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THE ARIS & HUMANIIIES 1 Architecture and Public Art 1 Biography 1 Children's and Young Adult Films 2 Cinema Studies 2 Dance ± language Arts and Literature 5 Music 7 Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts 11 Photography 12
HEAlTH 14 AIDS 14 Disabilities 14 Human Sexuality 15 Medical Science 17 Mental Health and Psychology 18 Substance Abuse 19
THE SCIENCES 20 Biological Science 20 Physical Science 20 Environmental Studies 21
SOCIAL S IUDIES 24 Anthropology 24 Black Studies 24 Business and Management 25 Chicano Studies 26 Criminal Justice 27 Family Relations and Parenting 28 History 30 Labor Studies 33 Media Studies 34 Native American Studies 35 Political Science 37 Puerto Rican Studies 37 Religion 38 Sociology 39 Urban Studies 40 Women's Studies 42
WORLD CULIURES 45 African Studies 45 Asian Studies 47 Latin American Studies 48 Mideast Studies 52 Europe and Other Regions 53
ALPHABEIICAL INDEX 55
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ARCHITECTURE !Ii BIOGRAPHY AND PUBLIC ARI a II ~ ! HARRY BRIDGES: BR01HER BREAD, A MAN AND HIS UNION SISTER PUPPET Chronicles the political career of Harry 'Ihe Bread and Puppet !heater has be Bridges (190l·l990), one of America's come famous in America over the last most controversial labor leaders The thirty years for its street theater a_nd Australian-born Bridges played a leading political satire utilizing giant papier-· ,role in the successful 1934 longshoremen' s mache puppets, masks and twelve foot strike in San Francisco which shut down high stilt walkers This documentary Pacific Coast ports from San Diego to profile focuses on their annual Domestic --Seattle, and won major reforms in Resurrection Circus, a summer weekend maritime working conditions When the presentation at their northern Vermont International Longshoremen's and home. More than a hundred puppeteers Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) was es and other performers appear in the after tablished in 1937, Bridges became its first noon Circus, which features many animal president and, as its leader for the follow figures, sideshows and comedy routine~, ing forty years, he developed a national and the twilight Pageant, a vast allegon reputation as a charismatic and prin cal drama presented on a natural 20-acre cipled union leader. The video, which stage of meadows, forest and rolling ~ills blends archival footage and photos with The \ ideo features performance high Brother Bread Sister Puppet interviews, is divided into three parts for lights and in ten iews \.\ ith Bread and Pup use in secondary school classrooms pet founder /director Peter Schumann, WHAT'S WRONG WITH Directed by Berry Minott group members and\ olunteers, who dis 1992, color, S8 mins., 16mm film/video THIS BUILDING? Purchase: 16mm $895/video $3SO Rental: $95 cuss the group's theatrical concepts and In 1966 the new building for the Whitney artistic philosoph; _Wealso see rehears Golden Gate Award Museum of American Art was opened to San Francisco International Film Festival a ls the construction of papitr-mflche the public. fhe building's innovative * figures and masks, and the printing of the * Special Jury Prize design by Marcel Breuer (1902-81) per,. Houston International Film Festival Theater's distincti\ e v-.oodcut posters fectly suited the Whitney and was quick * Bronze Apple Directed by Jim Farber ly recognized as an important work of National Educational Film 1993, Color, 60 mins., video Modern architecture In 1981 the museum and Video Festival Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 commissioned an addition for the build "Thisfast-moving docu will be as interest ing from Michael Graves, a pr~minent NEON: AN ELECTRIC MEMOIR ing to thosewithout a detailedknowledge of American architect known for his Post U S, laborhistory as to thosein the know " This offbeat \ ideo chronicles the history Modern style Gra\. e's plans for the new Variety of neon, the luminescent gas discovered design generated a great deal of con in 1898 b\ a British chemist, showing how troversy and were revised several times " an affectionatebut clear--eyedfilm treat neon is -utilized toda; by designers, This documentary examines some of the ment .a valuable,informative primer about photographers, artists, sculptors and ar problems faced by the Whitney in choos one of America'sforemost champions of work "-The San Francisco Examiner chitects ing to add to a landmark building, and ing people Directed by Rudy Buttignol and Ken Ketter discusses such topics as the Modernist 1984, color, 26 mins., video and Post-Modernist styles, architecture ROADS HOME, Purchase: 5250 Rental: $55 as art, the responsibility of art museums THE LIFEAND IIMES OF '., a nifty,quirky htt/e_fi/m Recommended- to the public, and the role of the architect A B 'HAPPY' CHANDLER Choic€ (American Ubrar') Association) Directed by Garth Stein A portrait of the life and career of Albert , .,amusingand imaginam, Rerommended'' 1989, color, 28 mins., 16mm film/video Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $55 B 'Happy' Chandler, documenting his landers Film ReYiev-.s rise from rural poverty to a long career m * BJue Ribbon LIGHT .SIIE--INGS American Film and Video Festival public office, from Governor of Kentucky, to US Senator during WWII, Commis·· Documents the making of a public art ''In depictingthe museum'sresponse to the sioner of Baseball during the 1950s, and piece which raises questions about the community•Sreaction to the div~rgentar•· . two-time candidate as the Democratic meaning ofpri\ate and public space and chitecturalstyles, this provocativeproduction nominee for President. The result is a the role of public art alsoportrays ·the struggle of an artist to recon-· cilt his creativeendeamr with the public'sex compelling portrait of a consummate Dirtttt'd by Leni Schwendinger and Southern politician and the 'stump Carlos Montaner pec.tafions·· -Book.list (American library speaking' era of American politics 1990, color, i3 mins., video Association) Purchase: Video $150 Rental: $30 Direded by Robby Henson ,.A goodfilm for discussionson architecture 1987, color, :Mtmins .., video *** HighlyRemmmroded approprwte Recommended"-library Journal Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 for high schoolstudents throughadult ar,d1en *** "Very nicelymade extremelywell ces .A valuableand recommendedaddition done ···-AFVA Evaluations (American for librariesinterested in contemporary Film and Video Association) art "-Video Rating Guide for Libraries
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The A/1--Star fazz Show Page IO Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union Page 1 Assurances Page 6 Howard Koch: You Must Remember This Page 3 Best Offer Page 2 Hull House: The House that Jane Built Page 30 Bingo: You Betcha 1 Page 18 I Dream, Too Page 11 Blood Memory Images of Faith Page 38 The Legend of Beanie Short Page 30 Laura Clay: Voice of Change Page 42 The Boardwalk Club Page 6 Life Story of an African lnyanga Page 45 Body Sculpt.: The Video Page 19 M F. K. Fischer: Writer with a Bite Page 5 Brother Bread, Sister Pupp£ t Page 1 Media Only Page 34 Can't Hear You Knocking Page 15 Men, Women, Angels and Harps Page 10 A Celebration of Life: Pirate's Dagger Dances of the African~Guyanese Page 4 Page 2 Ralph Nader, Up Close Contraception: The Stalled Rn•olution Page 15 Page 2 Conversations with Ancient History Page 32 Russia for Sale.: The Rough Road to Capitalism Page 53 Corporation with a Movie Camera Page 31 The Sensational Seventies Page 31 Counterfeit Coverage Page 34 Spirit of Trees Page 21 Cuba: A View from Inside Page 49 Stand Up for Choice Page 39 Delivered Vacant Page 41 Stefan Roloff; Faces of an Artist at Work Page 11 Education: A Basic Human Right Page 45 Steppin' Page 24 The Fabulous Sixties Page 31 The Storytellers Page 5 follow the Dirt Road Page 39 Surrealism.: Poetic Vision Page 5 Freedom Rings.: A Six Week This Other Haiti Page 48 Journey through Freedom Theatn Page 24 Time and Light: A film About Photographs Page 12 fresh Talk Youth and Sexuality Page 16 ¾!hen Your Head's Not_ a Head, It's a Nut Page 17
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RALPH NADER: IN THE /UNGLE UP CLOSE THERE IS LOTS TO DO A biographical profile of America's lead Based on a popular children's book by Latin ing consumer advocate and author who American author Mauricio Gatti, this has been responsible for the passage of charming animated film will delight young dozens of major environmental, con children with its amusing animated sumer and safety reforms The film blends animals, lovely music and lyrics It tells a archival footage and scenes of Nader and story of how the happy life of the animals in his staff at work in Washington with inter the jungle is threatened by a hunter who views with Nader's family, friends and captures them for sale to a zoo and how a adversaries, as well as Nader himself It friendly little girl helps them escape from examines his controversial opinions and their cages and return to their jW1glehome his tactics and strategies for achieving so The film's underlying message--
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HOWARD KOCH: FOR THE FIRST TIME VI: PORTRAIT OF A SILENT STAR YOU MUST Celebrates the universal and almost magi A documentary portrait of American silent REMEMBER THIS cal appeal of motion pictures by showing a screen star Viola Dana who began her Profiles the career of Academy Award Cuban Film Institute mobile film unit career with the Edison Company in 1910 winning screenwriter Howard Koch, best traveling deep into the Cuban countryside and starred in more than 100 productions know for such classic filffis as The Sea to show peasants their first movie before her retirement in 1929 Hawk (1940), Tne Letter (1940), Sergeant Directed by Octavio Cortazar Direded by Anthony Slide York (1941), Letter from an Unknown 1967, BfcW, 12 mins, 1986, color, 30 mins., video Wollllln (1948) and Casablanca(1942) 16mm film/video Purchase:$250 Rental: $SO Spanish dialog with English subtitles " .an insider'sview of the industry in its in Koch first came to public attention for his Purchase: Video $100 Rental: $35 script for Orson Welles's 1938 radio fancy ...will fascinate movie buffs and stu•· broadcast of The Warof the Worlds During BUDD BOEITICHER, dents offilm history '-Book.list (American the late Forties, he became a victim of the ONE ON ONE Library Association) McCarthyite anti-communist witch hunts Traces the colorful life and filmmaking in Hollywood (although never a member DAWS BUTLER: career of one of Hollywood's most distinc of the Communist Party, Koch was tive talents Trained as a bullfighter, Boet VOICE MAGICIAN labelled a Communist by studio chief ticher was brought to Hollywood in 1941 to Traces the career of one of America's best·· Jack Warner who cited Koch for his sup serve as technical advisor on Reuben loved but least-seen actors During his port of organized labor and, ironically, Maoulian's 1941 bullfighting drama, Blood fifty year career, Daws Butler (1916-1988) for his script for the WWII, pro-Soviet and Sand After assisting directors such as provided the voices for such beloved melodrama Mission to Moscow,an assign George Stevens and King Vidor, Boetticher animated characters as Yogi Bear, Huck ment Warner had previously persuaded directed three classic bullfighting films and leberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Koch was his patriotic duty!) After being moved on to crime thrillers and a series of Chill) Willy, Elroy Jetson, and dozens of blacklisted, Koch moved to Europe and low-budget Westerns starring Randolph others Interwoven throughout the inter did not recei\ e Hollywood screenpla; Scott that earned him a cult critical reputa view with Butler are samples of his dis- credits again until the Sixties with films tion. Inten. iev.:ed by author Tony Thomas, tinctive voice characterizations in such as The War Lover (1962) and The Fox Boetticher discusses his career, his out~ cartoons, radio and TV programs, com (1969) The video includes inten iews spoken attitudes about the film industry, mercials and comedy records 'The pro with a now 90-•year-old Koch and his v-.ife and his many colleagues Clips of his films gram also includes interviews with many of years, Ann, as well as historical fifty are interspersed throughout the program of Butler's friends and coworkers, includ·· footage and excerpts from his films Directed by Arnold R Kunert ing Stan Freberg, Walter Lantz, Bill Directed by Cambiz A. Khosravi 1989, color, 58 minutes, video Hanna and Joe Barbera 1992, co]or, 57 mins, video Purcha5e: 5350 Rental: $90 Directed by Arnold R Kunert Purchase: $350 Rental: $95· *** Excellent an engaging 1988, color, 58 minutes, video portrait an enjo_y•ablt'retrospective for film Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 THE NEW CINEMA OF buff; and generalaudiences alike Highly * Bronze Apple, National Educational LATIN AMERICA recommrnded•'-Video Librarian Film and Video Festival * Certificate of Merit This two-part documentary examines the entertaining a delig'1fforfilm buffs Chicago International Film Festival social and artistic roots of the national Booklist (American Library Association .... entertaining .gives z.1iewersa nostalgic cinemas of Latin America Part I, Cinemaof glimpseof the earlyyears of radioand TV." the Humble, traces the evolution of itS KARL BROWN'S ADVENTURES Book.list (American Library Association) theoretical and esthetic positions, and WITH D, W. GRIFFITH focuses on the development of cinema in At the age of 90, cinematographer Karl " .a charmingreminiscence and a sliceof Cuba and Nicaragua Part 11,Th, LongRoad, Brown discusses his early work with broadcasthistory "-School Library Journal examines the development of new forms of D W. Griffith, in particular ihe making 9f must be consuieredthe RobertDe Niro of representation, repression against The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance The voiceactors .Butlerexudes great wannth filmmakers, and the emergence of a nev-. film includes excerpt~ from those two and chann whileoffering insight into his women's cinema films, together with dozens of rare photos craft Forgeneral audiences as wellas car- Directed by Michael Chanan of Brown and Griffith working together loon buffs "-Library Journal 1985, Part I: color, 83 mins., video Directed by Anthony Slide Part II: color, 85 mins, video 1990, color, 30 mins., video THE NEW CINEMA Purchase: $3SOeach/$595 for both Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 Features provocative interviews with Rental: $85 each/$150 for both '·Griffiths old camtramandied a.few weeks some of the world's foremost inde .. * Outstanding Nonprint Material agoat ag, 92, so Anthony Slide's lengthy in pendent filmmakers, interspersed with Choice (American L.ibrary Association) ten.1ic1.1.1and reminiscence is right on time to excerpts from their films, including •• ,.aunique and importantresource [with] proz,idca pictureof a long-goneand greatHo/ .. Chantal Akerman, Emile de Antonio, Les an enurmousamount of information. an ad• lywood "-The Holly.,ood Reporter Blank, Robert Frank, Wim Wenders and mirable,complex effort "-Library Journal · desen.1e-"a place in collegeswitlifilm Robert Young, among many others " .. informative,thorough, and well-paced departmentsand publiclibraries whose Directed by Peter Wintonick Highly recommendedfor appropriatecolle&< patronsmay haziea markedinterest in cinema 1983, color, 100 mins., video classes,and for university librariesbuilding history.·-Video Rating Guide for Purchase:·5395 Rental: $95 collectionson the historyof cinema,._ Libraries * Blue Ribbon Choice (American Library Association) "Recommendedfor cinemastudents and American film Festival othersinterested in the early motionpicture business "-Landers Film. Reviews
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TURNING DREAMS ;A BAILARr, THE JOURNEY OF INTO REALIIY A LATIN DANCE COMPANY A profile of Fernando Birri, 'Father' of the Iells the story of Eddie Torres who for New Latin American Cinema, from his more than a decade nurtured the dream studies at the Centro Sperimentale in of establishing a la tin dance company on Rome in the 1950s, through the founding the scale of what Alvin Ailey did with of the Documentary School of Santa Fe in Afro-American dance The film docu his native Argentina and the production ments Eddie's recruitment of the best of of such classics as Tire Die and Los Jnun New York's salseros-Hispanic club and dados, the years of exile in Italy, to his street dancers-and how, with the musi activities in Cuba as director of the Inter cal collaboration of Tito Puente, he molds national Film and Television School for Imageof a Dancer them into a professional dance troupe students all over the wor Id Directed by Catherine Calderon Directed by Monica Melamid and IMAGE OF A DANCER 1988, color, 30 mins, 16mm film/video Rafael Andreu The rigors of the ballet world are fascinat•· (Note: 16mm version is 37 mins.) 1988, color, 29 mins ., video ingly explored in this behind-the-scenes Purchase: 16mm $450/video 5250 Rental: 550 Spanish dialog with English subtitles look at three promising young dancers ***" .the uplifting study of one mans Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 studying with the Marin Ballet in Califor vision Recommendedfor largecollections nia Scenes of class sessions, and the serving a populationwith interest in the areas choreography and rehearsals leading to a of LAtin music and dance ·'-Video Rating public performance, are interspersed Guide for libraries II DANCE with interviews with the young dancers "Energyand enthusiasmabound Thechoreog II and commentan from their instructors rapher/dancerrelationship is exploredand ex on the intense!} competiti\ e world of posedwith honestyand compassion A A CELEBRATION professional dance wonderfulglimpse into socialLatin dances" OF LIFE: DANCES OF IRE Directed by Bruce Nicholson Choice (American Library Association) AFRICAN-GUYANESE 1989, color, 32 mins., 16mm film/video Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $55 TWO FOR BALLE I Examines the cultural roots of traditional * Silver Medal, International Film & TV dance in Guyana and ho¼ numerous cul Festival of New York fells the story of the prolific choreog·· rapher /composer team of Eric Hyrst, tural influences-including Spanish, * Bronze Award Dutch, French, British, African, East In Houston International Film Festival former premier danseur with The Sadler 's dian, Portuguese and Chinese-ha'\ e Wells Ballet in England, The New York A must additzonto music educationlibraries City Ballet, and Les Grands Ballets been blended in this multicultural fromfourth grad, to college."-Emerald society Among the many African Canadien, and one of the most ex•• Hatha½ av Lohr, Former Music Director, perienced choreographers on the ballet Guyanese dances featured are those Southern ·california School District which celebrate freedom from sla, erv; a scene today, and Webster Young, one of pre-wedding dance which refle"cts **** Highly Raommended . useful in the most prolific young composers for African, English and Muslim influences; any public librarycollection ''-Video contemporary ballet, who writes highly exuberant dances at an African-·style Rating Guide for Libraries harmonious and lyrical music with a wake; religious ceremonies which incor A .fascinatinglook at a demanding strong dramatic sense This behind--the porate African drumming and dancing; profession ·'-Library Journal scenes documentary examines in detail and a lavish banquet designed to enter "This Pidw dispels the rcmumticvisions of life the working relationship of Hyrst and tain the seven spirits which reflect the in toe shoesand capturesthe earnest commit-· Young, observes Hyrst's rehearsals with history of Guyana and at which the musi ment and the grueling effort that eachof these the dancers and features extended ex • cal instruments are African and European dancus E.xerts'·-Booklist (American cerpts from several of the ballets per and the dances are ethnic and traditional Libran, Association) formed in a picturesque outdoor 1he video thus reveals through the bandshell setting in the mountains of medium of dance the continuities and CHOREOGRAPHY Oregon discontinuities of African culture in Describes the art of the balletic choreog- Directed by John Axline and Thomas Frantz Guyana today rapher, his vision and his methods of 1991, color, 57 mins., video Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 Directed by Kean Gibson work. concluding with the performance 1993, Color, 43 mins,, video of a finished ballet an engagingand informativelook at the Purchase: $250 Rental: $65 creativeprocess between committed, Produced by lehrfllm-Jnstitut two in 1964, B&W, 11 mins, 16mm film spired,and hard-workingmen recom Purchase: NA Rental: $20 mended.forarts educatorsand creative THE DANCE artists ''-Library Journal · Beginning with cultures of prehistor~ BALLET IN JAZZ and primitive dance forms, this film ART AND TECHNIQUE depicts the concert forms of native danc A some"" hat formal example of Germany's ing in the works of Katherine Dunham approach to American jazz in the form of OF THE BALLET The second part of the film deals with folk a free-flowing, complete ballet, beautiful Depicts the formal vocabulary of the bal dances of more than fifteen nations ly photographed and performed with let, examining the Pas de Quatre from Produced by Deutsche Wochenschau fine technique by an outstanding com Swan Lake and ending in a polished per 1960, B&W, 74.mins., 16mm film pany of dancers formance Purchase: 16mm $895/video $595 Rental: $95 Produced by Roto-Film Gmbh Produced by Lehrfilm-•lnstitut 1962., B&W, 11 mins, 16mm film 1967, B&W, 11·mins, 16mm film Purchase: $150 Rental: $20 Purchase: NA Rental: $20
The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 4 DEAD END KIDS: LANGUAGE ARTS A STORY OF NUCLEAR POWER AND LITERATURE A wacky, free--wheeling satire which ex amines key moments in the history of nuclear power, from the flowering of SURREAUSM: medieval alchemy in the 16th century, to POETIC VISION the development of the atomic bomb, Examines the art movement that Hiroshima and its aftermath, and the cul flourished in Europe between the two tural and political fallout of the Cold War world wars and which derived its in '50s. Based on the Obie award-winning spiration from dreams and other illogical stage play by the Mabou Mines avant and fantastic expressions of the uncon-· garde theatrical troupe, the film imagina scious mind The video traces the history tively uses a variety of styles and of surrealism from its literary predeces techniques, freely mixing historical and sors (Jarry, Rimbaud, lautreamont, fictional characters, archival footage, Baudelaire, Apollinaire) to its founding poetry, musical comedy, dance numbers, by Andre Breton and his Manifesto of serious drama, plus an evocative musical Surrealism in Paris in 1924, and the ef score by David Byrne with additional forts of numerous artists (Cocteau, music by Philip Glass Buf\uel, Dali, Ray, Artaud, Duchamp) Directed by JoAnne Akalaitis whose literature, paintings and films 1986, color, 87 mins., 16mm film/video developed the movement's artistic and M.F:K Fisher: Purchase: 16mm $995/video $395 Rental: $150 Writerwith a Bite philosophical aims of "Love, Liberty and Poetry" It includes archival footage and ~ GRAFFITI M. F. K. FISHER: ~ photos, interviews with scholars, his This Academy Award-nominated film torians and biographers, as well as WRITER WITH A BITE based on a short story by Julio Cortazar, dramatic reenactments of key moments This biographical profile of M F. K Fisher one of Latin America's leading contem in the history of surrealism and excerpts (1908-1992) features intimate conversa porary authors-is set in a Latin from the work of contemporary surrealist tions with the American author and im American city under strict military rule filmmakers In its imaginative and off aginatively visualized excerpts from her Directed by Matthew Patrick beat multimedia presentational style, the writings Known primarily as a 'food 1986, color, 28 mins., 16mm film/video video attempts not simply to explain sur writer' because of such books as The Art Purchase: 16mm $450/video $250 Rental: $55 realism, but also to convey the surrealist of Eating, Serve It Forth, The Gastronomical * Gold Hugo, Chicago Film Festival experience itself Me, Considerthe Oyster and How to Cooka * Academy Award Nominee Directed by Karl Krogstad Wolf, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher was Best live Action Short 1993, color, S9 mins., video also a novelist, essayist, short story writer Golden Gate Award Purchase: $3SO Rental: $95 and translator. All her writings deal, in * San Francisco Film Festival surrealismrwt only gets its one way or another, with what she saw as CINE Golden Eagle Award *** ".. our three basic needs-food, security and * grandesttreatment to date, it's even treated Silver Award on its own-that is, surrealist-terms .For a love-always examining the philosophi * Philadelphia Film Festival selectfew, thisfilm will be the cat's meow;for cal question, ''What feeds us?" In these " imagiruitive.'The story is creJ1tivelyand wide-ranging conversations filmed othersit will definitelyserve as a properintro succinctlytold visually;there is virtuallyno duction to the subject. recommended" shortly before her death, Fisher speaks dralogue.. an artisticand thought-provoking Video Librarian with humor and a down-to-earth attitude film Recommended"--<::hoice (American about her abilities and views on writing Library Association) TIIE STORYTELLERS and publishing, family and childhood memories, romance and marriage, aging, " fantastic lightingand musicalef- Celebrates the traditional art of storytelling fects .Good story, subtle camerawork, and through profiles of three storytellers and the pleasures of the flesh, of which eating is no small part The result is a fine actingcall.for repeated viewing, by public Judith Black, whose stories explore the librarypatrons and students, of thisprovoca• Jewish immigrant experience; Michael Cot documentary which captures the wit, charm and wisdom of a talented woman live production."-Booklist (American ter, a Minnesota farmer whose stories focus Library Association) on the extraordinary qualities of ordinary who always enjoyed the process of crea tive writing and who in all her activities people; and Rex Ellis, whose stories deal THE LIFE AND POETRY OF with the historical period of enslavement of expressed a spirited love of life and all Afro-Americans Featuring interviews and that it has to offer. As such, it is sure to JULIA DE BURGOS samples of their storytelling, the video ex appeal to any viewer interested in writ-· This docudrama portrays the life and plores the reasons why each became a ing, reading, cooking, eating, or fully work of the great Puerto Rican poet, from storyteller and the role it has played in their living the human experience her impoverished childhood in Puerto lives Directed by Kathi Wheater Rico, to her political involvement as a Directed by Frederick R ..Silverman 1992, Color, 28 mins., video young woman in the nationalist move 1991, color, 28 mins .., video Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 ment, to her subsequent exile in Cuba and Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 "Unusualcamera work and a uniqueper New York where she died in 1953 "Skillfullyedited, this clearlyshot footage sonalityelevate this authorprofile above the Directed· by Jose Garcia Torres revealsthe intimateatmosphere created by average"-Booklist (American library 1979, color, 28 mins., 16mm film/video thesethree, who spin their art without needs Association) Spanish dialog with English subtitles of sets or props"-Booklist (American Puichase: 16mm $42S/video $250 Rental: $S5 Library Association)
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SHORT STORIES: DEPTH CHARGE A VIDEO ANTHOLOGY Two former childhood pals have hitchhiked from New York City to rally against chemical This collection of short dramas by young waste dumping at their longtime summer camp American filmmakers will appeal to audiences of in Maine En route, they meet up with another all ages-the stories include suspense, the super ex-camper who raises questions about the natural, black comedy. wacky romance and fami mysterious drowning of two camp counselors ly drama set within modem and period milieus ten years before A film about fear, mispercep Purchase: S59 95 each tion and male bonding Selection of 6 for only $39.95 each or Directed by Sean Travis all 16 episodes for only $29.95 each 1989, color, 20 mins., VHS video '·In eachof these original quality screenplaysfine acting, dramaticencounters, and heighte11ed Depth Charge POKER suspense will hold the audience these attractivdy Four regular Joes show up for their weekly pricedproductions offerfresh newfare for AND ANOTHER HONKYTONK poker game at a remote wildem~ss cabin But libraries "-Booklist {American Library GIRL SAYS SHE WILL paranoia soon replaces camaradene as fear of an Association) A beautiful country girl leaves her family farm alien encounter begins to quakE their normally an exciting promotion the best buy is the and baby behind to pursue a singing career in level heads This comedy-drama blends thE whole series ··-Video librarian Nashville Her naive dreams of stardom are irony of Rod Serling with the black humor of swiftly smashed by her lecherous agent uncle Alfred Hitchcock ASSURANCES who books her into sleazy bars and takes more Directed by Gaspar Hernandez Contemporary attitudes toward marriage--in than his cut of the action 1988, color, 21 mins, VHS video duding trust, true love, self-preservation, and Directed by Michelle Paymar male paranoia-are comically examined in this FREEFALL 1990, color, 30 mins, VHS video story of a young real estate entrepreneur who "All I ever wanted is a good job and a good thinks he has found the woman of his dreams MANY WONDER man ' But Yuppie corporatE attorne) Emily is but is not quite sure about her motives A madcap fairy tale about an overlJ generous dissatisfied with both her job and her man. a Directed by Jody Widelitz New York woman pursued by three bachelors burned-out fella\-\ attorne, bucking for a 1990. Color, 28 mins, VHS video with different agendas One wants her mane}, the partnership. All v.ork and no. plaJ takes its toll second wants money and marriage, and the third on the lmebirds until Emilv s old flarnt from THE BOARDWALK may be Mr Right Or is he? Israel shows up on her door~tep and makes hu an offer she might not refuse CLUB Directed by Craig Lowy This comic short features an elderly couple in 1989 color, 40 mins, VHS video Directed by Liz Leshin New York who are embroiled in a longstanding 1990, color. 28 mins., VHS video dispute about where to spend their retirement RALPH'S ARM years Sadie wants to leave Brighton Beach and When his left arm up and lea\ es him in disgust, HIGHWATER move to Florida Max wants to stay and play a world famous pianist searches the wilds of Based on the short stOI) bJ Vermont nati\. e, cards with his buddies of fifty years In their Beverly Hillls for the rogue limb and finds it Howard Frank Mosher. this is tht talE of one ongoing battle of wit and wiles, the question is happii)' in hiding in the hacienda of a bla.5€ 21--year-·oldVermont fann l;>o)s stubborn deter who will be able to out-guilt whom? Yuppie couple A dizz} black corned) about the mination to enter his first stock car race circa 1959 With his supportive younger sister at his Directed by Craig Shapiro rewards of listening to your hand, not your heart side he braves the v. rath of their irascible father 1992 Color, 27 mins., VHS video and Mother NaturE to get his spiff:, ydlO\\ 3/ Directed by Michelle Truffaut hotrod to the race before start timE MA,STER MISERY ~ 1991, color, 30 mins, VHS video Based on a short story by Truman Capote, this Directed by Jay Craven film involves a young woman named Sylvia THE BADGE 1989, color, 36 mins. VHS video who encounters Mr Revercomb, a mysterious At 29, Michael still lives at home with his STREAM OF SOCIAL man who buys dreams from people Her first parents His many failed career efforts disgust INTERCOURSE transaction with him leads to several repeat his Italian-American father who favors his sue~ visits As she gradually falls under his spell, cessful eldest son, Tommy Michael joins the Los Following his therapist s ad\ ice, an intro\ erted but determined young college studrnt faces a Sylvia finds she is unable to break away e\ en Angeles Police Department in a last ditch effort class party with high hopes for his new social though her spirit is drained almost to the point to win his father's respect, but, in the process skills Unfortuhately, his therapy tak_Esacomi_cal of death faces personal demons he never bargained for Directed by Elizabeth Dimon turn when the counselor crashes the party with Directed by Robert Spara worse problems of his own 1989, Color, 40 mins VHS video 1990, color, 30 mins, VHS video Directed by Serj Minassians BRONX CHEERS REDLANDS 1990, color 26 mins, VHS video Set in the Bronx, immediately after the end of A singer booked for an audition must take time WWII, this delightful period comedy tells the out to visit her retarded adult sister and break TOGETHER AND APART An award-winning musical drama about tv. o story of Danny DiPalma, a returning veteran of the news of their mother·s death ln the process, former gay lovers who meet again )'Ears latu Italian-American descent The aspiring the singer is forced to rethink her self-centered after one has apparrntl) gone straight and mar songwriter comes under the unlikely wing of a priorities and make a commitment to her sister highstrung Heavyweight Championship con ried They reflect, through song and memor:-,- Directed by Joan Taylor flashbacks. the feelings they expnience during tender who has been reduced to throwing fights 1989, color, 28 mins., VHS video for easy money. In comical fashion, Danny this painful yet liberating TEunion struggles to free himself from the fighter's mis-· BALLYHOO BABY Directed by Laurie Lynd guided friendship and win a few of his own While on vacation an attractive couple pick up 1986, color, 26 mins,, VHS video Directed by Raymond Defelitta a teenage hitchhiker in the Mojave Desert The 1989, color, 30 mins, VHS video woman, a well-known TV model, is progres sively alienated by this tum of events since her * Academy Award Nominee Best Live Action Short advertising executive husband can't seem to shut off his voyeuristic TV sensibilities and stop encouraging a liaison \-\ith thE young driftn Directed by Paul Young 1990, color, 30 mins VHS video
