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Money Man (1992 Video)

Director

Philip Haas

Producer

Philip Haas

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC only). col. 60 min., 1997 sale: US$59.95 (+p&p)

Profiles American artist J S G Boggs, who wages a one-man war against the US government for the right to practise his art form - painting dollar bills and using them as currency. His dollars have been...

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Singing Sculpture, The (1992 Video)

aka: Gilbert and George: The Singing Sculpture

Director

Philip Haas

Producer

Philip Haas

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC only). col. 20 min., 1997 sale: US$59.95 (+p&p)

Documents the 1991 re-creation by British artists Gilbert and George of their ‘the Singing Sculpture’ to mark the 20th anniversary of the original performance in New York’s Sonnabend Gallery. They...

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With Byrd at the South Pole (1930 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC only). silent. b&w. 82 min., 1997 sale: US$59.95 (+p&p)

Follows US Navy Rear-Admiral Richard E Byrd’s journey by sea from New York to the Antarctic, culminating with the first flight over the South Pole, covering the period 1928-30. The film is part historical...

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Simba (1928 Video)

aka: Simba, The King of Beasts

Director

Martin Johnson; Osa Johnson

Subject

Anthropology; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC only). b&w. 83 min., 1997 sale: US$59.95 (+p&p)

Record of a 15,000 trek through Africa by the husband-and-wife adventurers Martin and Osa Johnson, portraying the wildlife and tribal villages of the Samburu, Boran, Turkanak, Meru, Kikuyu, Dorobo, Nandi and...

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Chang (1927 Video)

Director

Merian C Cooper; Ernest B Schoedsack

Producer

Merian C Cooper; Ernest B Schoedsack

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC only). b&w. 67 min., 1997 sale: US$59.95 (+p&p)

A documentary film about a rice farmer and his family who live on the edge of the jungle in Siam and struggle for survival against numerous wild animals including bears, tigers and leopards. Includes footage...

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Grass (1925 Film, Video)

aka: Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life

Director

Merian C Cooper; Ernest B Schoedsack

Producer

Jesse L Lasky; Adolph Zukor

Subject

Anthropology; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

In 1924 filmmakers Cooper and Schoedsack joined forces with journalist and sometime spy Harrison to film the Follows the annual migration of the nomadic Bakhtiari tribe of east Persia in search of grass for...

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Felix! (1918 Video)

Director

Otto Messmer

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC only). b&w. 60 min., 1997 sale: US$59.95 (+p&p)

A collection of Felix the Cat animations (FELINE FOLLIES, FELIX SAVES THE DAY, FELIX IN HOLLYWOOD, FELIX DOPES IT OUT, FUTURITZY, FELIX WOOS WHOOPER, and COMICALAMITIES) along with footage of Felix’s...

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King John (1899 Film)

aka: Scene - ‘King John’ - Now Playing at Her Majesty’s Theatre, A Beerbohm Tree, The Great British Actor

Director

William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson

Subject

Drama

Four scenes from the Her Majesty’s Theatre production of King John, one of which survives. The descriptions quoted are from the copyright records in The National Archives: THE BATTLEFIELD NEAR ANGIERS -...

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