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Film, VideoThe Law of the North Catalog Record Only A frontier melodrama set in the Canadian Northwest. The daughter of a Northwest Mounted Policeman has two suitors, one of whom is a man of loose morals. This evil man kills a half-breed who is expecting his child, and he then places the blame on the other upright suitor of the daughter. The daughter finds the villain's picture at the murder site and succeeds...- Contributor: Keggerris, Robert - Jones, Fred C. - Crute, Sally - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Griffith, Edward H. - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Sutton, Charles - Tucker, Richard - O'Malley, Pat - K.E.S.E. (Firm) - George, Burton - Mason, Shirley
- Date: 1917
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Film, VideoShut out in the ninth
Story of the Greenport boys Catalog Record Only Two teenaged baseball players, one of whom was a previous woman hater, become infatuated with an older and pretty teenager who is new in town and who flatters them with her attentions. Their game and their friendship suffer until the coquette leaves them both alone in favor of an older city man who has an automobile.- Contributor: Wadsworth, William - Stevens, Jessie - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Griffith, Edward H. - Williams, Sumner - Brooks, Howard - Everett, Charles Frohman - Childs, Ogden - Adams, Claire - George Kleine (Firm) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Clark, Andy
- Date: 1917
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Film, VideoWilful Peggy Catalog Record Only A stubborn young woman finally accepts a college student of whom her family highly approves as her fiancé--after he exposes her older, sophisticated admirer as a pickpocket.
- Contributor: Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - De Linsky, Victor - Grandin, Ethel - Velsey, Graham - George Kleine (Firm) - General Film Company - Carlyle, Richard
- Date: 1915
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Film, VideoSpartacus : the Bolshoi Ballet
Copyright application title: Khachaturian: Spartacus Catalog Record Only PA000161754 U.S. Copyright Office Anamorphic wide screen. Title from container. Carlos Acosta (Spartacus) ; Alexander Volchkov (Crassus) ; Nina Kaptsova (Phrygia) ; Maria Allash (Aegina) ; soloists and corps de ballet of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia ; Orchestre Colonne ; Pavel Klinichev, conductor. Scenography, set and costume design, Simon Virsaladze; lighting design, Mikhail Sokolov. Filmed Jan. 22, 2008, Opéra National de Paris, Palais...- Contributor: Decca Music Group - Macgibbon, Ross - France 2 - Allash, Maria - Kaptsova, Nina - Virsaladze, Simon Bagratovich - Khachaturi︠a︡n, Aram - British Broadcasting Corporation - Volchkov, Alexander - Volkov, N. D. (Nikolaĭ Dmitrievich) ... Decca Music Group - Macgibbon, Ross - France 2 - Allash, Maria - Kaptsova, Nina - Virsaladze, Simon Bagratovich - Khachaturi︠a︡n, Aram - British Broadcasting Corporation - Volchkov, Alexander - Volkov, N. D. (Nikolaĭ Dmitrievich) - Bolʹshoĭ Teatr Sssr. Balet - Orchestre Des Concerts Colonne - Bolʹshoĭ Teatr Sssr - Bel Air Media (Firm) - Acosta, Carlos - Klinichev, Pavel - Grigorovich, I︠u︡riĭ Nikolaevich - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Giovagnoli, Raffaele
- Date: 2008
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Film, VideoKidnapped Catalog Record Only Miser Ebenezer Balfour attempts to cheat his nephew David from the boy's rightful inheritance by having unscrupulous ship captain Elias Hoseason kidnap the lad for the purpose of selling him as a slave in the Carolinas. David manages to escape from the ship where he had been incarcerated, along with Alan Breck, a gentleman outlaw who had boarded the ship when it hit the...
- Contributor: Hanna, Franklyn - Crosland, Alan - Levering, James - Hallor, Ray - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Stevenson, Robert Louis - Williams, Sumner - Wadsworth, William - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Craven, Walter ... Hanna, Franklyn - Crosland, Alan - Levering, James - Hallor, Ray - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Stevenson, Robert Louis - Williams, Sumner - Wadsworth, William - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Craven, Walter - Nicholson, John - Niblack, Samuel - Hain, Horace - K.E.S.E. (Firm) - McKee, Raymond - Cain, Robert - Burke, Joseph
- Date: 1917
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Film, VideoWarning shadows : a nocturnal hallucination
Nächtliche Halluzination | Nocturnal hallucination Catalog Record Only Expressionist film in which a count is jealous of the attentions his wife pays to "the lover" and various other suitors. The situation comes to a head when a showman/mesmerist puts on a "shadow play" for them all, in which their emotion and passions are mirrored.- Contributor: Schneider, Rudolf - Wangenheim, Gustav Von - Granach, Alexander - Weyher, Ruth - Kortner, Fritz - Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung - Platen, Karl - Cineteca Comunale (Bologna, Italy) - Grau, Albin - Robison, Arthur ... Schneider, Rudolf - Wangenheim, Gustav Von - Granach, Alexander - Weyher, Ruth - Kortner, Fritz - Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung - Platen, Karl - Cineteca Comunale (Bologna, Italy) - Grau, Albin - Robison, Arthur - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Rasp, Fritz - Cinémathèque Française - Gülstorff, Max - Rex, Eugen - Kino International Corporation - Transit Film
- Date: 2006
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Film, VideoThe kid Catalog Record Only The Tramp and his ragamuffin sidekick, a young boy rescued from the streets, triumph over life's hard knocks in the landmark film that changed the notion of what a screen comedy could be.