The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 6 I ,~ The Arts & Humanities ii THE SPIRIT TRAVELS: soum OF THE BORDER IMMIGRANT MUSIC IN AMERICA A colorful and entertaining survey of Hosted and narrated by GrammJ A" ard protest music in Central America, from winning singer Linda Ronstadt, this pro Mexico City to Managua, where popular gram is a colorful, entertaining and music has become a forum for social com informative look at ethnic music in mentary and political protest The film America It offers a rich sampling of the features rousing performances by some culturally diverse musical styles that can of Latin America's leading musicians as be heard throughout the country, featur well as by street performers ing lively performances of Irish, Greek, Directed by David Bradbury African-American, Jewish, Central Asian, 1987, color, 63 mins, video Chinese and Puerto Rican music, amongst Spanish dialog with English subtitles many others In addition to performance Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $100 footage, the program includes rare ar ..clearly organized, up-to-date. and techni chival footage and photos, plus inter cally well made."-Choice (American views with musicians, cultural historians, Library Association) and record producers, who discuss how ethnic music survives and changes when WIZARD OF THE STRINGS it comes to America This Academy Award nominated Produced by the Ethnic Folk Arts Center documentary profiles Roy Smeck, a Directed by Howard Weiss The Spirit Travels 1991, color, 55 mins, video former vaudeville star known as "The English and various languages DEBUT Wizard of the Strings" because of his vir tuoso talents on the guitar, banjo, ukelele with English subtitles This cinfma-vfriti documentary explores and Hawaiian guitar, and who is still ac Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 the realities of life as a classical musician tive today, in his mid-80s, teaching stu Honorable Mention through the story of Hexagon, a newly * dents and giving occasional public American Film and Video Festival formed chamber ensemble The documen performances. The film includes excerpts ***** Excellent/A Must-Hm.1e "'Th{zialu- tary chronicles their challenging first year ing of differencesexpressed in this video from 1920s' Warner Bros 'Vita phone' and a half, from the group's seemingly shorts featuring Smeck, contemporary makesit supportiveof multicultural cur casual first rehearsal to its high•-pressure riculum or programmingin schooland public concert performances, inten'iews with launching into the mainstream of the clas fellow musicians and composers, and libraries Thi5 video is highly recommended sical music scene The film is also filled for generalaudiences from junior high colorful reminiscences bv Smeck of the \\ ith the glorious music of Mozart, l ud golden age of vaudeville, throughadult "-Video Rating Guide for v..ig Ihuille Camille Saint-Saens and a libraries nev. work by Lowell Lieberman commis Directed by Peter Friedman 1985, color, 27 mins., 16mm film/video sioned by the group lively an exuberantproduction {with] a Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $55 pulsating samplingof Greek,Russzan, Polish Directed by Peggy Stern * Academy Award Nominee African American. Latino, a11dotJu r di5tim- 1989, color, 60 mins., video Best Documentary Short tive music ·''-Booklist (American Libran Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $95 Association) - * Gold Plaque * Gold Hugo, Chicago Film Festival Chicago International Film Festival *** This consistently enlighteningfilm is An intimah wtlJ.-editedand produced * Documentary Merit Award, Academy of filled with excellentprogramming pos documentary very illuminating.. Recom- Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences sibilities a beautifullydone projl'Ct Recom mend(d fm generaland specialcallee tions CINE Golden Eagle Award mendedfor overviewof American musical Librar) Journal * "Smeck is a talk.olive,witty entertainerwho histor1/Also appropriatefor genual program still plays a mean banjo For those who ming in librariesand schools '-American CATCHING UP remembervaudeville, Wizard of the Strings Film and Video Association E\ aluations WITH YESTERDAY is a wonderfulchunk of nostalguiand, for A documentary portrait of Andrev. F thoseof us who missed the era, it Sa delight CHEN AND CHINA'S SYMPHONY Boarman, a 78-year-old West Virginia in ful introductionto thisforgotten portion of Chronicles the 1987U S tour bv the Nation strument maker and musician In addi pop culture "-The Boston Globe al Symphony Orchestra of the Peoples tion to featuring a number of lively Republic of China, including inten iev..s musical performances, the film illustrates CREATION OF THE WORLD, with conductor Zuohuang Chen, a sur Boarman·s skills as a master craftsman of A SAMBA-OPERA vivor of the Cultural Revolution who banjos guitars, fiddles, and dulcimers This music and dance spectacular, sung studied music in the US, Chen's mentor lnteniev...s with Boarman provide a his and danced by members of the av.:ard Seiji Ozawa, director of the Boston Sym torical and regional context for the life phony, plus stirring performances of both winning Beija Flor Samba School and and work of this leading representative of photographed during the Carnival in Rio Western and Chinese music Appalachian culture and folk traditions Directed by David M. Kendall de Janeiro, dramatizes the legend of Produced by Stephen Plumlee and genesis according to Yoruba mythology 1988, color, 58 mins., video Stephen T Eckerd Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 1990, color, 28 mins ..., video Directed by Vera de Figueiredo Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 1978, coJor, 56 mins., 35mm film/video '· fascinating. well crafted. of realinterest Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 from musical Americana,and Chinesepoints excellent. An ex.ccptionolvideo of view '-Prof Stephen Addiss, Dept of * Third World Award Bluegrass Unlimited Venice International Film Festival Art History, University of Kansas a sup( r portrait . Highly recom mendcd ·'-The Autoharpoholic
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THE SOUNDS OF NEW YORK THE INTERNATIONAL A colorful portrait of street musicians in SWEETHEARTS OF RHYTHM New York, where music can be heard on Tells the story of the multi-racial, all every street comer, park and subway sta women's jazz band of the 1940s, which fea tion The video includes performances by a tured some of the best female musicians of variety of musicians, from students to ac the day The International Sweethearts complished professionals, who play every were stars at theatres and clubs around the thing from classical to pop music, and who country, and they performed overseas for comment on the pleasures and perils of American troops during WWII As a racial performing in the streets, their relationship ly integrated band in the South, the to the audience, making a living, and their Sweethearts traveled, ate and slept in a bus hopes for a professional career because segregation laws prevented them Directed by William Freda, Jr. TheInternational Sweethearts of Rhythm from using restaurants and hotels The film 1990, color, 60 mins., video examines the role of women and minorities Purchase: $350 Rental: $90 THE PIPES ARE CALLING in American society of the late '30s and " .aurallypleasing and visuallydynamic Portrays a summer bagpipe school in early '40s Oral history interviews with sur· Artfully capturingthe sightsand soundsof Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where piping en viving members of the band are inter city life, this is an ebullientcelebration of thusiasts from all over North America woven with rare archival footage, musical urbanperformance art "-Booklist gather to learn the craft and music of the performance excerpts, photographs and (American Library Association) traditional instrument of the Scottish memorabilia from private collections **** Well-Done" a captivatingand highlands. Students discuss their fascina Directed by Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss engrossingprogram ..a goodacquisition for tion with the music and the instrument, 1986, color, 30 mins., 16mm film/video publicor schoollibraries "-Video Rating and instructor Evan MacRae from Scot Purchase: 16mm $475/video $250 Rental: $55 Guide for Libraries land explains his aim to share his * Blue Ribbon ", .excellent .aboutthe excitingworld of know ledge of this largely oral tradition in American Film and Video Festival streetperfonners , New YorkCity stars here, order to ensure that piping will flourish * Silver Apple too,with panoramicskyline shots. This video and evolve These interviews are inter National Educational Film Festival capturesthe splendorof it all "-library woven with stirring performances of * Silver Award, Philadelphia Film Festival Journal traditional bagpipe music " a much-neededrecord especiallyusefal Directed by Susan Arbuthnot in music,racial or sexualstereotype RIDING WITH THE KING 1990, color, 29 mins., video programs"-Wilson library Bulletin 1his colorful documentary captures the Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $50 'Beyond its entertainmentvalue, the film is spirit and charm of the legacy of Elvis * Documentary First Prize interestingfor its socialand economichis Presley by accompanying a fan through Suffolk County Film Festival tory Usefulin historyor sociologyclasses Elvis country From Tupelo, Mississippi **** Highly Recommended" .offbeat to promotediscussions about changing to Memphis, Tennessee, it's a world and nicelyproduced .appropriatefor junior women'sroles and racerelations "-School populated with people who love Elvis high throughadult audiences '-Video Library Journal The film visits his birthplace and other Rating Guide for libraries " outstandingperformance footage An en shrines of Presleydom, and meets people "Instructionaland enjoyableforthe joyablemood and nostalgiapiece for public who were associated with Elvis plus his aficionadoand the generalaudience. a good libraryaudiences. "-Booklist (American adoring fans and impersonators generallibrary program resource which library Association) Directed by Lisa Roach &:cDaphne Ireland s1wuldalso be popularwith classroommusic "An outstandingwork! Well conceivedand 1989, color, 59 mins., video units "-American Film and Video As constructed"-AFVA Evaluations Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 sociation Evaluations (American Film and Video Association) * Booklist Editor's Choice American Library Association PLENA IS WORK, PLENA IS SONG TINY AND RUBY: ', entertaining... a delightful, adulator1/ Examines the cultural and political history HELL DIVIN' WOMEN 'Elvis tour' for die-hardJans and other of plena, a Puerto Rican musical blend of This sequel to The InternationalSweethearts curiosity seekers "-Book.list (American African and Spanish idioms in which of Rhythm profiles one of the band's star Library Association) romance, personal tragedy and daily news performers, the legendary jazz trumpeter " should attract a cult following The become the target of satirical humor The Ernestine 'Tiny' Davis and her partner of highlight of the film is the Elvis imper great performers of the past are seen in rare overforty years, drummer Ruby Lucas. The sonatorcontest held at Bad Bob's Vapor performance footage and contemporary at film includes colorful interviews with Tmy Lounge Riding with the King proves, tempts to preserve plena in New York and and Ruby, archival material, musical per once again, that truth is stranger than fic Puerto Rico are discussed formances, computer animation, and nar tion. "-Library Journal Directed by Pedro A Rivera and Susan Zeig ration by poet Cheryl Clarke *** Good " this cinema-veritelook at E/ 1989, color, 29 mins ,, 16mm film/video Directed by Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss visnumiahas many momentsof bothhumor (Note: 16mm version is 37 mins.) 1988, color, 30 mins., 16mm film/video and sadness enjoyable,even for non-Elvis Purchase: 16mm $450/video $250 Rental: $55 Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $55 enthusiasts shouldbe popularwith high * Best Documentary * Best Documentary, San Francisco Gay schoolage throughadult borrowers"-Video Festival CineSanJuan and Lesbian Film Festival Rating Guide for Libraries "Plentyof recordedand spontaneouslyper * Finalist, American Film & Video Festival formed plenaenergizes this well-craftedand *** '·A great, lively,down andgritty enlighteningrecognition of a vividfolk art." production .An extremelywell done inde Book.list(American Library Association) pendentproductfrm .. Technicalquality good "-AFVA Evaluations
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CISSY HOUSTON: ALBERTA HUNTER, SWEET INSPIRATION MY CASTLE'S ROCKIN' An entertaining biographical profile of a A fascinating look at the decades•·long woman whose career has successfully musical career of the late Alberta Hunter, combined gospel and popular music We a legendary blues singer and jazz see her from her start in the family quartet, vocalist. The film traces her career as a The Drinkard Singers, through the early songwriter as well as a singer, from her '60s when she became one of the hottest first hit "Down Hearted Blues" in 1922 session singers in New York with her recorded by Bessie Smith, to her cabaret nieces Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick, to dates throughout the first half of the cen the formation of her legendary back tury with such greats as Louis Armstrong, ground group, The Sweet Inspirations, WC Handy and King Oliver, to her criti who sang with Aretha Franklin, Wilson cally acclaimed 1977 comeback at The Pickett, Elvis Presley, little Richard, Cookery in Greenwich Village Simon and Garfunkel, The Drifters, and Directed by Stuart Goldman many others The film moves from smoky 1988, color, 60 mins., 16mm film/video clubs to a Sweet Inspirations reunion con Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $100 cert, from nostalgic gospel singing with * Blue Ribbon The Drinkard Singers to a sold-out concert American Film and Video Festival with Cissy's daughter Whitney Houston * Silver Apple Directed by Dave Davidson National Educational and Film Festival Mm Women Angels and Harps 1987, color, 58 mins., 16mm film/video * Heart of America Award Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $95 American Legion Auxiliary MEN, WOMEN, * Red Ribbon * Book list Non print Editor·s Choice 1988 American Film and Video Festival ANGELS AND HARPS first-rate. Enthusiastically recom * Booklist Non print Editor's Choice 1988 This entertaining look at the harp uses a mended '-library Journal * Bronze Apple wealth of archi\'al images plus in ten iews well-researchedand highly entertain National Educational Film Festival v.ith scholars, harp players (both folk and ing rich in music a superb portrait of a classical) and composers to sune; the a 5/,rrmg profile. filled with fim soulful remarkable woman and artist '-Media & religious cultural and social functions of music Recommendedfor public and school Methods library collections'·-library Journal the instrument throughout its 5,000 year excellent a poignant biography that "Very important.film which explores the histor~- It examines in particular the harp's seeming gender bias for female pla) ers, the holds a magicalappeal for the audience an relationship_of true gospel. soul and pop entertainment delight "-AFVA EYaluations music Fascmatingfor anyone interested in instrument's association \-\ith angels and thc music of the past three decades Technical other hea\-enl) irnager), and the reasons for A del,ghtful portrait of a spunky lady with a quality very good ··'-AFVA Evaluations the dearth of compositions for the harp The devilish personality "-Booklist (American program also features performances by library Association) a soulful biography .A vivid presentation harpist Carrol McLaughlin and her partner, of a woman who has reachedthe pinnacle of pianist/composer Bill Marx son of Harpo, I PROMISE IO REMEMBER: music stardom, yet whose influence is still felt who reminisces about his famous father, a THE STORY OF FRANKIE strongly by the choir members slu leads" pretty mean harpist himsdf \-\hen he Booklist (American Library Association) LYMON AND THE TEENAGERS v.asn't cutting up v.ith his brothers Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers was an JIMMIE RODGERS; THE Directed by Laura Paglin enormously popular rock and roll group 1992, color, 29 mins, video of the '50s and one of the first black FATHER OF COUNTRY MUSIC Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 groups whose music broke the color bar A former railroad man, with a gentle rier. This documentary chronicles their tenor voice, and a powerful'· blue yodel," THE ALL-SIAR meteoric career, from Harlem street Jimmie Rodgers was country music's first JAZZ SHOW corner 'doo-wop' sessions to national TV superstar, selling more than tv,,enty mil·· This classic TV program, hosted by and movie appearances with their hi ts lion records during the Great Depression Dionne Wan\ ick and Joe Williams, fea such as "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" and This video biography traces Rodgers tures jazz greats such as Count Basie, "Goody, Goody," to the break-up of the back to his humble beginnings, Lionel Hampton. Herbie Hancock, Max group less than two years later chronicles the highlights of his career, Roach, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan and Directed by Steven Fischler, Joel Sucher and shows how his musical legacy is still Dizzy Gillespie in a series of music and and Jane Praeger celebrated today by legions of fans dance performances v. hich offer an enter 1983, color, 27 mins., 16mm film/video Directed by Gina Neville taining and informati\ e o\erview of the Purchase: 16mm $475/video $250 Rental: $55 1986, color, 30 mins video historical de\ elopment of this uniquely Red Ribbon, American Film Festival Purchase: $39.95 * American form of music, from work * Documentary First Prize 'A moving, powerful tiideobzography of a songs during the period of sla\ery, Newark Black Film Festival srmlllman with a big voice Highllf Recom through subsequent transformations in * Selected Films for Young Adults mended "-Video librarian gospel, ragtime, imprm isational S½ ing, American library Association this is an essentiilladdition to the short blues bebop and cool jazz * CEBA Award of Excellence, World list of library-worthy counfrl{videos '- Produced by Gary Keys for the CBS Festival Institute of Black Communications Video . of Lively Arts for Young People an amalgam of nostalgiil.exploitation and 'A delightfor country musicfans -Book 1976. color, 47 mins, video changl a welc_orncaddition for collectionsof list (American Librar) Association) Purchase: $295 Rental: $75 U. S socialhistory and pop culture " - Choice (Amerkan library Association)
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ALAN BEAN: PAINTING, ART OFF THIS EARTH SCULPTURE AND This video profiles Alan Bean, the Apollo GRAPHIC ARTS XII astronaut who in November 1969 be came the fourth man to set foot on the moon, and who later turned to painting STEFAN ROLOFF: to share the vision he brought back from space. Working with the myths and icons FACES OF AN ARTIST AT WORK of the Space Age, Bean's paintings of the Profiles the work of Berlin artist Stefan Apollo missions feature lunar buggies, Roloff, now a New York City resident, command ships, American flags, and fel·· who over the last decade has produced an low astronauts in famous scenes from immense variety of original, colorful and history provocative art which has been exhibited Produced by Rudy Buttignol internationally at such places as the Alan Bean: Art Off This Earth 1991, color, 26 mins., video Smithsonian Institution and the Centre Purchase: $250 Rental: $55 Pompidou Commentary by the artist ac GEORGE STUART: SCULPTOR, **** Highly Recommended" fascinat companies scenes of him at work in the ENTERTAINER, HISTORIAN ing and unusual."-Video Rating Guide studio, revealing the step by step evolu 'Ihis video profiles a unique American art for libraries tion of the fanciful visions in his paintings ist who fomearly forty years has shared his "-Booklist and sculptures The video also focuses on "A fascinatingportrait passion for history through the creation of (American Library Associaticm) Roloff's recent innovative applications of a series of amazingly lifelike, one-quarter computer and video technologies to cre scale "Historical Figures," with movable ate his animated "Moving Paintings" LEARNING TO PAINT joints, simulated skin, natural scalp and WITH CAROLYN BERRY videos in which progressive layers of a hair, and finely detailed clothing, shoes, The video series, featur painting, accompanied by music by Pet~r jewehy and accessories The video com Learningto Paint Gabriel, Suicide, and others, relate theu bines an interview with Stuart on his his ing professional art instructor Carolyn own stories and visions torical research and creative methods, Berry, is designed for students, hobbyists, Directed by Rebecca Runze excerpts from his public lectures, and fas amateur painters, and those profes 1992, Color, 20 mins., video cinating scenes of his construction of one of sionals eager for tips on new techniques Purchase: $195 Rental: $40 the Historical Figures Each video offers an easy to follow, step by step method for crea ling a finished SPRAY PAINT Directed by Carole Ewing McCartney painting or drawing from a blank canvas. Profiles San Francisco painter and 1991, color, 60 mins., video Purchase: $295 Rental: $95 Presented in an engaging conversational muralist Scott Williams who uses stencils style, Berry's lessons cover everything and Krylon to appropriate images from **** Highly Recommended' a Joyful from arranging or selecting your subjects movies, TV, magazines, advertising, and portraitof an artist Recommendedfor all to an explanation of the materials you'll "-Video Rating Guide for other pop culture sources collections need and the specific techniques to be Directed by Nick Gorski libraries applied The series is ideal for use in 1991, color, 15 mins., video secondary and postsecondary art instruc Purchase: $150 Rental: $30 PRESENTING GEORGE STIIART: tion classes With the Learning to Paint ***Good" .. informativeand stimulat HOW THE HISTORICAL with Carolyn Berry videos you'll learn ing "-Video Rating Guide for libraries F'IGURES ARE MADE how to create accomplished paintings and have fun in the process. Episodes MAURITS ESCHER: This video, narrated by Stuart, include: Portrait Painting (60 mins.); demonstrates in a detailed, step-by-step PAINTER OF FANTASIES Portrait Drawing (60 mins ); Still Life format, the creation of his Historical (60 mins ); Field Flowers(42 mins.); Water A fascinating profi1e of the late, world Figures, their garments, and other acces·· renowned graphic artist whose work is a Color Techniques(30 mins ..); and Perspec- sories Accompanied by a 20-page il tive (30 mins.) curious blend of fact and fantasy, with lustrated booklet, this 'how to' video is Produced by Artists Video mirror images and interlocking figures designed for use by sculptors and art stu flowing from symmetrical shapes In in Directed by Christian Surette dents, hobbyists, and adult professionals 1991, color, VHS video terviews filmed at his Nova Scotia home, working in sculpture and miniatures Video Jackets Available Escher discusses his art and philosophy Directed by Carole Ewing McCartney Purchase: $199.. 95 for all six episodes; A Document Associates Production 1991, color, 120 mins, video $49.. 95 each 1970, color, 27 mins., 16mm film/video Purchase: $395 Rental: $150 Purchase: 16mm $400/video $250 Rental: $50 ****" offersknowledgeable advice and **** Highly Recommended· well instruction Highly recommended"-Video * Honors Award, American Film Festival done , The two hour running time may seem librarian intimidatingat first, but the subjectis so well A DALI FOR A DOLLAR "Consideringthe amount of groundcovered, presentedthat time passesquickly "-Video this is a very reasonablypriced set thatslwuld Examining issues surrounding the mass Rating Guide for Libraries fine a homein public,academic, and sclwol production or 'democratization' of art, an interesting"andvaluable guide for libraries"-library Journal this documentary shows the making of a seriousstudents of art, history,and/or tex quite well done .Berry is a relaxed lithograph and reveals three cardinal tiles recommended"-library Journal ***" rules for identifying an original print and communicativeindividual who is ableto offermany handy tips "-Video Rating A Document Associates Production 1974, color, 20 mins., 16mm film Guide for Libraries Purchase: 16mm $400/video $195 Rental: $50
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FUTURE WAVE: JAPAN DESIGN Examines the economics, esthetics, philosophy and personalities of Japanese design which has today achieved wor1dwide influence in architecture, automobile, electronics, interior, fashion and product design fhe film visits numerous design studios and corporate design centers, illustrating the role of design from product concept through design development, packaging, marketing, ad•· vertising and sales The essence of Japanese design, the Japanese phenomenon, and a comparison of the Japanese design em iron ment and the bottom-line-oriented thinking of American firms, are discussed in inter views with Japanese design managers fashion designers, marketing executives, authors and commentators Directed by John David Rabinovitch Martin Chambiand the Heirsof the Incas 1990, color, 58 mins., video Purchase: $350 Rental: $100 MARTIN CHAMBI AND * Blue Ribbon II PHOTOGRAPHY II THE HEIRS OF THE INCAS American Film and Video Festival Martin Chambi (1891-1973) v.as one of the Silver Medal * TIME AND LIGHT: most remarkable photographers of the 20th Houston International Film Festival century A full-blooded Indian, Chambi ran delivers useful lessonsfor today·s cor A FILM ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHS his ov. n photographic studio in Cuzco, porate leadersand future desigmrs as well as Examines the nature of photograph; and Peru ·s capital, and he photographed many for students in business studies' --Choice its pov,ers of expression b) combining of Peru's wealthy European families (American Librar) Association) photos v-.ith commentar: b) photog Chambi's Indian roots also aUowed him ac ***** Excellent/A Must-Hazie This raphers such as Marc Camille Chaimm'l-'icz cess to the other side of the social divide, and offering should proiit a valuabh addition tr and the late Jo Spence and critics such as he made numerous trips into the public library collections;it will apprnl tr a Halla Beloff (Camera Culture) and John countrvside to document Indian culture and wide range of viewers Highly rewmnzrndtd Berger {Ways of Seeing) Berger discusses lifestyles TOday, Chambi's photos con alsofor high schooland colltgt classrs st11d_u his notion of li,ing through the eyes,'' or stitute a poignant record of an ancient ing Japanand its economics.de.sign, etc An ho¼ man) life experiences which cannot ci, ilization under the influence of European outstanding production ''-Video Rating be put into \\ ords can be expressed in colonization In addition to featuring some Guide for libraries photographic images Beloff discusses of Chambi's most stunning photos, the film the cultural significance of images and includes inten iews with Chambi's questions some people ·s compulsion to daughters, cov.-orkers, and associates HAVANA POSTMODERN.: photographically document every aspect Directed by Paul Yule and Andy Harries of their Ii, es THE NEW CUBAN ART 1986, color, 50 mins., 16mm film/video Directed by Roger Elsgood Spanish dialog with English subtitles Examines the new Cuban art mm.ement 1987, color, 24 mins, video Purchase: 16mm $795/video $295 and its social and culru.ralroots. We, isit the Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 Rental: $85 homes and studios of many artists, as weU With manv um<:5iwlphotos this philosophi * Blue Ribbon as students at Cuba's top art school v-.ho cal program can also promote di~rn~:.ion American Film Festival provide candid and articulate discussions about flu photograpliicart among nwflm Silver Apple of their work Cuban national identit), cen tef'n:; -Booklist (American library * National Educational Film Festival sorship and self-expression Cuba's first art Association) scandal, and hov,..one makes a living as an well-produced a multidisciplinar1:1ex amination."-library Journal artist in a socialist societ) CONVERSATIONS WITH Produced by Robert Knafo, outstanding. A compellingfilm great Coco Fusco, and Andras Mesz WILLARD VAN DYKE subject and an interesting and infarmatiz.1€ 1988, color, 54 mins, video Chronicles the remarkable career of one treatment . Technicalquality is very good Spanish dialog with English subtitles of America s most distinguished photog American Film and Video Association Purchase: $350 Rental: $90 raphers and filmmakers \'I-ho is perhaps E\ aluations * Honorable Mention best knm\ n for his ¼ ark in the social a many1aceted and beautifully crafted National Educational Film Festival documentar~ mo,ement during the '30s film. suitablefor undergraduat,-and " ....a fascinating document on the /i<.1elyand on such classic films as The Riz,er The Citv graduate-levelclaSses in a wide range ~fsub diverse artistic communitv in Cuba Recmn Valley Town and Thl' Photographer · jects, from the anthropologyof art to Latin mended for cornprehensivfcollect10115 on con Directed by Amalie R Rothschild American intellectualhistory ·-American temporaryart "--Choice (American 1981. color, 59 mins .. 16mm film/video Anthropologist library Association) Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $100 * Best in Fine Arts Category San Francisco Film Festival * CINE Golden Eagle Award
The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 12 , The Arts & Humanities
