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Caballos Salvajes: See WILD HORSES

Cabaret: [fs 5267 LaserCLV2 124min 1972 dir:Bob Fosse cast:Liza Minelli; Michael York; Joel Grey]; A musical contrasting the desperate gaeity of nightclub life in 1932 Berlin with the political troubles being brewed by Nazism.

Cabeza de Vaca: [4417 VHS 108min Spanish/sub 1993 dir:Nicolas Echevarria cast:Juan Diego]; A shipwrecked Spanish sailor survives for eight years among the Indians of the Americas and is appalled when more Spaniards come to enslave the Indians.

CABIN IN THE SKY: [fs 3985 VHS 5131 LaserCLV1 99min bw 1943 dir:Vincente Minnelli cast:Ethel Waters; Lena Horne; Eddie Anderson]; Musical about the struggle for a man's soul, between a faithful wife and a temptress from the devil.

THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari): [fs 0276 16mm (60min) 3839 VHS 5004 5363 Laser (restored, 78min) 9571 DVD (58min) bw silent 1919 dir:Robert Wiene cast:Werner Krauss; Conrad Veidt; Friedrich Feher]; German Expressionist film about a mad psychiatrist and the hypnotized somnambulist who carries out his evil commands.

CABIRIA: [fs 3645 VHS 123min bw silent 1914 dir:Giovanni Pastrone]; A girl is separated from her parents during the Punic Wars and goes on an odyssey through the Roman Empire.

CABRA MARCADO PARA MORRER: [2762 VHS 119min 1984 dir:Eduardo Coutinho]; Political events of Brazil's rural northeastern region as explained by its peasants after a 17-year interruption in filming.

THE CADILLAC RANCH SHOW: [fs 3893 VHS 10min 1974 dir:Chip Lord; Hudson Marquez; Doug Michels (Ant Farm)]; Ten Cadillacs are half-buried in a field, Route 66, Amarillo.

CAFÉ AU LAIT: [fs6343 VHS 94min 1993 French /sub dir:Mathieu Kassovitz cast:Julie Mauduech, Hubert Koundé, Kassovitz]; Parisian Lola is pregnant, and enlists two ex-boyfriends as possible fathers in a multicultural ménage.

CAFÉ ELECTRIC (Wenn ein Weib den Weg verliert): [6910 VHS 82min. 1927 bw silent dir: Gustav Ucicky cast:Marlene Dietrich, Willi Forst]; Love-life of a beautiful woman.

THE CAINE MUTINY: [fs 5243 LaserCLV2 125min 1953 dir:Edward Dmytryk cast:Humphrey Bogart; Jose Ferrer; Van Johnson; Fred MacMurray]; Film adaptation of the Herman Wouk novel in which a ship's crew relieves its captain during a typhoon in order to save the ship and then is tried for mutiny.

CALAMITY JANE: [fs 8008 VHS 101min. 1953 dir:David Butler cast:Doris Day, Howard Keel]; Western musical comedy. Wild Bill Hickok comes to prefer the rough cross-dressing tomboy Jane to the daintier star of the Golden Garter's show.

THE CALIFORNIA REICH: [3153 VHS 55min 1975]; Documents the neo-Nazi movement in California.

CALIFORNIA SPLIT: [fs 0856-0858 16mm 111min 1974 dir:Robert Altman cast:George Segal; Elliott Gould]; Two gamblers, winning and losing, going from crisis to crisis.

CALIGARI'S CURE: [fs 4004 VHS 80min 1983 dir:Tom Palazzolo]; Take-off on the classic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, mixed with memories of Catholic school and adolescent sexual fantasies.

CALL ME MADAM: [fs 0966-0967 16mm 115min bw 1953 dir:Walter Lang cast:Ethel Merman; Donald O'Connor; George Sanders; Vera-Ellen]; The life of a socialite and foreign diplomat (like Perle Mesta) set to music by Irving Berlin.

CALL ME MISTER: [fs 1676-1677 16mm 95min 1951 dir:Lloyd Bacon cast:Betty Grable; Dan Dailey; Danny Thomas]; American soldier in Japan goes AWOL to see wife in USO show.

CALL NORTHSIDE 777: [fs 4353 VHS 5468 LaserCLV1 111min bw 1948 dir:Henry Hathaway cast:James Stewart; Richard Conte; Lee. J. Cobb]; Based on a true story: a newspaper reporter uncovers evidence that frees a man wrongly convicted of a murder.

EL CALLEJÓN DE LOS MILAGROS: See MIDAQ ALLEY

CAMELOT: [5568 LaserCLV 180min 1967 dir:Joshua Logan cast:Richard Harris; Vanessa Redgrave; Franco Nero]; remastered edition of Lerner and Loewe's musical about the legend of King Arthur.

CAMERA OF MY FAMILY: [JHVC 7097 VHS 18min 1979]; Catherine Hanf Noren looks through a photo collection of her Jewish family in Germany in the 20s and 30s.

CAMERA TECHNIQUES FOR VIDEOTAPE: [fs 2053 u-matic 20min 1974]; From the Necessary Art Series, produced by 3M Corp.

THE CAMERMAN: [fs 5402 LaserCLV2 70min bw silent 1928 dir:Edward Sedgwick cast:Buster Keaton; Marceline Day]; A tintype street photographer moves up to newsreel cameraman to try to win his girl.

THE CAMERAMAN'S REVENGE AND OTHER FANTASTIC TALES: [fs 9609 DVD 7-26min. 1912-1958 silent dir:Ladislaw Starewicz]; The Lithuanian satirist used puppets, often representing insects, to create animated films in Moscow and Paris. 6 films on this disk: Cameraman's Revenge, Insects' Christmas, Frogs Who Wanted a King, Voice of the Nightingale, Mascot, Winter Carousel.

CAMILLE: [fs 0844-0846 16mm 3255 VHS 5173B LaserCLV1 108min bw 1936 dir:George Cukor cast:Greta Garbo; Robert Taylor]; The Alexandre Dumas story of the courtesan with a good heart and bad lungs.

CAMILLE CLAUDEL: [6021 VHS 159min French /sub 1989 dir:Bruno Nuytten cast:Isabelle Adjani; Gérard Depardieu]; Tells the story of the promising sculptress Claudel and her relationship with legendary sculptor Rodin.

CAMPUS VAMP: [fs 5232 LaserCLV1 20min bw/color 1928 dir:Harry Edwards cast:Daphne Pollard; Carole Lombard]; A Mack Sennett short with some color scenes, on the same disc as Nothing Sacred.

CAN THE STATES DO IT BETTER?: [6146 VHS 56min 1996]; Examines the debate between the idea of shifting power and authority from the federal government to the states and individuals.

CAN TROPICAL RAINFORESTS BE SAVED?: [4532 VHS 115min 1991]; A survey of most of the world's rainforests and the forces at work toward their destruction.

CAN WE GOVERN?: [VHS 60min each 1992]; From the 'Listening to America with Bill Moyers' series.
Part 1: [3227]; Examines the disenchantment of voters who see no real choices and the frustration of elected officials who think voters are poorly informed.
Part 2: [3228]; Examines political jargon and the notion that understanding is not being served by the way our language treats politics.

CANNERY ROW: [fs 5672 Laser 120min. 1982 dir:David S. Ward cast:Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, John Huston]; John Steinbeck's novel about a marine biologist in a little California fishing town.

CANTALOUPE: [fs 2050 u-matic 23min 1980 dir:Steina Vasulka]; Experimental video in which the subject matter is converted to coarse pixels which are then manipulated by computer.

THE CANTERBURY TALES (I Racconti di Canterbury): [6066 VHS 121min 1972 dir:Pier Paolo Pasolini cast:Hugh Griffith; Laura Betti; Franco Citti]; Based on the Middle English tales of Geoffrey Chaucer.

THE CANTOR'S SON (Dem Khann's Zindl): [fs 4792 VHS 90min bw Yiddish/sub 1937 dirs:Sidney Goldin; Ilya Motyleff cast: Moishe Oysher; Florence Weiss]; Based on the life of Moishe Oysher, who immigrated to America and became famous as a singer.

CAPITALISMO SALVAJE (Savage Capitalism): [4418 VHS 6747 VHS Portuguese/sub 86min 1993 dir:Andre Klotzel cast:Fernando Torres; Jose Mayer]; Story of a romance between a reporter and a mining company executive which ends when the executive's wife, presumed dead, returns and drives the company and the country to the brink of a national disaster.

LES CAPRICES DE MARIANNE: [6802VHS French 93min 1994 cast:André Dussollier]; Alfred de Musset's play in which the protagonist is courted simultaneously by a cynical libertine and a shy romantic. Stage production from the Théâtre Monparnasse, dir. Bernard Murat.

CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS: [fs 5673 Laser 117min. 1937 b/w dir:Victor Fleming cast:Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew]; Rudyard Kipling's novel tosses a rich boy overboard into a Gloucester fishing boat where he learns to be a man.

LES CARABINIERS: [fs 4548 VHS 78min bw French /sub 1963 dir:Jean-Luc Godard]; A stupid little film about stupid little people who go off to fight in stupid little wars for greed.

CARAVAGGIO: [6554 VHS approx 60min 1986 dir:Derek Jarman]; Film based on the life and art of Italian post-Renaissance painter, the "enfant terrible" of Italian art.

THE CARDBOARD BOX: See THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.

CAREER GIRLS: [fs 5462 LaserCLV1 86min 1996 dir:Mike Leigh cast:Katrin Cartlidge; Lynda Steadman]; Two college roommates get together six years after college to remember who they were and assess who they have become.

CAREER TRACKS: [2504 VHS 11min 1986]; A video promoting careers in the automotive industry, aimed at high school students.

CAREFUL (WAITING FOR TWILIGHT): [fs 9492 DVD 100min. 1992 dir:Guy Maddin cast:Kyle McCulloch, Gosia Dobrowolska]; A parabolic tale of sexual and vocal repression in an Alpine village wary of avalanches. Includes "Waiting for Twilight," a 60-min. documentary about Maddin's films.

CARIBBEAN EYE: [VHS 25min (except as noted) 1991]; A series of documentaries on life and arts in the Caribbean, hosted by Ken Corsbie.
Musique Antillean: [4054]; Zouk, Cadence and other influences of French-speaking islands.
Pan Caribbean: [4054]; Steelpan in popular, jazz, calypso and classical music.
Dramatic Actions: [4055]; Folk festivals and rituals in formal and popular theatre.
Talk & More Talk: [4055]; Background to best oral poet-performers and storytellers.
Independent Voices: [4055]; Revolutionary writers: Guillen, Cesaire, Carter, Reid, James.
Women in Action: [4056 29min]; Co-operatives in Jamaica, Guyana, Dominica, St. Vincent.
Caribbean Carnivals: [4056]; Their shared roles as unifiers and liberators of the spirit.

CARMEN: fs 5470LD; See CECIL B. DEMILLE: The Greatest Showman on Earth

CARMEN: See BIZET'S CARMEN

CARMEN JONES: [6896 VHS fs 1101-1103 16mm 107min 1954 dir:Otto Preminger cast:Harry Belafonte; Dorothy Dandridge; Pearl Bailey]; A black cast and an American military setting provide a different look for the opera by Bizet.

CARMEN MIRANDA: Bananas Is My Business: [fs 4666 VHS 98min 1994 dirs:Helena Solberg; David Meyer]; Biography of the Brazilian entertainer who came to the U.S. to make movies and export Brazilian music and culture.

CARNAL KNOWLEDGE: [fs5564 Laser 96min 1971dir:Mike Nichols cast:Jack Nicholson; Candice Bergen; Arthur Garfunkel]; Story of the sexual exploits and ineptitudes of two Amherst students from the 1940s.

CARNE TRÉMULA (Live Flesh): [fs5560 Laser 101min Spanish language sub 1997 dir:Pedro Almodóvar cast:Javier Bardem; Francesca Neri]; Thriller about an ex-convict who seeks revenge on the woman who sent him to jail.

