2001 VIDEO CATALOG - Clinton Essex Franklin Library System

College College Admissions Admissions and and Financial Financial Aid
Aid
Experts from top universities answer your questions about college entrance, with emphasis upon how to
score higher on entrance exams, get financial aid, select a college and major, get admitted into the
college of your choice and much more.
30 min. color
College College Experience: Experience: Experience: What's What's It It Like? Like? (with (with Teacher's Teacher's Teacher's Guide)
Guide)
This video presents poignant and sometimes funny candid interviews with college students on
campuses across the country. Students comment about their pre-college fears, the transition into
college and aspects of life away from home that high school students should be prepared for.
30 min. color
Color Color Adjustment
Adjustment
From Amos 'n Andy to the Cosby Show, this video traces over 40 years of turbulent race relations through
the lens of prime time entertainment. Marlon Riggs brings his landmark study of prejudice and
perception in television by revisiting such popular favorites as Beulah, the Nat King Cole Show, Julia, I
Spy, Good Times and Roots, viewers see how bitter racial conflict was absorbed into the
non-controversial formats of the prime time series.
87 min. color pp
Color Color de de de Hormiga
Hormiga
This suspense story in Spanish stars Rozenda Bernal as a popular singer caught up in intrigue.
113 min. color
Color Color of of of Money
Money
Paul Newman and Tom Cruise ignite the screen in this powerful drama about the profitable yet volative
partnership of an aging master player with a young pool hustler. This is the sequel to the movie, The
Hustler.
119 min. color
Color Color Purple
Purple
Based on Alice Walker's prize-winning novel, The Color Purple is a richly textured, powerful story about
40 years in the life of a southern Black woman.
154 min. color
Columbus Columbus Day Day (with (with Teacher's Teacher's Guide)
Guide)
A man who is famous for his model ships is finishing a model of the Santa Maria. His grandson is
anxious to listen as he tells about Columbus, the Native Americans and some of the other great explorers
such as Leif Erikson.
10 min. color
Columbus Columbus Didn't Didn't Discover Discover Us Us
Us
This documentary is a moving testimony about the impact of the Columbus legacy on the lives of
indigenous peoples from across the hemisphere. Native people speak about the devastation of their
cultures resulting from the "Europeon invasion," contemporary struggles over land and human rights, the
importance of reviving spiritual traditions, and the need to alert the world to the environmental crisis
threatening the planet.
24 min. color
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