FOREVER IN TIME, THE ART OF EDWARD S .. CURTIS Ranked among the world's foremost photographers, Edward S Curtis (1868- 1952) is best known today for his work during the first three decades of this cen tury in documenting the American ln dian. Although Curtis was unable to realize his ambitious dream of document ing every North American lndian tribe, his massive and lengthy undertaking eventually produced enough photos to fill forty portfolio volumes, as well as a wealth of motion picture footage This documentary chronicles Curtis's remark able career, featuring interviews with sur viving Curtis family members, plus his motion picture footage, sound recordings and exquisite photographic portraits Produced by Robert W. Mull 1990, color and B&:W,SO mins., video Purchase: $295 Rental: $75 ***Excellent" .intriguing .. an inspira tionaldocumentary "-Video Librarian " extremely interesting Recommended.for secondarycourses in American history " - School Library Journal
JOHN HOAGLAND, Americaand LewisHine FRONTLINE PHOTOGRAPHER Examines the life and work of John AMERICA AND LEWIS HINE " beautifuland informative Highly recom Hoagland (1947-84), a leading photog Portrays the life of America's pioneer so· mended "-Library Journal rapher for AP, UPI, the Gamma-Liaison cial photographer, Lewis Hine (1874- "Recommendedfor U.S. history units in high Agency and Newsweek, and one of this 1940), who recorded the development of schooland above "-School library Journal generation's best war photographers industrial America during the first four "One of the most wonderfuland movingfilms Produced by David Helvarg decadesofthe20thcentury Between 1902 I haveever seenand certainlyby far the best 1985, color, 29 mins., video and 1926, fourteen million men, women film ever madeon the lifeof a photog- Purchase: 5250 Rental: $50 and children poured through Ellis Island; rapher"-The Photo Review Hine was there and his photographs cap "Remarkable. Audiences interestedin IMAGES IN STRUGGLE tured the essence of the immigrants' photographictechnology, or in the early 20th Examines the role played by South courage and aspirations as they faced the century US., shouldfind it especia[ly African photographers in the struggle to rigors of life in the New World .. For the engrossing"-Choice (American library end apartheid, featuring interviews with next thirty-five years, Hine followed the Association) story of these newcomers as they lived these professionals who talk about their "A beautiful,compelling tribute transmits a work and aspirations and labored to build America, from the depth of emotionrarely conveyed so effective sweatshops of New York's Lower East Directed by Barry Fein berg ly in a documentary Thefilm is a wonderful Side to the mines, mills and factories 1990, color, 28 mins., video testimony to the courageand fortitude of Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 across the nation In addition to Hine's peoplewho madeAmerica great "-Medium best known work, the film includes rare Oewish Media Service) LIGHT MEMORIES OF RIO Hine photos, historical footage and inter· views. The script interweaves Hine's let "Clearlyone ofthe majorAmerican documen Examines the history of photography in tariesaf recentyears a unique character Brazil, dating from 1839, and simul ters, field reports and articles with a narration featuring the voices of Jason study and socialdocument of a man and his taneously traces the history of the develop· times.. as entertainingand dramaticas a ment of Rio de Janeiro as one of the world's Robards and Maureen Stapleton Directed by Nina Rosenblum theatricalexperience ..a film oflong range major cities and a political and cultura1 cen value and populilrity"-Variety ter of Brazil The video discusses the ex 19S4, color, 56 mins., 16mm film/video periences of photographers of the period, Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $125 "Heartrending a fine tribute what a to view showing the evolution of photography as First Prize pleasure a documentarythat campell * National Educational Film Festival ingly blendsnewsreel footage with an art and a trade photographsof aesthetic beauty and social Directed by Jose Inacio Parente * Chris Statuette Columbus Intl Film Festival depth,,-Ms Magazine 1987, B&W, 33 mins., video Purchase: $250 Rental: $55 * Exceptional Creative Achievement "First-rate .Informative, as well as poetic, Award, International Documentary thefilm treatshistory and art in a manner * Best Film (Sol de Ouro) Association Rio Cine Festival that will entertainand stir audiences . it * Booklist Nonprint Editor's Choice touchesthe human spirit don''tmiss it" First Prize American library Association * Aveiro International Festival Attenzione Magazine
13 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog • II Health ii AIDS IN THE BARRIO DISABILITIES Ii AIDS II Examines the impact of AIDS within Hispanic-American communities, focusing on the specific economic, social and cultural AIDS BABIES factors which influence perception of the Examines the plight of babies born with AIDS crisis, including macho attitudes about AIDS, fcx:'llsing on the inspiring examples sexuality, traditionai relations between men of dedicated caregivers such as Mother and women, prejudices against homo Hale, founder of Hale House in New York sexuality, and the prevalence of drug abuse City, and Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, filmed Directed by Peter Bie11a and Frances Negron at her House of Peace in West Virginia 1990, color, 28 mins., video Fihned in countries throughout the world, Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $50 AIDS Babies also compares the reactions of * Gold Medal various governments to the AIDS crisis and John Muir Medical Film Festival speculates on the future consequences of a * Most Creative Entry generation of AIDS babies John Muir Medical Film Festival Directed by Monique Oomen effectively deals with a crucUllissue ' - 1990, color, 58 mins .., video Booklist (American Library Association) Purchase: $350 Rental: $100 .. intimate a conz1incing portrayal of * Best Documentary Video Booklist {American Library Association) AIDS, not just as a problemfor thPgay com munity but also as the plague of the urban * Red Ribbon 1 Dream Too American Film and Video Festival poor '-Library Journal A technically superb tape and scientifually *** Good usef'ulas a library resource 1 I DREAM, TOO accurate."-James M Oleske, MD, Direc for a socia!-senice agency or as part of a bar- tor, Division of Allergy Immunolog) and rio disease--pro.,entionprogram '"-Video Profiles the Benedictine School for Excep Infectious Diseases. Uni'\ersit\ of Rating Guide for Libraries tional Children in Marvland which for Medicine and Dentistry of Ne\.. Jerse: over thirty years has aCcepted children CHUCK SOLOMON: from all over the world who ha\e a a comprehensi7xz.,zeut of thl AIDS COMING OF AGE \'ariety of mental, emotional or physical ep1dern1c"-0-loice (Arneriran Librar\ disabilities, providing a program of func Associatioo) · An intimate portrait of Chuck Solomon, a mainsta\ of the San Francisco theatrical tional academics and vocational training **** Highly Rewmmrnded .a shong commu~it), v-.ho v.as diagnosed v. ith that has earned the school the reputation and compelling dornmcntary "-Video AlDS m 1985 At a gala 40th birthday as the "Ivy League of Special Education ·' Rating Guide for Libraries celebration O\ er 350 famih members The school s educational philosophy-to **** · ..hPartbreaking excelirntfor a and fritnds from all 0\er ihe country challenge the students rather than to do general audience hffause of its broad gathered to share their lO\ e and support things for them they can do themseh es coveragtand scope·'~American Film and for Chuck The film traces his growth as a is discussed b) its director, Se\ era! teachers, Video Association E\ aluations ga; man his career as a committed ga; counselors and \•Olunteers We see hm\.' an affe.:.ting and enlightcning 17nsc11/a artist, and hi5 courage in facing his illness older students move into a transitional tion '·-Booklist (American Libran Produced by Wendy Dallas and home where they develop skills at inde Association) ·· Marc Huestis pendent Ii\ ing Profiles of several of these 1986, color, 57 mins., 16mm film/video young people demonstrate the school's HEROISM: A COMMUNITY Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $95 success in enabling the handicapped to * Silver Hugo, Chicago Film Festival find gainful employment, to lh eon their RESPONDS ov. n, and to fulfill their desire to be looks at the many individuals and or·· an important and unique Z'ICU' of AIDS from a d[fjtrent pl rspcctii1l sen.:.itizie treated equally and not be judged b) their ganizations that ha\e met the challenge limitations of pro\ iding services for people v. ith b1111b,;a 1 1n y human dimrnsion to thl AIDS cnsis ~Librar') Journal Directed by Ed Reahl AIDS (PWAs) in San Francisco including 1991, color, 50 mins., video Solomon: zs volunteers v.-ho prO\ ide \ ital sen icEs Chuck Coming of Age not Purchase: $295 Rental: $95 about d1/ins of AIDS Its about dealing with that government agencies ha\ e been un 1 able or unv.-illing to prO\ ide traA(d11 n/1t1ut o.amining the zinlueand con ***** Excel/mt/A Must-Hm. { a wdl- crafted profile The producershm. 1c shown Directed by John Canalli tn/JJ1!1t111.•ri{our OZl'nlives about rewards and ·m/Jdat1011·-The Oakland Tribune the same attrntion and carein the making of 1987, color, 28 mins., video this video as t}u schoolshows for its stu- Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 modt~I and moz,fng so sane in its at dents highly recommendedfor librariessen' * Certificate of Merit titude toward this contemporary plague ing junior high school students through Chicago International Film Festival that 1/0li'rctemped to call it AIDS without adults "-Video Rating Guide for libraries ** Highly Recommended offers a tear~. But The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 14 Health ]]' COMING TO TERMS WEIRDEDOUT AND BLOWNAWAY This remarkable documentary combines Featuring interviews with five young history and biography in telling the story career people who have disabilities, this of Hugh Gregory Gallagher who became film questions the general public's at disabled by paralytic polio at the age of titudes toward physical disability and 19 and whose personal odyssey led him our perceptions of the disabled as some to confront stereotypes of the disabled how either weaker or more courageous and the public image of his childhood than the non- 15 Ihe Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 1r Health ii FRESHT:-tLK ~ RUNNING GAY This award-winning, four-part video Examines the participation of lesbians series features thirty young men and and gay men in sports, focusing on the women, ages 15 to 24, who share their homophobia they confront in mainstream thought-provoking, humorous and sporting events and their recent efforts to sometimes painful reflections on organize gay teams, organizations and sexuality and growing up. With remark events. Ihe video highlights the third an able candor, they express feelings that are nual International Gay Games, held in often left unspoken or unacknowledged, Vancouver in August 1990, at which 7300 and speak from a wide range of experien athletes from twenty-seven countries ces on love and fantasies, teen parenting, participated in twenty-nine events gay identity, interracial relationships, Directed by Maya Chowdhry masturbation, peer pressure, media im 1991, color, 20 mins., video ages, pornography, sexual abuse, sexual Purchase: $195 Rental: $50 ly transmitted diseases, living with AIDS, *** " a good over·view Recommended condoms, safer sex, and much more for high schoolstudents through adults for These frank and articulate young people largepublic libraries,college and university will communicate directly with other collections,and gay and lesbio.narchives and teenagers and young adults, stimulating collections"-Video Rating Guide for discussion on complex issues invoh ed in libraries the emotional aspects of sexuality TeenageMothers A Global Crisis " a celebrationof gay identity.. toucheson Fresh Talk is divided into four segments, problemst/,Qt are 1ust the 'tip of the iceberg· each approximately 20 minutes long, and TEENAGE MOTHERS: and which need to be examined morefully after one or more interviews in any seg A GLOBAL CRISIS and understoodmore clearly '-Sport & ment, the video may be stopped to enable fhis documentary examines the Leisure discussion "Image" (22 mins ) discusses worldwide crisis in teenage pregnancies sexual images in popular culture, through four case studies of teenage BEFORE STONEWALL.: stereotypical gender roles, self-esteem, mothers in Ghana, England, Cuba, and family attitudes, gay identity, and class and THE MAKING OF A GAY AND the U S, thereby providing a cross-cul racial aspects of sexuality "Responsibilit)" LESBIAN COMMUNITY tural survey of the underlying reasons for (22 mins) discusses the influence of por From the social experimentation of the the increasing rate of adolescent pregnan nography, pregnancy and parenting, com Roaring '20s to the scapegoating of cies and also discussing the hazards to the munication, safer sex, sexually transmitted homosexuals during the McCarthy era, to health and well-being of such young diseases and AIDS. "Power" (25 mins ) dis the development of the early homophile mothers In addition to interviews with cusses sexism, homophobia, racism and rights movement, this film presents a uni the four young girls and their families, sexual abuse "Pleasure',' (16 mins) discus que portrait of the history of homosexual the film features commentary from a ses power and gender roles, fantasy, alter experience in America Using filmed variety of scholars and professionals natives to intercourse, and communication recollections and a wealth of archi\.· al concerned with public health, sex educa in consensual relationships FreshTalk helps material, both from the mass media's tion, population issues, and women's young people develop critical attitudes portrayal of homosexuality and from the rights, who discuss ways to cope with about the sexual messages in popular cul•• gay subculture's own documentation, it the problem ture, to learn how to articulate their ov.n traces the social, political and cultural sexual feelings, and hov-.' to communicate Produced by Caroline van den Brul development of the lesbian and gay com them effectively and with respect for 1990, color, 55 mins .., video munity and a period of remarkable social Purchase: $295 Rental: $90 others change in America * Red Ribbon Directed by Teresa Marshall American Film and Video Festival Produced by Robert Rosenberg, and Craig Berggold John Scagliotti and Greta Schiller 1992, color, 85 mins,, video (available on one * Bronze Apple, National Educational 1984, color, 87 mins., 16mm film/video tape or as four separate tapes) Film and Video Festival Historical Booklet Available with Purchase Purchase: $150 per episode/$395 for all four ** * Good an oven1iew of the complex Purchase: 16mm $1200/video $395 Rental: $40 per episode/$100 series problemsand issues involved. a good addi Rental: $125 * First Place Award tion to introductory materio.lon this topic - * Emmy for Best Historical Program National Council on Family Relations Video Rating Guide for libraries National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences * RedRibbon enlightening informativt '-Book.list American Film and Video Festival (American library Association) * First Place (Non-Fiction) Los Angeles Film Exposition "An indispensablenew video. It exploresthe done with dignity and openness will reality of teenagefeelings and providesa bas15 * Grand Jury Award stimulate discussion in high scJwoland col Houston Film Festival for deeperexploration of sexuality including lege socio.Istudies classes "-Sightlines its positive aspects."-Gabor Mate, MD, (American Film and Video Association) ***** Excellent/A Must-Haz1e . an ex cellent compilationof many audio and vidw The Vancouver Sun fascinating .a goodfilm ''-National Or "We appreciatedthe frankness and value of sourcesinto one cohesivewlwle "-Video ganization on Adolescent Pregnancy and Rating Guide for libraries all four parts."-Ross Dawson, Director of Parenting Training, Institute for the Prevention of an essentialand politicallyimportant com **** ·,.. an excellentand thought-provok TX'nenfto Americansexological edumtion it is Child Abuse ing production Forgeneral audiences as "Excellent' Wefeel it is a pcrwerfulvideo the excitingand entertainingas wellas educatim1- well asfor womens studies, sociology,and al "-Journal of Sex Education and Therapy frank open discussionsare useful · -Raj sex education.classes '-American Film Badh, Public Health Nurse and Video Association Evaluations The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 16 Health THE BLANK POINT: ECSTASY UNLIMITED WHEN YOUR ~Au~ WHAT IS TRANSSEXUALISM? Examines the influence of the social and HEAD'S NOT A HEAD, Examines the widely misunderstood na•· economic environment on sexuality, IT'S A NUT ture of transsexuals-people who using an imaginative blend of situation Filmmaker Garth Stein documents his 28- psychologically identify with the opposite comedy, documentary .. songs, animation year-old sister's decision to undergo sex and who often decide to undergo sex and narration. The video focuses on three brain surgery to control her epilepsy, reassignment surgery-and offers mean primary intersections of sex and capital: even though the operation presents some ingful insights into this rare condition 1he prostitution, including massage parlors danger because the epileptic focus in program locuseson two male-to-female and telephone sex; advertising as a means Corey's brain is very near her speech cen transsexuals and one female-to-male for the social engineering of desire; and ter. Since the medication which had con transsexualto find out why a man would sex therapy, which treats 'disorders of trolled the epilepsy for most of her life want to become a woman or why a woman desire.' had become ineffective in preventing would want to become a man The subjects Directed by Laura Kipnis seizures, Corey was unable to live inde candidly discuss their old identities, the 1985, color, 60 mins., video pendently and pursue her career as an transition to their new lives and the scien Purchase: $350 Rental: $90 artist. The film chronicles the events, tific and psychological process that enables " satirizeshow capitalismprofits from from Corey and her family's discussions them to change genders sex. Usefulfor introductorycollege caurses prior to the surgery, through the surgical Directed by Xiao-Yen Wang in sociology,sex roles,and businessethics." procedure itself (a cranial resection to lo 1991, color, 58 mins., video Choice (American library Association) cate and remove the epileptic focus), to Study Guide Available ROMANCE, SEX AND MARRIAGE Corey's post-operative recovery .. The Purc:h•se:$350 Rental:$90 making of the video-which involved * Blue Ribbon Examines sexual attitudes of high school Corey as well as her mother, father, and American Film and Video Festival youngsters in different environments, younger brother (behind the camera) * First Prize from suburb to inner city, including frank became a means for the family to express Athens Int. Film and Video Festival discussion of virginity, birth control, and deal with their hopes and fears * Silver Medal physical appearance, emotional involve ,.egarding the surgery The resulting pro Houston International Film Festival ment, sexual abuse., masturbation, accep gram is an unusually intimate record of * Judges' Cash Award tance and self-confidence the emotional stress experienced by any Sinking Creek Film and Video Festival A Document Associates Production family in a similar situation 1976, color, 26 mins., 16mm film/video Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $55 Directed by Garth Stein WHAT CAN A GUY DO? 1992, color, S7 mins ,, video Focusing on the issue of male contracep Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 tion, this film features high school stu THE KISSING BOOTH " it's obviousthat Garth'sproject is really dents from various ethnic backgrounds A playfully provocative video examina thefamily's .. This is thepolar opposite of that portraying couples and individuals in tion of the meaning of love, sex.,romance, notorioushallmark in domesticcinema verite, difficult circumstances involving birth and the perfect kiss, utilizing experimen An American Family; here,intimacy is kept control tal computer animation, stylized live within afamily that seemsto bondmore close Directed by Marc Fine drama, and interviews ly as a crisisapproaches "-The Los 1983, color, 15 mins., 16mm film/video Produced by Menill Aldighieri and Angeles Tunes Purchase: 16mm $27S/video $195 Rental: $30 Joe Tripician ** Highly Recommended" Thefilm does 1988, color, 28 mins., video SUDDEN CHANGES: POST not pcmtificate,and it may beamcmg the most Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 fair to all points of view onfamily plan- HYSTERECTOMY SYNDROME ning "-Science Books & Films Examines the reasons for the high num ber of hysterectomies performed on HOMOSEXUALITY AND MEDICAL SCIENCE women every year, the alternatives avail II 11 able, the side effects and after-effects. In LESBIANISM cludes interviews with doctors, other Psychologists, psychiatrists and gay people professionals, and women who have un speak directly to high school age THE ULTIMATE TEST ANIMAL dergone the operation youngsters and respond to their questions, Examines the birth control injection Depo Directed by Barbara Costa and concerns and fears about homosexuality Provera and the international controver Denisce Dilanni A Document Associates Production sy over its use, raising disturbing ques 1985, color, 29 mins., video 1976, color, 26 mins., 16mm film/video tions about racism and sexism in health Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $55 care, population control vs. birth control, excellent Wouldbe of interestto health and how drugs are tested and marketed careprofessionals, premed-prenursing A THREELETTER Produced by Karen Branan and Bill Turnley programs,biology/psychology classes, and WORD FOR LOVE 1985, color, 40 mins., video women'sstudies as wellas publiclibraries." Shot in Harlem, this film features young Purchase: $29S Rental: $55 library Jownal minority men and women speaking * Outstanding Nonprint Material Choice (American library Association) " . relieson rational,well thought-out tes frankly about their thoughts, feelings, timoniesand offers sensibleadvice." misconceptions., and fantasies· about sex " . an importantvideo shouldbe used to Booklist (American library Association) A Document Associates Production help educatewomen about making contracep tive choices. The informationpresented in " a uniqueand importantviewpoint that 1976, color, 27 mins., 16mm film/video needsto be aired "-SIECUS Report (Sex Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $55 the tapeis clearand conciseand presentedin an objectivemanner "-Journal of Sex Information and Education Council of Education and Therapy the US) 17 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog • II Health II THE CANCER WAR I his provocative documentary questions whether we are really winning the war on cancer, as the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society would have us believe It examines traditional and alternative cancer therapies, methods of diagnosis, regulation of can cer causing agents in the environment and workplace, and features interviews with leading scientists, authors, cancer experts and cancer patients Directed by Steven Fischler, Joel Sucher and Jane Praeger 1983, color, 60 mins., 16mm film/video Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: 5100 * Outstanding Non print Material Choice· (American library Association) Film Honors * Global Village Documentary Festival " .. a superbfilm highly informative,with all perspectivespresented-federal, scientific, and patient . Recommended., -Choice (American Library Association) Bingo You Betcha' "Provocative,frank, and probingpresentation which raisesserious questions should be BINGO, ~ HALFTIME: criticallyexamined by those engagedin dW.g-· YOU BETCHA' FIVE YALE MEN AT MIDLIFE nosis, treatment, and research."-Media Examines the American subculture of This award-winning documentary profiles Profiles: Health Sciences Edition bingo, a game played by some 35,000,000 five men from the Yale University class of Am·ericans each week and which has be 1963 who candidly look back at their lives come a big business generating an annual as planned and as ultimately lived In in· gross of $35 billion for the charities and depth interviews conducted by Dr Daniel religious organizations which operate the J Levinson, Yale psychology professor and MENTAL HEALTH games While offering an amusing look at author of The Seasonsof a Man's Life,the five AND PSYCHOLOGY the intriguing characters who populate men struggle to come to"terms with pain·· the bingo halls, the program also serious·· ful emotions relating to failures and suc ly examines underlying issues of compul cesses in lO\ e and marriage, parenting CHOOSING SUICIDE sive gambling, especially by women, and and professions An emotionally compelling examination of explains governmental controls and Directed by David Sutherland NY artist and psychotherapist Jo Roman's regulations 1988, color, 90 mins., video pioneering work in de'" eloping a Directed by Susan Wehling Purchase: $295 Rental: $100 philosophy of "rational suicide" as a basic 1992, color, 28 mins., video * Silver Apple, National Educational Film human right In 1978, while writing her Purchase: $250 Rental: $55 & Video Festival book Exit House, Roman decided to put her * Red Ribbon * Grand Prize theory into practice after suffering the side American Film and Video Festival Florida International Film Festival effects of chemotherapy following her '. this lively programoffers enlightenment * CINE Golden Eagle Award diagnosis of ad'\-anced breast cancer The about afavorite American pastime.''-Book * Silver Award video depicts two farewell gatherings of list (American library Association) Houston International Film Festival famih and friends at which Roman ex• * Cash Award plain~ her decision and these emotionally DEPRESSION AND SUICIDE Sinking Creek Film Celebration charged conversations explore the Many young people cannot cope with the Bronze Plaque * Columbus International Film Festival philosophical, medical, ethical and responsibilities and realities of maturing religious issues sunounding this formerly in our modern societ) Unable to express, Technicallyimpeccable, packed with anec·· taboo subject confront or release these feelings of in-· dote and expression,tlu video is as interest Produced by Richard Ellison adequacy, too many of them attempt ing as the mostfascinating companionand 1980, color, 58 mins., video suicide This film explores some of the iner!ltablyleads the adult viewer to con Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 causes of depression and ways to pre\ ent templatethe shapeof his or her own life High· " deseroesthe largestpossible audience be such feelings from becoming overwhelm ly recommmended"-Library Journal causeit compelsthe viewer to reflectupon ing Several teenagers discuss their own *** From the point of view of a psychology death and especiallyupon the elusive prize of struggles with depression and their ef student (indeed any student of human na death with dignity Regardlessof theirfeel forts to come out of it ture) or any person in a similar boat,this ings about suicide,viewers likely will find the A Document Associates Production videooffers strongly emotionalrevelations " programto be deeply affecting "-Roanoake 19'76, color, 26 mins., 16mm film/video Video Rating Guide for libraries Times & World-News Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $55 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 18 • THE THIRD GENERATION BODY SCULPT: Ihis remarkable film shows three genera THE VIDEO tions of Germans and Israelis who, con Ihis inspirational video, produced by fronted with the historical legacy of the Body Sculpt of New York, an anti Holocaust, are actively involved in build drug/ dropout prevention program, is ing new personal relationships while designed to educate young people about trying to come to terms with ambivalent, the dangers of drug abuse while showing often negative, attitudes about one them a positive alternative-body-build another.It shows the activities of the Ger ing to improve their mental and physical man-Israeli Youth Exchange Program in self-esteem. The story focuses on Bobby, a Israel and in Germany, at schools, with 10-year-old black youngster who is ap· hosting families, at outdoor activities and proached on his neighborhood playground at commemoration ceremonies at con by a drug dealer The video's anti-drug centration camp sites message-emphasized by the appearance Directed by Yeshayahu Nir of numerous sports, music and show busi 1988, color, SOmins., 16mm film/video ness personalities-confronts young Purchase: 16mm $795/video $295 Rental: $60 viewers with a challenge It's not enough " a fruitful discusswnof the Holocaustis to "Just Say No" to drugs, the video sug suesof personal vs collectiveguilt, gests, encouraging young people to also remembrance.forgiveness,anger and "Say Yes to Life," to develop their minds lwpe highly recommended-highschool and and bodies in order to be healthy and up "--Compass (New Directions in prepare for a successful future Spinning Out Jewish Education) Directed by Derek Leid " .Recommended for ethics,intercultural, SPINNING OUT 1992, color, 35 mins,,, video humanities,and Holocauststudies for junior Study Guide and video jacket available high throughcollege audiences "-Choice Examines one of the most misunderstood Purchase: $250 Rental: $55 (American library Association) mental illnesses, schizophrenia, and at "Powerfulmessages .. are presen.tedin an in tempts to dispel the widespread miscon " ..a historicallyand psychologicallyimpor terestingstory . Urbanschools, boys/girls ceptions, fears and myths about it clubs,and communitycenters would be wise tant work that is alsotechnically excellent" Schizophrenia, which today affects forty Library Journal lo purchaseBody Sculpt to enhancetheir million people worldwide, is a biological drug/dropoutprograms "-School Library " ..a very effectivedocumentary, artistically disease of the brain which distorts the Journal and subtlyfilmed and edited,and moving be way a person thinks and experiences the causeit breaksthrough the stereotypesof world, and often leads to hallucinations, SMOKING: GAMES monstersand victims to show what the delusions and episodes of psychosis The Holocaustmeant on a personallevel. "-The video features interviews with doctors, SMOKERS PLAY Jerusalem Post families of schizophrenics, and a cross Examines the hazards and annoyances of section of schizophrenics who recount smoking and the rationalizations of OFF LIMITS their daily struggles with the illness. smokers who persist in their habit despite Offers remarkable insights into the ex Produced and Directed by Arine Deveson knowledge of health risks perience of torture, featuring interviews 1991, color, 55 mins .., video A Doroment Associates Production with three torture victims who recount Study Guide Available 1976, color, 26 mins., 16mm film/video their personal stories, revealing the per Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 Purchase: 16mm $42S/video $250 Rental: $55 manent physical and psychic scars left by " makesus awarethat schizophrenicsare " one of the bestof its genre . an admirably such a trauma. For the victim, too, it is an not just the homelessand deinstitutionaliud sophisticatedattempt to drive homethe point extremely difficult subject to discuss. The mentallyill. createsunderstanding and com aboutsmoking to a group characterizedin film neither illustrates the methods of tor passion Recommended"-Library Journal creasinglyby its cynicismtoward official ture nor seeks to criticize specific govern pronouncementson the insidiousperils of ments, since it acknowledges the use of drug abuse"-Grassroots/Book and Film torture in countries throughout the Evaluations world Instead, in deliberately under SUBSTANCE ABUSE stated fashion,it allows its three inter II II ALCOHOLISM viewees-a young executive from Examines teenage drinking and Guinea Conakry, a nurse from Chile, and HARD DRUGS teenagers whose parents are alcoholics, an Algerian man arrested as a teenager including the consequences of alcoholism to discuss their personal experiences, Interviews drug addicts, who explain why they started taking drugs, and such as physical illness, emotional from the inhumane behavior of their tor maladjustment, family breakup, domes turers, the effects of excruciating physical people who are working to help them A Document Associates Production tic violence, fatal car accidents, and pain, their psychological responses violent aime aimed at self-preservation, and the some 1976, color, 16 mins., 16mm film/video times bizarre relationship between tor Purchase: 16mm $325/video $19S Rental: $50 A Document Associates Production " honestand direct... an excellentfilm for 1976, color, 26 mins., 16mm film/video turer and victim Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $55 Directed by Isabelle Benkemoun and junior and seniorhigh schoolstudents to be Francis Allegret usedas a preventiontool "-Drug Survival 1991, color, 52 mins .., video News French language dialog with English subtitles Purchase: $295 Rental: $90 19 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog The Sciences II THE PHYSICISTS THE SPACE EXPERIENCE II BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE II Offers a dazzling introduction to physics Astronaut Marc Garneau, a veteran of the theory and experimentation, showing Challenger Space Shuttle, hosts this six how physicists are challenging our con part series which takes us on a guided tour GENETICS: MAN THE CREATOR cepts of matter, space and time, featuring of space exploration Examines the remarkable scientific and interviews with some of the country's Directedby !lady Buttignol medical developments made possible by leading scientists The film focuses our 19881 color, 26 mina. each, 16mm. film/video the discovery of the genetic code-includ attention on deep space, exploring such Pur The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 20 TESLA: THE ZENITH FllCTOR ~.JPIRITOFTREES C::NEw"e•'3>,f~.