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Author
Publisher
ChiZine Publications
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois Cairns - jobless and depressed in the wake of her son's autism diagnosis - accidentally discovers the existence of lost early 20th century Ontario filmmaker Mrs. A. Macalla Whitcomb. By deciding to investigate how Mrs. Whitcomb's obsessions might have led to her mysterious disappearance, Lois unwittingly invites the forces which literally haunt Mrs. Whitcomb's films...
Author
Series
Tufa novels volume 6
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
""This is real." Three small words on a film canister found by graduate students Justin and Veronica, who discover a long-lost silent movie from more than a century ago. The startlingly realistic footage shows a young girl transforming into a winged being. Looking for proof behind this claim, they travel to the rural foothills of Tennessee to find Sadieville, where it had been filmed. Soon, their journey takes them to Needsville, whose residents are...
4) Silent movie
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
None
Description
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
5) Sabotage
Publisher
Delta Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Sabotage: An undercover Scotland Yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage. When the saboteur suspects he is being watched, he asks his nephew to deliver an explosive parcel across town
The lodger: The central character, called simply "The Lodger", is caught in the trap of other peoples' suspicions. Because this lodger, who is renting a room in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, seems mysterious, he is...
7) Metropolis
Series
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
An expressionistic drama about authoritarianism and revolt in an industrialized metropolis of the 21st century
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
After losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he sees a clip from a lost film by the silent comedian Hector Mann. Zimmer soon finds himself embarking on a journey around the world to study the works of this mysterious figure, who vanished from sight in 1929. Presumed dead for sixty years, Hector Mann was...
10) The artist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1927, George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. However, the advent of the talkies will kill his career and he will sink into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit as major movie stardom awaits. Though their careers are taking different paths their destinies will become entwined
13) Flickers
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Arnie Cole is a lovable Cockney rogue who wants to move up in the fledgling silent-film industry. Prowling for potential investors, Arnie finds haughty, hypercritical Maud and gets far more than he bargained for. While keeping creditors at bay, squabbling actors on task, and an egotistical director under budget, Arnie and Maud try to build a business based on make-believe. In the process, they mangage to kindle an unorthodox, but very real, romance....
14) Blackmail
Publisher
LaserLight DVD
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
[Blackmail] A young woman kills an artist who attempts to rape her. Her Scotland Yard detective boyfriend soon learns the killers identity, but so has someone else. First produced as a silent film, then in this version with dialog
[Easy virtue] "After divorcing an abusive husband, an innocent woman makes a valiant effort at beginning her life anew, but she cannot escape the incidents surrounding her past"--Container
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The...
17) Our gang
Series
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The comedic misadventures of a group of poor neighborhood children and the many conflicts they have with the rich kids and authoritative adults
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Easy virtue: Larita Filton 's husband divorces her after mistakenly believing she was unfaithful. She then meets young john Whittaker on holiday, and when the two rush into a scandalous marriage, Larita's long-held shocking secret is revealed.
Young and innocent: When a writer discovers his girlfriend's slain body on the beach, he flees the scene while two witnesses, who assume he is the murderer, look on. Determined to catch the real killer before...
19) The piano man
Author
Publisher
Walker and Co
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young Afro-American girl recalls the life story of her grandfather who performed in vaudeville and played piano for the silent movies
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