CARNIVAL IN COSTA RICA: [fs 1795-1796 16mm 95min 1947 dir:Gregory Ratoff cast:Dick Haymes; Vera-Ellen; Cesar Romero; Celeste Holm]; A Costa Rican man is in love with an American singer but his parents want him to marry a local girl.

CARNIVAL IN FLANDERS: [fs 3657 VHS 95min bw French /sub 1935 dir:Jacques Feyder cast:Louis Jouvet, Françoise Rosay]; The Spanish occupy a small town in Flanders in 1616. The men of the town run away, leaving the women to deal with the soldiers.

CARNIVAL OF SOULS: [fs9280 DVD 78/83min 1962 bw dir:Herk Harvey]; Two discs with two versions of the spooky story of a haunted and possibly dead Kansas girl.

CARO DIARIO: [4876 VHS 100min Italian/sub 1994 dir:Nanni Moretti cast:Nanni Moretti; Renato Carpentieri]; "...whimsical comedy about a man who takes off on his motorcycle across Italy in search of the true meaning of life."

CAROUSEL: [fs 1271-1273 16mm fs9440 DVD 128min 1956 dir:Henry King cast:Gordon McRae; Shirley Jones]; Ferenc Molnar's play Liliom became this musical drama of love, parenthood, and crime in a New England mill town.

LA CARRIÈRE DE SUZANNE (SUZANNE'S CAREER): [6104 VHS French /sub bw dir:Eric Rohmer cast:Catherine Sie; Philippe Beuzen]; The relationship between two friends is strained when they both become interested in the same girl.

CARTAS DE MAMÁ: [4681 VHS 60min Spanish 1980]; Spanish television production of a story by Julio Cortázar in which the characters are extraordinarily affected by letters from the main character's mother.

CARTOONS THAT TIME FORGOT: The Ub Iwerks Collection: [fs 5244 LD 426min 1931-1936 dir:Ub Iwerks]; 4 laserdiscs with a collection of early sound animation by the one-time Walt Disney collaborator, featuring Flip the Frog, Willie Whopper, and others. Includes also Free-Form Fairy Tales (with Aladdin, Puss in Boots, and Dick Whittington) and Things that Go Bump in the Night, with Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

CASABLANCA: [fs 0770-0771 16mm 5011 LaserCAV2 3001 and 6204 VHS 9130 DVD 102min bw 1942 dir:Michael Curtiz cast:Humphrey Bogart; Ingrid Bergman; Claude Rains]; An American expatriate must shed his cynicism and give up his true love to aid the war effort.

THE CASE OF THE MISSING MYSTERY WRITER: [9054 Laser]; One part of the Houghton Mifflin Channel R.E.A.D. series which offers laser-disc-based visual instruction and media that complements a literature-based reading curriculum.

CASE STUDIES IN LEADERSHIP: [0987 16mm 18min 1976]; Describes two approaches to leadership in terms of a model which considers the leader, the led, and the circumstances.

CASITA CULTURE: [2836 VHS 27min 1990]; Documents the Puerto Rican presence in New York City as it is expressed in the casitas they build to remind them of home.

CAST A GIANT SHADOW: [JHVC 7066 VHS 142min 1966 dir:Melville Shavelson cast:Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, Yul Brynner]; Israel, 1948: General Mickey Marcus shapes the first army of the new Jewish state.

Cast Away: [fs 9665 DVD 143min French (Spanish subtitles) 2000 dir:Robert Zemeckis cast:Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy]; Fed-Ex systems engineer Chuck Noland's ruled-by-the-clock existence abruptly ends when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island.

THE CASTRO: [6593 VHS 86min 1997]; Documentary about the transformation of San Francisco's Castro district from a quiet- working class neighborhood of European immigrants into a gay community.

THE CAT AND THE CANARY: [fs 3582 VHS 5474 LaserCLV1 126min bw silent 1927 dir:Paul Leni cast:Laura LaPlante; Tully Marshall]; Prototype haunted house horror film.

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF: [fs 5674 Laser 110min. 1958 dir:Richard Brooks cast:Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives]; Tennessee Williams' play about Maggie the Cat and her campaign to get her alcoholic husband back into bed with her.

THE CAT PEOPLE: [fs 1054-1055 16mm 3424 VHS 73min bw 1942 dir:Jacques Tourneur cast:Simone Simon; Kent Smith]; Horror story concerning a curse on a young woman which will make her become feline. See also fs 5487LD VAL LEWTON COLLECTION

CAUDILLO: The History of the Spanish Civil War: [4900 VHS 111min 1991]; A documentary without editorial comment, whose images are tinted to distinguish one faction from the other.

CAUGHT: [fs 2591 VHS 88min bw 1949 dir:Max Ophuls cast:James Mason; Barbara Bel Geddes; Robert Ryan]; A young woman marries a millionaire, then tries to escape her shallow existence with him.

CAUGHT IN A CABARET: [fs 0245 16mm 14min bw silent 1914 cast:Charlie Chaplin]; A cabaret waiter on his night off poses as a foreign official after rescuing a young woman.

CAUSE FOR ALARM and THE STRANGER: [fs9322 DVD 73min 1951 bw dir:Tay Garnett cast:Barry Sullivan, Loretta Young]; An insanely jealous husband incriminates his wife by dying of rage. Film Noir 1 disk includes Orson Welles's THE STRANGER.

CAVALCADE OF MGM SHORTS: [5424 LD 4 discs 7hrs 36min bw and color 1995]
: 34 classic film shorts from the 30's and 40's. Actors include Jimmy Stewart, Johnny Weissmuller,Buster Keaton, The Three Stooges, Robert Benchley, and Buster Crabbe.

CAVALCADE OF MGM SHORTS, Volume 2: [5425 LD 4 discs 7hrs 1min bw and color 1996]; 35 classic film shorts from the 30's, 40's, and 50's. Actors include Robert Taylor, Virginia O'Brien, Tex Beneke, The Three Stooges, and Pete Smith.

CAVITATION: [1351 16mm 4456 VHS 31min 1969]; Describes the partial vacuum which can develop between a fluid and a surface in relative motion, especially in marine propellers and hydrofoils.

CAZADORES DE UTOPÍAS: See HUNTERS OF UTOPIA

CECIL B. DEMILLE: The Greatest Showman on Earth: [fs5470]; 5 films directed by Cecil B. Demille on 5 laserdiscs. All films are silent and black-and white.
Carmen: [5470a 56min 1915 dir:Cecil B. DeMille cast:Geraldine Farrar; Wallace Reid]; Prosper Merimée's story about the factory girl who loves a soldier and a bullfighter; Farrar had starred in Bizet's opera at the Met.
Joan the Woman: [5470a-b 137min 1917 dir:Cecil B. DeMille cast:Geraldine Farrar; Wallace Reid]; Joan of Arc fights for the sybaritic King and the Church, disdaining love, and is prosecuted and burned for witchcraft. Some hand-colored sequences.
Whispering Chorus: [5470c 81min 1918 dir:Cecil B. DeMille cast:Raymond Hatton; Kathlyn Williams]; Proto-film noir about an embezzler who takes on another identity but is eventually convicted as his own murderer.
Male and Female: [5470d 115min bw silent 1919 dir:Cecil DeMille cast:Gloria Swanson; Thomas Meighan]; A satire of class distinctions based on James M. Barrie's play The Admirable Crichton.
Volga Boatman: [5470e 120min bw silent 1926 dir:Cecil B. DeMille cast:William Boyd; Elinor Fair]; At the time of the Russian Revolution, a princess is torn between a prince and a man of the people.

CELEBRATING CAJUN CULTURE: [ 8063 VHS 22min. 1993]; History of the Cajuns' migration from France to Nova Scotia to Louisiana.

CELESTINA: [6263 VHS 87min Spanish dir:Miguel Sabido cast:Isela Vega; Luigi Montefiori]; Sexual obsession in colonial Spain.

CÉLINE ET JULIE VONT EN BÂTEAU: [fs 4137 VHS 187min French /sub 1974 dir:Jacques Rivette cast:Juliet Berto; Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier]; Two young women, a librarian and a magician, find spiritual adventures in an alternate Paris and a house of ghosts.

THE CELLULOID CLOSET: [6218 VHS 102min 1996 dirs:Rob Epstein; Jeffrey Friedman narr:Lily Tomlin]; Footage from 120 films showing the hundred-year history of the role of homosexuals in cinema.

THE CENTRAL LOWLANDS: See PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICA.

CENTRAL PLACE THEORY: [1372 VHS 30min 1975]; Explains the ideas of German geographer Walther Christaller and gives an example.

CENTURY OF CINEMA: JAPAN AND KOREA: [fs 6848 PAL VHS 2 52-min. segments 1994, 1995 dir:Nagisa Oshima, Jang Sun-Woo]; Two films produced for the British Film Institute. In 100 Years of Japanese Cinema, Oshima shows stills and clips while analysing the themes of Japanese film in voiceover. In The Cinema on the Road, Jang Sun-Woo interviews Korean filmmakers.

LA CÉRÉMONIE: [6100 VHS 111min French /sub 1995 dir:Claude Chabrol cast:Isabelle Huppert; Sandrine Bonnaire; Jacqueline Bisset]; Suspense thriller. A housekeeper and postal worker terrorize a French bourgeois family.

CÉSAR: [fs 5094 LaserCLV2 124min bw French /sub 1936 dir:Marcel Pagnol cast:Raimu; Pierre Fresnay; Orane Demazis]; Twenty years after Marius and Fanny separate, their son brings them together again. Last part of Pagnol's Marseilles trilogy.; See FANNY and MARIUS

CESARE BORGIA: [2716 VHS 83min bw silent 1922 dir:Richard Oswald cast:Conrad Veidt]; The illegitimate son of a pope plots to murder anyone he thinks is interested in his sister, including his own brother.

C'EST BEAU: [6257 VHS, 6805 VHS French 71min]; Nathalie Sarraute's minimalist stage play describes inner motion, barely conscious feeling.

CETTE SACRÉE GAMINE: See NAUGHTY GIRL

CEUX QUI M'AIMENT PRENDRONT LE TRAIN: See THOSE WHO LOVE ME CAN TAKE THE TRAIN

PAUL CÉZANNE: LES CHEFS-D'OEUVRE DU MUSÉE D'ORSAY: [9048 CD-ROM PC/MAC 1995 French Language]; 33 paintings of Cézanne in the Orsay museum, analyzed and contextualized.

CHACUN CHERCHE SON CHAT: See WHEN THE CAT'S AWAY.

CHAIKA: See THE SEAGULL.

CHAIN LIGHTNING: [fs 5675 Laser 95min. 1950 b/w dir:Stuart Heisler cast :Humphrey Bogart, Eleanor Parker]; Ex-bomber pilot risks his life testing supersonic jets.

Chained: fs 5418LD; See GABLE AND CRAWFORD COLLECTION

THE CHAIR (PAUL): [1485 VHS 54min bw 1970 dir:Robert L. Drew]
: Cinema verité documentary on the fight by lawyer Louis Nizer to save Paul Crump from the electric chair, on the grounds that after 9 years in Cook County prison he was fully rehabilitated.

CHAJKA: See THE SEAGULL.

LA CHAMBRE VERTE: See THE GREEN ROOM

THE CHAMP (1931): [fs 5677 Laser 87min. 1931 b/w dir:King Vidor cast:Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper]; An alcoholic but loving father must try to make a comeback in a boxingring to keep custody of his son.

THE CHAMP (1979): [fs 5676 Laser 117min. 1979 dir:Franco Zeffirelli cast:Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway]; An ex-boxer plans his comeback in order to keep custody of his beloved son, whose wayward mother has recently turned up on the scene.

CHAMPION: [fs9239 DVD 100min 1949 bw dir:Mark Robson cast:Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell]; An ambitious prizefighter struggles with his ambition and the Mafia.

THE CHAMPION: [fs 1912, 1950 16mm 10min bw silent 1915 cast:Charlie Chaplin]; Chaplin tries to beat the odds in the fight game.