-,.-..· £4:MANAGEMENTO. F Examines the remarkable career of [jlnvironmentalistDick Wamerhoats 111111~IC£ WOODLAND . Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), one of the world's greatest inventors, with over i httionship part withseri·es·. theon world trees amurut and them their ·..'~·.••. iL·•·l·····.·.•.lhe of managing.. ·.artofcoppicing,anandent trees, which has im- 1,000 patents registered in his name He close and complex relalioNhlp· t,e..· ·•~:~ applicationsin the was almost singlehandedly responsible een trees the largestand amongthe · . · _ _· managementof woodland for ushering in the electrical age by ~ j:lldest living things on the planet--611d · · 0 production of a giving the world alternating current, poplehasendured,notonlyecoJoskally _ ...... _ · Ol wood products such as fluorescent, neon and strobe lighting, '"1t-also In a spiritual sense, throughout -~ ..· Jllakes, oak bark, broomsticks, robotics, artificial intelligence, poly :the amturies. To explore the world of 1ietllp!!ga,aiill dwmal phase motors, radio, television, laser ~, Dick travels from Scotland, Ireland · · beams, the particle beam and helicopters andEngland 11>California and the remote EPISODE 5: Directed by Sky Fabin island of Socotra off the coast of Southem EOLKORE OF TREES 1986,. color, 28 mins., video 'YemenThroughout the series, he meets Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 ;Withconservationists, scientists, folklorists, Examines the ancient history of customs "An excellenttape.for anyone interestedin ,woodsmen, seed collectors,forest rangers, and rituals involving trees, their spiritual the history ofscience "--Choice (American ,wood turners, charcoal makers, profes.• and ieUgious significance, and their per- library Association) :Siona! and amateur foresters, and many listence to the present day, Including the other tree enthusiasts, each of whom Fair Trees of Ireland, the springtime •hare their special knowledge and in -decoration of may bushes, Arbor Day 'lights with us. ,c:elelmitions,and the activities of a group r/,l~y tree worshippers "l>iffi:ledby J. Edwanl Milner ENVIRONMENTAL D92, Color, 25 mills. each, 'Pideo STUDIES l'urchue: $195 each/S995 eeries . EPISODE 6: CONSERVATION OF Jlental: $50 each/$195 series ·fM.RETREES M . offersstudents and cummunityarl1ori8ts a Examinesthe threatened survival of rare THE FOUR SEASONS fascinating,detailed look ttt treesand their trees,the importance of preserving them, This award-•winning series celebrates the multifacetedsignificance •--Booklist "techniques (such as grafting) todo so, and scenic splendor of North America's -(Amerkan Library Associatim) the activities of botanists in several changing seasons while emphasizing the species recovery programs urgent need for protection and conserva EPISODE 1: OW OAKS tion of the world's environment and A visit to England's Windsor Great Park, a EPISODE7: wildlife Based on renowned naturalist celebrated site for ancient oaks, reveals the HISTORY FROM TREES Edwin Way Teale's popular books, each importance of trees in the ecosystem's Examinesboth the history of trees-includ- of the four videos-North with the complex process of renewal and regenera lng once relatively abundant species which Spring, /ourney into Summer, Autumn tion, while the monks of Glenstall Abbey today are very rare and a look at some of the Across America and Wandering through in Ireland explain how one's Interest In oldest trees In the world, such as the Winter-traces the journey of a season as it trees can beboth spiritual (serving as guar BristleconePines in California and the im passes across the North American con dians of the forest) and commercial portana,of preserving them-ilS well as the tinent. Each offers breathtaking cinematog·· (producing beautifully crafted wood unpottance of trees in human history such raphy, poetic narration, sand vital products). as !he Yew trees, relia; of pre-Christian information from regional naturalists, beliefs, including the ancient Yew at Anker biologists and environmentalists EPISODE 2: RESTORING w_y&by Runnymedein England where the Produced by Philip S .. Hobel SCOTLAND'S NA11VETREES ~ Carta was signed in UIS and where 1989, color, four episodes of 47 mins .., video A visit to the Scottish Highlands serves as inlhesummerof1992anew•GreenMagna Teacher's Guide available for each episode Carta" was signed. Purchase: $125 each/$395 series a case study of how throughout the world Rental: $75 each/$200 series today we are in danger of losing our ans dent woodlands of native trees. Inter EPISODES: Silver Medal, Atlanta Film Festival * views with several conservationists THE RITUR.E OF TREES Chris Award, Columbus Film Festival * explain how the deforestation of native A visit to the ancient Redwoods In the ".. awe-inspiringprograms Considerately woodlands can be reversed and how GiantSequoia National Park in California paced,informative narration combines with proper forest management can restore inspires a discussion with a Native spectacularfilming techniquesin thesenature natural diversity, aid natural regenera walks that considerinterrelationships the American ecologist of how a true respect of tion, and still support the production of for trees must be handed on to the next wild,far schools,community groups, and consumer goods from trees • public libraries"-Booklist (American generation. This concluding episode also examines new uses for trees, from Silver Library Association) EPISODE 3: FROM WIW llin:h Wme (made from birch sap) to the "· .. bellutifulcinematography. The fine WOODS TO TOWN GARDENS use of willow· walls on highways to ab visuals are supportedwith informativenarra Examines the natural growth In ancient ·sorl>traffic noise and the use of willow tive that providesfacts as well as comments beds in sew~etreatment on the impactof humankind on the land it forests of scarc:especies sudl as the Crab self.. thought provoking Recommendedfor Apple, Wild Cherry and Irish Whitebeam, ' public libraryand high schoollibrary collec the importance of thecultivation of diverse species in private gardens, and recommen tions "-Library Journal dations for the growth of trees In urban environments. 21 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog ' The Sciences 11 PROTECTING THE JUNGLE PHARMACY GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT Focuses on the work of dedicated physicians, scientists and environmen lhis new documentary series produced talists who hope to heighten awareness of by The Better World Society highlights the ongoing destruction of one of the the urgent need for in1:ernational world's largest medicine chests, the cooperation to deal with crucial threats to Amazon rainforest. 'The film shows scien the world's basic ecosystems Each tists working with Indian shamans video-Can Polar Bears Tread Water?, (healers) who share their ancient Indian Chico Mendez.: Voice of the Amazon, knowledge in plant science and show Jungle Pharmacy and Profits From how the rainforest can be a source of new Poison- examines a different ecological drugs that will benefit the entire world threat facing the world today, and sug Directed by Jamie Hartzell gests ways in which the average citizen 1989, color, 53 mins., video can respond A "Viewer Action Guide" is Purchase: $295 Rental: $90 available free of charge with the series Although each program is available for * Booklist, Editor's Choice individual rental or purchase (see prices American library Association below), the entire "Protecting the Global * Silver Apple, National Educational Film Environment" series is also available for and Video Festival rental at $250 for all four episodes, or for '· fascinating A strong argument against purchase at $995 for all four episodes forest destruction.•··-Book.list (American library Association) Jungle Pharnuicy CAN POLAR BEARS *** ' .deliversits messagewell . A useful TREAD WATER? addition to academiclibraries "-Video CHICO MENDES: Rating Guide for Libraries Examines global warming trends caused VOICE OF THE AMAZON by the burning of fossil fuels, reveals the * Recommended· timely "-Science Examines the life and work of the en underlying causes of these climactic Books & Films vironmentalist and rubber tapper who changes ("the greenhouse effect") and started a modern movement to protect their likely consequences. and outlines Brazil's tropical rainforests His assas PROFITS FROM POISON measures which could be adopted by sination in December 1988 re\ ealed the Shows how pesticides and other man-made world leaders to stave off ecological depth of emotion in Brazil surrounding chemicals which have been found harmful catastrophe The program features inter the political-economic forces shaping and therefore banned from use in views with scientists, politicians, and developed countries are still being sold and enivronmentalists and uses imaginati\-e that country's government policies Ihe film examines tht incenti\ e to over-ex used in Third World nations When pes computer graphics to convey important ploit the forests, documents viable ap ticides are used carelessly, they can cause statistics on everything from global proaches to sustaining rainforest serious damage to human health and the temperature rise and carbon dioxide environment. Filmed in Thailand and the emissions to recent climactic disasters, resources, and proves that a growing en Philippines, this film examines these com· such as the 1988 floods in Bangladesh and vironmental movement can succeed in implementing these approaches The pro plex issues in depth, demonstrates the long the drought in the American Midwest gram includes the last filmed interview range problems of pesticide abuse which Directed by Lawrence Moore Mendes gave before his death face the entire world, and shows the alter 1989, co1or, S8 mins., video Purchase: $29S Renta1: $90 Directed by Miranda Smith natives now available 1989, color, S7 mins .., video Directed by Jamie Hartzell " .brilliant,graphicand timely This is tlu Purchase: $295 Rental: $90 1989, color, 46 mins., video most comprehensivt worrying entertaining Purchase: $295 Rental: $90 grippingfilm on climatechange to date-,md * National Education Association Award for the Advancement of learning * Gold Apple, National Educational Film should be compulsoryvieu1ing on schooland through Broadcasting and Video Festival collegecurriculae "-Moving Pictures Bul * Bronze Apple, National Educational * Gold Award, Houston International letin (The Quarterly Guide to Films on Film and Video Festival Film and Video Festival Development and the Environment) * CINE Golden Eagle 1t: CINE Golden Eagle 1 ***** Excellent/AMust-Hm c" . one of * Bronze Award ***"Libraries with collectionsdealing with the more importantdocumentaries released Columbus International Film Festiva1 areastudies, ecology,health science,and this year the presentationis balanced ***'·an upl!fting documentary gives us a Third World issues, willfind this videouse reasoned,well-researched, and augmented wonderfulportrait of how one man can ma/a ful .production qualities are quite with interviewswith a variety of knowledge a difference. this programwould be a good good .Profits from Poison affectsus all - ableexperts This is one title that belongsin acquisitionfor schoolsand public libraries' - Video Rating Guide for Libraries all libraries.. Highly recommended'-Video Video Rating Guide for Libraries Rating Guide for Libraries gives the viewer a clearunderstanding of " a memorableand well-deserved the environmentalproblems caused by the use * Recommended a disturbing presenta- tribute. illuminating The rainforestphotog of pesticides . excellentphotography" tion vividly highlights the dangersof global raphy is _outstanding,while Ou messagecon Science Books & Films warming recommendedfor high schOOlto veyed will inform and stimulate collegelevel audiences"-Science Books & enz1ironmentalac tivists-----and hopefullv Films politiciansworldwide ··-Sciern:e Books& Films {American Association for the Advan cement of Science) The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 22 The Sciences THE ETERNALMl'STERIES THE AMAZON: thirteen-part series draws viewers OF MIGRATION A VANISHING RAINFOREST With the advent of autumn in the north . to the excitement of the North Filmed in the heart of Brazil's Amazon ern tundra, a Caribouherd begins its · · wilderness with true life ad .. River Basin, this video focuses on the . tures. Each episode documents a 300 mile fall trekled by a wiseold!emale from Bay, is work of the National Institute of Amazon fferent area in North America, show Not far Hudson a badger Research, and shows how encroaching . how each animal species copes with observedreinforcing his lodge with mud In preparation for coming winter development poses a threat to the !!!ffOUI\dings in the endless quest the region's fragile eco-system. ,p.tvival LONG OISTANCE COMMUTING Directed by Bradford Brooks and '. • . by Philip Hobel Mm 'l'HEGREY WHALE Christopher Gillette . . . --, %4mhla. each, video From the Arctic, a herd of California grey 1988, color, 29 mins., video . $39.9Seach whales is followed as it moves down the Purchase: $2SORental: $50 · on of six for $3495-h or only Pacific coast, 7,000 miles to breeding "** Highly Recommended an excellent 00 for all lblneen epiaodes lagoons on the coast of Baja, Mexico film for young adults and undergraduatecol·· Stopping at the uninhabited Channel Is legestudents "-Science Books & Films ,tOCKY MOUNTAIN ADVENTURES lands, rookeries of California sea lions "Cogentlysummarizes the vital issuesat Examines the life styles and natural and the rare elephant seal are discovered ~abitat of three groups of animals stake in this threatenedhabitat. "-Booklist prevalent in mountainous and bush COME FLY WI11f THE HAWK (American Library Association) jl!Ountry-the wild mustangs and moun At Cape May in the New Jersey shore the ,-m lions found in the high deserts of the great hawk migration has started down TOP GUNS AND TOXIC WHALES ~' and African and Siberian gr·az the Atlantic fly-way Then to northern Challenging our traditional view of na pg animals that have been successfully Ontario's Algonquin Park, home of the tional security as being assured by !transplanted to !he hill country in !he woods' most unpredictable animal, the elaborate armaments systems, this [$puthwest black bear. Onwards to the Niagara documentary shows how environmental River, breeding place of the lamprey eel deterioration has now become the real INSEARCHOF THE GREAT BISON HERDS threat to national and international i'{HE RARE EVERGLADES KITE security. Utilizing computer graphics :There are an abundant variety of species AND 11fE OW WEST In Arizona, the great, shaggy buffalo are which simulate a global environmental ·all along Florida's coastline but in the 'war room,' the video depicts several ,wamps and marshes known as the closely observed, once more numerous than any other game animal in !he world, scenarios of future geopolitical conflicts J;verglades some of the most exotic water involving environmental issues and fea l>irosare found their numbers are now greatly diminished The program travels to the Sonora desert, tures interviews with international J>IATURALENEMIES: home to the tarantula and roadrunner. leaders in the fields of national security !'l'llEDEER AND 1HE WOLF Heading north brings to view the last of and the environment Throughout each year, in the woods and the California redwoods, the tallest living Directed by Lawrence Moore ~asslands, grazing animals and their things in the world 1991, color, S2 mins., video ,redators are bound together in a con Purchase: $295 Rental: $95 iftant cycle of life and death Deer, moose SAVING THE LARGEST * Honorable Mention ~md antelope forage, mate and breed BIRD IN THE WORLD American Film and Video Festival The High Sierras are !he last refuge of the !Under the watchful eye of coyotes and * Chris Award !WOives,who are on the lookout for in California Condor, with less than Columbus International Film Festival !Jirm,easy prey 100 birds left, they are one off the most threatened birds in the world. In the THE COST OF COTTON THEOCEANS: GOING woods of British Columbia a researcher is UNDER IN1HE BAHAMAS Examines the use in the Ihird World of working on preservation of another sort, pesticides banned in the U S , such as !Using a mini-submarine, this film ac nature's disappearing soundscape 'Companies an underwater expedition to DDT, and the consequences-poisoned ;a luxuriant Atlantic. reef, teeming with PROWLING WITH THE workers, contaminated crops and water ,Ue. Tiger sharks, sea turtles and dol .. MIGHTY POLAR BEAR supplies, decimation of wildlife, ;phins are encountered before the In the Artie tundra a polar bear and her development of pesticide-resistant in· l!pisode continues in California, where a cubs engage in rough and tumble play sects, and the ecological boomerang ef Pacific reef is explored undisturbed In the gulf of the St fect-when contaminated foreign goods, Lawrence River, baby harp seals are from coffee to beef and cotton, are im EXPLORING 11fE KINGDOM dubbed to death for fashionable furs. ported into the US DF11fE REPTILE ON 1HE TRAIL OF 'l'HE BIGHORN Directed by Luis Argueta J'oc.us.<:son two kinds of reptiles-snakes Because of !heir elusive nature, bighorn 1979, color, 30 mins., 16mm film/video ~alligators. Although their traditional sheep have been notoriously difficult to Spanish dialog with English subtitles ~e is sinister and menacing, most film This program is able to follow them Purchase: 16mm $4SO/video $2S0 Rental: $55 ~are harmless to man, indeed more into the remote outback of Utah, Nevada 'The magnitudeof the problem,the slwcking ipften a help than a hindrance. In the flat and the Rockies and observe their habits, ly commonexamples and thefrankness with .... ds of South Carolina they exist in har even though they can spot a man up to whichthe film progressesmak£s thisfilm tmony with their environment five miles away quite strong Solidand cogentlyargued " - J'HERAIN FOREST'S GREEN HEIL Green Gems: The Environmental Film 'Jna departure from North America, this Guide (Media Network) tilin visits the Amazon rain forest--home of monkeys, tapirs and Indians who still 1lSe poison darts and blow guns to hunt 23 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog Social Studies ii SANTA MARTA: ANTHROPOLOGY TWO WEEKS IN THE SLUMS II BLACK STUDIES II A remarkable look at daily life in a moun taintop slum in Rio de Janeiro, featuring FREEDOM RINGS: ~ interviews with residents who openly voice complaints about police harass A SIX WEEK JOURNEY ment, the lack of educational and THROUGH FREEDOM THEATRE employment opportunities, problems of Follows a class of six•• and seven-year sanitation, violence, drugs and alcohol in olds through a six week summer drama the community, and the social and racial school at Philadelphia's Freedom Theatre discrimination they face from Rio's where intensive theater training provides white, middle class citizens the youngsters with valuable lessons of Directed by Eduardo Coutinho self-discipline and self-confidence Their 1988, color, 54 mins, video preparations for a play dramatizing Rosa Life at the Source Portuguese dialog with English subtitles Parks's inspirational role in the 1955 Purchase: $350 Rental: $90 Montgomery bus boycott are interwoven an excellent picturt of a real and growing with interviews with the school's LIFE AI THE SOURCE: problem ''-Ubrar; Journal founder, the late John Allen, instructors, THE ADVENTURES OF AN *** Very Good remarkab!t has a students, and parents Freedom Theatre AMAZON EXPLORER natural quality that makes it stand out ' - alumnus Erika Alexander (The Cosby Recounts the larger-than-life but true AFVA Evaluations (American Film and Show, Going to Extremes) discusses the story of Arno P Calderari-professional Video Association} school's education in the theatrical arts as adventurer, jungle explorer, deep sea well as the experience of personal growth diver, treasure hunter and \l\ildlife TIERRA Y CULTURA and empowerment it pro\ides to youngsters from whom little is usually filmmaker who has been dubbed 'In Examines the recuperacion movement diana Jones Arno" b) the media (he among the Indian communities in Colom expected by the public school system served as Technical Ad\ isor for Rniders of bia where a rebel arm; of about 6,000 Produced by Wendy Scott-Penson and the Lost Ark) Arno camE to the Amazon ifl Indians is engaged in guerrilla warfare Mike Grundmann 1946 from his native SV'.itzerland and has 1992, color, 29 mins , video ¼ith a counterinsurgency force of 15,000 Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 since travelled all over the globe He has Colombian Army troops. The present spent his life exploring locales most conflict dates back to 1971 when the STEPPIN' people only dream about The film inter Regional Indian Council (CRJC) was weaves Arno ·s reminiscences v.. ith rare founded in an attempt to defend Indian This lively program introduces viewers to film footage of his many ad\ entures communities against the increasingly the step show, an exciting dance style Directed by Cathy Frost brutal encroachments by large land popular today among black fraternities 1989, color, 47 mins., video ov,.ners, the army and the go\ernment and sororities. In addition to many rous•• Purchase: $295 Rental: $'75 ing, crowd-pleasing performances, the Directed by Magdalena V and Sigi S program examines the cultural roots of beautffully shot showing rarl f0otagcof 1987, color, 38 mins., 16mm film/video the regions tribes and the encroaching Spanish dialog with English subtitles steppin' in African dancing, militar; mar· destruction of the rain forest '-Booklist Purchase: 16mm $495/video $295 Rental: $70 ching and hip-hop music. It also discusses (American librar; Association) its contemporary significance on college IAWO campuses, including! predominantly approprintefor gradi 6 through adult white campuses, where this little known levels, the video should be of interest in collec Examines the Yoruba cult of Orisha, African-American art form has served to tions specinli:ing in world traPeland adven brought to the New World by black turers, and to a lesser extrnL in Amazon slaves. and which survives to this day in improve race relations by enabling white tribes -Video Rating Guide for Libraries areas such as Cuba and Brazil By show students to better understand black cul ing the initiation of a group of women tural expressions into a temple (Iawo is the name for new Directed by Jerald B Harkness THE BRICK-MAKERS priestesses), the film offers a deeper ex 1992, color, 56 mins .., video Examines the wa; of life for millions of amination of the religion, its ideology and Produced with the support of the Indiana Latin Americans v,.ho !he in shantv social meaning Arts Commission and the National towns on the outskirts of major cities Endowment for the Arts Ill Directed by Geraldo Samo Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 examining the day-to-day existence of a 1978, color, 40 mins, 16mm film/video peasant family which produces earthen Portuguese dialog with English subtitles " a fast-pacedprogram about a unique per bricks for a living, this film explores dif Purchase: 16mm $550/video $295 Rental: $55 formanceart this lively tribute is sure to be ferent aspects of the 'culture of po\ erty' a hit among young people'-Booklist (American library Association) Directed by Marta Rodriguez and Santa Marta Two Weeks in the Slums Jorge Silva CIMARRONES 1972, B&W, 42 mins., 16mm film/video Spanish dialog with English subtitles This docudrama explores the little known Purchase: 16mm $595/video $295 Rental: $65 situation of African slaves in Latin ., ..a poignant expose will outrage sensitive America in the 19th century, depicting life audiences"-Book.list (America 1 library in runaway slave communities Association) Directed by Carlos Ferrand 1983, B&:W, 24 mins., 16mm film/video Spanish dialog with English subtitles and narration Purchase: 16mm $400/video $250 Rental: $50 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 24 !!=lg=··======S=o=c=ia=l=S=t=ud=i=es======:=!.lll· A MINOR ALTERCATION FINALLY GOT THE NEWS fflE JAMESTOWN STORY Examines the problem of racial conflict in Offers black workers' views of working This film shows how the Mayor of James our public schools, viewing the crisis from conditions inside Detroit's auto factories, ftown, NY, an economic disaster area, or both white and black perspectives The foe.using on the League of Revolutionary ' · a labor-management committee, film dramatizes a real-life incident involv Black Workers and their efforts to build ught In behavioral scientists for con ing a fight between two high school an independent black labor organization. tation, and, using a 'quality of work' girls-one white, one black It then traces Beginning with a historical montage, gram, effected an economic tum- in parallel fashion the response of the two from the early days of slavery through the families to the incident, revealing the real subsequent growth and organization of feelings underlying racial tensions as well the working class, the film examines the as the existence of common interests, with crucial role of the black worker in the amining some of the reasons for the the aim of stimulating classroom discus American economy enomenal success of Japanese busi sion of these complex issues Produced by Stewart Bird, Peter Gessner, ~.. s, this film shows how the Japanese Produ«d by Jackie Shearer, Terry Signaigo, Rene l ichtman and John l ouis, Jr. management approach includes such Mary 'Tiseo and Jay Watkins 1970, color, 55 mins., 16mm film/video 'factors as employee dedication and 1976, color, 30 mins., 16mm film/video Purchase: 16mm NA/video $350 Rental: $85 loyalty, consensus decision making, Purchase: 16mm $450/video $250 Rental: $55 and participatory management. '· ..is sure to sparkmuch discussion. ..an ex cellentcontribution to study materialon ra POWER AND CONFLICTIN cial tensions."-Film Information BUSINESS AND THE ORGANIZATION (National Council of Churches) Featuring Dr Barry Oshry, this film ex " ....a fantastic and highly relevantvehicle for MANAGEMENT ;amines the power struggles that exist in getting peopleto shareand exchangeideas " ·anorganizations and at all levels and Gregory C Tate, Community Services discusses the skills necessary for manag · Unit, Colorado Dept. of Education ;HUMANRESOURCES AND ing them An actual training lab session shows participants developing an under•• !ORGANIZATIONAL NO VIETNAMESE EVER standing of the dynamics of conflict and CALLED ME NIGGER BEHAVIOR SERIES its resolution. Examines the relationship between This thirteen--part film series examines COPING Wllli TECHNOLOGY racism here in the U.S. and abroad issues in the behavioral sciences with an emphasis on management techniques. It Dr Warren Bennis, author of Beyond Filmed at the Harlem Fall Mobilization Bureaucracy,offers a provocative analysis March in 1967, this documentary lets features leading authorities in the _management, behavioral and social of the impact of technology on human people in the streets, as well as black Viet·· life, and how bureaucratic organizations nam vets, speak out about social protest, '.SC:ienceswho present new theoretical 'concepts and practical models on how to must develop new democratic forms to life in New York's black ghetto, and the keep pace with change connection between racism and war ~velop stronger organizations, more ef .. ;Jective management, more satisfied in•• NEW LEADERSHIP S1YLES Directed by David loeb Weiss 'dividuals and greater productivity 1968, color, 68 mins., 16mm film/video Featuring Dr. Michael Maccoby of Har•· Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $95 A Document Associates Production vard University, this film uses Maccoby' s 1978, color..26 m.ins. each, 16mm film/video * Outstanding Film Citation '1.03pp. Resource Guide Available 'gamemanship' concept to analyze the Chicago Film Festival ,-Ith Series Purchase leadership styles of two successful execu * Best Documentary .Purchase,16mm $425 each/$3,995series tives who have humanized their Mannheim Film Festival '.l'un:hase:Video $295 each/$2,500 oeries companies' woik environments. "The strongeststatement yet from the black llental: $55 eacbl$f95 series community.. a startlingcry of rageand APPROACHES TO despair."