2001 VIDEO CATALOG - Clinton Essex Franklin Library System

Room Room Full Full of of Men
Men
This excellent video explores the reasons for domestic violence and the cycle of abuse.
48 min. color
Room Room With With a a View
View
Off to Forence for her horizon-broadening tour, Lucy, a proper Edwardian lady is cahperoned by her even
more proper Aunt Charlotte. When Lucy is kissed by an improper suitor, Cahrlotte whisks her back to the
serene English countryside where she is betrothed to a supposedly suitable gentleman insufferably in
love with himself. This comedy sparkles!
117 min. color cc
Rooster Rooster Cogburn
Cogburn
This is a sequel to True Grit, starring John Wayne and Katherine Hepburn. Eula Goodnight, a
Bible-thumping missionary, teams up with Rooster Cogburn, a wiskey guzzling Deputy Marshall to
avenge the death of her father.
108 min. color
Roots Roots #1 #1
#1
His name was Kunta Kinte. Kidnappped from Africa and enslaved in America in 1767, he refused to
accept his slave name of Toby. Heirs kept his heroic defiance alive, whispering the name of Kunta Kinte
for one generation to the next until it reached a young boy growing up in Tennessee. His name was Alex
Haley. Kunta Kinte distinguishes himself in manhood training rituals in Gambia, West Africa, but he does
not enjoy his new status long. Slave traders sweeping through the countryside capture him. Chained
with other unfortunates, Kunta begins an agonized odyssey to the New World.
99 min. color
Roots Roots #2 #2
#2
Despite a violent shipboard rebellion, the vessel completes its voyage and Kunta Kinte endures the
indignity of an Annapolis slave auction. Fiddler, the slave in charge of Kunta's training, becomes his only
friend - a friendship that's tested when Kunta plans to escape so he can be with Fanta.
94 min. color
Roots Roots #3
#3
In 1776, a nation fights for freedom, but not freedom for all. Kunta Kinte escapes again and is crippled by
slave catchers. He marries, gains a daughter and loses a friend when Fiddler dies. Another chance for
escape arises, but Kunta sacrifices his freedom to care for his wife and the newborn he names Kizzy, an
African word for "stay put."
95 min. color
Roots Roots #4 #4
#4
At age 16, Kizzy is sold to another "massa" and bears his son, who grows up to become fun-loving
Chicken George. Yearning to see her parents Kizzy is comforted by Samuel Bennett but the two are
ill-matched. His deference to slave owners and lack of interest in African tradition run counter to Kizzy's
fierce resolve to keep her heritage alive. When she returns to her birthplace, kizzy learns of her parents'
fate.
94 min. color
Roots Roots #5
#5
Chicken George is sent to England as apyment for his owner's gambling debt. Fourteen years later, he
returns home a free man, a status that has a profound effect on the family begun by Kunta Kinte. The Civil
War erupts; at last the era of slavery draws to an end.
95 min. color
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