CHAN IS MISSING: [fs 3229 VHS 80min bw 1981 dir:Wayne Wang cast:Wood Moy; Marc Hayashi]; Two cab drivers in Chinatown try to recover stolen money. "Chan" is a metaphor for "Chinese American" and he is never found.

CHANEL, CHANEL: [6022 VHS 60min 1986]; Documents the life and work of Coco Chanel, the famous French fashion designer.

CHANG: A Drama of the Wilderness: [fs 3756 VHS 70min silent 1927 dirs:Merian C. Cooper; Ernest B. Schoedsack]; A Siamese family homesteading at the edge of the jungle subdues all the wildlife except the elephants.

CHANGING WORK: American Workers in Sweden: [0966 16mm 40min 1976]; Documents a visit by American autoworkers to a Saab assembly plant in Sweden where engines are built by teams rather than on an assembly line.

CHANGING OUR MINDS: THE STORY OF DR. EVELYN HOOKER: [6981 VHS 75min 1991 dir:Richard Schmiechen]; Documentary about the change, from the 1950s to the 1970s, of the classification of homosexuality from "illness" to an acceptable norm. Narrated by Patrick Stewart.

CHANNEL FLOW OF A COMPRESSIBLE FLUID: [0184 16mm 4457 VHS 29min 1969]; Schlieren flow visualization and pressure distribution along a channel of varying area, demonstrating choking, blocking, starting, supersonic flow, Mach waves, normal shock waves, and supersonic compression.

THE CHAPLIN MUTUALS: [fs 5306 LaserCLV3 approx. 240min bw silent 1916-1917 dir:Charlie Chaplin cast:Charlie Chaplin; Edna Purviance]; A collection of twelve 2-reelers made by Chaplin under contract to a New York film distributor.; See CHARLIE CHAPLIN: The Early Years
Disc 1 [5306A]: The Immigrant; The Adventurer; The Cure; Easy Street
Disc 2 [5306B]: The Count; The Vagabond; The Fireman; Behind the Screen
Disc 3 [5306C]: One A.M.; The Pawn Shop; The Floorwalker; The Rink

THE CHAPLIN REVUE: [fs 2977 VHS 126min bw silent cast:Charlie Chaplin; Edna Purviance; Sydney Chaplin]
A Dog's Life 1918: The Little Tramp saves a mutt from a dog fight.
: World War I comedy.
The Pilgrim 1923: Chaplin is an ex-con posing as a preacher.

CHARADE: [fs9114 DVd 114min 1963 dir:Stanley Donen cast:Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant]; A young widow must trust a tall dark handsome stranger as thieves try to steal a valuable object.

CHARIOTS OF FIRE: [JHVC 7049 VHS 124min 1981 dir:Hugh Hudson cast:Ian Charleson, Ben Cross, Ian Holm]; Two English runners prepare for and compete in the 1924 ParisOlympics.

CHARLES JOHNSON: [4580 VHS 27min bw 1992]; Video interview with the black author whose works are "multicultural in scope, seeking ...the universal in the particulars of black experience..."

CHARLIE CHAPLIN: Hits of the Past: [fs 1927 16mm 8min bw silent cast:Charlie Chaplin]; Chaplin causes pandemonium in a vaudeville theatre, most notably with a fire hose.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN: The Early Years: [fs VHS ~20min each bw silent 1916-17]; See CHAPLIN MUTUALS
Volume 1: [3026]
The Immigrant: Chaplin sails for the land of liberty and finds romance and hardship.
The Count: An out-of-work tailor masquerades as a wealthy count to gain entrance to an exclusive restaurant.
Easy Street: The Little Tramp lands a job as a policeman in a rough town.
Volume 2: [3027]
The Pawnshop: A janitor/clerk causes pandemonium in a store.
The Adventurer: An escaped convict is mistaken as a darling of society.
One A.M.: A drunken playboy returns home after a night on the town.
Volume 3: [3028]
The Cure: An alcohol-tippling man-about-town visits a spa to take the cure.
The Floorwalker: Charlie eludes a detective while the manager tries to make off with the day's receipts.
The Vagabond: A violinist rescues a young girl from gypsies.
Volume 4: [3029]
Behind the Screen: An overworked stagehand goes berserk in a movie studio.
The Fireman: A fireman gets involved in an arson plot with his girlfriend's father.
The Rink: The Little Tramp is a bad waiter but a good rollerskater and makes everyone mad at him.

CHARTRES CATHEDRAL: [0144 VHS 30min 1963]; John Canaday analyzes the contradictory elements which come together to form the great cathedral: faith, intellect, engineering, architecture.

CHARULATA (The Lonely Wife): [6781VHS bw Bengali language sub 117min 1964 dir:Satyajit Ray]; A loyal, dutiful wife discovers what true love could be.

CHASING AMY: [5415 LD 2 discs fs 9594 DVD 113min 1997 dir:Kevin Smith cast:Ben Affleck; Joey Lauren Adams; Jason Lee]; Third film in Smith's "New Jersey Trilogy." An unconventional romance between a comic-book writer and an avowed lesbian.

CHAUCER: A Poet's Pilgrimmage: [4217 VHS 37min 1994]; A brief introduction to Chaucer, his times, and his English language. CoversTroilus and Criseyde and the Canterbury Tales.

CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN: [fs 6680VHS 85min 1950 dir:Walter Lang cast:Clifton Webb; Myrna Loy; Jeanne Crain]; Comedy set in the early 1900's about the efforts of a husband and wife trying to maintain control in a home with 12 children.

THE CHEAT: [fs 5486 LaserCLV 59min bw silent 1915 dir:Cecil B. DeMille cast:Fannie Ward; Sessue Hayakawa]; A wealthy oriental tries to take advantage of an investor's socialite wife who is in trouble after losing her charity’s fund on bad stock.

CHEKHOV: [fs6388 VHS 53min. Russian/sub]; Russian documentary footage and recollections of Moscow friends depict the life of Anton Chekhov and his times.

CHEKHOV: See GREAT RUSSIAN WRITERS: ANTON CHEKHOV.

CHEMICAL CYCLES IN THE BIOSPHERE: [4224 VHS 20min 1994]; Touches on ecological disasters caused by humans dumping waste chemicals into the environmen. Explains natural chemical "dumping" of such processes as photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation.

CHESS FEVER: [fs 6092 VHS 28min silent bw 1925 dir:V.I. Pudovkin and Nikolai Shipkovsky]; A comedy in which a young man's passion for the game threatens to wreck his marriage.

THE CHESS PLAYERS (dir. Ray): See SHATRANJ KE KILARI

CHICAGO 70: [1679-1680 VHS 142min bw 1971]; A recreation of the conspiracy trial of the "Chicago Seven,", using the trial transcripts. These men, charged with inciting the riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, included David Dellinger, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, and Tom Hayden.

CHICKAMAUGA, ou La rivière de la mort: [0441 VHS 28min bw 1968 dir:Robert Enrico]; Ambrose Bierce's story in which a young boy wakens from a summer nap to find a bloody Civil War battle has been fought while he slept. Part of Enrico's Au coeur de la vie trilogy, with OCCURENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE.

CHICKEN COME HOME: [fs 1861 16mm 30min bw 1933 dir:James W. Horne cast:Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy]; Laurel helps Hardy avoid an old flame.

UN CHIEN ANDALOU: See ANDALUSIAN DOG

LA CHIENNE: [fs 6775 VHS 5650 Laser bw French sub 95min 1931 dir:Jean Renoir cast:Michel Simon; Janie Marèze]; A homely, unhappily married man is a cashier and Sunday painter; he falls for Lulu, who with her pimp tries to take him for what she can get.

THE CHILDREN ARE WATCHING US (I Bambini ci guardano): [4922 VHS 85min bw Italian/sub 1942 dir:Vittorio De Sica cast:Isa Pola; Luciano de Ambrosis]; A 4-year-old boy's sufferings as his mother hesitates between her husband and a lover.

THE CHILDREN KNOW: See AYMARA FILM SERIES

Children of Paradise: See Les enfants du paradis

CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED: See VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED.

CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE: [2845 VHS 55min 1988]; The lives of gang members in the Chicano community of Oakland, California.

CHILD'S PLAY: [1563 16mm, 8116 VHS 20min 1976]; Two developmental psychologists explain why children play and what they learn by playing.

CHILE: A HISTORY IN EXILE: [6966 VHS 26min 1999 English and Spanish/sub produced:Cecelia Araneda]; Exiles who remember the hope of Allende's regime and the horrors of Pinochet's reign descibe life in Chile at that time.

THE CHIMP: [fs 1785-1786 16mm 30min bw 1933 dir:James Parrott cast:Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy]; Laurel and Hardy have a share of a bankrupt circus and try to find lodging with their friend, a chimp.

CHINA!: [0035 VHS 65min 1963]; Felix Greene "wanders" through the People's Republic of China, filming the daily life of workers, artists, and administrators.

CHINA: A Class by Itself: [1596 VHS 65min 1979]; NBC News special report on the current status of Chinese culture and economics after 30 years of nationhood.

CHINA: The Enduring Heritage: [1706 VHS 19min 1977]; Summarizes Chinese history up to 1911.

CHINA: The Golden Age: [1594 VHS 23min 1977]; Describes the expansion of a reunited China under the Sui and T'ang dynasties.

CHINA: The Heavenly Khan: [1476 VHS 22min 1977]; Describes the cultural exchanges between China and its neighbors during the T'ang dynasty.

CHINA SEAS: [fs 3280 VHS 5245A LaserCLV1 90min bw 1935 dir:Tay Garnett cast:Clark Gable; Jean Harlow]; Adventures on a tramp steamer between Hong Kong and Singapore.

THE CHINA SYNDROME: [fs 3488 VHS 5573 LD 122min 1979 dir:James Bridges cast:Jack Lemmon; Jane Fonda; Michael Douglas]; TV reporter stumbles upon dire happenings at a nuclear power plant.

THE CHINAMPAS: [3715 VHS 31min 1990 dir:Anne Prutzman]; A documentary on the "floating gardens" of Mexico, an area of canals which has been cultivated for at least two thousand years.

CHINATOWN: [fs 3916 VHS 5117 LD 9115 DVD 131min 1974 dir:Roman Polanski cast:Jack Nicholson; Faye Dunaway; John Huston]; A private eye in 1930's Los Angeles solves a mystery concerning water rights and incest.

CHINESE AMERICAN: [0488 VHS 29min 1974]; "A Storm of Strangers" series. Jung Sai, a Chinese-American journalist, examines the contributions of the Chinese people to the settlement of the Western U.S.

CHINESE HISTORY SERIES: [VHS 17m to 23min each 1977]
China: The Beginnings: [2548]; The archaeological record and prehistory of the Chinese people, up to the bronze age Shang dynasty.
China: The Making of a Civilization: [2549]; The Western Chou period until the Eastern Chou emerged, an era when social and political organization was clan-like. Confucius lived then.
China: Hundred Schools to One: [2550]; Technological and agricultural revolution leading to formation of Ch'in Empire and emergence of so-called "Hundred Schools of Thought."
China: The First Empires: [2551]; China's imperial age beginning with the Ch'in and ending with the Han Dynasty. The Great Wall was built during this period.
China: The Great Cultural Mix: [2552]; End of the Han Dynasty, era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, a period of great cultural growth, including Buddhism and Confucianism.
China: The Age of Maturity: [2553]; Sung Dynasty founded. Peace brings prosperity but economy eventually falters due to unchecked bureaucracy. China falls under foreign rule.
China: Under the Mongols: [2554]; Genghis Khan and the Mongol domination of China, a period of conquest, expansion, and oppression.
China: The Restoration: [2555]; The Ming Dynasty, a period of reconstruction, reform, and austerity.
China: The Manchu Rule: [2556]; The Ch'ing Dynasty's 300-year rule, which ended with the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95.
China: The Coming of the West: [2557]; The influence of Western civilization on China, beginning in the 15th century.