-Open City (Los Angeles) CHANGING ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR :Professor Jay Lorsch of the Harvard Busi MODIFICATION (OBM) SOWETO TO BERKELEY ·ness School discusses his contingency OBM expert Edward Feeney shows how to Examines the Anti-Apartheid Movement at theory-the task/ organization/people identify, analyze and charw;eproblem be the University of California at Berkeley fit model-which offers effective havior patterns, such as duunic lateness during 1985-86, which led to similar stu methods of insuring productivity as well and absenteeism, that can affect produc dent protests nationwide. Interspersed JIS employee satisfaction tivity with scenes of demonstrations, debates, TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS and violent clashes with police, are WOMEN IN THE CORPORATION Featuring Dr. Gilbert Levin, Asst. Profes speeches by South African Bishop Des This film shows how a firm with 60% mond Tutu and Berkeley Free Speech ac sor of Pscyhiatry at the Albert Einstein women employees, most of whom felt College of Medicine, this film shows how tivist Mario Savio stuck in clerical jobs with no chance for .to Jessen interpersonal conflicts that fre advancement, instituted an affirmative ac Directed by Richard C. Bock ~ently inhibit effective management 1988, color, SOmins., video tion program, dealt with attitude change, Purchase: $295 Rental: $50 MOTIVATION self-awareness and management training " a valuableprogram .an interestingand Outlining the theories of Abraham Mas amusinglyhonest look at the growingcom ,low and Douglas McGregor, and through plexity of student activismin the 1980s " ;interviews with workers, managers and Choice (American library Association) !behavioral scientists, this film explores ,what makes a person satisfied and ;productive at work. 25 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog Social Studies ii ',JWWINGMORE CHICANO PARK ~FECTIVE TEA.MS This multi-award-winning documentary !nusfilm examines the important con on contemporary Latino history explodes llnbulion that can be made by an Or- with music, colorful murals, and other ex ~. lional Developmental consultant pres.sions of Hispanic pride and heritage ~:ofanalyzingareasofconflictand Barrio Logan, the Mexican American com munity in San Diego, experienced a decline through the 1950s until a spirited struggle ~:::::::or in 1970 led to the creation of Chicano Park The park, now famous for its giant murals RGANIZATIONS painted on freeway pillars, became the § focus for community revitalization in the _ Harry Levinson of the Harvard Medi- ii,a)School explains significant concepts 1970sand '80s The film highlights some of ~ psychoanalytic theory in terms of their the artists, musicians, and activists that ppplicability to corporate settings were keys to this inspiring story, and uses historical photographs and archival 'UFEUNES: A CAREER footage to trace the history of Barrio Logan PROFILE STUDY Among the many issues explored are those 'rhis film features Dr Edgar Schein of the of cultural identity and stereotypes, the na ture of ethnic and racial relations in the U.S, ~loan School of Management at M I.T Ballad of an Unsung Hero whodiscussestheins~hGofhisresearch and the role of popular culture in address \into career formation ing social issues THE LEMON GROVE INCIDENT Produced by Marilyn Mulford In July 1930, the school board in Lemon and Mario Barrera Grove, California, announced plans for a 1989, color, 60 mins., 16mm film/video separate school for Mexican-American Purchase: 16mm $795/video $350 Rental: $90 Ii CHICANO STUDIES students, citing the Hispanics' lack of * Gold Plaque ii English skills and the need to improve Chicago International Film Festival "sanitation and morals" 'The Mexican * Gold Award BALLAD OF AN UNSUNG HERO American community protested the Houston International Film Festival CINE Golden Eagle Merit Award Chronicles the remarkable life of 89-year decision, many risking loss of their jobs * old Pedro Gonzalez, from his early and even deportation, and filed and even * Merit Award J. Latin American Studies Association years as a telegraph operator for Pancho tually won a lawsuit against the school Villa during the Mexican Revolution to board, marking the nation's first success * Best of Northem California Award ful legal challenge to school segregation National Educational Film and Video his pioneering career as a radio and Festival recording star in Los Angeles, his 1934 This docu-drama recreates these historic arrest on trumped-up charges and sub events and the racial climate in Depres " would enhancethe collectionsof libraries, edurotionalinstitutions, community organiz.a sequent imprisonment, his deportation to sion-era America by blending archival photos, dramatic reenactments, and in tions and sclwolsfrom junior high up Mexico and eventual return to the U S Aboveall, viewerswill learnto know and bet- some thirty years later ten iews with former students Produced by Paul Espinosa ter understanda peopleintegral to America Directed by Isaac Artenstein and about whom many of us know toolit- 1983, color, 28 mins., 16mm film/video 1985, color, 58 mins., 16mm film/video Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $55 Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $95 tle "-Sightlines (American Film and Video Association) Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival * Three Emmys, National Academy of * Television Arts and Sciences ....an importantfilm for contemporary * CINE Golden Eagle Award * Gold Award, Houston Film Festival Hispanichistory highly recommended' - presentsfascitu1h'ng insights into Mexican La Red (National Chicano Council on Amerimn historyand culture."-Sightlines * Certificate of Merit American Bar Association Higher Education) (Educational Film Library Association) CINE Golden Eagle Award '· this productionholds specialimportance * YO SOY for the Mexican~Americancommunit1/ but "A top-notch,polished presentation Book.list (American library Association) Examines the key issues, problems and has somethingto say to a broader-scoPed concerns of the Mexican ..American com audiencein publiclibraties, community and well-researcheddocudrama Highl1/ munity in the U .S Through interviews religiousgroups, and schools"-Booklist recommendedfor use in law schools,uri.der with prominent Chicano leaders and ac (American library Association) graduatecourses in Americanhistory and tivists, this video reviews the progress Chia:mostudies and for high schooland Chicanos have made during the past two THE TRAIL NORTH generalaudiences "-Choice (American decades in politics, education, labor and library Association) Follows anthropologist Robert Alvarez economic development, and summarizes and his 10-year-old son Luis as theJ the ways that Chicanos are responding to recreate the journey which their family's YO SOY CHICANO the challenges of the future ancestors made in coming north from Portrays the Chicano experience, from its Directed by Jesus Salvador freviiio and Mexico several generations ago roots in pre-Columbian history to Mexican Jose Luis Ruiz Directed by Thomas Karlo .A.merican struggles in the early '70s 1985, color, 60 mins .., video 1983, color, 20 mins., 16mm film/video Directed by Jesus Salvador Trevino Purchase: $350 Rental: $90 Purchase: 16mm $425/video $195 Rental: $55 1972, color, 60 mins .., 16mm film/video an absorbingdocumentary. An inspiring Spanish dialog with English subtitles update of the 1972 Yo Soy Chicano" Purchase: 16mm NA/video $295 Rental: $90 Book.list (American library Association} The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 26 l!::w<======S=o=c=ia=l=S=tu=d=ie=s======d~' HOMEBOYS COPS: BEHIND THE BADGE Depicts life in Cuatro Flats, a housing This behind--the-scenes documentary fol project in East Los Angeles, as seen through lows police officers in Houston and New the eyes of Chicano gang members, or York City on their daily patrols, showing 'homeboys.' The film reveals the forces the demanding and often dangerous which shape their lives-police harassment, situations they confront regularly The an unresponsive educationaJ system, the in tension, anxiety and stress of the job are ability of veterans and college graduates to frankly discussed in interviews with the get jobs paying more than minimum wage, officers The enormous stress of police and a troubled search for cultural identity work can create an anger and frustration Directed by Bill Yahraus, Christine Burrill that may be expressed outwardly in and David Davis Cops:Behind the Badge brutality or corruption, or work inwardly 1978, color, 60 mins., 16mm film/video ACTS OF VIOLENCE and result in depression, alcoholism, Purchase: 16mm $795/video $350 Rental: $90 high divorce rates, and even suicide Examines the high level of deadly violence in American society, focusing on Veteran Boston cop Eddie Donovan dis· cusses his personal experiences in coping three types of murder-those of the mass with these pressures and how it led him murderer, the serial murderer, and the CRIMINAL JUSTICE to develop a peer counseling program for II political assassin-and analyzes not only cops II why these acts are committed but also why they are peculiarly American. In ad- Produced by Imre Horvath MURDER:NO APPARENTMOTIVE 1986, color, 60 mins., video dition to shocking footage of some of the Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 Examines the growing phenomenon of most notorious incidents in recent his serial murders in the U.S., their underlying * Red Ribbon tory-including the 1981 shooting of American Film and Video Festival causes, and ways in which the killers can be President Reagan by John Hinckley; the more quickly identified and apprehended nationwide murder spree of serial killer . .thisedge-of-the-seat documentary S 27 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog PRESUMED INNOCENT WHITE JUSTICE Filmed at New York City's House of Examines the impact of the Canadian Detention for Men on Riker's Island, this criminal justice system on the Inuit In documentary examines the constitutional dians in northern Quebec which involves issues and human problems that accom the imposition on them of an alien cul pany pretrial detention It tells the story ture, language and value system 'White of the instituion and the process of justice' originally arrived at the begin pretrial detention from the point of view ning of the century with missionaries and of inmates, guards, judges, lawyers and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and other criminal justice officials the system today relies on a circuit court Directed by Claude Beller and Stefan Moore which travels from village to village, in 1980, B&W, 60 mins,, 16mm film/video vestigating everything from broken win Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $100 dows to murder The film details the RnpdCrisis * Emmy for Best Documentary behind-the-scenes operations of the National Academy of Television court, while interviews with local police, RAPE/CRISIS Arts and Sciences community leaders and residents pro·· A compelling in\ estigation of the trauma Best Documentary, Atlanta film Festival * vide the Inuit perspective on these issues of rape, portraying the aftermath of a * Best Documentary, Athens Film Festival Directed by Morgane Laliberte and rape and the work of the Rape Crisis Cen·· * Outstanding Documentary of the Year Frani;oise Wera ter in Austin, Texas Skillfully blending Corporation for Pu~lic Broadcasting 1987, color, 57 mins., video Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 dramatic narr~tive with documentary footage, and intermingling actors in DOING JUSTICE t~ plethor~of problemssurrounding the dramatic scenes with real-life police, applu:atwnof;urispru.dence principles prosecutors, doctors, nurses and Rape Examines America's juvenile justice sys groundtd in Western law to a traditionalrn l tem, focusing on three young people- in Crisis Center workers, the film focuses on ture an well e:i.hibited Recommended '_ the experience of the rape victim, the in trouble with the law throughout their Choice (American library Association) adolescence. The documentary shows terrogation of the accused rapist, and a how institutions attempt to rehabilitate classroom training session for \-Olunteer young offenders, including psychologi THE GRAND JURY counselors at the Rape Crisis Center cal intervention, and discusses criticism Examines the nature and function of the Directed by Gary T McDonald of the present philosophy and practices of Grand Jur) S) stem and explores the 1983, color, 87 mins., 16mm film/video the juvenile justice system relationship of the grand jur) to the rest of Purchase: 16mm $875/video $395 Rental: $125 Directed by Barry Shiis and Thomas Lucas the criminal justice system by follov\ ing a * Best Feature Documentary 1984, color, 57 mins., video case from arrest through indictment Athens Film Festival Purchase: $350 Rental: $90 Directed by SteveP Fischler and Joel Sucher ** Highly Recommended useful m college "Ellen Burstyn s compassionatenarration 1979, color, 55 mins .. 16mm film/video courseson sexuality, abnormalbehavior sex sets the sensitive tone in this stirring pro-· Purchase: 16mm $895/Video $350 Rental: $90 roles.and counselingand will serveas a use gram. eye-opening .a personnlizedlook at a ful trainingfilm in hospitaland clinic set complex, multitiered issue ''-Booklist FRAME-UP! tings .·,-Science Books & Films (American library Association) Examining the case of Martin Sostre, a black Puerto Rican bookstore owner in CRIMINAL JUSTICE Buffalo, Nev\ York who was framed on Offers a behind-the-scenes look at the drug possession charges in 1967 and sen .. Ii FAMILY RELATIONS II daJ-to-day operations of the criminal jus tenced to prison this film shows how the tice system in the U S Focusing on three American justice system can be abused cases-a robbery, a homicide, and a for purposes of political repression THROUGH YOUNG rape-the video chronicles the acti\:ities Directed by Steven Fischler, PEOPLE'S EYES and statements of prosecutors, defense Jo€} Sucher and Howard Blatt An insightful documentary portrait of attorneys, police officers, as well as the 1974, color, 30 mins., 16mm film/video young black and Hispanic teenagers, defendants and plaintiffs Each of the Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $55 primarily girls, growing up in a poor cases is followed to its conclusion and is John Grierson Award * urban neighborhood set against a background of comments American Film Festival from the attorneys and police officers Directed by Marci Reaven and Beni Matias DOIN' LIFE 1983, color, 29 mins., 16mm film/video about major problems they encounter Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $55 and their recommendations for changes Examines the moral and philosophical is in the criminal justice system sues of crime and punishment by focusing 'This positive lookat young minorit1/stu on five men ser\'ing life sentences as well as dents could be used to supplement cu.r Directed by Kelley Baker riculums dealing with American or urban 1986, color, 58 mins., video the \ ictims of their crimes The video also Purchase: $350 Rental: $90 includes commentary from politicians, studies, orfor guidanceprofessionals working with minority teens ''-Voice of Youth * Best Documentary philosophers, penologists and prison Northwest Film and Video Festival reformers on the issues of crime, punish Advocates ' fascinating ..An intriguingintroduction to ment and the life sentence sanction " providesa pleasingand positive view of the criminaljustU.e system for community col Directed by Gary T McDonald these teenagers of value in adolescent legestudents and publiclibran; vie-c.0ers ' 1980, color, 60 mins., video psychology,teacher training and sociology Booklist (American library Association) Purchase: $350 Rental: $75 classes"-Library Journal The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 28 Social Studies ll FOR THE LOVE OF BEN: EARLY MISGIVINGS: A FATHER'S VIEW A FILM ON CHILDABUSE A sensitive documentary examination of a Examines the problem of child abuse and child's emotions following separation from its root causes and shows current his father by divon:e. Ben was two and a methods of treatment and prevention half years old when he was taken by his The film includes interviews with mother from his home in Alaska and parents, doctors, counselors and other moved to Michigan, where he was professionals, as well as former victims of separated from his lather. Filmed over a child abuse, stressing the need for an in period of lour years, the documentary ex terdisciplinary approach to this far amines the emotional agony experienced reaching problem. The film also counters by lather and son when separated by Forthe Loveof Ben several of the most prevalent myths divorce, distance and a protracted legal bat about child abuse, shows some of the tle for custody Interviews With a child SHADOW CHILDREN many information and counseling ser psychologist, family friends, and babysit vices available, and outlines current ef ter, as well as Ben himself (in periodic inter Examines the plight of homeless children forts, on both a state and federal level, to views at the ages of three, five, and six) through interviews with more than a enact child welfare legislation. dozen youngsters living on the streets of reveal the psychological impact of this Directed by Leonard Kurz separation on the youngster California's Bay Area. Most of these 1984, color, 29 mins., 16mm film/video young people are runaways but, al Directed by Ronald Spatz Purchase: 16mm $425/video S250 Rental: $50 though many of them would like to 1988, color, 27 mins., video Finalist Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 return to their families, seventy-five per·· * John Muir Medical Film Festival cent of the parents do not want their ****Highly Recommended"Useful for * Editor's Choice upperhigh schooland collegeclasses in child children back The youngsters' stories of Science Books & films developmentand family problemsas well as a family rejection, the daily struggle for food and shelter, police harassment, and **Highly Recommended". appropriatefor generaladult audience,the programpaints a generalaudiences and specificgroups that are the dangers of drugs, prostitution and moreprone to inflict childabuse, including vivid pictureof the effectsof divorceand father pregnancy lend a compelling human separationon a smallchild · -Video Rating young, single,and disadvantagedparents " - dimension to the anonymous, panhan Guide for libraries Science & Films dling children whom most of us as pas Books "A placefor this videocan befound in high sersby do our best to ignore. Their " an effectiveportrayal would servewell schoolclasses in parenting,child care,home interviews are interwoven with scenes of as afocus for discussiongroups in high economics,aml marriageand.family plan street life and commentary by social schools,church groups, and professionalset ning "-The Book Report workers and youth agency professionals tings such as community mental health " . .quite moving... Usefulas a discussion who offer additional insights into the centers "-Journal of Sex & Marital vehiclefor lower-divisionundergraduate cour dysfunctional family lives which have Therapy ses in child developmentand family study."- forced most of these young people to " Excellent "-Military Family Choice (American library Association) leave home DOLORES THEY'RE DOING MY TIME Directed by Harry Mathias 1991, color, 30 mins .., video I his short drama portrays the problem of Examines the plight of children of women Study Guide Available domestic violence within the Latino com incarcerated in America's prisons who Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 munity The video focuses on a Hispanic must deal with the loneliness, confusion, * Blue Ribbon family, showing how the father's machis and helplessness brought on by a parent's American Film and Video Festival mo has intimidated both wife and imprisonment In addition to revealing the ". poignant ..compelling "-Booklist daughter into continual fear of physical problems of foster care and the danger that (American library Association) abuse and alienated the son who resents many of these children may follow in their "Fev..lviewers will be unmoved by this his father's authoritarian attitudes Based mothers' footsteps, the film also looks at documentary. Coursesin contemporaryis•· on extensive research and interviews prisons and jails that are working to create sues,family living, psychology,and urban with battered Latinas, the film is better family oriented alternatives studies in both high schoolsand collegescan designed to raise awareness and stimu Directed by Patricia Foulkrod utilize this riveting programto generatedis late discussion of this complex issue 1988, color, 56 mins., 16mm film/video cussion;it is open-endedwith no simplistic Directed by Pablo Figueroa Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $95 solutionsoffered to this growing problem" 1988, color, SO mins.,, video * Gold Apple Award School Library Journal Spanish dialog with English subtitles National Educational Film Festival "Show thisfilm to teenagers . The dialogueis Purchase: $250 Rental: $80 Finalist " .. poignant This convincinglyacted video American Film and Video Festival quick, and the produch'onis excellent,moving * swiftly to maintain interestand attention it shouldraise awareness of some of the roots of ****Highly Recommended· balancedand can makeyoung peoplethink about un domesticviolence and offersupport to others realistic.. well-structured Recommendedfor pleasantconsequences of trying to escape in simt1arcircumstances "-Booklist universityand speciallibraries "-Video (American Library Association) Rating Guide for Libraries their interpersonaldifficulties "-Science Books & Films "A well madedrama . demonstratesthe fac "A heart-rendingdocumentary highly tors that keep women in batteringsitua recommended"-Library Journal "Threeclasses of mixed-agehigh schoolstu dents who previewedthis videogave it tions."-Choice: A Guide to Film and " engaging.. A very human portrayalof a resoundinglyhigh marksfor its appropriate Video About Women's Reproductive very realproblem.'· -Choice (American nessfor teenageaudiences. well-done. High Health & Freedom (Media Network) library Association) · ly recommended"-The Book Report 29 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog II Social Studies II NOT ALLPARENTSARESTRAIGHT IT'S OUR BABY: PARENTS Examines the dynamics of the parent-child TALK ABOUT CERTIFIED relationship within several different NURSE-MIDWIFE BIRTH CARE households where children are being raised Examines nurse-midwifery as a significant by gay and lesbian parents Through open and increasingly popular alternative to and honest interviews with the children and traditional hospital childbirth methods their parents, the film explores emotional The video dispels common misconceptions conflicts within the famil) legal custod) about midwifery, discusses the educational problems, and the social discrimination that and training requirements for certified these families face nurse-midwives, and the nature of the pre Produced by Kevin White and Annamarie Faro natal, birthing, and post-partum care they 1986, color, 58 mins., 16mm film/video prm ide which emphasizes the emotional, Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental; $95 social, psychological and family needs of * Gold Apple Award the nev-. parents National Educational Film Fesfr\.al Directed by Kathryn L Niewenhous * Red Ribbon 1990, color, 25 mins., video American Film and Video Festival Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 Hull House The House that Jane Built * Videotape Winner, National Council on * First Place Winner, National Council HULL HOUSE: Family Relations Film Festhal on Family Relations Media Awards ~ Competition THE HOUSE THAI JANE BUILT " should pravide hope and_encouragcnunt for families m similar s1tua_tzt111sland] gn:1cs reassuring a high-quality program - In 1889, amidst the slums of Chicago's heterosexualaudzences an insight into tlu hfe Booklist (Junerican libraf) Association) Near West Side, pioneer social worker of a gay couple as parents and dispel~ tht' · **** Highly Recommended a no--non Jane Addams (1860-1935) opened Hull House to aid the poor, largely immigrant myth that gay couples raisegay chi/dr{11 - srnst: professionalprofile portrays an ac Library Journal curaft picture of the style and philosophy of residents of the neighborhood Addams nur,-l-midut1fcry Recommendedfor public was joined by several other young an exceptionallycompcllmg doo1mmtnn1 women-college educated, politically timelyand informatiit ·'-San Franci-.co and academiclibraries "-Video Rating Guide for libraries progressive and highly moti\ ated Ouunicle whose collective efforts turned Hull " . provocative (in the best sen:,() V1n11111.;: House into a major center for social this slwuld be reassurmg to otlia children ;f reform activities This docudrama, gay parents, and may enlightt 11 5onu of tlu i, featuring Ellen Burstyn as host/narrator, friends '·-School Library Journal · II HISTORY utilizes excerpts from the public writings ii and private papers of Addams and her BREAKING THE SILENCE: associates to tell their remarkable ston in THE GENERATION AFTER BLOOD MEMORY, their own words , THE HOLOCAUST THE LEGEND OF BEANIE SHORT Directed by Iim Ward 1990, Color, 58 mins., video Holocaust sun ivors ha\ e often refused to Examines the importance of oral history Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 discuss their v-.artime experiences v. ith their in keeping alive a small piece of Civil War children out of a desire to protect them fmm historj among the people of Turkey Neck '· .. well-acted .this illuminating production emotionally upsetting knowledge The un~ Bend, a small rural community in Ken highlights the class barriersand gender expec witting result was a conspiracy of silence, tucky Short was a poor man's Jesse tations that theseaccomplished young ac distancing parents from children, creating James, a Confederate Army deserter who tivists shattered "-Booklist (American problems in intergenerational communica took to raiding and robbing in and library Association) tion and family relations In recent \ ears around Turkey Neck Bend, just above the *** ' excellent production values and man; of these children formed Se(ond Tennessee border in Kentucky According presentation a fabulous work about a dedi Generation groups to share their concerns to legend, Short robbed many people and cated group of women that could be used in al This film focuses on the members of one such killed a few before he was gunned down most any situation '··-American Film and group who openly discuss the impact of the himself b; Union vigilantes His memory Video Association Evaluations Holocaust on their li\ es and the need to com is ali\ e today not because of history ex municate v.:ith their parents Interv, O\ en books-nothing was written about his THIS BLOODY, throughout the film. in addition to emotion ploits for over 100 years-but due to a BLUNDERING BUSINESS tradition of oral history and local ally moving family scenes are inten le\1.s Examines the history of American inter with psychologists, authors and historians storytelling Dr. William Montell, a his torian,\ isits with local residents to deter vention in the Philippines follm.\ing the Directed by Edward A. Mason Spanish American War A silent mo\ ie 1984, color, 58 mins., 16mm film/video mine the extent to which the legend of Beanie Short survives today and how format with lively ragtime piano music is Purchase: 16mm $850/video $295 Rental: $95 combined with a dramatically under·· Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival such selecti\e memory influences our * perception of history stated narration and excerpts from * First Prize, National Council on Family 'newsreels' of the period to reveal the Relations Film Festival Directed by Robby Henson 1992, color, 56 mins .., video nature of American attitudes toward CINE Golden Eagle Award * Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 Third World peoples and cultures Der!f powerful . exploreswith sen..;;ztit'ltyand A quiet beautifully done video shows th£ Directed by Peter Davis insight. superiorfor curriculumuses in studii~ 1978, B&W, 30 mins., 16mm film/video valw of oral h_istoryin preserving parts of his of.familyrelations, psycfwlob""Y and sociolo~'V Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $55 tory that never make 1t into historv Highly recommended''-Librar~ Journal te:rtbooh ''-School library Jollffial The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 30 11· Social Studies II CONVERSATIONS THE RETURN OF JOE HILL THE DAY THE COLD WAR WITH ANCIENT Hells the story of Joe Hill (1879-1915), a CAME HOME HISTORY Swedish immigrant to America who be A personal history of the Hollywood Black Presents dramatized conversations with came a songwriter, cartoonist and labor list period produced by the son of Gordon major figures in ancient Greek history organizer for the Industrial Workers of Kahn, a veteran Hollywood screenwriter. Socra tes, Odysseus, Euripides and the World (!WW) and whose 1915 execu In October 1947, Gordon Kahn was one of Hypatia, among others-who discuss with tion by the state of Utah for a crime he those subpoenaed to appear before the noted classics scholar and author Edith probably did not commit transformed House on Un-American ActivitiesComrnit Hamilton their contributions to Greek cul him into a martyr-for the labor movement tee which was investigating 'communist ture and their influence on present day and an international folk hero His subversion' of the film industry Kahn was science, politics, philosophy, literature and torians, artists and activists discuss the subsequently blacklisted and never the arts We learn about the Socratic contributions of Joe Hill and performan worked in the film industry again Using Method, the search for truth and goodness, ces of some of his best known songs are family photos, archival footage, news clip featured the debate over fate vs free ½ ill, goal set pings, feature film excerpts and in ten iews, ting vs pragmatism as approaches to life, Directed by Eric Scholl Tony Kahnprovides a poignant,child's eye and much more. The video is di\·ided into 1990, color, 57 mins., video view of how the blacklist affected his famj .. four segments of 15 minutes each for use in Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 ly, subjecting them to years of persecution, secondary school classrooms this engagingdocumentary is a showcase bigotry, fear and paranoia, simply because Directed by Nick Clark for workers·culture and an inspiring record their father was felt to have the 'wrong 1991, color, 62 mins., video of labor'sachievements ''-Book.list political ideas ' Study Guide available (American Library Association) Produced by 'Tony Kahn Purchase: $350 Rental: $100 ***** Excellent/AMust-Have afas- 1988, color, 21 mins., video '· . .creative. [makes]classical culture acces cinntingand prabablylittle-known history Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 sible to modem students With its extensive shouldprove very valuablefor usewith junior * Silver Apple guide, this intense but crediblydramatiud seniorand collegestudents, and public National Educational Film Festival resourcecan be incorporatedeasily into social libraries The historyis very clearlyand effec * Gold Medal, International Film & TV studies and histor1/classes "-Booklist tivelypresented .. an excellentproduction, high Festival of New York (American libraTy Association) ly recommended'-Video Rating Guide for * Booklist Nonprint Editor's Choice 1988 an excellentvisual aid which can be effec Libraries * Special Achievement Award tively usedfor coursesin classics philosophy Association of Visual Communicators humanities and severalother liberalarts cou1- THE STORY OF CHAIM * Certificate of Merit, National Catholic ses which wist!y referto tlu Greekpast ' - RUMKOWSKI AND THE Association of Broadcasters &. Communicators Prof Theofanis Sta\ rou, Dept of Histor~ JEWS OF LODZ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis * Emmy/Best Cultural Documentary In order to facilitate the destruction of National Academy of TV Arts and exploresa w1dt variety of iss1us and Poland· s three million Jews, the Nazis Sciences {New England Chapter) philosophicaltheories Presentingthe historr forced them to establish Jewish Councils a vivid reminderof thefragility of cal and literaryfigures dressedin modan cc>s responsible for administration of the freedom,even in a democraticsociety. An e:x. tumes and engagingin dialc>gueproves to be Polish ghettos Chaim Rumkowski, ap cellentpurchase for academicand public an effecth1e methodfor learningabout pointed Chairman of the Lodz Jewish libraries"-library Journal them . Recommendedfor h1'ghschool or(()/- Council, was responsible for establishing A 11e-rymoving tribute, well put together lege classesand adults "-American Film a vast bureaucracy which administered and Video Association E\-aluations The interjectionof personaland publichistory all social services within the ghetto madean alreadyfascinating chapterin Utilizing rarely seen archival materials, American history morevivid ''-AFVA PARADISE CAMP including hundreds of photographs Evaluations fells the story of the Iheresienstadt con taken by Jewish Council photographers, "A moving, well-createdt1ideo a fine film centration camp in Czechoslo, akia which the film depicts the activities of the Jewish was used by the Nazis during WWlI in an Council, the conditions of daily life for for generalaudiences, American studies. his elaborate hoax to deceive \'\'orid opinion ghetto inhabitants, Rumkowski'"s tory, andfilm collectionsHighly recom mended '-Choice (American library about the Third Reich's extermination cam relationship to the Nazis, the gradual dis Association) · paign against the Jews In 1944 There integration of the ghetto, and the depor sienstadt was hastily transformed through tations to the death camps a Great Beautification Campaign into a so Directed by Peter Cohen ROOSEVELT, NEW JERSEY: called Model Jewish Community prior to 1982, color, 53 mins., 16mm film/video VISIONS OF UTOPIA an inspection visit by the Red Cross The Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $100 During the Great Depression, 120 deception was so successful that Hitler * Best Documentary families of Jewish garment workers from commissioned a propaganda him entitled Global Village Documentary Festival New York City moved to the New Jerse1 Hitler Givesa Town to 'theJeu.