2001 VIDEO CATALOG - Clinton Essex Franklin Library System

Great Great Minds Minds of of Business: Business: Marketing
Marketing
Marketing
With no experience in the toy business, Pleasant Rowland sold $250 million worth of American Girls
dolls, not through toy stores but through the mail. Let Pleasant Rowland, a classic American
entrepreneur, show you how a passion for creative marketing can ensure success.
46 min. color
Great Great Great Mouse Mouse Detective
Detective
A popular toymaker is missing and there's only one mouse for the job, the famous supersleuth, Basil of
Baker Street.
74 min. color cc
Great Great Outdoors
Outdoors
When an unannounced, uninvited and unwelcome family of fun-loving misfits converge upon a lakeside
resort to join their relatives for a summer of relaxation, the result is anything but restive. This raucous
comedy stars Dan Aykroyd and John Candy.
91 min. color
Great Great Pharoahs Pharoahs Pharoahs of of Egypt: Egypt: #1
#1
Journey back 5,000 years to witness the dawn of one of the most storied eras of human history. See how
the warrior Narmer united upper and lower Egypt to become the first pharaoh and how his descendants
masterfully built on his accomplishments and secured a kingdom that would stand for 3,000 years.
50 min. color
Great Great Pharoahs Pharoahs Pharoahs of of Egypt: Egypt: #2
#2
By the year 2180 B.C., almost 1,000 years after the first pharoah, the Ancient Egyptians had made
incredible advances in science, art, and technology and had vuilt the most advanced civilization on earth.
Here is the story of Egyptian civilization's descent into centuries of chaos, and its eventual rebirth under a
series of military-minded pharoahs who established the New Kingdom.
50 min. color
Great Great Great Pharoahs Pharoahs Pharoahs of of Egypt: Egypt: #3 #3
#3
By 1353 B.C., Egypt again enjoyed remarkable stability, wealth, and prosperity that mirrored the best
times of the Old Kingdom. But the ascension of the Pharaoh Akhenaten plunged the ancient empire into
a new crisis. History branded Akhenaten as a heretic because of his radical but ultimately doomed
attempt to transform Egypt's religion. He is also remarkable for the way he shared power with his
legendary queen, Nefertiti. This revealing program examines the many mysteries surrounding this
controversial king, and show how his heresy is connected to the most important archaeological event of
the 20th century - the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun!
50 min. color
Great Great Pharoahs Pharoahs Pharoahs of of Egypt: Egypt: #4
#4
The series concludes with an in-depth look at the 67 year reign of perhaps the greatest pharaoh of all.
Ramses led foreign conquests and embarked on the most ambitious building program since the Great
Pyramids, restoring ancient monuments and erecting countless new ones. The program also looks at
the long succession of lesser leaders who followed and concludes with the courageous life and tragic
death of Cleopatra, the last pharaoh.
50 min. color
Great Great Railway Railway Railway Journeys Journeys of of of the the World: World: India
India
Nothing in the imagination can quite prepare the first-time visitor for the pure shock of India.
60 min. color
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