CHINESE, KOREAN AND JAPANESE DANCE: [1373 16mm 28min 1965]; A description and explanation of some traditional dance forms of China, Korea, and Japan.

CHINESE MUSIC: [0050 VHS 18min 1970]; A historical overview of the music of China with a demonstration of traditional instruments.

CHLOE IN THE AFTERNOON (L'amour l'après-midi): [fs 2956 and 6101 VHS 9107 DVD 98min French /sub 1972 dir:Eric Rohmer]; A successful executive, living in the suburbs with his pregnant wife, finds himself more attracted to other women he meets in the city.

CHOCOLAT: [fs6899 VHS 105min 1988 French /sub dir:Claire Denis cast:Giulia Boschi, Isaach de Bankole, Fran‡ois Cluzet]; A young Frenchwoman recalls her 1950s childhood in colonial Cameroon.

CHOEPHORI: See ORESTEIA

THE CHOICE OF A LIFETIME: [6215 VHS 53min 1996 dir:Nila Bogue]; Six diverse people who had been suicidal discuss the ways they have transformed their lives.

CHRISTABEL: [fs 4373 VHS 148min 1989 dir:Adrian Shergold cast:Elizabeth Hurley; Stephen Dillon]; A British woman marries a German lawyer prior to World War II and tries to rescue him when he is imprisoned by the Nazi regime.

CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM: [1303 VHS 20min 1976 dir:Elda Hartley narr:Gordon Gould]; Documentary about monasticism, with historical background and film from Mount Saviour Monastery and the Abbey of Fleury.

CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT: [fs 5678 Laser 102min. 1945 b/w dir:Peter Godfrey cast:Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan]; A chic "women's page" journalist with a farm-wife persona must entertain a war hero with genuine home cooking.

A CHRISTMAS STORY: [fs 5679 Laser 94min. 1983 dir:Bob Clark cast:Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin]; Jean Shepherd's story (In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash) about a 1940s Christmas and a boy's desire for a Red Ryder BB gun.

CHRISTO: Ten Works in Progress: [1575 VHS 52min 1980]; Documents the artist at work; includes: Wrapped Girl (1963), 5,600 cu.m. package (Kassel, 1968), Packed Kunsthalle (Bern, 1968), Wrap In-Wrap Out (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1969), Wrapped Coast (Sydney, 1969), Wrapped Monument Vittorio Emmanuele (Milan, 1970), Wrapped Marcus Aurelius Wall (Rome, 1970),Valley Curtain (Colorado, 1970-72), Running Fence (Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1973-78), and Wrapped Walkways (Kansas City, 1978).

CHRISTO'S VALLEY CURTAIN: [3225 VHS 28min 1974]; A documentary on the construction of Christo's valley curtain in Rifle Gap, Colorado, in 1972.

CHRISTOPHER STRONG: [5495 LD 77min bw 1933 dir:Dorothy Arzner cast:Katharine Hepburn, Colin Clive, Billie Burke]; Aristocratic aviatrix Cynthia Darlington and Christopher Strong, M.P., fall passionately in love, but he cannot bring himself to leave his wife for her sake.

CHRONICLE OF A LOVE (CRONACA DI UN AMORE): [fs PAL3182 VHS 96min 1950 Italian/sub bw dir:Michelangelo Antonioni cast:Lucia Bose, Massimo Girotti]; Noir with moral gloss: A woman and her lover plan to murder her wealthy husband. Requires a multi-standard VCR.

A CHUMP AT OXFORD: [fs 0497-0498 1829 16mm 63min bw 1939 dir:Alfred Goulding cast:Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy]; Two street cleaners foil a bank hold-up and are given an Oxford education.

Chungking Express: [fs 9817 DVD 102min Chinese (English subtitles) 1994 dir:Wong Kar-Wai cast:Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung]; Tasty take-out isn't the only thing served hot at this little fast food place-- the lives and loves of its colorful customers also criss-cross over the counter. From a lovesick cop and a mysterious blonde to a free-spirited girl pursuing a secret love, spicy romance is the specialty of the house.

CHUSHINGURA (THE LOYAL FORTY-SEVEN RONIN): [ 8087 VHS 207min. 1962 Japanese/sub dir:Hiroshi Inagaki cast:Yuzo Kayama, Koshiro Matsumoto, Toshiro Mifune]; Colorful presentation of the Ako incident (Edo 1701): virtuous Lord Asano wounds the evil old Kira and must commit seppuku; his loyal retainers suffer through several years of silent plotting before they can finish the deed Asano began.

LA CHUTE DE LA MAISON USHER (THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER): [fs 8007 VHS 60min. 1928 bw silent/French titles dir:Jean Epstein cast:Jean Debucourt, Marguérite Gance, Charles Lamy]; Edgar Allen Poe's story of a mad gentleman. Luis Buñuel was assistant director. Note: poor quality transfer.

CIGARETTE GIRL OF MOSSELPROM: [fs 2839 VHS 78min bw silent 1924 dir:Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky]; A sidewalk cigarette vendor is discovered by a movie company and she falls in love with the cameraman.

CIMARRON: [fs 5680 Laser 147min. 1960 dir:Anthony Mann cast:Maria Schell, Glenn Ford,]; Edna Ferber's novel of the Oklahoma Land Rush and marriage between an idealistic wanderer and a practical businesswoman.

CINCINNATI KID: [fs 5681 Laser 104min. 1965 dir:Norman Jewison cast:Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret]; New Orleans: Can the Kid beat the Man at stud poker?

CINEMA DIRECTOR (Luke's Movie Muddle): [fs 1939 16mm 8min bw silent 1916 dir:Hal Roach cast:Harold Lloyd]

CINEMA EUROPE: THE OTHER HOLLYWOOD: [fs 9539 DVD 360min. 1995 prod:Kevin Brownlow & David Gill narr:Kenneth Branagh]; 6 hour-long segments on the history of silent film in Europe: 1: Where it All Began; 2: Art's Promised Land (Sweden); 3: Unchained Camera (Germany); 4: Music of Light (France); 5: Opportunity Lost (Britain); 6: End of an Era.

CINEMA VOLTA: [fs 9034 CD-ROM 1994]; Artist James Petrillo juxtaposes art, literature, and scientific invention to explain man as a technological being. MacIntosh and Windows.

CIPHER IN THE SNOW: [1618 16mm 24min 1973]; A Brigham Young University docu-drama on the importance of giving value to individual lives. A young student who seems unimportant to others suddenly dies.

CIRCLE OF THE SUN: [0113 VHS 29min 1960]; Documents the Blood Indians (of the Blackfoot confederation) of Alberta, Canada, their present situation, their traditional Sundance ceremonies, and their departing youth.

CIRCUS: [fs 0345 16mm 36min fs9388 DVD 71min. 1928 bw silent dir:Charles Chaplin cast:Chaplin, Merna Kennedy]; The Little Tramp unwittingly becomes the star of a rundown circus, but doesn't get the girl. Bonus materials include daily production reports, set sketches.

CIRCUS (TSIRK): [ 6460 VHS 89min. 1936 Russian/sub bw dir:Grigori Aleksandrov cast:Lyubov Orlova]; Comedy about an American circus star with a mixed-race baby who finds happiness performing in Soviet Russia.

THE CITADEL: [fs 3338 VHS 112min bw 1938 dir:King Vidor cast:Robert Donat; Rosalind Russell; Ralph Richardson; Rex Harrison]
: An impoverished doctor trades his ideals for wealth.

Citizen Kane: [fs 9727 DVD 1552-1554 16mm 3937 VHS 5102 LaserCLV1 5105 LaserCAV3 119min bw1941 dir:Orson Welles cast:Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead]; Depiction of the controversial life of an influential publishing tycoon, this Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winner is rooted in themes of power, corruption, vanity-- the American Dream lost in the mystery of a dying man's last workd: "Rosebud."

CITIZENS BAND: [fs 3200 VHS 98min 1977 dir:Jonathan Demme cast:Paul Le Mat; Candy Clark]; A small-town radio repairman struggles with family and girl problems while battling abuse of the CB emergency channel.

CITY GIRL (OUR DAILY BREAD): [6071 VHS 89min bw silent 1928 dir:Friedrich Murnau cast:Charles Farrell]; The son of a wheat farmer marries a Chicago waitress, and she must prove herself back on the farm to his family and to him. (Note: this is not the shortened talkie version.)

CITY FOR CONQUEST: [fs 5696 Laser 101min. 1940 b/w dir:Anatole Litvak cast:James Cagney, Ann Sheridan]; Boxing film in which the hero is blinded but triumphs morally. With EACH DAWN I DIE.

CITY LIGHTS: [fs 2992 VHS fs9389 DVD 87min bw silent/music 1931 dir:Charlie Chaplin cast:Chaplin; Virginia Cherrill]; The Little Tramp falls in love with a blind flower girl.

CITY LIMITS: [fs 2241-2242 u-matic 85min 1984 dir:Aaron Lipstadt cast:Robby Benson; James Earl Jones]; Near-future science fiction about lawless aftermath of a plague.

CITY OF ANGELS: [fs 6678VHS 123min 1998 dir:Brad Silberling cast:Nicholas Cage; Meg Ryan]; An angel must decide whether to become mortal, with the possibility of an intimate relationship.

CITY OF CATHAY: [0044 VHS bw 24min 1961]
: Shows an 18th-century copy of a 37-foot-by-one-foot painting depicting a Spring river festival during the Sung dynasty, around the year 1000.

CITY OF LOST CHILDREN (La Cité des Enfants Perdus): [fs 2634 VHS 9158 DVD 112min 1995 French /sub dir:Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro cast: Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet]; In a sad future world, a scientist who cannot dream kidnaps children to steal their dreams.

A CITY OF SADNESS (Beiqing chengshi): [fs 6840 PAL VHS 151min 1989 Chinese & Japanese/sub dir: Hou Hsaio-hsien cast:Tony Leung, Hsin Shou-fen]; Taiwan 1945: a family struggles to survive the change from Japanese to mainland-Chinese rule. In Mandarin, Cantonese, and Taiwanese as well as Japanese.

CITY SLICKER: [fs 1999 16mm 9min bw silent 1912? cast:Charlie Chaplin]; A city boy becomes interested in a country girl.

CITY THAT WAITS TO DIE: [0567 VHS 42min 1971]; A brief study of the earthquake potential of the San Francisco area.

THE CIVIL WAR: [VHS 1990 dir:Ken Burns]
The Cause: 1861: [3207 99min]; Discusses slavery, introduces key historical figures, and describes events up to the Union defeat at Manassas.
A Very Bloody Affair: 1862: [3208 69min]; Political turmoil in Lincoln's administration, McClellan's Virginia campaign, battle of ironclad ships, Grant's Battle of Shiloh.
Forever Free: 1862: [3209 76min]; Events leading up to, and concluding with, the Battle of Antietam, and the Emancipation Proclamation.
Simply Murder: 1863: [3210 62min]; Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the death of Stonewall Jackson, Grant's siege of Vicksburg, Northern opposition to the Emancipation Proclamation, Confederacy's desperation on the home front, Lee's decision to invade the North.
Universe of Battle: 1863: [3211 95min]; The Battle of Gettysburg, Pickett's charge, the fall of Vicksburg, New York draft riots, use of black troops, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
Valley of the Shadow of Death: 1864: [3212 70min]; Grant vs Lee, hospital conditions, Sherman's March.
Most Hallowed Ground: 1864: [3213 72min]; The 1864 presidential campaign, stalled Union forces in Petersburg and Atlanta, Lincoln elected to second term, Lee's Virginia estate becomes Arlington National Cemetery.
War Is All Hell: 1865: [3214 69min]; Sherman's March to the Sea, fall of Petersburg and Richmond, Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse.
The Better Angels of Our Nature: 1865: [3215 68min]; Assassination of Lincoln, search for Booth, fates of those involved with the assassination, summary of what the Civil War meant to America.