•s This macabre * Nonprint Reviewers' Choice countryside to develop a government•· story is told through inten iev.:s with sur Bookltst (American library Association) sponsored, agro-industrial cooperative vivors, archival footage and photos, paint a modelfor [Holocaust}documentaries in community This film tells the story of the ings and drawings by camp inmates, and general Pllinfully unsentimental,devoid of cooperative community through archival excerpts from the Nazi propaganda film all but the simplestvisual rhetoric a power footage, photos and interviews with Directed by Frank Heimans and Paul Rea ful film -The Village Voice original homesteaders and their children 1986, color, 56 mins .., video Directed by Richard Kroehling Purchase: $350 Rental: $90 1983, color, 52 mins., 16mm film/video Purchase: 16mm $875/video $350 Rental: $95 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 32 >~'.;,'• ,·,,;,_,~' ,j,-•,,: Social Studies ARE WE WINNING, MOMMY?: SAN FRANCISCO GOOD TIMES THERESIENSTADT: AMERICA AND THE COLD WAR A colorful portrait of the culture and life GATEWAY TO AUSCHWITZ An incisive examination of the historical styles of the 'Flower Power' era, 1968-72, Chronicles the history of the Ihere roots of the Cold War and its effects on including rock music, brown rice, organic sienstadt ghetto, used during WWil by American life The film features a wealth gardens, astrology, communes and collec the Nazis as a transit camp for Jewish of images and historical footage from tives, and assorted chemical contraband deportees en route to annihilation in the both European and Americari archives as Directed by Allan Francovich and East. This documentary blends the well as a series of revealing interviews Eugene Kosow childhood recollections of Iheresienstadt with some of the key players, on both 1974, B&W, 60 mins., 16mm film/video ghetto survivors with rare archival sides, in the events of the last forty years Purchase: 16mm $750/video $350 Rental: $90 photos, paintings and drawings by ghet A special focus of the film is the role of the to inmates, and moving scenes of a mass media in shaping attitudes about DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES survivors' reunion the Cold War, with illustrations, simul A moving memoir of the Spanish Civil Produced by Paul fyras and Jan Fanti taneously comic and chilling, from Hol War by a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln 1987, color, 58 mins., video lywood features, 1V programs, and Brigade, this film includes historical Purchase: $350 Rental: $90 animated cartoons background on the Depression, archival * Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival Directed by Barbara Margolis footage of Civil War battles, and footage * Bronze Medal, International Film & IV 1986, color and B&W, 87mins., shot in Franco's Spain of the mid-1970s Festival of New York 16mm film/video ***"Informative and well done Theart is Study Guide Available Directed by Abe Osheroff 19'74, color, 60 mins., 16mm film/video well integratedinto theprogram Very Purchase: 16mm $1200/video $395 "-AFVA Evaluations Rental: $125 Purchase: 16mm $795/video $350 Ken tal: $75 fine Gold Plaque, Chicago Film Festival * Red Ribbon, American Film Festival " not only an emotionalexperience, but an * educationalone as well. an important * Silver Apple, National Educational Film &: Video Festival RAANANAH: documentaryand archiveas an additionto the HolocaustIegacy."-Haina Just, The Red Ribbon A WORLD OF OUR OWN * American Film and Video Festival American Jewish Committee Examines the history of Raananah Park, CINE Golden Eagle "A first-rateaddition to thegrawingfield of * a Jewish summer colony in New York Holocauststudies, this work should proue of "Sound andpicture qualityare very goodand founded in 1937 by young Jewish im editing techniquesgive the vieweran excel equalvalue tohistory, Jewish studies, psychol migrants from Eastern Europe, including ogy and sociologycurricula "-School Library lentfeel for the developmentof anti-Com interviews with surviving members Journal munist attitudesduring this historical Directed by Marlene Booth period. Appropriatefor generalaudiences, 1982, color, 28 mins., 16mm film/video high school,and collegestudents "---{:hoice Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $55 (American library Association) "Perfectfor classroomuse Not just another THE HISTORY BOOK Ii LABOR STUDIES film aboutCold War history Rilther,it Beginning with the Middle Ages and con ii focuseson whereour ideasabout the USSR tinuing to the present day, this series of nine havecome from and how they haveaffected us animated films surveys the development of SHOUT YOUNGSTOWN as a nation Also, it's a film that just invites society throughout the ages from a Examines the closing of three major steel and criesout for discussion"-Helen Des grassroots perspective, showing history as plants in Youngstown, Ohio, between fosses, Director, Public Policy Program, it has been lived and experienced by com 1976 and 1980, showing the social and State University of New York at Albany mon people Episodes, which average lS-20 human costs of this tragedy through in minutes each, include A FlickeringLight in terviews with steelworkers, their families REVIEW OF THE SIXTIES the Darkness(the feudal system and rise of and friends, labor attorneys, local union A fast-paced overview of the events, issues the merchant class), At Dawn, Oz>ercomingleaders and community activists and personalities of the decade, including All Difficulties(development of sea trade Directed by Carol Greenwald the assassinations of two Kennedys and routes and Spanish conquests in the New and Dorie Krauss Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Beatles; space World), A Bright Future For Some 1984, color, 45 mins., video exploration; a confrontation in Cuba; and (European wars in the 14th and 15th cen Purchase: $295 Rental: $75 US. involvement in Vietnam turies leading to development of the first * Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival A Document Associates Production national states), Bloody Schemes(the slave 1969, color, 44 mins., 16mm film/video trade), TriumphantSymphony (the Industrial TROUBLE ON FA.SHION A VENUE Purchase: 16mm $595/video $295 Rental: $55 Revolution), MakeshiftSolutions (industrial Examines the economic problems of the * Gold Medal, Houston Film Festival crisis of 1873, colonization of Africa, development of monopolies), The Comingof New York City garment industry, includ Darkness(WWI, Russian Revolution, WWil, ing sweatshop working conditions, the REVIEW OF THE SEVENTIES Chinese Revolution), The Night is Sinister plight of the working poor, the state of A fast-paced overview of the events, issues (colonialism, foreign aid and multinational trade unionism, the impact of imports, and personalities of the decade, including coporations, neo-colonalism), and A New and the role of organized crime in the student killings at Kent State; the growing Dawn (anti-colonialist wars of liberation) apparel industry economic power of oil-rich Middle Eastern Directed by Jannik Hastrup and ti Vilstrup Directed by Claude Beller and Stefan Moore nations; the Watergate scandal; and a Presi 1974, color, 157 mins., 16mm film/video 1982, color, 60 mins., video dent and Vice President forced to resign Purchase: 16mm $350 each/$2000 series Purchase: $350 Rental: $90 A Document Associates Production Purchase: Video $195 each/$1000 series 1979, color, 44 mins., 16mm film/video Rental: $45 each/$150 series Purchase: 16mm $595/video $295 Rental: $55 33 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 'I1-==I ======S=o=ci=a=l =St=u=d=ie=s======:a!JII Ii MEDIA STUDIES ii COUNTERFEIT COVERAGE Reveals a hidden dimension to the media coverage of the Gulf War, showing how a group of wealthy Kuwaiti citizens hired the American PR firm Hill and Knowlton to develop a multi-million dollar ad cam paign to promote US military interven tion in the Gulf on behalf of Kuwait The Burley Grou,inS, Tobacco111 America video shows how testimony about al Media Only leged Iraqi atrocities was orchestrated BURLEY: GROWING before Congress and the UN, how some MEDIA ONLY TOBACCO IN AMERICA former journalists sell their credibility A behind-the-scenes look at media Examines the plight of a Kentucky tobac and access to the highest bidder, and how coverage of the 1992 Republican National co farmer and his family in the face of TV newsrooms across the country are all Convention where, for one hectic week, uncertain go\.·ernment price support too v. illing to compromise the integrity of 15,000 members of the working press programs and a growing national antis their newscasts with the wholesale use of including print and broadcast jour- moking campaign The video follov-. s Video News Releases produced and paid nalists-crowded into Houston's !'"lomer and Mary Phillips from the plant for b) PR firms on behalf of their clients Astrodome complex. Featuring inter ing through the han esting to the curing Directed by David Shulman views with the journalists themselves, the and sale (at a loss) of his entire crop. 1992, color, 28 mins, video video shows the operations of national Featuring in ten ie\\·S with members of Purchase: $250 Rental: $55 and international newsgathering or Congress the\ ideo explains both sides of 'Must viewingfar all journalism, com ganizations through the daily activities of the debate on tobacco price supports munications, and mediastudies classes-in photojournalists, newspaper and maga zine reporters, and TV and radio broad Directed by Robby Henson fact. for all consumers of TV news. ''-Jeff 1985, color, 28 mins, video Cohen, Executive Director, FAIR casters By shifting the focus from the Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 political convention itself to the media professionals assigned to cover it, Media MAKING THE NEWS FIT Only offers an informative, revealing, and SHOP TALK Examines American media coverage of sometimes humorous look at the nature Focusing on a family -o½ ned printing the war in El Salvador and hov.· jour·· of contemporary journalism plant in Nev. York City recently sold to a nalists co\. er a war in which the US. is Produced by Margaret O'Brien-Molina conglomerate, and set against a back deepl) im oh ed Interviev. s v...ith media and Rick Christie ground of economic insecurit\ and the critics and journalists are interspersed 1992, Color, 47 mins., video impoverishment of the qualit) of work v. ith archi\ al footage from El Salvador Purchase: $295 Rental: $65 through the grov. th of automation, this and IV newsclips, in the process examin film offers an in-depth examination of the ing the role of the US Government in CORPORATION ~ present state of American v.orking class defining the news, and political pressures WITH A MOVIE CAMERA consciousness journalists encounter when their reports Directed by Robert K Machover and contradict U S Government accounts This unusual video examines the ways in Catherine Pozzo di Borgo Directed by Beth Sanders which corporate representations have 1980, color, 83 mins .. 16mm film/video 1986, color, 28 mins., video shaped Americans' ideas about Third Purchase: 16mm $950/video $395 Rental: $100 Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 World countries It interwea\ es excerpts from corporate sponsored films such as * Silv.er Apple National Educational Film Festival Sumatra, Island of Yesterday (Goodyear ANONUEVO Tire and Rubber Co) and Assignment A shocking documentary expos€ of the well-researched . thought-provokingpos turefor jour:nalismstudents and public Venezuela (Creole Petroleum Corp) with plight of undocumented Mexican workers literary texts from Joseph Conrad to in the U.S., re\ ea ling the exploitati\ e work library and community group viewers ' - Booklist (American library Association) Pablo Neruda, poetry, and dramatic seg ing and housing conditions at the Aflo ments featuring performance artists, to Nuevo flower ranch in San Mateo Califor Well produced,not only technicallybut m show how such public relations media nia This video also pro\ ides a comprehen the manner in_whichit presents the issue of function in the creation of cultural si\ e OYen iev... of the complex issue of media bias tJ11svideotape has a message that mythology is subth yet striking.. Recommended " Mexican immigration, including inter Directed by Joel Katz views with prominent scholars, attorne\s Choice (American library Association) 1992, Color, 34 mins., video and organizers · a scat/11ngstory of how many news or Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 Directed by Todd Darling ganizations generally misrepresentedand * Silver Apple Award 1981, color, 55 mins., video misinterpretedthe so-calledelections in the National Educational Film Purchase: $350 Rental: $90 early '80s in El Salvador .documentarian and Video Festival * Eric Se\.areid Award, Academy of Beth Sanderscreates a portrait of cultural Television Arts and Sciences bias. reportorillllaziness andjournalistic Valuable an eyt-openmg emotionalpic groupthmk And she does it all in a cool objec- ture of a major socialand economicproblfm tive tone that beliesher anger "-The Boston facing America tocla1/•'-library Journal Globe The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 34 Social Studies SIX O'CLOCK AND ALL'S WELL NATIVE LAND Probing behind the scenes at the top-rated Written and hosted by Jamake Highwater, NewYorkCitynewsprogram,thisdocumen this video examines the history and culture tary examines the processes and values of of the Native Americans who discovered contemporary broadcast journalism. and civilized the North and South American Throughinterviews with station staff and continents tens of thousands of years ago It dissections of story coverage, a candid is a story of remarkable achievements, bril portrait emergesof America's primary news liant inventions, fierce political struggles, source,the 'SixO'Oock News' program unique religious ideals and colorful mythol Directed by Robert Spencer ogy The video incorporates dance, anima 1980, color, 60 mins., 16mm film/video tion, theatre, computer graphics, and the If It Bleeds,It Leads Purchase: 16mm $795/video $350 Rental: 590 exotic scenery of Ecuador and Peru * Alfred I ..DuPont-Columbia University Produced by Alvin H. Perlmutter IF IT BLEEDS, IT LEADS Award in Broadcast Journalism 1986, color, SBmins., video Purchase: $3SORental: 595 Examines local IV 'spot' news coverage- * Gold Award, Houston Film Festival the term stations give to filmed coverage of " ..entertaining, instructive and quietlydevas "**Highly Recommended .Jarnake High fires, car accidents, shootings and other tating "~lwnbia Journalism Review waterhas done it again/ A rewarding local events involving violence or death " ... requiredviewing in any collegeor univer•· anthropological,cultural, historical and which are frequently used as the lead story sity programin mass communication" cinematographicexperience ... a master on news programs The film features inter Henry Breitrose, Chairman, Department piece"-Science Books & Films views with reporters who discuss the of Communication, Stanford University " informative. It can provokesome reshap prominent coverage given such stories, " this insightfulproduction will be in ing of thoughtabout the Native American, raising important questions about ethical vigoratingviewing in public libraryand com and their origins "-School 1 ibrary Joumal and professional considerations of broad munity group programsand seniorhigh cast journalists schooland collegecommunications, media, THE PRIMAL MIND Directed by John Adkins, Iim Ballou and and journalismclasses "-Booklist Written and hosted by Jamal The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog II Social Studies II CROW DOG SUN, MOON & FEATHER A portrait of Sioux medicine man I his prize-winning musical comedy I Leonard Crow Dog, the spiritual leader of doc.umentary is about three Native American eighty ..nine American Indian tribes and sisters growing up in Brooklyn during the the spokesman for the traditionalists, 1930s and '40s It features Lisa, Gloria and those who vdsh to retain the beliefs and Muriel Miguel, who have been performing way of life of their forefathers Ihe film their family stories professionaly for more also chronicles the late '60s renaissance of than a decade in a presentational style rich Indian pride marked by a return to their in humor and with an elemental power that own language and culture, the birth of recalls the spirit of American Indian myths the American Indian Movement (AIM) The film blends documentary (including ex•· and its protest activities, including the cerpts from home movies shot over a thirty siege at Wounded Knee year period), musical theater {song and Directed by Mike Cuesta and David Baxter dance reenactments of family and tribal 1979, color, 57 mins., 16mm film/video stories), and personal memoir {including Purchase: 16mm $795/video $350 Rental: $95 scenes filmed in the home where the sisters 'A graphu and thoughtful documentary - grew up) Staten Island Ad\ ance Directed by Bob Rosen and Jane Zipp a sensitiveand moving portrait . Docu 1989, color, 30 mins., 16mm film/video ments the moral issues underlying this strug Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $55 gle, as well as the politicaland socialrecord of * Special Jury Prize, USA Film Festival injustice "-NC News Service Best Live Short Subject Sun Moon & Feathu American Indian Film Festival * Golden Gate Award San Francisco Film Festi\- al THE NATIVE AMERICANS NAVAJO: RACE FOR **** Well Done" .presentsthe customs This ten•-part series examines the history PROSPERITY and traditionsof a Native American Indian of the North American Indian Offers a contemporary view of life on the family with warmth and tenderness express- A Document Associates and Navajo reservation, focusing on the ing the joys and sorrowsof being an ethnic BBC Coproduction Navajos' development of industries American a colorful,well-edited program 1972, color, 26 mins. each, 16mm film/video that can be programmedin many different Purchase: 16mm $400 each/$2,995 series CHEROKEE ways. Highly recommendedfor purchase' - Purchase: Video $295 each/$1,995 series Video Rating Guide for Libraries Rental: $55 each/$395 series Examines the modern Cherokee's efforts to preserve Indian traditions, including " a surprisingly sweet,sad portrait For Na TRAIL OF BROKEN TREATIES a performance of ancient ceremonies tive American and sociologicalstudies, even generalaudiences ''-Library Journal Over 400 treaties with Native American tribes have been broken by the U .S THE SIX NATIONS Government. This film ex.amines past Examines the Iroquois League of upstate KEEP THE CIRCLE STRONG and present injustices and the attempts New York-consisting of the Mohawk, Follows the five month journey of Mike of Indian leaders to improve their situa Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Cayuga and Auger, a Cree Indian from northern tion Tuscarora tribes-which considers itself Canada, who travels to Bolivia to live and to be a sovereign, independent nation work with the Aymara Indians During his HOW THE WEST WAS LOST which rejects the American way of life in visit, Mike rediscovers his native cultural favor of a traditional Indian lifestyle Examines the history of the Plains Jn .. roots. This strengthening of his identity dians and the effort of their contem enables Mike to overcome a troubled, porary descendants to maintain their PUEBLO RENAISSANCE poverty·-ridden youth fueled by self-denial cultural identity Provides an authentic view of the sacred Directed by Robbie Hart, l uc cote and traditions, ancient religious and agricul Joel Bertomeu THEY PROMISED IO IAKE tural ceremonies of the Pueblo Indians 1990, color, 28 mins .., video OUR LAND Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 INDIAN COUNTRY " an understated,well-made video Recom Examines the U.S Government's Contrasts the past and present life of the mended "-Library Journal encroachment on land owned by In dians, forcing them onto smaller and five tribes-the Seminoles, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw and Cherokee-in the smaller reservations, and discusses the southeast US LAST OF THE KARAPHUNA white man's basic misunderstanding of Chronicles the history and contemporary the meaning of land to the Indian POTLATCH PEOPLE lifestyle of the Carib Indians who dominated the West Indies centuries CIVILIZED TRIBES Examines the culture of the Indians of the before the arrival of Columbus, but Examines the revolution of attitudes Pacific Northwest and the impottance of whose sole sul"vivors today number less the ceremonial potlatch feast in their cul among younger American Indians lead than 3,000 farmers and fishermen on a ture ing to a new mood of militancy and also small reservation on Dominica reviews the current government policy Directed by Philip Ihomeycroft Teuscher regarding the American Indian 1983, color, 50 mins., 16mm film/video Purchase: 16mm $795/video $295 Rental: $85 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 36 Social Studies FREE VOICE OF LABOR: POLITICAL SCIENCE THE JEWISH ANARCHISTS PUERTO RICAN A dramatic portraitof immigrant life in the STUDIES U.S as seen through the eyes of the sweat shop workers who made up the Jewish anarchist movement. Between 1900 and WWI they built trade unions, organized schools, sponsored lectures and discus sions, as well as dances and a wide range of cultural events. The film includes inter views with partidpan ts in the movement, archival photos and newsreel footage, ex cerpts from old motion pictures, and Yid dish songs and poems Chargeand Counterc.harge Directed by Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher 1980, color, 55 mins., 16mm film/video Manos a la Obra CITIZEN, THE POLITICALLIFE Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $95 OF ALLARD K. LOWENSTEIN * Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival " nothingshort of a treasureas the storyof MANOS A LA OBRA: In chronicling the career of the political how a passionfor a 'mothertongue' and an THE STORY OF OPERATION activist and former NY Congressman, this anarchistvision produceii a muvementthat BOOTSTRAP documentary vividly recreates the Civil had an importanteffect on the growth ofthe Examines Puerto Rico's 'Operation Rights and antiwar struggles of the '60s and Americanlabor movement. "-American Bootstrap,' the highly vaunted economic '70s It traces Lowenstein' s life from his Anthropologist formative childhood influences to the development plan undertaken in the 1950s political causes that motivated his adult life to provide a role model for economic ANARCHISM IN AMERICA development throughout la tin America right up to his assassination in 1980 A colorful and provocative survey of anar Using newsreels, rare archival photos Directed by Julie Thompson and footage, numerous interviews, and 1983, color, 72 mins., 16mm film/video chism in America which attempts to dispel Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $100 popular misconceptions and to trace its his excerpts from government propaganda films, it examines the historical back Gold Award, Houston Film Festival torical development, both as a native * American philosophy stemming from 19th ground to Operation Bootstrap, from the Red Ribbon, American Film Festival * century American traditions of in 1930s through the rise to power of Luiz " a passionatebkrdocumentary . Excellent dividualism and as a foreign ideology Munoz Marin and the Popular Democratic ly edited,extremely well-researched and brought to America by immigrants It fea .. Party in the 1940s, to the '60s when US presented,this film is a mustfor all collec tures rare archival footage of significant per officials proudly displayed Puerto Rico as tions "-library Jownal sonalities and events in anarchist history the 'Showcase of the Americas.' "An infonnativeand intelligentportrait . Directed by Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher Directed by Pedro Rivera and Susan Zeig Shouldbe requiredviewing for every political 1982, color, 75 mins., 16mm film/video 1983, color, 59 mins., 16mm film/video sciencestudent. "-EFL.A Evaluations Purchase: 16mm $950/video $395 Rental: $125 Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $100 (Educational Film Library Association) Silver Plaque, Chicago Film Festival * Outstanding Nonprint Material * Choice (American Library Association) CHARGEAND RED SQUAD ".. a paweiful as well as an infomuitive COUNTERCHARGE An investigative (but frequently film .an invaluableteaching aid "-Jean Depicts the rise and fall of Joseph R Mc humorous) documentary on the surveil Franco, author, Modem Culture in Latin Carthy, the Junior Senator from Wisconsin lance activities of the New York City America whose name became a household word in Police Department's Bureau of Special " a sophisticatedsocio-political aruilysis ... an the '50s and coined a term for a political Services, known as the Red Squad excellentfilm for classroomuse." -Bill Tabb, attitude that is still with us today Begin Directed by Steven Fischler, Joel Sucher, Professor of Economics and Sociology,City ning with a montage of events that led to Howard Blatt and Francis Freedland University of New York the Cold War, this film focuses on the 1972, B&W, 45 mins., 16mm film/video Purchase: 16mm $595/Video $295 Rental: $60 famous Army-McCarthy hearings which PUERTO RICO: were televised in the Spring of 1954 PARADISE INVADED A Film by Emile de Antonio KENNEDYS DON'T CRY 1969, B&W, 43 mins .., 16mm film/video This documentary, narrated by Cliff Examines the history and present-day Purchase: 16mm $595/video $295 Rental: $60 Robertson, interweaves biography and reality of Puerto Rico, including the history * Outstanding Nonprint Material, Choice history to examine the public and private and the contemporary relationship be (American library Association) lives of the members of America's most tween the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico " ercellent.Highly recommend,dfor under famous and politically powerful family, and the U S; the impact of industrialization • graduateand graduate students of U S history, in the process providing a revealing look on the island's economy, ecology and social • politicalscience, and the massmedu, "--Choice at the American political system life; economic exile and life in New York (American library Association) Directed by Raphael Abramowitz and City; and the history of the Puerto Rican independence movement " technicallywell-done .accurate in its Philip S.. Hobel presentationof infonnation and m/ancedin its 1975, color, 100 mins., 16mm film/video Directed by Affonso Beato Purchase: 16mm $995/video $395 Rental: $100 1977, color, 30 mins .., 16mm film/video positions.. quiteuseful to collegestudents of Spanish dialog with English subtitles politicalscience "-Educational Tedtnology Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $55 37 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 11· Social Studies II IMAGES THE RIDDLE OF OF FAITH RELIGION THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS Examines the centuries-old tradition in Based on the controversial work of Biblical Puerto Rico of using hand-carved santos scholar Dr. Barbara Thiering, this in Catholic religious practices The film documentary examines the historical back visits an elderly santero (carver) and his ground to the Bible and its portrayal of teenage apprentice, revealing the skill Jesus Thiering contends that Jesus was not and artistry of this ancient craft as well as a supernatural being with divine powers the importance of the saints in the lives of but an ordinary man with an extraordinary the faithful We also hear from a Pentecos message of universal love who became fa tal minister who condemns their use as tally embroiled in religious politics of the blasphemous idolatry Man 1 of the time. Thiering's interpretation of the Dead wooden santos especially antique pieces, Sea Scrolls also tends to strip away the su .. are considered collector s items today pernatural elements of the Bible, explaining and sell in art galleries for thousands of the miracles in human rationalist terms dollars each As a result, the popular need Filmed on locations in Jerusalem and other for inexpensive santos is increasingly Holy land sites, the film includes inter being met by the manufacture of hand views with Dr Thiering as well as other painted plaster images Whether\ iev,.ed Biblical scholars who discuss Thiering's as objects of worship or fine art pieces, controversial claims, the nature of the however, the santos continue to play an academic debate, and the possible reasons important role in Puerto Rico Lily Dale for the more than forty year delay in Directed by Rebecca Marvil publishing the remaining Dead Sea Scrolls 1992, Color, 28 mins , video LILYDALE; Directed by Richard Cassidy Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 MESSAGES FROM THE 1989, color, 80 mins., video SPIRIT SIDE OF LIFE Purchase: $295 Rental: $100 THE BATTLE OF VIEQUES An offbeat documentary portrait of lily " smoothlyedited .afascinating study,._ Book.list (American library Association) Examines the US Na\ v's control and use Dale, New York, one of Arnerica"s oldest of Vieques a satellite island and spiritualist communities, where just **** Highly Recommended well- municipality of Puerto Rico, as a military about e\eryone is a psychic or a medium produced exciting fascinating thought training, exercise and deployment base who claims to be able to communicate provoking it is sure to inspirespinted with the dead The video includes inter Directed by Zydnia Nazario discussions Highly recommendedfor viewers 1986, color, 40 mins., 16mm film/video views with se\ era! mediums in lily Dale of all creeds"-Video Rating Guide for Purchase: 16mm $595/video $295 Rental: $60 and shows them as they give pri\ate libraries readings, perform public healings, and an impressiveproduction and a very RETRATOS take part in outdoor sen·ices where they thoroughpresentation ofThien·ng's idea " receive messages 'from the spirit side of Chronicles the life stories of four in Archaeology life" dividuals from New Yorks Puerto Rican community, each of whom has attempted Directed by Andy Biskin GOD, GAYS AND 1991, color, 28 mins .., video to assimilate to life in America, but who Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 THE GOSPEL also maintain strong ties to their cultural Tells the story of the Universal Fellow heritage " an informative,nonjudgmental look at the peopleand beliefsof spiritualism .Ap ship of Metropolitan Community Chur Directed by Stewart Bird ches, a Christian church with a special 1980, color, 53 mins .., 16mm film/video propri.atefor publicand academiclibraries ' - Video Rating Guide for Libraries outreach to gays and lesbians Using ar Spanish dialog with English subtitles chival footage and photos, the video Purchase: 16mm $850/video $350 Rental: $90 Never prosleytizingnor endorsing traces the history of the 'gay church,' 'Capturesthe spirit of NY Cs Latin com spiritualism,the unbi.asedprogram takes a from its humble beginnings and its early munity; excellentpresentation of its contrasts meanderinglook at a peacefulslightly offbeat struggle for survival to its present suc and problems a good introductionto a unit town ''-Booklist (American library cess The film discusses the church's of ethnic studies, values etc Shouldbe afine Association) philosophy and programs, as well as the discussiontool Sociologyclasses will also Bible's views of homosexuality, AIDS and find it useful, a, well Latinocommunity MOVING MYTHS prejudice, and Christianity's traditional groups "-EFlA Evaluations A provocative look at the Protestant and sexism Catholic churches in Ireland, examining Directed by Mary Anne McEwen THE NATIONALISTS both the myths and realities of their legis~ 1984, color, 58 mins .., video Surveys the activities of the Puerto Rican lative and educational influence on such Purchase: $295 Rental: $95 Nationalist Party in the 1950s, including issues as abortion, contraception, ****"Highly Recommended-Video the background to the shooting incident homosexuality, and women's rights Rating Guide for libraries in the U S Congress by four Puerto Rican Directed by Cahal Mclaughlin " ...informative .. highly recommended'·- nationalists in March 1954, and the con 1989, color, 52 mins, video Library Joumal tributions of the movement's leading fig Study Guide Available ure, Don Pedro Albizu Campos Purchase: $295 Rental: $85 Directed by Jose Garcia Torres " .important illustratesthe viciousnessof 1973, color, 28 mins, 16mm film/video sectari.anismand the prudishnessof Irish Spanish dialog with English subtitles Christianity "--Choice (American library Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $55 Association) The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 38 II Social Studies A QUIET REVOLUTION FOLLOW THE Examines the role of liberation Theology DIRT ROAD in Latin America today by showing the Examines the situation of communes, or efforts of Christian Base Communities, intentional communities, in the US. today groups of poor and marginalized people Although communes-small, voluntary attempting to solve their_ problems of