temple; the musical ladies of 20th-Century Fox including Sonja Henie, Betty Grable, and Alice Faye; dancers such as Eleanor Powell, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson,...
Publisher
Great Musical Treasures
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 160 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of Hollywood musical films. This program covers the 1920s, including Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer, Eddie Cantor, The Marx Brothers, Rudy Vallee, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Florenz Ziegfeld, The Desert Song, Rio Rita, Broadway Melody, and more.
Publisher
Great Musical Treasures
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 133 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of Hollywood musical films. This program covers the 1940s, when more than 550 movie musicals were produced. Highlighted stars include Frank Sinatra, Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth, Betty Hutton, June Haver, the Andrews Sisters, the Jivin' Jacks and Jills, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Lena Horne.
12) La France
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 102 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
An intoxicating blend of wartime romance and brightly colored musical, the film depicts an original world "where Bresson meets the Beatles" (Variety).
13) Dreamgirls
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
Three young women, Deena Jones, Effie White and Lorrell Robinson desire to become pop stars. They get their wish when they are picked to be backup singers for the legendary James "Thunder" Early. When they are set free for leads, Curtis Taylor and Effie's brother C.C. decide that Deena should be the lead singer, which upsets Effie. The girls discover exactly what it takes to be in the music business and what they must give up to realize their dreams....
Publisher
Warner Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (197 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Pure Country Pure Heart (2017) : Ada and Piper never got to know their father. The girls go on a quest to discover who he really was. Filled with new songs and an appearance by Willie Nelson.
Pure Country (1992) : A country music superstar ditches his beard, ponytail-- and temporarily, his career-- to reclaim his down-home country roots and to find the kind of love he'd only sung about.
19) Spinout
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007, 1966
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elvis plays a singer-race car driver who has a single-minded desire to remain single. Pursuing him is a trio of lovelies with an itch to get hitched, but they have a lot more than each other as rivals. They have to compete with the sleek curves and shiny good looks of a high-powered Cobra 427.
20) Bye bye Birdie
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999], p1963
Edition
Widescreen & full screen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rock star/teenage heartthrob Conrad Birdie gets drafted and his manager faces unemployment so his manager organizes a nationwide contest in which one lucky girl will win a goodbye kiss from Birdie.
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