CIVILIZATION: [fs 3576 VHS 5486 LaserCLV 102min bw silent 1916 dir:Thomas Ince cast:Howard Hickman; Enid Markey; Lola May]; Anti-war epic.

CIVILISATION

[16mm 0885-0897; VHS 6558-6562 52min each 1970]

Kenneth Clark discusses the art and architecture of Western civilization from the Dark Ages to the present.

(6558):
- The Frozen World
  
  The basic ideals of Western culture, derived from Ancient Greece, survive through the Dark Ages.
- The Great Thaw
  
  Concentrates on 12th-century religious architecture as the breakout from the Dark Ages.
- Romance and Reality
  
  In the Gothic time of chivalry, St. Francis, Dante, and Giotto are featured.
(6559):
- Man - the Measure of All Things
  
  Renaissance and humanism, Urbino, Florence, Venice: Botticelli, Masaccio, Bellini, Giorgione, van Eyck, Alberti.
- The Hero as Artist
  
  The Renaissance in Rome: Pope Julius II, Michelangelo, Raphael, Bramante.
- Protest and Communication
  
  The rise of printed literature: Gutenberg, Luther, Erasmus, More, Montaigne, Shakespeare.
(6560):
- Grandeur and Obedience
  
  The lushness of the early Baroque: Titian, Rubens, Bernini, as well as St. Ignatius, St. Theresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross.
- The Light of Experience
  
  The domination of Dutch painters in the 17th century, divine authority giving way to personal and scientific inquiry, the rise of free enterprise.
- The Pursuit of Happiness
  
  The Rococco period of the 18th century, the music of Bach, Handel, Mozart, and Haydn.
(6561):
- The Smile of Reason
  
  Reason seems ready to vanquish ignorance and evil: David, Houdon, Voltaire, and the Encyclopedists.
- The Worship of Nature
  
  A belief in the divinity of nature replaces theology as the force behind artistic creation: Renoir, Monet, Rousseau, Wordsworth.
(6562):
- The Fallacies of Hope
  
  The romanticism of Byron, Beethoven, Blake, David, Delacroix, Rodin, Daumier fade into late 19th cynicism.
- Heroic Materialism
  
  From the Industrial Revolution to the present, the series is summarized with one person's view of the progress of civilization.

CLAIRE'S KNEE (Le genou de Claire): [fs 2528 and 6102 VHS 5463 LaserCLV1 9090 DVD 106min French /sub 1971 dir:Eric Rohmer]; An engaged man is obsessed with a girl he doesn't even like, his attention focusing on her knee.

CLANDESTINOS: [3658 VHS 88min Spanish/sub 1987 dir:Fernando Perez]; Young Cuban patriots take on Batista in 1959, a good year for revolution - and love.

CLARENCE AND ANGEL: [fs 2942 VHS 75min 1980 dir:Robert Gardner]; Aggressive Angel befriends shy, illiterate Clarence - who has moved to Harlem from South Carolina - and teaches him to read.

THE CLARK GABLE COLLECTION: [fs5172]; 4 laserdiscs each with a black and white film starring Clark Gable.
Red Dust: See RED DUST
: [ 105min bw 1941 dir:Jack Conway cast: Lana Turner]; A con artist has a hard time fooling all the people all the time. Western comedy-romance
Boom Town: [ 116min bw 1940 dir:Jack Conway cast:Spencer Tracy; Claudette Colbert; Hedy Lamarr]; Two wildcatters strike it rich in the oil fields.
Mogambo: [ 116min 1953 dir:John Ford cast: Ava Gardner; Grace Kelly]; A big game hunter must figure out which of two women to call his own: a remake of Red Dust.

CLASH BY NIGHT: [6072 VHS 5649 Laser 105min bw 1952 dir:Fritz Lang cast:Barbara Stanwyck, Marilyn Monroe, Paul Douglas]; An intense study of passion and human flaws. Mae (Barbara Stanwyck) is torn between her desire for the simple life she knows she should want, and her passions which were awakened when she lost her innocence.

CLASSIC FOREIGN SHORTS, VOL. 2: [fs 6754 VHS] 6 shorts.
: [18min 1957]
Orson Welles, "Hearts of Age": [5min 1934]
Jean-Luc Godard, "All the Boys Are Named Patrick" (Tous les garcons s'apppellent Patrick): [20 min 1957]
Roman Polanski, "Fat and the Lean" (Gruby y Chudy, Le Gros et le Maigre): [15min 1961]
Polanski, "Two Men and a Wardrobe" (Dwaj Ludzie z Szafa): [15min 1958]
Alberto Cavalcanti, "Rien que les Heures": [34min 1926]

CLASSIC FOREIGN SHORTS Vol.3: [fs 4826 VHS 40min bw silent]
Un Chant d'Amour: [20min silent dir:Jean Genet]; About love and imprisonment.
Romance Sentimentale: [20min 1929 dirs:Sergei Eisenstein; Grigori Alexandrov]; A woman realizes her love has subsided.

CLASSICS OF EARLY SOVIET CINEMA: [fs5485]; 8 black-and-white Russian films from 1928-37 on 5 laserdiscs designated A-E.
Storm over Asia: [Heir of Genghis Khan, Potomok Chingus Khana) [5485a ]; See STORM OVER ASIA
Deserter: [5485b]; See DESERTER
Turksib: [5485c 55min bw silent 1929 dir:Victor Turin]; Documents building of the Turkistan Siberian railroad, glorifying Soviet economic development.
Salt for Svanetia (Sol' svanetii): [5485c 53min bw silent 1930 dir:Mikhail Kalatozov]; Documentary about the stone-age Ushkul tribe of the remote Caucasian mountain region of Svanetia.
By the Law (Po zakonu): [5485d]; See BY THE LAW
Arsenal: [5485e]; See ARSENAL
Bezhin Meadow (Beshin lug): [5486e 31min bw silent 1937 dir:Sergei Eisenstein]; This lost, suppressed film was reconstructed from surviving frames and still images. Lyrical tale of a village boy who is martyred for denouncing his father as anti-collectivist.

CLASSIC SHORT STORIES: [VHS 30min each 1988]; A series of eight features, each focusing on a particular literary concept vital to the craft of good short story writing.
Babylon Revisited: [2867]; By F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tragic love story in which a writer recalls his romance with an American girl in Paris. (Last Time I saw Paris 1954 dir:Richard Brooks cast:Elizabeth Taylor; Van Johnson; Donna Reed)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge: [2867]; By Ambrose Bierce. Union soldiers execute a Southern spy by hanging from a bridge, but the spy escapes in fantasy.
White Nights: [2868] By Fyodor Dostoevsky. An old man's flashbacks tell about his chance affair with a beautiful young woman. (dir:Ivan Pyriev cast:O. Strizhenov; A. Fedorinov; V.N. Popova)
Vessel of Wrath: [2868]; By W. Somerset Maugham. On an island in the Pacific, a missionary woman tries to reform a beachcomber. (dir:Erich Pommer cast:Charles Laughton; Elsa Lanchester, 1938)
The Stranger: [2869]; By Victor Trivas. An escaped Nazi criminal marries an American woman and settles in a Connecticut village. (dir:Orson Welles cast:Edward G. Robinson; Orson Welles; Loretta Young, 1946)
Valley of the Giants: [2869]; By Kenneth Earl. Logging business vs homesteaders. (The Big Trees, 1952 dir:Felix Feist cast:Kirk Douglas; Eve Miller)
Penny Serenade: [2870]; By Martha Cheavens. A couple tries to adopt a child, then tries to survive the tragedy of the child's death. (dir:George Stevens cast:Cary Grant; Irene Dunne, 1941)
Tulsa: [2870]; By Richard Wormser. A woman runs a wildcat oil company rough-shod over people and land alike. (dir:Stuart Heisler cast:Susan Hayward; Robert Preston, 1949)

CLASSICAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING: [1366 VHs 20min 1978]; Howard Rachlin discusses learning theory and different methods by which behaviors are inculcated.

CLASSICAL LITERATURE: [1982 filmstrips/audio cassettes/study guides]; Discusses ancient Roman literature.
Roman Drama: [9008]; Plautus and Terence; Seneca and Roman Tragedy
The Age of Cicero: [9009]; Philosophy and Rhetoric: Lucretius and Cicero; Lyric Poetry
The Golden Age of Rome: [9010]; The World of Virgil; The Aeneid as a National Epic
Roman Fiction: [9011]; Myth and Fiction: Ovid's Metamorphoses; The Roman Novel

THE CLASSICS OF POLITICAL ADVERTISING: [2763 VHS 60min 1986]; A documentary on television political advertising, hosted by former U.S. Senator Eugene J. McCarthy.

CLEO FROM FIVE TO SEVEN (Cléo de 5 à 7): [fs 2900 VHS 5466 LD 9281 DVD 90min French /sub 1962 dir:Agnés Varda cast:Corinne Marchand]; A Parisian singer reappraises her life while awaiting the results of medical tests.

CLEOPATRA (1934): [fs 1157-1158 16mm 100min bw 1934 dir:Cecil B. DeMille cast:Claudette Colbert; Warren William]; The affair between Cleopatra and Marc Antony.

CLEOPATRA (1963): [6530-6531 VHS 9574 DVD 246min 1963 dir:Joseph Mankiewicz cast:Richard Burton; Rex Harrison; Elizabeth Taylor]; The story of Cleopatra and her love affairs with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.

CLEOPATRA (1963) SUPPLEMENT: [9575 DVD]; Making of documentary, other extras.

CLERKS: [fs 5397 LD 5497 LD 9116 DVD 92min bw 1994 dir:Kevin Smith]; Low-budget comedy and directorial debut featuring grocery store clerks.

CLOAK AND DAGGER: [fs 3602 VHS 106min bw 1946 dir:Fritz Lang cast:Gary Cooper; Lilli Palmer]; A physics professor is recruited by the OSS to interview a scientist in Germany.

THE CLOCK: [fs 5068 LaserCLV1 91min bw 1945 dir:Vincente Minnelli cast:Judy Garland; Robert Walker]; A New York City office girl meets a soldier on furlough during World War II and they get acquainted and married within forty-eight hours.

CLOCKERS: [fs 4850 VHS 129min 1995 dir:Spike Lee cast:Harvey Keitel; John Turturro; Delroy Lindo]; Based on the Richard Price novel. Two detectives try to find the murderer of a drug dealer.

THE CLOCKMAKER (L'HORLOGER DE SAINT-PAUL): [fs2636 VHS 105min 1973 French /sub dir:Bertrand Tavernier cast:Philippe Noiret]; Simenon novel of a Lyon craftsman whose life is turned inside-out when his son commits a murder.

CLOCKWORK ORANGE: [fs9230 DVD 5109 Laser 137min 1971 dir:Stanley Kubrick cast:Malcolm McDowell Patrcik Magee]; Anthony Burgess's novel in which sadistic musiclover Alex is conditioned to become a good citizen.

THE CLOISTERED NUN: [0639 VHS 18min 1970]; Shows the life of a nun in the Poor Clare Convent.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: [fs 9677 DVD 132min (Available audio tracks: French /Spanish) 1977 dir:Steven Spielberg cast:Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Terry Garr]; Roy Neary sets out to investigate a power outage when his truck stalls and he is bathed in light from above. After this, strange visions and five musical notes keep running through his mind. Will he find the meaning of the visions, and who - or what - placed them in his mind ?

CLOSE TO EDEN: [4047 VHS 109min Russian/Mongol subt 1992 dir:Nikita Mikhalkov]; A Russian truck driver enters the lives of an isolated Mongolian family, creating the opportunity for cross-cultural shock and comedy.

CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS (OSTRE SLEDOVANÉ VLAKY): [ 6476 VHS 89min. 1966 Czech/sub dir:Jirí Menzel cast:Vaclave Neckar, Jitka Bendova]; Two young train conductors in wartime Czechslovakia want to have an affair but the boy is impotent.

