RKO Radio Pictures
1) W.C. Fields
Series
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 63 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
W.C. Fields stars in three comedy films. In "The Golf Specialist" he poses as a golf instructor at a fashionable hotel and gives some hilarious golf lessons to the wife of a jealous house detective. "The Dentist" is about a day in the life of a dentist. In "The Fatal Glass of Beer" Fields' son drinks the fatal glass, goes to jail, then returns
2) Dumbo
Series
Language
English
Description
The stork delivers a baby elephant to Mrs. Jumbo, who happens to be a veteran of the circus, but the newborn is soon ridiculed because of his truly gigantic ears and is dubbed "Dumbo". Dumbo is relegated to the circus' clown acts. It is up to Dumbo's only true friend, Timothy Q. Mouse, to assist Dumbo to achieve his full potential
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (71 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A cop has been put in charge of protecting a gangster's girlfriend as she is being transported from Chicago to L.A. by train to testify before a grand jury. He has his work cut out, though, as there are hitmen on the train that are after her
6) Citizen Kane
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (119 min., 113 min.) : sd., b&w & col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it
Series
Wonderful world of Disney volume 5
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Disney's first retelling of the story of Robin Hood, broadcast on the Sunday night television series The Wonderful World of Disney.
Series
Criterion collection volume 880
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 panels : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
"Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical, dark love story, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America's outcasts and underdogs. When the wide-eyed fugitive Bowie (Farley Granger), having broken out of prison with some bank robbers, meets the innocent Keechie (Cathy O'Donnell), each recognizes something in the other that no one else ever has. The young lovers envision a new, decent...
9) Citizen Kane
Author
Publisher
Turner Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
209 leaves ; 28 cm
Language
English
10) Pinocchio
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Woodcarver Geppetto has pets Figaro the cat and Cleo the fish. He has just made a little wooden puppet called Pinocchio. Wishing upon a star before he goes to bed, Geppetto wishes that Pinocchio would become a real boy. As Geppetto sleeps, the Blue Fairy arrives and partially grants his wish. Pinocchio can come to life, but he must prove himself worthy before becoming a real boy. He will require some guidance, and Jiminy Cricket agrees to act as his...
11) Murder, my sweet
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A down-on-his-luck private detective searches for an ex-convict's missing girlfriend and finds himself in a dark world of mayhem and murder. Based on Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely.
12) The brave one
Publisher
VCI Home Video
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A love story of a boy and a bull.
13) Fort Apache
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This classic portrait of the old West depicts a military martinet calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
14) Bringing up Baby
Series
Criterion collection volume 1085
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 17 cm)
Language
English
Description
"Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as the manic misadventures pile up--a missing dinosaur bone,...
15) Syncopation
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a romance between singer Kit Latimer, from New Orleans, and Johnny Schumacher, in which they share and argue over musical ideas. The story serves as a backdrop for a quarter-century of American 'syncopated' music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie) from prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock-market crash, the depression and the outbreak of WWII.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cop Jim Wilson has seen it all on the shadowy streets of New York City, and the experience has cost him his soul. Ironically, his redemption may come in his next case, a brutal murder that brings him into the open sky and white light of the countryside and into the arms of a beautiful blind woman.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1939, cp2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
America's Revolutionary War is more than a decade away, but storm clouds of rebellion are gathering in Pennsylvania. There, colonial man of action James Smith does what England's provincial command won't: stop the trading of weapons to Indian tribes. Joined by like-minded frontiersmen, Smith intercepts trade shipments, besieges forts and risks the certain-death charge of treason against the king.
18) Angel face
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Mrs. Tremayne is mysteriously poisoned with gas, ambulance driver Frank Jessup meets her refined but sensuous stepdaughter Diane, who quickly pursues and infatuates him. Under Diane's seductive influence, Frank is soon the Tremayne chauffeur, but he begins to suspect danger under her surface sweetness. When he shows signs of pulling away, Diane schemes to get him in so deep he'll never get out.
Publisher
GoodTimes DVD
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (151 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
The flying deuces: Laurel and Hardy join the French Foreign Legion and have a rough time as foot soldiers
Utopia: Laurel and Hardy inherit an island and a yacht to get them there. However, on their way, they are shipwrecked on a nameless atoll in the Pacific. Accompanied by a wide array of characters, the boys establish an island paradise
20) Forever 50's
Publisher
Distributed by VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (8 hr.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
America in the 50s. An iconic decade that featured Eisenhower's presidency, the birth of rock and roll, tail fins, drive-ins, and the ascendancy of television as a cultural force. Have you ever wondered what to do if the Communists captured you, the story of Smokey the Bear, or how to survive an atomic bomb? This collection of highlights from newsreels for each year of the decade, short films, and an assortment of movie trailers captures the essence...