Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: This classic episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series transports viewers to the summer of 1961 as President John F. Kennedy addresses the United States in a televised address to explain the significance of the situation in the now-divided city of Berlin, Germany. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration is a graphic portrayal of the steps this nation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: President John F. Kennedy speaking to UN after Dag Hammerskold's death (part 1)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: Excerpt of JFK Inaugural Address
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: John F. Kennedy speaks to announce his Tax Cut plan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1962
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Summary: President Kennedy watches military display at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
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Summary: Row of cameramen at Kennedy Press conference at the capitol
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1962
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Summary: President John F. Kennedy speaking to UN after Dag Hammerskold's death (part 2)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: President Kennedy's UN speech intercut with shots of activity around the Berlin Wall (German VO)
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Summary: President John F. Kennedy meets President Charles de Gaulle in Paris
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Summary: This documentary examines Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy. Filmed in Atlanta on the first federal holiday in his honor, an impressive group of distinguished public figures is interviewed, including: former President Jimmy Carter; Rev. Jesse Jackson; Bishop Desmond Tutu; Rev. Ralph Abernathy; Julian Bond; Senator Edward Kennedy; Andrew Young; Bill Cosby, among others. Archival footage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1986
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Summary: This Bill Moyers program features news correspondent Richard Strout, who covered Washington and the White House from 1925 to his retirement in 1984. Strout's reports, filed for the Christian Science Monitor and The New Republic, are studied here not only as chronicles of American history but as milestones circumscribing our nation's capital-and its evolution from a "small town" to the nerve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, Faced with the most serious labor stoppage in its history, the U.S. is hard hit by a strike of railroad men. Reel 2, In Nanking, U.S. Chief of Staff Eisenhower receives a gala welcome as he visits China's leader during his tour of U.S. Far Eastern bases. Later, in Tokyo, he meets General MacArthur and reviews an 8th Army parade.
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Nuremberg trials. Nuremberg, Germany: It is doomsday and the day of reckoning as 21 Nazis learn their fate at the end of their 10-month trial. Half will hang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on three topics, as follows. Reel 1, Ike greets Richard Nixon at Wheeling airport; Adlai Stevenson, in Baltimore, speaks on taxes. Reel 2, Two white mice and a rhesus monkey named Albert soar 38 miles in a rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range, making Albert "the world's first space cadet." Reel 3, The palace of exiled Farouk I of Egypt is opened,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on six topics, as follows. Reel 1, Herbert Hoover is 81 at his Newburg, Oregon, boyhood home. Reel 2, On vacation at his Gettysburg farm, President Eisenhower signs legislation and inspects a gift of a Holstein heifer. Reel 3, A Chinese junk, sailing from Japan, arrives in San Francisco "with five free Chinese refugees from the Reds." Reel 4, An X-1 rocket plane...
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, The Salk polio vaccine is administered to a variety of children. Reel 2, Thomas S. Gates, Jr., is sworn in as Secretary of the Navy, among other new government appointments of the Eisenhower administration. Other events in the nation's capital include the arrival of Brazilian General Octavio Maza and the awarding of a medal to...
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Russian space program. Moscow, in festive array for the country's industrial exhibition, shows off a full-scale replica of Sputnik 3.
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Cuban revolution. Fidel Castro addresses an immense crowd outside the Presidential Palace in Havana as it roars its approval of the execution of former Batista officials.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on American clandestine operations during the Cold War. In Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev tells the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet that Gary Powers, pilot of a downed American reconnaissance plane, is alive and that spy photographs have been seized. In the U.S., State Department spokesman Lincoln White makes a statement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the election of John F. Kennedy. A record number of Americans head out to vote for the 35th president of the United States. Richard Nixon concedes defeat as JFK wins at the polls in one of the closest elections in U.S. history. "To all Americans I say the next four years are going to be difficult and challenging years for us all.
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, In his first public appearance, Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin arrives at Moscow Airport, is greeted by Nikita Khrushchev, and receives the accolades of the public. Reel 2, Thousands turn out in Harrisburg, Pa., to welcome former President Eisenhower, en route to his farm at Gettysburg.
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Telstar satellite: how it works, its launch into orbit, its first transmissions, and plans for more such satellites to be used to form a chain of instantaneous communication around the planet.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010