CLOSE-UP: [fs 6842 PAL VHS 94min 1990 Farsi/sub dir:Abbas Kiarostami]; Iran: An unemployed movie fan is mistaken for a famously reclusive director, and ends up on trial. Includes Nanni Moretti's short "Day of the Premiere of Close-Up."

THE CLOSING DOOR: An Investigation of U.S. Immigration Policy: [2055 u-matic 55min 1983]; Documentary emphasizing the influence of prejudice in United States immigration policy.

CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN: [4412 VHS 100min bw German 1940 dir:Helmut Kutner cast:Heinz Ruhmann]; In a Victorian-era town a seamstress meets a tailor who is so well-dressed he is taken for royalty.

CLUB DE FEMMES: [fs 3408 VHS 90min bw 1936 French /sub dir:Jacques Deval cast:Danielle Darrieux]; A dancer smuggles her boyfriend into a hotel for women and gets pregnant.

CLUELESS: [fs 5345 LaserCLV1 97min 1995 dir:Amy Heckerling cast:Alicia Silverstone]; How it is to be the most glamorous and popular 15-year-old at Hollywood High School but know nothing about love.

COAST TO COAST: [fs 2197-2198 u-matic 95min 1980 dir:Joseph Sargent cast:Robert Blake; Dyan Cannon]; A truck driver and a mental patient on the run.

THE COBWEB: [fs 5151 LaserCLV2 124min 1955 dir:Vincente Minnelli cast:Richard Widmark; Lauren Bacall; Charles Boyer; Gloria Grahame;Lillian Gish]; Disagreement over the kind of curtains to put in the library leads to emotional turmoil for everyone at a psychiatric clinic.

COCKABOODY: [1984 VHS 9min 1974 dir: Faith Hubley & John Hubley]; Animated film; soundtrack is recordings of two small sisters playing games and worrying about nurturing, toilet training, marriage, sharing, etc.

COCOANUTS: [fs 3271 VHS 5443 LaserCLV1 10032 fsDVD 96min bw 1929 dir:Joseph Santley; Robert Florey cast:Marx Brothers]; Film version of the Broadway hit by George S. Kaufman and Irving Berlin contains some of the Marx Brothers' best routines.

COCTEAU: AUTOPORTRAIT D'UN INCONNU: See BLOOD OF A POET

COFFEE COLORED CHILDREN: [3389 VHS 15min color/bw 1988 dir:Ngozi A. Onwurah]; Details the suffering experienced by the offspring of a white mother and black father in an all-white neighborhood.

COGNITION: [1363 16mm 30min 1972]; An overview of Piaget's theory of intellectual development. Problem solving and the generation of hypotheses.

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT: [1451 16mm, 8117 VHS 20min 1973]; Piaget's maturational stages of development and their practical implications are contrasted with learning-based theory and practices.

THE COLD WAR: [0025 VHS 20min bw]; An outline of history from the Berlin blockade to detente following the Cuban missile crisis.

LA COLLECTIONEUSE: [fs 4138 and 6103 VHS 83min French /sub 1967 dir:Eric Rohmer cast:Haydée Politoff]; The habit of a young woman of "collecting" men irks her two companions, but they seem destined all the same to join her collection.

COLLEGE: [fs 2948 VHS 5322B LaserCLV 1927 dir:James W. Horne cast:Buster Keaton; Anne Cornwall]; Scholarly student tries to become an all-star athlete to impress his girlfriend.

LE COLLÈGE DE FRANCE DANS LE SIÈCLE: [6812 VHS 80min 1993 French Language dir:Marcel Bluwal]; Conversations with such eminent members as Pierre Bourdieu, Jean-Pierre Vermont, and Marc Fumaroli on research and philosophy since the 1970s.

COLOMBIA'S GUERILLA WAR: A SUNDERED NATION: [6971 VHS 53min 199?]; News and documentary footage combined with interviews analysing the source and results of the terror and rebellion in Colombia.

LE COLONEL CHABERT: [6023 VHS 111min French /sub 1994 dir:Yves Angelo cast:Gérard Depardieu; Fanny Ardant]

COLONEL REDL: [fs 3094 VHS 144min German/sub 1985 dir:István Szabó cast:Klaus Maria Brandauer]; Biographical, complex account of a man's betrayal of himself, set in the military ranks of the crumbling Hapsburg Empire.

COLOR ADJUSTMENT: [4212 VHS 8093 VHS 87min 1991 dir:Marlon Riggs]; A history of the African-American presence on U.S. television, contrasted with the realities of race relations.

THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (SAYAT NOVA) (PARADJANOV: A REQUIEM): [fs 9540 DVD 88min. 1969 Russian/sub dir:Sergei Paradzhanov cast:Sophico Tchiourelli, V. Galestian]; The 18th-century Armenian poet Sayat Nova's life is interpreted as a series of poetic tableaux. Paradjanov: a Requiem is a 56-minute documentary on the director; also included in the 10min. short HAGOP HOVNATANIAN.

THE COLOR PURPLE: [fs 9497 DVD 154min. 1985 dir:Steven Spielberg cast:Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey]; Alice Walker's novel of an abused Afro-American girl growing into a strong woman in the rural South.

COLORLINE: Racism in America: [fs 2859 VHS 10min bw 1993 dir:Steve Zehetner]; A series of taped responses to questions on the subject of racism by people chosen at random from three areas of New York City.

THE COLORS BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE: [6301 VHS 14min 1994]; A study of the differences in skin color and racial stereotyping.

THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE: [4050 VHS 58min 1991]; This episode of Columbus and the Age of Discovery documents the interchange of horses, cattle, corn, potatoes, etc between the Old World and the New.

COLUMBUS ON TRIAL: [2625 VHS 18min 1993 dir:Lourdes Portillo]; Experimental video which ridicules the traditional interpretation of the accomplishments of Christopher Columbus.

COMA: [fs 5682 Laser 104min. 1978 dir:Michael Crichton cast:GeneviŠve Bujold, Michael Douglas]; Robin Cook's thriller. A doctor investigates the tendency of hospital patients to emerge from operations in a coma.

COME AND GET IT: [fs 4165 VHS 99min bw 1936 dir:Howard Hawks cast:Edward Arnold; Joel McCrea; Frances Farmer]; A lumberjack boss fights to make his fortune, then contends with his son for the love of a woman.

COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA: [fs 2205-2206 u-matic 95min bw 1952 dir:Daniel Mann cast:Shirley Booth; Burt Lancaster; Virginia Mullen]; A slovenly housewife tries to salvage her marriage to a drunken ex-chiropractor.

COME DANCE WITH ME (Voulez-vous danser avec moi?): [fs9267 DVD 91min 1959 French /sub dir:Michel Boisrond cast: Brigitte Bardot, Henri Vidal]; Virginie poses as a dance instructor to investigate a murder of which her husband is accused.

COME SEPTEMBER: [fs 1203-1205 16mm 112min 1961 dir:Robert Mulligan cast:Rock Hudson; Gina Lollobrigida]; An American millionaire arrives early for his vacation in Italy to find his villa being used as a hotel.

COME TO FLORIDA BEFORE IT'S GONE: [1556/57 VHS 60min 1971]; Serious but humorously done depiction of the ecological and sociological changes facing Florida in the future.

THE COMEDIENNES: [fs VHS bw silent]; Comedy silent shorts featuring women.
Volume 1: [58min 4912]; The Detectress 1919; Spanking Breezes 1926
Volume 2: [58min 4913]; T'was Henry's Fault 1919; A Roman Scandal 1920; Her First Flame 1920

COMEDY SHORTS: [fs 0243 16mm 25min bw]; Clips from "If I Had a Million" (W. C. Fields), I'M NO ANGEL (Mae West), "Pigskin Capers" (Marx Brothers).

COMING FROM JAPAN: [6020 VHS 55min 1992]; A Frontline report on how a Japanese electronics company penetrated the American market.

COMING HOME: [fs 2895/Beta 127min 1978 dir:Hal Ashby cast:Jane Fonda; Jon Voight; Bruce Dern]; The effects of the Vietnam War on people at home. A military wife falls in love with a paraplegic veteran.

COMING OUT UNDER FIRE: [fs 4656 VHS 71min bw 1994 dir:Arthur Dong]; Documents the experiences of gay and lesbian soldiers of World War II.

COMISSAR (KOMISSAR): [JHVC 7050 VHS 105min 1967 Russian dir:Aleksander Askoldov cast:Nonna Mordyukova]; After the Russian Revolution, a pregnant Red Army captain stays in a Jewish village to have her baby and must reassess her plans.

COMMAND DECISION: [fs 5683 Laser 112min. 1948 b/w dir:Sam Wood cast:Clark Gable, Walter Pigeon]; American flight commander must wrestle with politics and his conscience in sending men on necessary but suicidal missions over Germany in World War II.

COMMENT ÇA VA?: [fs 4590 VHS 78min French /sub 1976 dirs:Jean-Luc Godard; Anne-Marie Mieville]; A middle-aged communist editor and his assistant decide to make a video about their publishing business.

Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle): See MY SEX LIFE.

COMMON FASCISM: [1688-1699 VHS 132min bw 19?? dir:Michael Romm]; Chronicles the Third Reich. This documentary was probably produced in the U.S.S.R. in the 1960s; it is based on archival material preserved in the Soviet Bloc nations.

COMMUNISM: We'll Bury You: [1651 16mm 70min bw 1962]; An overview of the rise of Communism and a history of the early Cold War era.

COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE: See LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE

COMO ERA GOSTOSO O MEU FRANCÊS (How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman): [3531 VHS 84min Tupi/Portuguese 1971 dir:Nelson Pereira Dos Santos]; A Frenchman, captured by primitives in 16th-century Brazil, becomes their friend and then their dinner.

Como ser mujer y non morir en el entento: See HOW TO BE A WOMAN AND NOT DIE IN THE ATTEMPT

THE COMPLETE MAUS: [fs 9035 CD-ROM 1993]; Multimedia exploration of the comic-book by Art Spiegelman, a serious memoir of his father's survival of the Holocaust. MacIntosh and Windows.

THE COMPLETE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC:108 YEARS OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE ON CD-ROM: [9066 CD-ROM 1997 National Geographic Society]; Ten volumes, each covering a decade of National Geographic issues, including every article and photograph. Search engine, print capability.

COMPROMISING POSITIONS: [fs 2203-2204 u-matic 98min 1985 dir:Frank Perry cast:Susan Sarandon; Raul Julia]; A suburban housewife tries to find the murderer of a womanizing dentist.

COMPULSION: [fs 5296 LaserCLV1 105min bw 1959 dir:Richard Fleischer cast:Orson Welles; Dean Stockwell; Bradford Dillman]; Based on a play and on the real incident of a pair of fraternity brothers brought to trial for a murder done simply for amoral intellectual exercise.

COMPUTER FLUID DYNAMICS: [0760 16mm 24min 1969]; Computers are used for solving fluid dynamics problems that are otherwise not practical to solve.

THE COMPUTER REVOLUTION: [0178 16mm 23min 1968]; A general introduction to computers, emphasizing their future impact.

CONCRETE POETRY: A Non-Reading: [3196 VHS 67min 1994]; Augusto de Campos at the Harn Museum with Cid Campos providing music and effects.

OS CONDENADOS: [3166 VHS 85min Portuguese 1974 dir:Zelito Viana]; Brazilian feature film about a prostitute in São Paolo.

CONDENSED CREAM OF BEATLES: [0571 VHS 15min 1973 dir:Charles Braverman]; A brief collage-history of the British rock group. (Opening minute is damaged.)

CONFEDERATION PARK: [fs 8065 VHS 32min. 1999 dir:Bill Brown]; A Texan's meditative documentary on time spent in Canada.

CONFESSING TO LAURA (Confesión a Laura ): [4214 VHS 6946 VHS 90min 1991 Spanish/sub dir:Jaime Osório Gómez cast:María Cristina Gálvez, Vicky Hernández]; Colombia, 1948: political assassination and riots trap two people in a house.