- Contributor: Gill, David - Vance, Jeffrey - Hall, Charles D. - Maland, Charles J. - Miller, Carl - Criterion Collection (Firm) - Model, Ben - Totheroh, Roland H. - Gunning, Tom - Brownlow, Kevin - Chaplin, Charlie - Purviance, Edna - Rogers, Eric - Coogan, Jackie - Brock, Timothy
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoLove in the tropics Catalog Record Only Cecil Brown, a young Englishman, lives in India on a tea plantation. His only comforts are whiskey and Profula, a beautiful native girl. One day he receives a telegram from his firm in London, granting him a year's leave to return home. Profula begs Cecil to take her, but he will not. Desparate, Profula threatens to poison herself if he will not marry her...
- Contributor: Blom, August - Frölich, Else - Nordisk Films Kompagni - Hertel, Aage - Psilander, Valdemar - Christensen, Frederik - Boesen, Axel - Stewens, Helga - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Buemann, Edith - Great Northern Film Company
- Date: 1912
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Film, VideoThe fatal hour Catalog Record Only "An attractive young woman is kidnapped by some Chinese white slavers. Another young woman, a police operative, is determined to rescue her. Successful in her attempt, the rescuer ends by being made a prisoner herself. The white slavers, as a punishment for calling the police, plan to make her the victim of a pistol shot to be triggered by the hands of a clock....
- Contributor: Auer, Florence - O'Sullivan, Tony - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Solter, Harry L. - Arvidson, Linda - Sennett, Mack - Marvin, Arthur W. - Gebhardt, George - Tansey, John - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1908
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Film, VideoThe covered wagon Catalog Record Only A great caravan of covered wagons, filled with hearty pioneers and their families and possessions, are waiting for the Spring 'jump off' at Westport Landing, now Kansas City. Where countless pilgrims fell, a love triangle flourishes, as Molly Wingate must choose between the brutish Sam and the dashing Will. Complicating her decision are the perils of the trail.
- Contributor: Kerrigan, J. Warren (Jack Warren) - Paramount Pictures Corporation - Wilson, Lois - Hough, Emerson - Kino Lorber, Inc - Cunningham, Jack - Lasky, Jesse L. - Hale, Alan - Cruze, James
- Date: 2017
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Film, VideoJamai-babu = Jāmāi bābu
Jawai Babu | Jāmāi bābu Catalog Record Only The film is about a country bumpkin Gobhardan who comes to visit his in-laws in Calcutta. Hilariously he mistakes a "No Nuisance" sign for an address and gets lost in the teeming streets of Calcutta. A highlight of the film is the way Calcutta is woven into the action, reminding one of the urban landscapes of California in early American slapstick comedies.- Contributor: Dass, Kalipada - National Film Archive of India - Rānaḍe, Rāhula
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoSilent movie
Title on container cover and spine: Mel Brooks in Silent movie Catalog Record Only A has-been movie director (Mel Brooks) intends to make a comeback by making a silent movie, and in the process, save his film studio from a takeover by a New York-based conglomerate.- Contributor: Feldman, Marty - Lohmann, Paul - Caan, James - Peters, Bernadette - Howard, John C. - Levinson, Barry - Minnelli, Liza - Reynolds, Burt - Caesar, Sid - Brooks, Mel ... Feldman, Marty - Lohmann, Paul - Caan, James - Peters, Bernadette - Howard, John C. - Levinson, Barry - Minnelli, Liza - Reynolds, Burt - Caesar, Sid - Brooks, Mel - Deluise, Dom - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc - Hertzberg, Michael - Carey, Ron - Gould, Harold - Allen, Stanford C. - De Luca, Rudy - Newman, Paul - Bancroft, Anne - Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation - Morris, John
- Date: 2006
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Film, VideoThe non-union bill-poster
Non-union billposter Catalog Record Only "The only scenes in this very short film show two men dressed in overcoats walking up to a man putting up a theater bill. The next scene is of a group of men beating the bill-poster about the head and shoulders and tearing his sign to bits"--Early motion pictures.- Contributor: Paley & Steiner (Firm) - Steiner, William - Crescent Films (Firm : New York, N.Y.) - Paley, William Daly - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1905
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Film, VideoThe life of Buffalo Bill. Parts I-III
Life of Buffalo Bill | Erroneous title: Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Far East Several events from Buffalo Bill Cody's life are reenacted in the form of dreamed flashbacks. Many scenes are from the Wild West show scenarios, including Buffalo Bill taking the scalp of Yellow Hand, an Indian attack on a wagon train, and a posse chase of a bandit named "Buck McCandell". The film is bookended by shots of the real Buffalo Bill preparing to nap...- Contributor: Buffalo Bill & Pawnee Bill Film Co - Ernst (Louise) Collection (Library of Congress) - O'Brien, John B.
