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    Omnibus. V, vol. 7 Catalog Record Only An episode of the television cultural anthology series consisting of 3 segments of varying lengths. The first segment is in three parts. The last segment is an excerpt from a film, On the Bowery.
    • Contributor: Robinson, Lennox - Rogosin, Lionel - Carroll, Paul Vincent - Dubin, Charles - Ford Foundation. Tv-Radio Workshop - Wesleyan University Collection (Library of Congress) - Abc Television Network - Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) - Cooke, Alistair - Saudek, Robert - Pathé Pictures - Synge, J. M. (John Millington) - McKenna, Siobhán - O'Casey, Sean
    • Date: 1956
  • Film, Video
    Dancing lady Catalog Record Only An attractive dancer is rescued from jail by a rich man, who helps her to have her first big opportunity at a musical play on Broadway.
    • Contributor: Adamson, Harold - Crawford, Joan - Pye, Merrill - Howard, Jerome Lester - Rivkin, Allen - Eddy, Nelson - Hart, Lorenz - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Tone, Franchot - Foy, Gloria ... Adamson, Harold - Crawford, Joan - Pye, Merrill - Howard, Jerome Lester - Rivkin, Allen - Eddy, Nelson - Hart, Lorenz - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Tone, Franchot - Foy, Gloria - Gable, Clark - Three Stooges (Comedy Team) - Vorkapich, Slavko - Warner Home Video (Firm) - Shearer, Douglas - Healy, Ted - Bellah, James Warner - Willis, Edwin B. - Lane, Burton - Howard, Moe - Silvers, Louis - Holmes, Maynard - Jarrett, Art - Robson, May - McHugh, Jimmy - Selznick, David O. - Wolfson, P. J. (Pincus Jacob) - Fine, Larry - Fields, Dorothy - Leonard, Robert Z. - Booth, Margaret - Rodgers, Richard - Benchley, Robert - Lightner, Winnie - Considine, John W. - Mitchell, Grant - Prinz, Eddie - Lee, Sammy - Adrian - Holloway, Sterling - Marsh, Oliver T. - Loew's Incorporated - Astaire, Fred
    • Date: 2017
  • Film, Video
    TR's return to New York, 1910 [2]
    Theodore Roosevelt's return to New York, 19l0 Catalog Record Only
    Theodore Roosevelt returned to N.Y. on June 18, 1910, having completed a fifteen-month tour of Africa and western Europe. The Roosevelt party on the liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria was met by the city revenue cutter, Manhattan. From the Manhattan, TR went aboard a larger cutter, the Androscoggin, which carried the official reception committee. After a trip up the Hudson to Fifty-Ninth St., the Androscoggin...
    • Contributor: Gaynor, William Jay - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Vanderbilt, Cornelius
    • Date: 1910
  • Film, Video
    The poisoner's handbook Catalog Record Only Tells the story of the dawn of forensic investigation, focusing on a number of cases of death by poisoning as well as accidental death by exposure to deadly chemicals. Examines the pioneering efforts of New York's first medical examiner Charles Norris and his assistant, toxicologist Alexander Gettler.
    • Contributor: Wgbh (Television Station : Boston, Mass.) - Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.) - Apograph Productions - Ferrari, Michelle - Blum, Deborah - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - PBS Distribution (Firm) - Platt, Oliver - American Experience Films - Rapley, Rob
    • Date: 2014
  • Film, Video
    Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film, 1894-1941
    Early American avant-garde film, 1894-1941 Catalog Record Only
    This seven-disc collection contains 155 avant-garde films, revealing hitherto unknown accomplishments of American filmmakers working in the United States and abroad from the invention of cinema until World War II. Offers an innovative and often controversial view of experimental film as a product of avant-garde artists, of professional directors and of amateur moviemakers working collectively and as individuals at all levels of film production.
    • Contributor: Shepard, David - Posner, Bruce Charles - Haller, Robert A. - Image Entertainment (Firm) - Günther, Winfried - LC Gift Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthology Film Archives
    • Date: 2005
  • Film, Video
    [Hawthorne, Charles Webster--home movies]. Airplane trip, Princeton boys probably.
    Airplane trip, Princeton boys probably Catalog Record Only
    These home movies of the family of Charles Webster Hawthorne present scenes of a group of young men aboard an airplane flight on Universal Airways. They are probably students at Princeton University, from which Joseph Hawthorne, Charles's son, graduated in June 1930. The plane flies over New York City.
    • Contributor: Hawthorne (Hazel) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1929
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    My cousin Vinny Catalog Record Only Two teenagers from New York City are falsely accused of murder while driving through rural Alabama. To defend them in court, one of them hires his cousin Vinny, a flamboyant personal injury lawyer with no trial experience whatsoever.
    • Contributor: Edelman, Randy - Peter V. Miller Investment Corp - Pesci, Joe - Schiff, Paul - Lombardo, Tony - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Launer, Dale - Gwynne, Fred - Smith, Lane - Pendleton, Austin ... Edelman, Randy - Peter V. Miller Investment Corp - Pesci, Joe - Schiff, Paul - Lombardo, Tony - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Launer, Dale - Gwynne, Fred - Smith, Lane - Pendleton, Austin - Macchio, Ralph George - Tomei, Marisa - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc - Deming, Peter - Lynn, Jonathan - McGill, Bruce - Chaykin, Maury - Whitfield, Mitchell - Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
    • Date: 2000
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    It's always fair weather Catalog Record Only Three World War II buddies vow to reunite for old time's sake in 10 years. When they do, they discover their friendship has fizzled, until a hilarious day restores it.
    • Contributor: Kelly, Gene - Kidd, Michael - Green, Adolph - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Freed, Arthur - Warner Home Video (Firm) - Donen, Stanley - Charisse, Cyd - Dailey, Dan - Gray, Dolores - Comden, Betty - Previn, André
    • Date: 2016
  • Film, Video
    A life apart : Hasidism in America
    Hasidism in America Catalog Record Only
    Relates the story of the creation of the Hasidic post-Holocaust communities in the United States.
    • Contributor: Seidman, Robert - Nimoy, Leonard - First Run/Icarus Films - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Daum, Menachem - Rudavsky, Oren - Parker, Sarah Jessica
    • Date: 1997