2001 VIDEO CATALOG - Clinton Essex Franklin Library System

Gryphon
Gryphon
Gryphon
Ricky, a tough Hispanic boy in an inner-city school, finds his life transformed by a mysterious and magical
substitute teacher. Everyone has had a strange teacher - but Miss Ferenczi is stranger than most. She
can blow up a wind with her open palm and summon angels into her classrooom! She also teaches
Ricky and his peers about beauty, creativity, imagination - and about valuing the people who care for you.
58 min. color cc
Guarding Guarding Tess
Tess
Shirley MacLaine and Nicolas Cage star in this delightful comedy about a cantankerous former First Lady
and her reluctant bodyguard.
99 min. color cc
Guatemala: Guatemala: Land Land of of of Color
Color
Explore the beautiful and varied landscape of Guatemala in this video produced by the Museum of
Modern Art of Latin America.
25 min. color
Guess Guess Who's Who's Who's Coming Coming To To Dinner
Dinner
Joanna, the beautiful daughter of a publisher and his patrician wife returns home with her new fiance,
John Prentice, a distinguished black doctor. Joanna's father is shocked by this interracial union and the
doctor's parents are equally dismayed. Both families must sit down face to face and examine each
other's level of intolerance.
108 min. color cc
Gulliver's Gulliver's Travels Travels Travels (subtitled (subtitled in in in Spanish)( Spanish)( Spanish)( 2 2 tapes)
tapes)
Ted Danson stars as Gulliver, an 18th century doctor who returns home after an 8 year adventure in the
land of Lilliput. Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif and Mary Steenburgen also star in this acclaimed production
that modernizes a classic tale for all audiences.
187 min. color cc
Guns Guns Guns of of August August
August
This video combines extraordinary filmed footage, photographs and graphics to create one of the most
absorbing, disturbing and candid accounts of World War I ever made. Based on the Pulitzer
Prize-winning book by Barbara Tuchman.
100 min. color
Half Half Half Slave, Slave, Half Half Free
Free
Solomon Northup, born and bred in New York, was a free black man. Yet, he lost a dozen years of his life
to Jim Birch and his gang of slave-trading kidnappers. In 1842, they drugged him and took him to New
Orleans on a ship. Sold and resold, Northup learned the hard lessons of survival under vicious slave
masters. In real life, Northup endured cotton fields and the whip to write his story, which is brilliantly
brought to life.
118 min. color
Halloween Halloween ( ( with with Instructor's Instructor's guide) guide)
This video presents a short overview of the history and different means of celebrating Halloween. It
includes autumn scenes and a trip to a Halloween party where games and activities that typify the holiday
are explained.
11 min. color
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