- Date: 1912
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Film, VideoGeorges Méliès : first wizard of cinema (1896-1913)
First wizard of cinema (1896-1913) Catalog Record Only Arranged in chronological order, this comprehensive thirteen hour collection gathers for the first time nearly all surviving films of Georges Mâeliáes from his first (Card party, 1896) to his last (The voyage of the Bouririchon Family, 1913), bracketing more than 170 others. Beautiful new music has been prepared by ten leading practitioners of silent film accompaniment.- Contributor: Méliès, Georges - Shepard, David - Zagury, Fabrice - Franju, Georges - Lange, Eric - Star-Film - Flicker Alley (Firm) - Bromberg, Serge
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoThe house of mystery = La maison du mystère : a serial in ten episodes
Maison du mystère : a serial in ten episodes Catalog Record Only This French serial film centers around Julien Villandrit and his star-crossed courtship to Régine de Bettigny, that inspires bitterness and jealously in Henri Corradin, Julien's long-time associate and secret rival in love.- Contributor: Strizhevskiĭ, Vladimir - Mary, Jules - Genevois, Simone - Vanel, Charles - Volkov, Aleksandr - Haziza, Fabien - Films Albatros (Firm) - Darly, Hélène - Mussey, Francine - Bloch, No ... Strizhevskiĭ, Vladimir - Mary, Jules - Genevois, Simone - Vanel, Charles - Volkov, Aleksandr - Haziza, Fabien - Films Albatros (Firm) - Darly, Hélène - Mussey, Francine - Bloch, No - Kamenka, Alexandre - Flicker Alley (Firm) - Gray-Film (Firm) - Cinémathèque Française - Mozzhukhin, Ivan Ilʹich - Kolin, Nikolai - Ermolieff, Joseph N.
- Date: 2015
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Film, VideoThe awakening of Ruth
Working title: Girl from the sea Catalog Record Only A young girl, brought up in isolation on a remote Florida Key, falls in love with a vacationing New York playboy who promises to return for her one day. This promise is soon forgotten, and when the girl's father is killed in a hunting accident, she goes to New York City to study voice. The girl is given the leading role in a musical...- Contributor: Forth, George J. - Stevens, Jessie - Crute, Sally - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Sloane, Paul - Griffith, Edward H. - Hubbard, Lucien - Davies, David - Elkas, Edward - Hayes, William - George Kleine (Firm) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Hall, Donald - Mason, Shirley - Burke, Joseph
- Date: 1917
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Film, VideoThe cord of life Catalog Record Only After being refused a loan by his cousin, Galora, an angry Antonine vows revenge. When Galora's wife leaves their apartment for a few minutes, her baby is home alone. Antonine sees his chance. He ties the child to a rope suspended precariously over a five-story drop. Then he follows Galora and tries to stab him. When caught by the police, Antonine boasts about the...
- Contributor: Inslee, Charles (Charles E.) - Miles, David - Bitzer, G. W. - Cumpson, John R. - Lawrence, Florence - Johnson, Arthur V. - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Solter, Harry L. - West, Dorothy - Hendrie, Anita ... Inslee, Charles (Charles E.) - Miles, David - Bitzer, G. W. - Cumpson, John R. - Lawrence, Florence - Johnson, Arthur V. - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Solter, Harry L. - West, Dorothy - Hendrie, Anita - Arvidson, Linda - Leonard, Marion - Sennett, Mack - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Marvin, Arthur W. - Gebhardt, George - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Robinson, Gertrude
- Date: 1909
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Film, VideoThe aviator's generosity Catalog Record Only Two young aviators, Vidart and his friend Aubert, are competing against each other in a race with a large cash prize. Before the race, Vidart introduces his sister, Elsa, to Aubert. They fall in love, but there is a misunderstanding, and Vidart forces Elsa to renounce Aubert, causing a rift between the friends. Vidart needs to win the prize to pay off a moneylender...