social communities isolated from general hunger, disease, unemployment and society which share a common ideology political oppression through the applica and social purpos_e--have existed since tion of Biblical principles colonial times, the Sixties saw renewed in Dift 39 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog Social Studies ii GATHERING UP AGAIN: HOLY TERROR FIESTA IN SANTA FE Examines the political acti\'ism of the Examines the Santa Fe Fiesta, America's religious Nev.. Right, focusing on their anti oldest continuous community celebration, abortion efforts, and explores the nature of which commemorates the Spaniards' their impact on American political life The "bloodless reconquest" of the Pueblo In film provides a revealing, inside look at the dians in New Mexico in 1692 'The video movement and its philosophy as expressed documents the behind-the-scenes prepara by its leaders as well as its rank and file tions for the Fiesta as well as highlights of activists. Interviews are combined with the weekend celebration itself, featuring in scenes filmed at anti--abortion conventions terviews with Fiesta organizers and par and demonstrations ticipants, community leaders, and cultural Directed by Victoria Schultz activists. Focusing on three young people 1986, color, 58 mins., 16mm film/video representing each of the city's three prin Holy Terror Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $100 cipal ethnic groups-Native Americans, * Blue Ribbon Hispanics, and Anglo•·Americans-who YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE American Film and Video Festival play roles in the Fiesta ·s historical pageant, Examines urban crime in America and * Nonprint Editors' Choice, Booklist the video shows the formation of ethnic how the atmosphere of pervasive fear (American Library Association) identities, the ongoing impact of the cul that envelops our cities encourages racial · A pawerfulfilm with an urgent message tures of conquest on Native Americans in antagonism Employing an imaginative this will surely elicit .strongreactions from the region, the development of sanitized mix of song and dance, narrative, viewerswhatever their attitudes and in versions of US history, and thE difficulties documentary, parody, a TV game show whateverdisciplinary context -youuse it - involved in recognizing more authentic and other popular culture forms, this Psychology of Women Quarterly local history provocati\'e \ ideo is guaranteed to stimu powerful A surefirediscussion starter Directed by Jeanette DeBouzek late lively discussion for public library.religious, and political 1992, color, 47 mins., video Directed by Laura Kipnis group audiences'·-Book.list (American Study Guide Available 1984, color, 45 mins .., video Purchase: $275 Rental: $75 library Association) Purchase: $295 Rental: $75 Silver Apple a must for any woman over the ageof * National Educational Film * Best Educational Video 16 a downright scaryfilm If you view this Athens Video Festival and Video Festival film and still cannot see tht importanceof imaginative guerrillaattacks our con politicalactivism in maintainmg the n'ghts THE ANIMALS FILM 'l'entiona!assumptions ZJcry engagingly including that of reproductivefreedom-of all provocatiz,eand valuablefor studies in the A comprehensive documentar) expose of women, then thert is no guaranteethat the socio-culturalanalysis ofmas5 media' - society's mass exploitation of animals ex scaleswill not tip in Javor of the repressionof library Journal amining the subject in the context of larger eachofus '·-NWSA Perspectives (Nation•· social, political and economic issues al Women's Studies Association) Among the many areas examined are the IS !HIS DREAMING? use of animals in scientific research, factor\ Chronicles the history of arms control farming techniques, the destruction Of and disarmament negotiations since WVVII,discusses ways in which interna~ wildlife, the overpopulation of pets and URBAN STUDIES strays, and the reality behind the glamor of tional conflicts can be most effectively Ii ii the fur industry resolved, and suggests how ordinary people can influence progress towards Directed by Victor Schonfeld and BOMBING LA.. Myriam Alaux disarmament 1981, color, 136 mins., 16mm film/video Produced by Michael Moran Examines the subculture of graffiti writing Purchase: 16mm $2,000/video $395 1985, color, 53 mins., video in Los Angeles The film interviews Rental: $150 Purchase: $350 Rental: $60 numerous youngsters, follows them on " . .a powerful chronicleof human cruelty it " instructive and useful rationaland un "bombing" expeditions and also attends a should be seen by peoplewho coreabout derstated . For high schooland collegestu national graffiti art conference The film animals and is necessaryviewing for those dents, and adult discussiongroups " also records encounters between the graffiti who haven't reallygiven it much thought library Journal writers and adults who are angry about defacement of private and public property its imagesare hard toforget or ignore " - " .excellent Because of its historical ap Arizona Daily Star proach the program's \alue should Directed by Gary Glaser 1990, color, 40 mins., video " . .unusual, explosive,tough and very spe remain high for some time a Purchase: $295 Rental: $60 cial .. a Jwrrifyingvision Yet is is one that I worthwhile addition to any college film * Bronze Apple, National Educational would recommendfor everyoneand anyone library "--Choice (American library As Film and Video Festival living on this planet (it should be shown m sociation) * Honorable Mention everyschool in the world) "-The Toronto American Film and Video Festival Sun WAR LAB ***"An excellentprogram for teens" '' what is shown cannot be denied or, once A compilation historical documentary of Museumedia seen,forgotten It is truly afilm that must fering a critical look at the development make intelligent,sensitive viewers think very of bombs and other weapons of mass **" .provocative foodfor thought " seriouslyabout the issues "-City Limits destruction since WWII Video Rating Guide for Libraries (London) Directed by Monica Maurer ·'Freshand original'-American Film and 1987, color, 30 mins., 16mm film/video Video Association Evaluations Purchase: 16mm NA/video $250 Rental: $50 The Cinema Guild Video & F'ilm Catalog 40 Social Studies DELIVERED VACANT In the early Eighties, the ethnic, blue col lar community of Hoboken, New Jersey began to receive an influx of artists and other residents who crossed the river from Manhattan in search of cheap rents. As the decade's atmosphere of financial speculation heated up, real estate developers descended on the city to build condominiums for the new generation of New York Yuppies, in the process dis placing thousands of Hoboken's long·· time residents, many of whom became homeless Others organized to protect their homes and for years waged a heated and protracted battle from City Hall to the New Jersey State Legislature Ironi cally, by the time new legislation was enacted to protect Hoboken's apartment dwellers, the real estate boom had col DeliveredVacant lapsed amidst a national recession, new condominiums remained empty, and WHERE CAN I LIVE? LOS SURES many developers faced financial ruin An insightful documentary portrait of Filmmaker and Hoboken resident Nora Examines gentrification, a process by which an underdeveloped neighborhood one of New York City's poorest neighbor Jacobson spent eight years documenting hoods, and the lives of five of its Puerto the city's struggle against gentrification, is 'upgraded' by real estate speculation, with higher income individuals moving Rican residents The filmmakers lived in showing us the homes and lives of old the community during the film's produc time residents and newly arrived Yuppies, into and improving existing properties, but also displacing many of the tion and developed sympathetic and tenant organizers, real estate developers, trusting relationships with each of their politicians, street people, immigrants, and neighborhood's longtime residents Focusing on three tenant groups in subjects By allowing the residents to the wackiest Mayor in America. The result describe their own lives, to express freely is a richly detailed chronicle of urban Brooklyn, NY, this video shows how the the threat of displacement led community their own feelings and experiences, L.os change that characterized many Sures offers a rare view from the inside of American cities during the 'boom and residents to organize in defense of their homes and community contemporary life in America's im bust' economy of the Reagan era poverished inner cities Directed by Nora Jacobson Directed by Erik Lewis Directed by Diego Echeverria 1992, color, 118 mins .., video 1984, color, 32 mins., video 1983, color, S8 mins., 16mm film/video Purchase: $395 Rental: $150 Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 " .informativeand moving.. a hard·•hitting Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $100 * Special Jury Award Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival San Francisco International Film Festival lookat the ideologyof speculationand its im * pact on people"-Shelterforce * Special Jury Award " a richly detailedsaga of urban transi- San Francisco Film Festival tion .. one of the best and most touchinghis torieswe may everget of what happenedto SQUAITERS HOUSING COURT Americain the last decade"-New York Tells the stories of poor people in Examines the operations of the Bronx Newsday Philadelphia who illegally take over or Housing Court which annually mediates "An '80s gentrifia,tion sagawith the scope 'squat' in abandoned houses in order to some 125,000 disputes between tenants anddetail of a 19th century novel .has the get places to live and to change housing and landlords, including evictions, rent charm but none ofthe smartass posturingof policy locally and nationally fhe film strikes and housing code violations The Roger and Me."-'The Village Voice focuses on a 22-year-old single mother of film also explores the social and three small children who becomes a economic causes for the growing problem THE HEART OF LOISAIDA leader in the national squatters move of urban housing decay ment, and includes numerous interviews Depicts the efforts of Latino residents of Directed by William Sarokin and Deni Matias with activists, real estate developers and 1985, color, 30 mins., 16mm film/video New York's Lower East Side who have government officials taken over their own buildings aban Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $55 doned by landlords Organizing themsel Directed by Charles Koppelman 1984, color, 27 mins., 16mm film/video HOME ves into Tenants' Associations, they Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $50 undertake the repair and renovation of Examines the plight of 'squatters' in their decaying tenements and provide * CINE Golden Eagle Award Brooklyn, NY as they try to claim build their own services Silver Award ings abandoned by the city and to trans * San Francisco Film Festival form them into habitable dwellings Directed by Marci Reaven and Beni Matias 1979, B&:W,30 mins .., 16mm film/video * First Prize, Environmental Design A Film 'by Juan Cristobal Cobo, Peter K. Research Associates Film Festival Spanish dialog with English subtitles Hill and Christopher C. Johnson Purchase: $425/video $2SORental: $55 "Succinct,well-paced, with rousing music, 1986, color, 28 mins., video thisfilm combinesthe issuesof housing, Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 women,and minorities Recommended.for * Gold Pl.ique, Chicago Film Festival most collections"-Library Journal * CINE Golden Eagle Award 41 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog Social Studies 11 COMING OUT WOMEN'S TUDIES II s II This cinfma-z1Critidocumentan examines one- of America's most exclusive and en-· LAURA CLAY: during social traditions-the debutante ball The film foe uses on the National VOICE OF CHANGE Debutante Cotillion at the Washington A biographical profile of Laura Cla 1 (1&19·· Hilton, following the preparations of Jill 1941), a key figure in the Woman's Rights Schv..eitzer .. one of the nev.. generation of Movement v\. ho de\ oted her life to the debs who see beyond the traditional struggle for equal educational oppor ritual to the" aluable career and business tunities, child custod) right~ equal pa] for connections that can be made equal work, and the right to \ ote. She Produced by Susan Bell, Directed by Ted Reed played prominent roles in the !\:a~io:1a1 1989. B&W, 63 mins., 16mm film/video American Vvoman s Suffrage Assoc1at1on Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $100 (todav knov, n as the Leagu( of Women * Book list Editors Choice Voter~) and the Ken tuck~ Equal Rights As- American library Association sociation. The film blends archi, al footage almo5t anthropolog1cal us~ful in some and photos v,ith dramatic reenactments. soc1olog1/ and Jcminist studics courses " excerpts from C!a) 's journal speec.hes and l ibra~ Journal extensi,e correspondence honestand straightforward .shouldspad, Directed by Heather Lyons wme li'l'ell/ discussionin women ·s studies and 1992, color, 56 mins, video Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 soci()fog1JCourses Junior high and up" Choice (A.merican libra0 Association) an informatirx pnifi!t T111~IN 11-ediftd i::;:··:. k - account Jascinatintl.11relates Clay·~1ml11 Wt a surpn~m~lv im 10Jz,ing non•-fudgmrntal Tht Flapper Story to her actit1i~ma5 an nd1,lt -Booklist prodllcfz(lil -Book.list (American Libraf) (American Librar) Association) Association) THE FLAPPER STORY WE DIG COAL Offers a lively mixture of contemporary A MAN'S WOMAN interviews and archival film footage in a This docudrama offers an intriguing Examines the situation of women coal thoughtful examination of the social anahsis of the ideological and social im miners in the U S, their struggle to be phenomenon of the 'flapper,' the provoca plic;tions of the anti-feminist v.:?me_ns hired. their da) -to-da: Ji\ es in the mines, tive 'New Woman' of America's Roaring mO\ ement Follov, ing the assassmat10n the economic necessit\ that first made '20s It traces the historical developments of Clo\ is Kingsley a pm ...erful pro-famil~ them seek v,ork as miners and the op which gave shape to the flapper ideal, ex anti-feminist right wing ideologue, a TV position they face from their families. the plores the \\. ays in which the flapper news reporter in\ estigates Kingsley s life community and their male cov..,1rkers rebelled against prevailing social mores, and career The result is a complex and Produced by Thomas Goodwin, Dorothy and also considers the contradictions and contradictoq account of Kingsle) s life Mc Ghee and Gerardine Wurzburg limitations which underlay the flapper's 1982, color, 58 mins, 16mm film/video newly won independence and ideological mission Study Guide Available Directed by Laura Kipnis Purchase: 16mm $i95/video $350 Rental: $100 Directed by Lauren Lazin 1988, color, 52 mins., video 1985, color, 29 mins., 16mm film/video Gold Medal, Houston Film Festival Purchase: $295 Rental: $90 * Purchase: 16mm $450/video $250 Rental: $55 * Citation, American Association of *** this pseudodocumentarysends up a University Women * Documentary Merit Award, Academy of host of sacredand not-so-sacredcou 1s .,_ Motion Picture Arts and Sciences the z,erv best documentary roer made on Video Rating Guide for libraries Silver Plaque, Chicago Film Festival wom01 in ,ion-traditionaloccl1pations. It * Silver Award, Philadelphia Film Festival " a provoc.ativetriggn for discussionamm1g should be in the audio-visual library of every * an educatedaudirncc ·'-Librar) Journal Womrn's Studies program'·-Jessie Ber * CINE Golden Eagle Award Chris Statuette, Columbus Film Festival COMEDIENNE nard Professor Emerita, Pennsyhania * State Universit) entertainingand informative a valuable A funny and fascinating cinCmn-Phiti resource"-Media & Methods documentary about two v..omen trying to ' .entertaining,pravocatioc can be wlwlehear make it as stand-ur comics in Nev. York We Dig Coal tedlyrecommended far allgeneral-interest publi, City Filmmaker Katherine Matheson fol libraryprograms and fur us, in high school lowed two such comics, Chn; 1Klein and Americanhistory rourses "-Sightlines Zora Rasmussen, O\ er a four year period, (Educational Film Library Association) in and out of imprO\ spots, clubs and conventions In deftl) cutting back and high-spirited,provocative and adven forth between two v..omen v. hose careers turous ..draws a subtle but powerfulhistori head in opposite directions, the film of cal parallelbetween the flo.ppers .and fers remarkable insights into v..-hatit takes contemporaryyoung women "-Cineaste to make it in sho"" biz shurt butful/ of 1920sJun .would be Directed by Katherine Matheson especiallyvaluable in collegehistory c~urses 1983, color, 82 mins., 16mm film/video All libraries"~oice (American Library Purchase: 16mm $995/video $350 Rental: $125 Association) ***·Fascinating. an offbeatand absorb entertaining.. a lively historicalretrospec ing moi-rie,._ The Philadelphia Inguirer tive ···-Booklist (American Library Association) The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 42 Social Studies 11 II TOO MUCH, TOO SOON FROM MY GRANDMOTHER'S Examines the newly emerging sport of GRANDMOTHER UNTO ME women's bodybuilding, which has Ihe storytelling tradition of the southern generated a great deal of public con•• Appalachians comes to life through troversy over our society's notions of actress/writer Clarinda Ross's portrayal femininity and appropriate gender of four generations of her maternal ances roles The documentary focuses on Sue tors The video takes viewers on an in - Ann McKean, one of the sport's most timate tour through the past, following charismatic personalities, who sees the family's lineage from an 1890 homes herself not as an athlete but as an artist, teader to a modern-day actress who left and who believes that bodybuilding the mountains to pursue her craft in the for women does not diminish their big city. The stories that she relates detail femininity but develops their sense of the march of time and progress in the self-sufficiency and self-assertiveness most personal of terms Th.is is the story Directed by Mark Schwartz of America itself, in its transition from 1987, color, 15 mins., video Indians and the wilderness frontier to an Purchase: $195 Rental: $30 industrialized land where economic op a thought-provokingfilm, whichmight be of portunity and foreign wars began to tear use to psychologyand womenS studiesclasses, families apart for the first time and as wellos to bodybuilders"-Library Journal change the traditional roles of women Directed by John David Allen 1990, color, S2 mins .., video MISS ... OR MYTH? Miss Or Myth? Examines beauty pageants and the im Study Guide Available ages of women they promote, allowing ...ALL OUR LIVES Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 both pageant supporters and protestors " .an excellentscript, and fine acting . a Examines the lives of several women who poignantlystirring sliceof personalizedhis to express their viewpoints The film actively participated in the social revolution focuses on the Miss California Beauty tory "-Booklist (Starred * Review) during the Spanish Civil War, women who (American Library Association) Pageant and the emotionally charged are as dynamic now, in their 80s, as they debate that has occurred in recent years were in their youth Featuring rare archival *** Excellent/Editor'sChoice "An out It features rare archival footage of Miss footage and photos from the period, this standing programfor all libraries.And one America and Miss California pageants video provides a warm encounter with that is sure to be popularwith patrons High dating back to the 1920s as well as con women whose ideal of "a more just and ly recommended."-Video librarian temporary footage of recent pageants humane society" has lasted a lifetime Excellent/Must-HaveRating The film also features interviews with ***** Directed by lisa Berger and Carol Mazer " .entertaining and delightful Highly Pageant contestants and officials, 1986, color, 54 mins., video recommendedfor all academicand public feminist authors and protestors Spanish dialog with English subtitles libraries."-Video Rating Guide for Produced by Geoffrey Dunn, Mark Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 Libraries Schwartz and Claire Rubach Merit Award, Athens Video Festival "Acting is superband dialecti.s startlingly 1986, color, 60 mins., 16mm film/video * Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $100 authentic . This charmingvideo couldbe MYYIDDISHE used aloneor in conjunctionwith other * Red Ribbon, American Film Festival MOMME McCOY materialsfor history,folklore, and literature * GoldApple Filmmaker Bob Giges focuses on his It i.ssuitable for all ages Of specialinterest to National Educational Film Festival preservationsocieties, women's studies,and * Best Documentary Feature spirited 90-year··old grandmother, Belle Palo Alto Film Festival Demner McCoy, for an intimate portrait storytellingaficionados "-Choice (American Library Association) Gold Plaque, Chicago Film Festival of one woman's struggle with the con * flicts between family, religion and love. " .well done.. Recommended for .Southern " examinesboth sides of an explosiveargument Through an interview with Belle, period history collections"-Library Journal in afair manner A gooddi.scussion starter for photos, and Yiddish and American songs college/adultgroups "-Library Journal sung by Belle herself, the video offers a PERSONAL DECISIONS "Dramatius the social-political-theoreticalques look at one person's attempt to reconcile Examines a woman's right to control her tions in aJun way "-Los Angeles Weekly tradition with assimilation own reproductive life and the complex " .excellent.. Thefilmmakers diswver that sin Directed by Bob Giges considerations she faces in deciding cerity i.sshoulder-deep on bothsides, and that 1991, color, 20 mins., video whether to have an abortion. The film it's not allphony. "-The New YorkTunes Purchase: $195 Rental: $40 presents the compelling real-life stories "You might questionyour own attitudesjust " a delightfulslice of immigrant life and accul of a wide range of women who have had a little bit-no matter what side you're on " turation,of religious and culturaladjustment to make this difficult decision The Honolulu Star-Bulletin and acrommaiationworth recalling in an in Directed by ·rhomas Goodwin and *** "Fascinating,sharp and provocative" - creasinglyplurali.stic society. "-Library Journal Gerardine Wurzburg GoodTunes " .an engagingvideo portrait. Recom 1986, color, 30 mins., 16mm film/video "Entertainingas well os even-handed .shows mended "-Video Librarian Purchase: 16mm $395/video $250 Rental: $50 crrativeinstinct, social insight and equitabletreat First Pla 43 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog II. Social Studies II THE EMERGING WOMAN Surveys the history of women in the U S , from the early 19th century through the rise of the women's liberation movement Using old engravings, photos, newsreels and archival footage, the film shows the varied economic, social and cultural ex periences of women, how they felt about their conditions, and how their sex, race and class often determined their priorities Directed by Helena Solberg-Ladd 1974, B&:W,40 mins., 16mm film/video Purchase: 16mm $550/video $295 Rental: $60 * Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival * Official Film on History of Women, American Revolution Bicentennial Commission MOTHER IRELAND Examines the imagery which for centuries has portrayed Ireland as a woman and dis cusses the social function of these romantic stereotypes of Irish womanhood and their relationship to the nationalist struggle and Irish women today Archh al footage and newsreels, photos and graphic, and period songs and music are interwoven with nwnerous inten-iev-. s MotherIreland Directed by Anne Crilly 1988, color, 52 mins., video ABORTION: STORIES FROM THE DOUBLE DAY Purchase; $350 Rental; $90 NORTH AND SOUTH A look at working women in Latin ***.Fascinating . Gooduse of popular Each year, an estimated 30 to 55 million America and their efforts tc, achie\ e and.folkmusic to heightenemotional con women throughout the world obtain in equality in the home and v-.orkplace tent ''-AFVA Evaluations (American duced abortions More than half of these Most combine their participation in the Fihn and Video Association) abortions are illegal and an estimated labor market v.ith their family functions as mothers and wi\es, thus v, or king a · A well-marshaledchronology. an eloquent 84,000 of them result in death This cross 'double da) ' argumentfor the reshapingof Ireland'simage cultural suney shov. s how abortion and the politicaland economicfortunes of its transcends race, religion and social class, Directed by Helena Solberg-Ladd and hO\., differences in the practice and 1975, co]or, 53 mins., 16mm film/\ idea women "-Book.list (American Library As Purchase: 16mm $795/video $350 Rental: 585 sociation) perception of abortion are mainly in the degree of secrecy and danger accornpanv~ "The photographyis ma~1!ficrnt t/11::.01md ****·' an extremelywell-done, thought ing it Featuring interviews filmed in excellent,the editing. tight .suitabh fm a proooking,and powerfulvideo "-Video Ireland, Japan, Thailand, Peru, Colombia wide variety of sociologyand anthropologyas Rating Guide for libraries and Canada, the film lends a voice to well as psychologycourses ·"-Psycholog) women throughout the world of Women Quarterly LA OPERACION Directed by Gail Singer '. an excellentdocument -Book.list Examines the controversial use of female 1984, color, 55 mins., 16mm film/video (American library Association) sterilization as a means of population con Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $100 trol in Puerto Rico, which has the highest Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival SIMPLEMENTE JENNY incidence of sterilization in the world * * Documentary Grand Prize Examines women in Latin America and Directed by Ana Maria Garcia San Francisco Film Festival the cultural values that shape their li\ es. 1982, color, 40 mins ,, 16mm film/video * First Place, National Council on Family Scenes of urban slums, abandoned Study Guide Available Relations Film Festival children, reform schools and broken Purchase: 16mm $595/video $295 Rental; $75 moving and unmoralistic.An excellent homes are juxtaposed against roman * Merit Award choicefor high schooland collegestudents, ticized media images latin American Studies Association and the adult community "-library Journal Directed by Helena Solberg-Ladd Documentary Prize, Festival of New * ' a remarkablifilm. Highly recommended 1975, color, 33 mins., 16mm film/video Latin American Cinema Spanish dialog with English subtitles "A penetratingexpose ..a goodfzlm about a for all levels ''--Choice (American library Purchase; 16mm $425/video $250 Rental; $55 Association) highly politicalissue For adult audiences,n .. Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival ''An astoundmg programboth Zncontent and * terestedin feminism, socialpolicy, population " a richly photographedessay 1t docu control "-library Journal photography both affirmsand challenges ments also the conflict~f cultures-particular " the generalpoints it makesare valid opinions . a chancefor U S viewers to lookat ly Western valuesand Indian and folk beyondthe boundariesof Puerto Rico a film abortionfrom a differentperspective" values-and of classes''-E. Bradford Media Profiles (The Health Sciences that will evokepowerful response" Burns, Prof of History, UCLA Psychology of Women Quarterly Edition) " fascinating' -Wilson Library Bulletin The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 44 World Cultures 11 II IIAFRICAN STUDIES II LIFE STORY OF AN AFRICAN INYANGA A docu-drama portraying the selection and lifelong education of an Inyanga, an African healer who dispenses traditional herbal remedies The life story of Mhlahlo Mlotshwa, son of a famous rain prophetess and today President of the In yangas Association of South Africa, reveals the practice of traditional herbal medicine-which utilizes more than 700 plants in various mixtures-and their demonstrable success rate in treating a variety of ills, whether related to actual physical ailments or the perceived in fluence of' evil spirits. ' The film examines No Eas_yWalk the preparation and use of traditional medicines, the diagnosis and trea tinent of NOEASYWALK ZIMBABWE patients, and the metaphysics and cos This series chronicles the history of In March 1896,the same month that the Battle mology of African beliefs regarding the colonialism and the struggle for inde- of Adowa was fought in Ethiopia, the powers of the Inyanga Although viewed pendence in three African countries Ndebele people of what was then known as skeptically by the Western scientific and Ethiopia, Kenya, and Zimbabwe In each Rhodesia rose in armed rebellion against medical communities, the methods of the program, Ghanaian-born director Ber European settlers sumas Cecil Rhodes who African Inyangas are shown to be suc nard Odjidja has contrasted contem had taken over much of their land in the cessful because they involve not only the poraneous newsreels and press reports search for gold and other minerals. The First action of medicines on the body but also documenting African history from a Chimurenga, asit is known to Zimbabweans, of the mind on the body European perspective with the words and ended in defeat and it took another 84 years Directed by Sith Yela memories of Africans, including inter and a guerrilla war in the 1970s before inde 1991, Color, 27 mins., video views with both European and African pendence was gamed This video traces the Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 eyewitness swvivors struggle through interviews with Robert Directed by Bernard Odjidja Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Ian Smith and other EDUCATION.: 1988, color, 60 mins ..each, video Zimbabweans, black and white A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT Study Guide Available Bronze Apple Purchase: $395 each/$1000 series * National Educational Film Festival Examines the educational crisis in South Rental: $90 each/$220 series ****" .Good visUJJl quality and con Africa where the apartheid regime has for tinuity recommended highschool, college, decades maintained two separate and un·· for KENYA "-Video equal educational systems, one white and andgenen,/lilmlryrollections This video traces the history of Kenya's Rating Guide for Libraries one black, with the consequent miseduca opposition to white rule, from the arrival of tion of successive generations of black the first settlers in the 19th century to the ETHIOPIA youth and the destruction of untold Mau-Mau rebellion in 1952, in which the The oldest African nation also became the human potential In interviews with both struggle for land rights was central Early first to free itself from colonial domination white and black students, teachers, newsreels and missionary films are com· This video begins with the Ethopian victory parents and administrators, the video bined with interviews to trace the growing over the Italians in 1896 at the Battle of discusses problems plaguing the black frustration among Kenyans, in particular Adowa, which confirmed Ethopian inde educational system, as well as the social the Kikuyu and their leader Jomo Kenyatta. pendence to the European po~ers then problems-violence, poverty, inadequate Eyewitness sUivivors to the early stages of vying for influence on the continent Tbe transportation, housing and health Kenya's struggle recount their experiences, victory also paved the way for ~ care-which make it difficult for most including living under regulations such as Menelik's modernization program which it South Africans to even make to the 'Kipande,' the local pass--law system,which included a telephone network, railways and classroom door Emphasizing the impor was one of many factors contributing to the an educational system. Haile Selassie's suc tance of the interrelationship between violence and fear of the Mau-Mau rebellion cession to the throne in 1930 was followed teachers, students and parents, the video * Silver Apple in 1935 by Mussolini's invasion and a five also makes clear that the challenge for a National EducationaJ Film Fntival year Italian occupation. After the war, new, post•apartheid South Africa is to re ***"Succeeds at portrayingth£ eoolution Ethiopia Jed the way in the effort to store public confidence in education and of resistancefrom peacefulprotest to ,mned decolonu.e Africa, establishing the Or outlines the African National Congress's amfruntation.. Both this programand th£ ganizationfor African UnityinAddisAbaba program for a new, nonracial educational ,tries arerecommended for libraries that main in 1963. - system minrollections concerning Afria, ... Om he • ...Jioely 11114inklligent .....digs intothe mine Direded by Kevin Harris used at th£high-sdwol leve/ and aboDe"- {of archi1><1lfootage] to marvelous effect .