CONFIDENTIAL REPORT: See MR. ARKADIN

CONFIDENTIALLY YOURS (VIVEMENT DIMANCHE!): [fs 5275 Laser 9341 DVD 110min 1983 French /sub bw dir:François Truffaut cast:Fanny Ardent, Jean-Louis Trintignant]; Charles Williams' novel The Long Saturday Night tells of a businessman wanted for murder and his secretary's amateur detective work to clear him.

CONFORMITY AND INDEPENDENCE: [1364 VHS 23min 1975]; Presented by Stanley Milgram. Describes these human tendancies through the work of such social psychologists as Sherif, Asch, Crutchfield, Kelman and Moscovici.

CONFUCIUS: [0769 VHS 30min 1975]; A brief biography of Confucius and introduction to his philosophy.

THE CONGRESS (KEN BURNS' AMERICA): [fs 8026 VHS 90min. 1988 dir:Ken Burns]; "The History and Promise of Representative Government." The first 200 years of U.S. legislation.

CONGRESS: EVOLUTION OF THE CONGRESS: [6139 VHS 1995 28min]; The evolution of the legislative branch of government. Features Dick Baker, Senate Historian, Ray Smock, former Historian of the House, and Dr. Michael Gillette of the Center for Legislative Archives.

THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO: [2627 VHS 35min 1992]; Describes the Mayas and Aztecs of Mexico prior to, and during first contact with, Cortez and the Spanish Europeans.

THE CONSERVATIVES: [6140 VHS 88min 1995]
: Follows the rise of the Conservative movement in America from the 1940s to the Reagan era. Historical footage and interviews with important political figures.

CONSPIRATORS OF PLEASURE and FOOD (Spiklenci slasti): [6443 VHS 83min. 1996 dir:Jan Svankmajer cast:Petr Meissel, Gabriela Wilhelmová]; Animation effects develop the surreal depiction of six sexual fantasists each bent on finding the ingredients of personal satisfaction. Includes a 14-min. short, FOOD (Jídlo, 1992), comic claymation commentary on cannibalism etc.

CONTACT (Kontakt): [VHS Russian 1990-1992 Language Learning Center]; A series of news-style television programs aimed at helping Russian-language students.

CONTEMPT (LE MÉPRIS): [fs 2525 VHS fs 8088 VHS-PAL 102min French /sub 1964 dir:Jean-Luc Godard cast:Brigitte Bardot; Michel Piccoli; Jack Palance; Fritz Lang]; A wife feels betrayed by her husband, who takes a writing assignment from an American film producer.

CONTES DES QUATRE SAISONS (dir. Rohmer): CONTE D'AUTOMNE--no holdings; CONTE D'ÉTÉ; see A Summer's Tale; CONTE D'HIVER; see A Tale of Winter; CONTE DE PRINTEMPS; see A Tale of Springtime

CONTINUITY OF MAPPING: [1990 16mm 10min 1968]; An animated explanation of the mathematical concept of continuity from the perspective of set theory.

CONTROL BREAK: [fs 2060 u-matic 28min 1988 dir:Mindy Faber]; Avant garde vision of future America as a "friendly fascist" nation where media monopolies have become surveillance and propaganda tools for the state.

CONTROLLING INTEREST: The World of the Multinational Corporation: [0647 16mm 2726 VHS 45min 1978]; Documents the rise of international conglomerates and the effects they have had on third-world countries.

THE CONVERSATION: [fs 2786 VHS 113min 1974 dir:Francis Ford Coppola cast:Gene Hackman; Cindy Williams]; A surveillance expert gets involved with his subjects, makes a moral decision, and suffers the dangerous consequences.

CONVERSATION AT THE WHITE HOUSE: [0201 16mm 28min 1968]; AFL-CIO president George Meany talks with Lyndon Johnson about labor and race issues.

CONVERSATION WITH B. F. SKINNER: [1453 16mm 8118 VHS 23min 1972]; The behaviorist psychologist discusses his 'Beyond Freedom and Dignity' and answers his critics on several points.

CONVERSATIONS: Laurie Anderson: [2068 u-matic 28min 1980]; Anderson discusses her music, the media, her political philosophy, and her recent musical performances using a deep-voice mike.

THE CONVICTION: [fs 6260 VHS 92min Italian/sub 1990 dir:Marco Belloccio cast:Vittorio Mezzogiorno; Claire Nebout]; "..explores the complex question, 'What constitutes force in a sexual encounter?'"

COOLEY HIGH: [fs 3603 VHS 107min 1975 dir:Michael Schultz]; Inner-city copy of American Graffiti, later a TV series.

THE COPPER BEECHES: See ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.

COPS: [fs 0261 16mm 1804 16mm 3159 VHS 5322A LaserCLV 18min bw silent 1922 dirs:Buster Keaton; Eddie Cline cast:Buster Keaton; Virginia Fox]; A failure at big business is chased through the streets by hundreds of cops.

COREL MEGA GALLERY For Macintosh: [CD-ROM Macintosh]; Art, sound and movie clips useful for computer presentations and web sites. With printed catalog.
[9047]: Applications, Fonts, Clipart: Africa ~ Color_Me
[9048]: Clipart: Communic ~ Office_E
[9049]: Clipart: People ~ Spec_Occ
[9050]: Clipart: Sports ~ Weather, Sounds, Movie Clips, Photo Library 1
[9051]: Photo Library 2, 3

COREL STOCK MUSIC LIBRARY: [CD-ROM 352min]; Royalty-free music clips in CD audio and WAV file formats. 103 tunes in 21 categories. With printed catalog.
[9054]: Rock/Metal, Pop/Dance
[9055]: Rhythm/Blues, Country/Western
[9056]: Jazz, Latin/Caribbean
[9057]: World Music
[9058]: New Age, Ambient
[9059]: Classical, Choral
[9060]: Adult Contemporary, Christmas
[9061]: Americana, Sports, Various
[9062]: Corporate, Industry
[9063]: Science & Nature, Global Affairs, Lifestyle

COREL WEB GALLERY: [10076 CD-ROM 1996]; Over 7,500 internet-ready clip-art images in GIF or JPEG formats with a visual file manager and printed catalog. For Mac and Windows operating systems.

THE CORN IS GREEN: [fs 3305 VHS 114min bw 1945 dir:Irving Rapper cast:Bette Davis; Nigel Bruce]; In a turn-of-the-century Welsh mining town a middle-aged school teacher takes on the education of a gifted young man.

CORNER IN WHEAT: [fs 1953 16mm 2960 VHS 3683 VHS 5603 Laser 12min bw silent 1909 dir:D. W. Griffith]; Essays the rise and fall of a callous financial manipulator.

CORNER IN WHEAT & Selected Biograph Shorts 1909-1913: [fs 3683 VHS 118m total, bw silent 1909-1913 dir:D. W. Griffith]; Those Awful Hats [~2min 1909]; The Sealed Room [~11min 1909]; Corner in Wheat [~14min 1909]; The Unchanging Sea [~14min 1910]; His Trust [~14min 1911]; The New York Hat [~16min 1912]; An Unseen Enemy [~15min 1912]; The Mothering Heart [~23min 1913]

CORNERED: [fs 3263 VHS 102min bw 1945 dir:Edward Dmytryk cast:Dick Powell; Walter Slezak]; A French-Canadian pilot tracks down the collaborator responsible for the death of his wife.

CORTEZ AND THE LEGEND: [1625-1626 16mm 52min 1967]; Hollywood-style recreation of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, adapted from the diary of a conquistador, narrated by Kirk Douglas and David Carradine.

COSMIC ZOOM: [1965 16mm 8min 1969]; Based on a book by Kees Boeckhart. Animation, takes you from the human scale to the infintely large, to the infinitely small, and back again.

A COUCH IN NEW YORK: [fs 5472 LaserCLV1 108min 1997 dir:Chantal Akerman cast:William Hurt; Juliette Binoche]; A psychoanalyst swaps apartments with a woman dancer and becomes romantically involved with her.

COUNTDOWN: [3199 VHS 189min 1991 dir:Ulrike Ottinger]; Documents the ten-day period in Germany leading up to reunification on July 1, 1990.

COUNTERPOINT OF THE AGRARIAN REFORM: CHILE: [0559 VHS 41min 1973]; Documents the problems of agrarian reform in Chile from 1965-1973.

A COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG: [fs 1425-1427 16mm 113min 1967 dir:Charlie Chaplin cast:Marlon Brando; Sophia Loren]; A Russian émigrée countess stows away in an American diplomat's ship cabin.

THE COUNTRY GIRL: [fs 3982 VHS 104min bw 1954 dir:George Seaton cast:Grace Kelly; Bing Crosby; William Holden]; The wife of an alcoholic singer blossoms when he is stimulated into a comeback.

COUNTRY TO TOWN: [0052 VHS 29min 1976]; "The Africa File." Shows the ideals of village life and the ancient towns as well as migration to new urban areas in West Africa.

THE COUNTRY WIFE: [4645 VHS 60min 1992]; Selected scenes from the 17th century comedy by William Wycherley.

COUNTY HOSPITAL: [fs 1922 16mm 9min bw 1932 cast:Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy]; Laurel brings Hardy in the hospital hard-boiled eggs and nuts.

COUP DE GRÂCE: [fs 3095 VHS 96min bw German/sub 1976 dir:Volker Schlondorff]; Amid the Bolshevik revolution, a self-destructive countess wastes her life because the officer she loves does not reciprocate.

COUP DE TORCHON (CLEAN SLATE): [fs 4797 VHS fs 9576 DVD 128min French /sub 1981 dir:Bertrand Tavernier cast:Philippe Noiret; Isabelle Huppert]; A French colonial police chief in 1938 Senegal decides to clear away his image of incompetence by his own murderous means.

THE COUPLE IN THE CAGE: A Guatinaui Odyssey: [4754 VHS 31min 1993 dir:Coco Fusco & Paula Heredia]; Documentary of a travelling performance art piece, satirizing ethnographers, in which many spectators believed they were seeing genuine "savages" from a primitive culture.

COURAGE TO CARE: [3140 VHS 28min 1986]; Interviews Christians who helped Jews escape the Nazis.

THE COURT-MARTIAL OF BILLY MITCHELL: [fs 6691VHS 100min 1955 dir:Otto Preminger cast:Gary Cooper; Rod Steiger; Ralph Bellamy; Elizabeth Montgomery]; Dramatic true story of the military's efforts to quiet an outspoken member of the Army Air Service in the years following World War I.

THE COURT-MARTIAL OF JACKIE ROBINSON: [fs 5107 LaserCLV1 94min 1990 dir:Larry Peerce cast:Andre Braugher; Daniel Stern]; Dramatization of an event in the life of Jackie Robinson, before he became the first African-American to play major league baseball.

COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE: [0057 VHS 60min bw 1962]; Two professors and a young woman examine their "pleasant assumptions" about mating while watching films about courting customs in Sicily, Iran, Canada and India.

COURTSHIP BEHAVIOR OF THE QUEEN BUTTERFLY: [0754 VHS 18min 1962]; Illustrates the behavioral components of the courtship chain of Danaus gilippus berenice in the pine palmetto scrub of South Central Florida.

COURTSHIP OF EDDIE'S FATHER: [fs 5684 Laser 118min. 1963 dir:Vincente Minelli cast:Glenn Ford, Ron Howard]; A boy realizes his widowed father needs some help in picking a wife.

COVER GIRL: [fs 3492 VHS 5143 LaserCLV1 96min bw 1944 dir:Charles Vidor cast:Rita Hayworth; Gene Kelly; Phil Siers; Eve Arden]; The musical story of a woman's rise to become a top model, scored by Jerome Kern and Ira Gershwin.

THE COWS OF DOLO KEN PEYE: [0195 VHS 32min 1970]; Social stratification by ownership of cattle in Liberia.

LE CRABE TAMBOUR: [4801 VHS 130min French /sub 1977 dir:Pierre Schoendoerffer cast:Jean Rochefort; Jacques Perrin]; "..shows naval officers torn by conflicts of friendship, honor, loyalty and a nostalgia for France's colonial past."