- Contributor: Reumert, Poul - Gad, Urban - Jerichau, Rigmor - Nordisk Films Kompagni - Oes, Ingvald C. - Zangenberg, Einar - Graatkjär, Axel - Sannom, Emilie - Nobel, Christian - Bewer, William - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Kornbeck, Ellen - Holch, Christel - Great Northern Film Company
- Date: 1913
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Film, VideoWagon tracks Catalog Record Only "Buckskin Hamilton is out for justice and close on the heels of the outlaws that gunned down his younger brother in cold blood. Set in 1850, with the great Gold Rush as a backdrop" --Container.
- Contributor: McKim, Robert - Bacon, Lloyd - Novak, Jane - Sullivan, C. Gardner - Ince, Thomas H. - Simpson, Andrew - Pierson, Leo - Olive Films - William S. Hart Co - Hart, William S. (William Surrey) - Hillyer, Lambert - Arling, Charles - August, Joseph H. - Sprotte, Bert
- Date: 2017
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Film, VideoVengeance Catalog Record Only A wild crush on the family's lodger, Lieutenant Von Bremer, drives a young woman to steal money from her own father. Von Bremer has charmed her with empty words. He runs off with the money, and the father throws his daughter out. She dies giving birth to a son. Twenty-two years later, the young man seeks accommodation with Von Bremer and his wife. Von...
- Contributor: Blom, August - Skondrup, Franz - Nordisk Films Kompagni - Oes, Ingvald C. - Seemann, Henry - Lorentzen, Aage - Henriksen, Julie - Blad, Augusta - Boesen, Axel - Jessen, Gerhard ... Blom, August - Skondrup, Franz - Nordisk Films Kompagni - Oes, Ingvald C. - Seemann, Henry - Lorentzen, Aage - Henriksen, Julie - Blad, Augusta - Boesen, Axel - Jessen, Gerhard - Wolff, C. W. De - Roose, Thorkild - Bille, Svend - Hansen, Valdemar - Jacobsen, Frederik - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - La Cour, Ella - Buemann, Edith - Psilander, Valdemar - Wieth, Carlo - Nilsen, H. C.
- Date: 1912
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Film, VideoLittle Red Riding Hood Catalog Record Only The story of Little Red Riding Hood is told through the use of doll animation.
- Contributor: Afi/Atkinson (Dennis) Collection (Library of Congress) - Peter Pan Film Corp - Toyland Films
- Date: 1917
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Film, VideoRaja Harishchandra = Rājā Hariścandra : paurāṇika kathānaka
Phalke's Raja Harishchandra | Rājā Hariścandra Catalog Record Only Based on the popular Mahabharat legend, it is about King Harishchandra's devotion to truth for which he is prepared to sacrifice his kingdom. Sent info exile by the sage Vishwamitra for profaning his fire sacrifice, he is separated from his dutiful wife Taramati and son Rahidas. Finally reduced to becoming a attendant at a cremation ground he is charged with the task of executing...- Contributor: Phalke, Dhundiraj Govind - National Film Archive of India - Rānaḍe, Rāhula
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoSpeedy Catalog Record Only It was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd, and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his "Glasses Character" this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job. He finally finds his true calling when he becomes determined to help save the city's last horse-drawn trolley, which is operated by his sweetheart's crusty grandfather.
- Contributor: Israel, Robert - Davis, Carl - Neal, Lex - Harold Lloyd Corporation - Christy, Ann - Wilde, Ted - Woodruff, Bert - Lloyd, Harold - Criterion Collection (Firm) - Howe, Jay A. - Ruth, Babe - Grey, John - Rogers, Howard Emmett
- Date: 2015
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Film, VideoWings Catalog Record Only Two young men, one rich, one middle class, are in love with the same woman, but must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I. Includes three featurettes.
- Contributor: Saunders, John Monk - Lighton, Louis D. (Louis Duryea) - Bow, Clara - Burtt, Ben - Arlen, Richard - Zukor, Adolph - Wellman, William A. - Hubbard, Lucien - Hodges, Frederick - Carter, Gaylord ... Saunders, John Monk - Lighton, Louis D. (Louis Duryea) - Bow, Clara - Burtt, Ben - Arlen, Richard - Zukor, Adolph - Wellman, William A. - Hubbard, Lucien - Hodges, Frederick - Carter, Gaylord - Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation - Ralston, Jobyna - Lasky, Jesse L. - Hauser, Dominik - Loring, Hope - Zamecnik, J. S. (John S.) - Rogers, Buddy - Cooper, Gary
- Date: 2012