CRACKED NUTS: [fs 1699-1700 16mm 65min bw 1951 dir:Edward Cline cast:Stuart Erwin; Una Merkel]; A fake robot is crazy about blondes.

CRACKS IN THE LAND: [4784 VHS 55min German/sub 1990]; The German episode of the Enemy Mine series, in which people tell what it was like to live with the Berlin Wall.

CRADLE WILL ROCK: [fs9282 DVD 134min 1999 dir:Tim Robbins cast:Hank Azaria, John Turturro, Emily Watson]; Marc Blitzstein's pro-Union musical gets performed thanks to Orson Welles, John Houseman, and Hallie Flanagan of the WPA Theater program, and despite John D. Rockefeller, William Randolph Hearst, and Mussolini's ex-mistress, to name a few.

CRAIG'S WIFE: [fs 4142 VHS 75min bw 1936 dir:Dorothy Arzner cast:Rosalind Russell; John Boles]; A wife obsessed with the security and orderliness of her life, alienates everyone until finally her husband leaves her.

CRANES ARE FLYING: [fs 5082 LaserCLV1 94min Russian/sub 1957 dir:Mikhail Kalatozov]; Tragic effects of World War II on two young lovers and their families.

CRASH: [fs 5456 LaserCLV1 100min 1996 dir:David Cronenberg cast:James Spader; Holly Hunter]; Based on J. G. Ballard's novel - a young couple find that car accidents are erotically stimulating.

THE CRAZY RAY (Paris qui dort): [fs 0409 16mm 3449 VHS 9250 DVD 45min bw silent 1923 dir:René Clair]; A mad scientist invents an invisible ray that freezes time and brings all of Paris to a halt.

THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE: [6256 VHS 90min 1988]; "..identifies and explains some of the most challenging ideas and theories in contemporary science, including the new unified theories.."

CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING: [1458 16mm 28min 1979]; Describes problem solving and the psychology of creativity.

CRETE AND MYCENAE: [6419 VHS 1490 16mm 54min 1970]; Photographic tour of archaeological sites in Greece, with a comparison of Mycenaean and Minoan culture.

CRIA!: [fs 5092 LaserCLV1 109min Spanish/sub 1977 dir:Carlos Saura cast:Geraldine Chaplin; Ana Torrent]; The trauma inflicted upon a child when her mother and father die leaves childhood memories of fantasy and terror.

CRIES AND WHISPERS VISKNINGAR OCH ROP: [fs 3899 VHS 9648 DVD 94min 1972 Swedish/sub dir:Ingmar Bergman cast:Harriett Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Thulin]; A woman lies dying, nursed by a servant and serving as a trigger for terrible memories for her two sisters.

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (PRESTUPLENIYE I NAKAZANIYE): [ 6461 VHS 224min. 1969 Russian/sub bw dir:Lev Kulijanov cast:Georgi Taratorkin, Innokenti Smoktunovsky]; Dostoyevsky's novel centers on Raskolnikov, the brilliant man who experiments with murder as a form of self-affirmation.

THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE: [fs 2520 VHS 90min bw French /sub 1936 dir:Jean Renoir cast:René Lefèbre; Jules Berry]; When the hated boss of a small publishing house is believed killed, the employees turn it into a successful cooperative. When the boss reappears, they kill him.

THE CRIMES OF DR. MABUSE: See TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE

CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS: [JHVC 7022 VHS fs 10101 DVD 1989 dir:Woody Allen cast:Judy Davis, Martin Balsam, Allen, Farrow]; Two stories: an adulterer contemplates murdering his mistress; a filmmaker compromises his ideals for love.

CRIMINAL COURT: [fs 3409 VHS 63min 1946 dir:Robert Wise cast:Tom Conway; Martha O'Driscoll]
: A lawyer must prove himself guilty of homicide to save his girlfriend.

THE CRIMINAL LIFE OF ARICHIBALDO DE LA CRUZ: [fs 3168 VHS 95min bw Spanish/sub 1955 dir:Luis Buñuel]; A fantasist determines to kill all women who cross his path, but fate intervenes.

CRIN-BLANC: See WHITE MANE

CRISIS IN ASIA: [0023 16mm 20min bw]; Describes the Asian front of the Cold War.

CRISS CROSS: [fs 3447 VHS 5338B LaserCLV1 87min bw 1949 dir:Robert Siodmak cast:Burt Lancaster; Yvonne de Carlo]
: An armored car driver and his double-crossing ex-wife get mixed up with vicious gangsters.

CRONOS: [4436 VHS 92min Spanish/sub 1992 dir:Guillermo del Torro cast:Federico Luppi; Ron Perlman]; An elderly antique dealer finds hidden in a statue a small machine which reverses aging.

THE CROOKED MAN: See ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.

CROOKLYN: [fs 5478 LaserCLV1 114min 1994 dir:Spike Lee cast:AlfreWoodard; Delroy Lindo]; A black mother struggles to keep her family together while dying of cancer.

CROSS CREEK: [fs 2848 VHS 115min 1983 dir:Martin Ritt cast:Mary Steenburgen; Rip Torn]; Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings leaves her husband and goes to live in the Florida backwoods, where she hopes to write a Gothic romance but writes The Yearling.

CROSSFIRE: [JHVC 7021 VHS 104min 1947 dir:Edward Dmytryk cast: Robert Young, Robert Ryan, Robert Mitchum]; A police detective must find the murderer of a Jew among a group of young WWII vets.

CROSSING DELANCEY: [JHVC 7023 VHS 97min. 1988 dir:Joan Micklin Silver cast:Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Reizl Bozyk, Jeroen Krabb]; A liberated Jewish woman has a crush on a famous writer instead of on the nice pickle salesman her Bubbe wants her to marry.

CROSSROADS, SOUTH AFRICA: The Struggle Continues: [1484 VHS 50min 1980]; Documents life in Noxolo or Crossroads, a shantytown community of 20,000 near Capetown, in the aftermath of the 1976 Soweto riots as the government struggles to enforce apartheid.

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: [9655 DVD 120min English/French (French subtitles) 2000 dir:Ang Lee cast:Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi]; Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are lead to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.

THE CROWD: [fs 3317 VHS 5246A LaserCLV1 90min bw silent 1928 dir:King Vidor cast:Eleanor Boardman; James Murray]; Episodes in the life of a city clerk, filmed to closely approximate the drama found in real life.

CROWD CONTROL: [fs6606 VHS 18min 1999 dir:Eric Faden]; "A Camera-Stylo" Issue of film history and film technology.

CROWS AND SPARROWS: [fs 4057 VHS 111min bw Chinese/sub 1949 dir:Zheng Junli]; As revolution sweeps China, the tenants of an apartment building in Shanghai are faced with eviction by a tyrannical landlord.

THE CRUCIBLE: [fs5574 LD 123min 1996 dir:Nicholas Hytner cast:Daniel Day-Lewis; Winona Ryder]; Arthur Miller's adaptation of his stage play, a tale of witch-hunts and religious persecution

CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH: [fs 3821 VHS 96min Japanese/sub 1960 dir:Nagisa Oshima]; Disaffected Japanese youth dabble in petty crime.

THE CRUSADES: [VHS 50min each 1995]; A history of the attempts of European Christians to free the Holy Lands of Islamic rule. Terry Jones of Monty Python created the series and narrates.
Pilgrims in Arms: [4720]; The origins of the Crusades.
Jerusalem: [4721]; Describes the attrition of the Crusaders' forces, sacking of Jerusalem.
Jihad: [4722]; The Muslims recapture Jerusalem after 50 years of Christian rule.
Destruction: [4723]; The third and fourth Crusades.

LA CRUZ INVERTIDA: [3500 VHS 103min Spanish/sub 1988 dir:Mario David]; Argentina: a young priest must struggle against both army and church to pursue his ideals.

CRY OF THE MURIQUI: [1748 VHS 38min 1982 dir:Andrew Young]; Documents a World Wildlife Fund survey of several endangered species of animals in southeastern Brazil caused by deforestation, including the Wooly Spider Monkey.

CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY: [6122 VHS 106min. 1995 dir:Darrell James Roodt cast:James Earl Jones, Richard Harris]; Alan Paton's 1948 novel about a black father and a white father brought together by tragedy in apartheid South Africa.

THE CRYING GAME: [fs 5247 LaserCLV1 112min 1992 dir:Neil Jordan cast:Stephen Rea; Miranda Richardson; Jay Davidson]; An IRA terrorist befriends his captive and then becomes involved with the man's transvestite lover.

CRYSTALS AND THEIR STRUCTURES: [0946 16mm 22min bw 1963]; A scientific description of crystals.

CUBA: Art and the Revolution: [0861 VHS 46min 1971 dir:Peter Adams]; BBC documentary shows artists of dance, music, film, painting, and literature discussing intellectual freedom and their relationship to Castro's government.

CUBA VA: [4206 VHS 59min 1993]; Young Cubans debate on the subject of what needs to be done by them to fix the political and economic problems of Cuba.

THE CUBIST EPOCH: [1493 16mm 3867 VHS 53min 1986]; Video based on an exhibition originally shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, showing the works of Picasso, Gris, Braque, Leger, Gleizes, Delaunay, Villon, and their followers.

CUL-DE-SAC: [fs 0624-0626 16mm 111min bw 1966 dir:Roman Polanski cast:Donald Pleasance; Françoise Dorleac; Lionel Stander]; Two criminals terrorize a middle-aged man and his young wife.

CULLODEN: [fs 1369-1370 16mm 2569 VHS 71min bw 1965]; A "you are there" documentary about the 1746 battle from which the British went on to wipe out the Scots highlander culture and exile Bonnie Prince Charles.

THE CUP PHÖRPA: [fs 8083 VHS 94min. 1999 Bhutanese/sub dir:Khyentse Norbu]; Four monks in a Tibetan monastery contrive, despite material and spiritual restrictions, to follow the 1998 World Cup Soccer matches.

CUP FINAL (GMAR GAVI'A): [JHVC 7067 VHS 107min 1992 Hebrew/sub dir:Eran Riklis cast:Moshe Ivgi, Mohammed Bakri]; 1982: As Israel invades Lebanon and the World Cup soccer match is being played, a captured Israeli soldier gets to know his fellow fan, and Palestinian captor.

LE CURÉ DE TOURS: [6795 VHS French 99min]; Balzac's story, set in Tours in 1826, of the Abbé Birotteau.

CURRENTS: [0986 16mm 30min 1971]; Describes the various currents that flow the in world's oceans.

Curse of the Cat People: fs 5487LD; See VAL LEWTON COLLECTION

CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS: [fs 5848 LD 102min 1994 dir:J. Michael McLary cast:James Woods, Kathy Bates]; Sam Shepherd's play about a farmer trying to keep ahead of his debts and his hostile family.

CYCLES: [fs 3382 VHS 15min bw 1988 dir:Zeinabu Davis]; Quiet scenes in the day of a young woman of African and Caribbean background.

THE CYCLIST (Bicycleran): [fs6332 VHS 75min 1987 Farsi/sub dir:Mohsen Makhmalbaf]; An Afghan refugee in Iran tries to pay his wife's medical bills by staging a one-man bicycle marathon.

CYCLONE: [2057 u-matic 60min Chinese (Chinese/subitles)]; A Taiwan television drama in which an old man's family is decimated by an unknown killer.

CYRANO DE BERGERAC (1925): [fs 9541 DVD 113min. 925 silent, color dir: Agosto Genina cast:Pierre Magnier]; Coquelin's successor in the long-nosed lead role of Edmond Rostand's play is the star of this production, which is presented in Pathé's Stencil Color.

CYRANO DE BERGERAC (1990): [4351 VHS 138min French /sub 1990 dir:Jean-Paul Rappeneau cast:Gerard Depardieu; Anne Brochet]; From the play by Edmond Rostand: a soldier-poet with the world's ugliest nose can never reveal his love for a beautiful woman and so lends his eloquence to another to woo her.