•. 1992,.color, 45 mins .., video Video Rating Guide for Libraries Purchase: $295 Rental: $70 demonstrating half a ~entury_or so.of th£ colonial experience . . -Basil Davidson, 'The Listener 45 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog World Cultures II THE LIBERIA TRAGEDY MOZAMBIQUE: SONG OF ffiE SPEAR Examines the recent political history of THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL Examines the role of culture in the strug Liberia, from the 1980 military coup led Examines the human tragedy unfolding gle for national liberation in South Africa by Samuel Doe to the 1989 rebellion in Mozambique, Africa's poorest nation, by interspersing performances by the which ousted him from power and led to where the civilian populace is not only Amandla Cultural Ensemble with the present Liberian civil war The video threatened with full-scale famine but is footage of the mass singing of resistance traces the early history of Liberia, and also under siege from RENAMO, a songs on the streets of South Africa and focuses on the repressive history of the bloody terrorist ·army supported by interviews with leading cultural workers Doe regime 1t also depicts the rebel offen Sou th Africa of the African National Congress sive against the government which began Produced by Bob and Amy Coen Directed by Barry Feinberg in 1989 and led to a bloody civil war 1988, color, 57 mins., video 1986, color, S7 mins., 16mm film/video which included government atrocities Purchase: $350 Rental: $90 Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $95 against Liberian citizens, futile attempts * Red Ribbon **** .., moving and compelling Thedan by other West African nations to mediatE American Film and Video Festival ces arefull of the vigor and determinationof a a peace settlement, and the September a very successfuland at times powerful people wlw are optimistic about theirfu- 1990 capture, torture and killing of productwn Technicalquality very good" ture "-Video Rating Guide for Libraries Samuel Doe Directed by award-winning AFVA Evaluations African journalist Hilton Fyle, the video NAMIBIA.: features extensive archi\.al footage and NAMIBIA.: NO EASY ROAD TO FREEDOM interviews with Liberian journalists and REBIRTH OF A NAIION Examines Namibia's long history of former government officials, rebel leader colonial occupation by South Africa, in Charles Iavlor, and the U.S Asst After twenty-three years of armed strug·· cluding the armed conflict between South Secretary of State for African Affairs gle against South African occupation for-· ces, Namibia gained its independence in African troops and the Namibian resis Directed by Hilton Fyle tance organization SWAPO, negotiations 1991, color, 58 mins., video 1990 This video documents the cha!Ien·· Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 ges facing Namibians in rebuilding a na of a peace plan in 1978, and discussions of tion dispossessed by a lifetime of colonial the nation's independence that was finally domination and devastated by decades of declared in 1990 ERIIREA occupation Directed by Kevin Harris For nearly thirty years, in the longest on Directed by Kevin Harris 1989, color, 58 mins., video going war in Africa, the Eritrean people 1990, color, 45 mins .., video Purchase: $350 Rental: $90 waged a bitter struggle against the oc Purchase: $295 Rental: $75 'Effectively structured inszghtful a cogent cupying forces of the Ethiopian gO\ ern *** Good a strong treatment ofpost-in- picture of the new nation's promise and ment, which \vere armed bv the SO\ iet depindenu realitiesand problems. suitable problems '-Booklist (American Library Union and Israel Ha\ ing gained their for public and academicIibrarits "-Video Association) independence, the Eritreans now face the Rating Guide for Libraries ., stands out technically vivid grip- task of rebuilding their wartorn nation ping Quite interesting are observationsby This documentary examines Eritrean his 'ISITWALANDWE': certain blacksand whites about racial coopera tory and the relationship betv. een the ¾ar THE STORY OF THE SOUTH tion "--Choice (American Library and the famines which ha\·e ra\ aged Association) Northern Ethiopia AFRICAN FREEDOM CHARIER Directed by Susan Kalish fells the story of the adoption of the South A SENSE OF FREEDOM 1990, color, 30 mins,. 16mm/video African Freedom Charter on June 26, Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $50 1955, when over 3,000 delegates from Examines Africa's smallest country, the every comer of South Africa gathered at Gambia, as one of only a few successful Kliptown, near Johannesburg, at the Con multi-party democracies on the con RECONCILIAIION gress of the People where the Charter, a tinent Since its independence from Great IN ZIMBABWE blueprint for a future non-racial and Britain in 1962, the Gambian government, In 1980, following a fifteen-year-long democratic South Africa, was unani led by President Dawda Jawara, has con guerilla struggle against the white-ruled mously adopted The video includes sistently upheld democratic principles, government of Rhodesia and a documentary footage and photos of the including political pluralism, free elec negotiated cease fire, ZANU leader historic Congress as well as the tions, the rule of law, and respect for Robert Mugabe was elected Prime Mini-· government's response-the arrest of 156 human rights As a result, the Gambia ster of the newly independent nation of Congress leaders, including a young receives the largest amount of foreign aid Zimbabwe This documentary offers a la1Ayer named Nelson Mandela, and their and investment, relative to its size, of any historical overview of these events and mass trial for high treason country in Africa today Award-winning African journalist Hilton Fyle surveys the examines the first ten years of inde Directed by Barry Feinberg pendence, with a special focus on rela 1980, color, 51 mins., video social and economic reasons underlying tions between white (minority) and black Purchase: $295 Rental: $85 this success, featuring interviews with (majority) citizens President Jawara and other government **** Highly Recommended .This video leaders, foreign and domestic investors Produced by Mark Kaplan brings home ta its viewers thefact that the EEC 1990, color, 34 mins., video stru.gglrfor South African freedom has been and businessmen, the delegate to the Gambia, and the leader of the political Purchase: $250 Rental: $55 backedby p,ople of all colors "-Video opposition Recommended fills a void an a critirnl Rating Guide for libraries topic ··'-Science Books & Films Directed by Hilton Fyle a fa,;cmating and emotionnlstory· - 1992, color, 58 mins., video Choice (American Library Association) Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 46 11 World Cultures MAKHALIPILE: ANY CHILD IS MY CHILD DOLLAR A DAY, 10t A DANCE THE DAUNTLESS ONE This documentary reveals the repression Chronicles the history of Filipino im Archbishop frevor Huddleston's name of children by the apartheid regime in migration to the U 5 .. during the 1920s has become synonymous with the battle South Africa, where teenagers and and '30s. Ihe story is told by the im against racial tyranny in South Africa children as young as seven years old are migrants themselves, and their inter 1his film intersperses interviews and rare arrested on charges such as "intimida views are blended with historical photos, archival footage to chronicle Archbishop tion" or "stone-throwing," jailed, tor film footage, and period music Huddleston's life and work and his con tured, and sometimes killed Directed by Geoffrey Dunn and tinuing commitment to the destruction of Directed by Barry Feinberg Mark Schwartz apartheid. 1989, color, 27 mins., video 1985, color, 30 mins., 16mm film/video Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 R.ental: $50 by Barry Feinberg Directed Red Ribbon,. American Film Festival 1989, color, 54 mins., video ***"A damning portrayal unmistakably * Purchase: $350 Rental: $90 pawerful. tlwught-provoking"-Video BAKWET: REFUGEES IN Rating Guide for libraries " ....a fascinatingfilm recommendedfor all THEIR OWN LAND librarieswith an interestin South African Examines the plight of Filipino peasants politicsand government "~hoke AFTER THE BAITLE In 1975, the first Cuban soldiers went to who have been forced to flee their homes (American library Association) as a result of the Aquino government's Angola to help defend that newly inde military offensive against rebels of the pendent government from invasion by SONGOLOLO: South African troops After nearly four New People's Army, with the evacuees VOICES OF CHANGE teen years of bitter conflict, the Angolan facing an uncertain future in crowded, Examines the role of black resistance in War ended, Namibia was established as makeshift camps South Africa through a look at two of the an independent state, and Cuban and Directed by Malcolm Guy nation's leading cultural activists and South African troops have returned 1989, color, 33 mins., video popular performers-poet Mzwakhe home. Filmed on location in Angola, Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 Mbuli and writer /performer Gcina South Africa and Cuba, this documentary ****"··establishes a foundation for under Mhlophe 1hrough their poetry, music examines the politics of the war from both standing the presentpolitical climate in the and storytelling, they show us the impor sides and features remarkable combat Philippines. The produceris carefulto tant role culture plays in a changing footage, archival material and interviews presentall sidesof the issue ...well- South Africa. Mbuli, known as "The with Cuban and South African soldiers as produced'-Video Rating Guide for People's Poet," performs solo or with his well as grieving families of those who Libraries band at rallies, political meetings, died in the war ON BORROWED LAND funerals and concerts Mhlophe, repre Directed by Estela Bravo senting a more humanistic, less militant 1990, color, 58 mins., 16mm film/video Examines the urban crisis in Manila, where point of view, speaks for the women and English and Spanish dialog rural migrants flooded the city after the children of her country. In addition to with English subtitles People's Power Revolution in 1986, creat interviews with, and dynamic perfor Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $95 ing a sprawling squatter community on mances by, both Mbuli and Mhlophe, the * Silver Apple, National Educational Film Manila Bay Using archival footage and ex film includes rousing scenes of hostel and Video Festival tensive interviews, the video depicts the dancing, church singing, township jazz conflict between squatters who have built and freedom songs their makeshift community on prime urban land slated for commercial development, Directed by Marianne Kaplan and traces the tensions between wealthy 1990, color, 54 rnins., 16mm film/video ASIAN STUDIES Purchase: 16mm $850/video $350 Rental: $100 II II developers, the Aquino government and the urban poor * Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Fest!val Directed by Matthew Westfall KABABAIHAN, 1990, color, 51 mins .., video Merit Award * Chicago International Film Festival FILIPINA PORTRAITS English and Filipino dialog Profiles some of the key women invoIVed with English subtitles Finalist Purchase: $350 Rental: $90 * American Film and Video Festival in the grassroots organizing of the 'People's Power' revolution in the Philip * Paul Davidoff Humanitarian Award * Gold Apple, National Educational Film American Planning Association and Video Festival pines which brought down Ferdinand Marcos and swept Corazon Aquino to * Silver Apple, National Educational Film *** Excellent 'Highly recommended - and Video Festival Video Librarian power in 1989 Directed by Marie Boti and Malcolm Guy ****"authoritative well-rounded an **** Highly Recommended" .an ex 1989, color, 40 mins., video excellentproduction "-Video Rating uberantportrait .A very positiveviewing ex Purchase: S295 Rental: $60 Guide for Libraries perience."-Video Rating Guide for ****"This videocan give students some ·'Highly recommendedto collegelibraries " Libraries important·'personal perspectives' often over Choice (American Library Association) "Besidesoffering glimpses of modernand lookedin traditionalhistories could be a real Recommended" .excellent a dramatic traditionalSouth African performancearts, * asset to modernhistory citlsses,as well as to and skillful portrayal"-Science Books & Songololoprovides a basisfor examining the multiculturaland women'sstudies classes" Fihns politics/artrelationship Recommended ,.. _ Video Rating Guide for libraries Library Journal " would sparklively discussionin audien ces of city plannersand/or community ar ganizers,in additionto audienceswith particularconcerns about Third World development"-Ihird World Resources 47 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog ·1c World Cultures II VIETNAM: AFTER THE FIRE LIFTING THE BLACKOUT: THIS OTHER HAITI ~ Examines the extensive damage to the IMAGES OF NORTH KOREA While most U.S media coverage focuses Vietnamese en\ ironrnent and people b; Examines the history, politics and culture on the tragic situation of Haitian the war, including the bombing which of North Korea, including daily life, the refugees, this timely documentary cratered the landscape and left thousands status of women, children, education, reveals the activities of a nationwide of unexploded bombs, and the use of human rights President Kim II Sung, at peasant movement for social change in defoliants such as Agent Orange which titudes toward reunification, and the im Haiti Thousands of members of the devastated the country's eco••system and pact of the U.S ·military presence in Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) are now resulting in cancer and deformed Korea The film visits North Korean whose motto is "Organization or births among the populace The program homes, schools and workplaces, as well Death''-have been struggling for over also shows Vietnam's environmental res as the demilitarized zone separating two decades, despite brutal army harass toration efforts, including reforestation, North and South Korea, and includes in ment, to regain control of their lives and treating acid soil, and replacing wildlife ten·iews ½ ith ordinary citizens,½ omen- s to foster the courage to demand change Directed by J Edward Milner lE'aders, military officers, cabinet-level of The efforts of the MPP-such as the esta b 1988, color, two 53 min. episodes, video ficials and Korea experts in the US lishrnent of agricultural co-ops, a credit Purchase: Video $395 Rental: $100 Directed by Erika Andersen bank, educational and training programs, * Special Jury Prize, Banff TV Festival 1989, color, 54 mins .., video and health dispensaries--helped set the * Best TV Documentary Purchase: $350 Rental: $90 stage for the first free and fair elections in Documentary Festival of New York informafmt rnlightening without being Haiti's history in December 1991 which '· fascinating Highly recommendedfor academic "-The Boston Herald saw the election of the Reverend Jean Bertrand Aristide Despite the September Southeast Asia or ecology collections " · When Americans'know anything at all about 1991 military coup and subsequent Library Journal NorthKorea the sum total is usual!¥a mishmash offtrsanonjudgmentalvi.ewofthe ofstereatypes,fallaLiesand hnif-truthsFor those repression, the MPP activists have chosen *** ',. to remain in Haiti-although many of aftennath of tlw Vietnam War suitablefor u>iththe courage to confronttheir ignorarue viewing by high school,college or adult audien about tlu 'enemy, this documenmry will be il them are presently in hiding-to con tinue their efforts to achieve justice and ces ''-Video Rating Guide for Libraries luminating "-Titird World Resources democracy The film features interviews informative poignant often emotionally with MPP members and documents the disturbing For a wide variety of audiences group's activities, showing why the army both academicand general '-Choice has specifically targeted such grassroots (American Librar') Association) LATIN AMERICAN organizations for repression The result is an inspiring portrait of a little known lVIIOW1LLC4STTHEFIRSTSIDNE? STUDIES aspect of contemporary Haitian society Examines the impact of Islamization on Directed by David Korb women in Pakistan, revealing the oppres 1993, Color, 58 mins., video sion and injustice which has led Pakistani THE DEVIL'S DREAM Creole dialog with Engllsh voice-over women to the forefront of the political strug-· Portrays the appalling socio-political and narration gle for equal rights In 1979,Zina (defined as realities of contemporary Guatemala, Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 adultery, rape or extramarital sex) became a where the majority of the population crime against the state punishable by ston malnourished and illiterate-are exploited BENEDIIA DA SILVA ing to death These new laws were intended b\ wealth\ lando\A.ners and businessmen A profile of the first black woman ever to to promote the middle class image of an ai'i.dbrutally repressed by the military The be elected city councillor and member of ideal Muslim woman-chaste, submissi, e film sho½ s the plight of peasants who the Brazilian Parliament from the [ave/as and confined This documentary focuses on work as migrant agricultural laborers for (slums) of Rio de Janeiro Born and raised the case histories of three women and fea stan at ion wages and who are often in the favelas, Benedita worked for twen tures interviews with them as well as with 'disappeared' or murdered by the military ty--five years as a domestic servant before human rights activists, re.ligious leaders, to prevent any political protest or or beginning her public life in 1982, when la½'Yers and scholars ganization Other aspects of Guatemalan she won a post as city councillor and _was Directed by Ahmed A Jamal and society are depicted in scenes of a beauty elected a federal MP in 1986. She now Sabiha Sumar contest, an Army Day parade, a rural devotes her efforts to fighting the racism 1989, color, 52 mins., video religious service, a student protest and discrimination faced by Rio's slum English and Urdu with English subtitles demonstration, and interviews with mem dwellers Purchase: $350 Rental: $85 bers of the National Widows' Organiza- Directed by Eunice Gutman * Best Broadcast/Sociology Film, San tion Interwoven throughout the film, and 1991, color, 29 mins., video Francisco International Film Festival providing ironic comment on this social Portuguese dialog with English subtitles " exploresthe issuesof moralityand sexuality reality, is a performance of the traditional Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 in an uncompromisingway. ·'-Monthly Film 'Dance of the 24 Devils,' derived from **** Highly Recommended' a goodin Bulletin (British Film Institute) Spanish medieval religious drama, in troduction. could be included in public, high ****Highly Recommended a chilling which each de\il represents a social e\il school,and academiclibra111 collections '· portraitof women'slives under a legalsystem and Death heralds the end of mankind Video Rating Gwde for libraries that usesreligion as an excuse ta d.ern.luewomen Directed by Mary--Ellen Davis and deny them equalityunder th, law Ap 1992, color, 58 mins,·, video propriatefor generaladult and collegeaudien Spanish dialog with English subtitles ces .. would beparticularly useful in women's Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 studiesand politicalscienc,e courses at the college * Silver Apple level "-Video Rating Gwde for libraries National Educational Film and Video Festival The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 48 World Cultures ' II 11 CUBA:A VIEW MAMA GOES TO WAR SHE SOLD CANDIES FROM INSIDE A serio-comic documentary which fol A biting social commentary about a metal- lows a group of women through their 1urgica I engineer who, consistently These eighteen short films by and about military training for the territorial militia refused work because she's a woman, Cuban women may be shown individually Directed by Giuillermo Centeno decides she's better off making and selling or in various combinations Some of the 1984, color, 18 mins .., 16mm film candies suggested programs are Women's Work Purchase: $300 Rental: 540 Directed by Gerardo Chijona (seven films, 102 mins ), Women os 1986, color, 13 mins .., 16mm film Rn,olutionaries(four films, 82 mins. ), MOTIVATIONS PurChase: $150 Rental: $25 Womenon Culture ond Creativity(six films, A portrait of painter Manuel Mendive who WE'VE GOT RHYTHM 99 mins.) and Women in Tough Times (five discusses the African themes in his art Interviews with elderly local musicians films, 68 mins.) A 50-pp., illustrated Directed by Marisol 'Trujillo 1988, color, 13 mins ., 16mm film trace the history of Cuban music and its catalog is available for use with the films. Purchase: $200 Rental: $25 basic instruments Contact us for programming advice and OMARA Directed by Sara Gomez discounted package rental fees 1967, black and white, 30 mins., 16mm film A profile of one of Cuba's best-known Purchase: $400 Rental: $50 BRIEF LANDSCAPE singers, Omara Portunondo, featuring in A portrait of one of Cuba's most talented terviews and film clips of her performan WHEN THE DANCE IS OVER painters, Tbmas Sanchez ces from the Forties and Fifties Profiles of the dancers at the famous Directed by Marisol Trujillo Directed by Fernando Perez Tl"opicana outdoor nightclub in Havana 1985, color, 21 mins., 16mm film 1983, color, 26 mins, 16mm film who discuss the difficulties of their work Spanish dialog with English subtitles Purchase: $400 Rental: $50 Purchase: $280 Rental: $40 and dealing with stereotyped public at ONE MORE AMONG THEM titudes toward them CASTLES IN THE AIR A portrait of Tania, the guerrilla active in Directed by Gerardo Chijona This dramatic short, based on interviews, Che Guevara's Boli\·ian campaign who 1985, color, 10 mins., 16mm film is a case study of the high di\ orce rate was killed in 1967, shortly before Che Purchase: $150 Rental: $25 among young married couples Directed by Rebecca Chavez Directed by Rebecca Chavez WITH HER OWN LIGHT 1989, color and B&W, 31 mins, 16mm film A portrait of South African Winnie Man 1986, color, 10 mins., 16mm film Purchase: $400 Rental: $50 Spanish dialog with Eng1ish subtitles dela, her life and struggle, featuring early Purchase: $150 Rental: $25 ONE, TWO, THAT'S IT 1 footage with Nelson Mandela CHAMPIONS An evocative documentary portrait of Directed by Mayra Vilasis boxing as seen through the faces, gestures 1988, color, 20 mins .., 16mm film Members of the 1978 world champion Purchase: $300 Rental: $40 Cuban women's volleyball team discuss and shouted comments of the ringside their long hours of training and discipline, trainers WITH ONE VOICE the thrill of their victory, and the painful Directed by Miriam falavera Profiles three musicians on tour in Cuba 1986, color, 11 mins, 16mm film Sonia Silvestre from the Dominican nostalgia of retirement Purchase: $150 Rental: $25 Directed by Oscar Valdes Republic, Lucecita Benitez from Puerto 1988, color, 17 mins,, 16mm film PRAYER Rico, and Sara Gonzalez from Cuba Spanish dialog with English subtitles Based on Ernesto Cardenal's poem, "A featuring interviews and performances Purchase: $250 Rental: $40 Prayer for Marilyn Monroe," this shatter Directed by Miriam Talavera ing documentary juxtaposes Monroe's life 1988, color, 10 mins., 16mm film I AM JUANA BACALLAO Purchase: $150 Rental: $25 A profile of the colorful singer who uses with contemporaneous political events the street Spanish of Cuba to sing, swag Directed by Marisol Trujillo WOMAN IN THE MIRROR 1983, black and white, 9 mins .., 16mm film A profile of Cuban ballerina Rosario ger and slang her way into the hearts of Purchase: $150 Rental: $25 her audience Suarez through her first pregnancy (fol Directed by Miriam Ialavera RIGOBERTA lowing an earlier abortion) and her return 1989, color, 9 mins., 16mm film The Nobel Prize-winning Quiche Indian to dancing. Spanish only version leader describes the tragic deaths in her Directed by Marisol Trujillo Purchase: $125 Rental: $25 family at the hands of Guatemalan 1983, color, 17 mins, 16mm film Purchase: 5200 Rental: $40 I'LL GO IO SANTIAGO authorities and the process which Jed to A gentle, loving portrait of Santiago de her political activism Cuba and its people Directed by Rebecca Chavez Directed by Sara Gomez 1985, color, 13 mins., 16mm film 1964, black and white, 15 mins,, 16mm film Purchase: $150 Rental: 525 Purchase: $200 Rental: $35 THE UNCOMPROMISING Cuba scholar, also adds his own commen " .o balanced,critical look ot the Cubaof REVOLUTION tary on the state of the revolution and the today .analyzes the successesond failures of problems it must overcome to ensure its Cubansociety "--What's Happening the Cuban Revolution and Fidel Profiles survival (University of Oregon) Castro at political middle age The Cuban leader reflects on his life and Cuba-past, Directed by Saul landau "Tounderstand the complexitiesof contem 1988, color and B&W, 54 mins., video poraryCuba, this film is a must "- present and future-and declares his con Purchase: 16mm $850/video $350 Rental: $100 tinuing faith in communism In numerous Prof Wayne Smith, SAIS/John Hopkins, other interviews, including encounters with * Honorable Mention former Head, US Interests Section, Cuba American Film and Video Festival people on the streets, Cuban citizens voice * Award of Merit their pro and con feelings about the revolu Latin American Studies Association tion and Cuban society Landau, a longtime 49 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog • World Cultures II HOLY FATHER AND GLORIA MISSING CHILDREN An emotionally powerful account of Portrays the courageous efforts of Argen Pope John Paul's 1987 visit to Chile, tine mothers and grandmothers to locate which caused a massive outpouring of their children and grandchildren who were political discontent with the Pinochet among the innocent victims of the military regime, including emotional appeals to junta's 'dirty war' against the opposition in the Pope to support protests over the im the late 1970s and early 1980s prisonment and torture of political Directed by Estela Bravo prisoners, the lack of political freedom, 1985, color, 28 mins,, 16mm film/video and wides}?read hunger and unemploy Spanish dialog with English subtitles ment. The film also includes an inten.riew Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $55 with Carmen Gloria, one of two teenagers * Silver Hugo, Chicago Film Festival Th( C/11/drrn 5 War doused with gasoline and set afire by the the moralfora and p0"1Derof the Chilean military in 1986 grandmothers is haunting For under FAVELAS Directed by Estela Bravo graduate courses in modern Latin American fakes\ iev-.ers into the heart of the Brazilian 1987, color, 43 mins ., 16mm film/video history and culture ··-Choice (American favdas the slums that spread uncon Spanish dialog with English subtitles library Association) trollably through Sao Paulo, Brazil's \.\eal Purchase: 16mm $425/video $295 Rental: $50 thiest industrial center The social reality of * Gold Plaque I SPENT MY LIFE IN THE MINES Chicago International Film Festival this cruel habitat is examined by those v-.ho This film autobiography of a Bolivian dwell there and b:'.--artists, philosophers, * Gold Plaque, San Francisco International Film Festival miner also chronicles the rise and fall of educators and sociologists the mining industry and the political his Directed by Chico Teixeira * Outstanding Achievement in tory of Bolivia 1989 color, 50 mins, video Documentary Film, Global Village Portuguese dialog with English subtitles Documentary Festival Directed by June Nash, Juan Rojas and Purchase: $295 Rental: $65 dealc,with t_luPery difficult and engaging Eduardo Ibanez 1977, color, 40 mins., 16mm film/video *** ..portrn_1/S tlu sadlll'SSand hopeles~ subject:=.qf 1u:=.tlce,freedom,and human Purchase: 16mm $550/video $295 Rental: $65 ness of h{t' m the fauilas could bt used as a right:=. recommendedfor all libraries ' start_i;1,,;:·p01n! fi. '1 di~cussions011 socwl respon Choice (American Library Association) s1b1ht_l/and tlu tconomic problfms of flu dis LAND FOR ROSE advantagl..'d-Video Rating Guide for THE CHILDREN'S WAR Examines the popular movement for land libraries In the last fi\ e years, more than 1,800 reform in Brazil The film shows massive . scn,;;ifi,,( hiihll! raommrndcd children have been murdered in Brazil, demonstrations, marches and protests Libra1: Journal and the country nov-. has over 7,000,000 throughout Brazil, including the estab homeless children They sunive by beg lishment of a large camp of some 1500 MAKING DO ging, sea\ enging in rubbish bins, or landless peasants at an unused private resorting to petty theft or prostitution farm in Rio Grande do Sul The story of Mort than a bi:lion people in some 100 this movement is told through the ex underde\ eloped nations throughout the This prize-winning documentary ex amines both the causes and consequ€'nces periences of several women participants, Third World ha\e de\eloped their ov-.n including Rose, a young mother whose 'informal economy,' a parallel lifest~le of the brutal war of extermination Brazilian society is waging against its tragic personal story lends this true-life operating on the margins of the societ\ 's drama a special poignancy. formal econom; and legal system, v-.hich own children The film visits the slums, provides them with a means of sun i\ al the suburbs, and the alleys, revealing the Directed by Tete Moraes 1987, coJor, 83 mins .., video These informal enterprises-including extent of this national scandal, as well as the police brutality and the activities of Portuguese dialog with English subtitles handicrafts, light manufacturing ..sah age Purchase: $350 Rental: $100 operations, construction. street\ endors, professional death squad' killers hired to kill the children * Grand CoraUBest Film and laundries-employ up to 7Q<;oof the Festival of New Latin American Cinema urban v.:orkforce and pro\ ide sen ices Directed by Sandra Werneck 1991, 52 minutes, color, video Best Film and products otherwise inaccessible to International Catholic Office for Film the majority of the population Filmed in English dubbed or English subtitled version Purchase: $350 Rental: $90 * Best 16mm Feature Film Asia. Africa. and Latin America, this Brasilia Film Festival documentar; prO\ ides a detailed mer * Best Medium-Length Film and Best Director, Gramado Film Festival (Brazil) A sympathetic and moving study ' - viev-. of the functioning of this 'informal Choice (American Library Association) economy,' and examines its broader so CHILDREN IN DEBT cial and political context LISTEN CARACAS Directed by German Gutierrez Examines the controversial issue of Latin 1989, color, 50 mins,, video America's 'external debt' to the US, A Yekuana Indian chief in the Amazon, a Various languages with English subtitles focusing on the ways it affects children, leader in the struggle for indigenous Purchase: $295 Rental: $95 including malnourishment, lack of medi rights, speaks out forcefully about the cal care, abandonment of babies, and **** Highly Recommended .a very disrespectful attitude shown towards his well-producedand edited video Well-chosen child prostitution people by colonizers and missionaries visuals accompany a thoughtful narra- Directed by Estela Bravo Directed by Carlos Azpurua tion recommendedfor library purchase and 1987, color, 29 mins., 16mm film/video 1979, c_olor, 19 mins., 16mm film/video for classroom use in high schoolsand col Spanish dialog with English subtitles English and Spanish versions available Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $55 Purchase: 16mm $375/video $250 Rental: $50 leges "-Video Rating Guide for libraries * Silver Dove, Leipzig Film Festival The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 50 • II World Cultures ·II GROWING UP IN THE SOUTH VOYAGE OF DREAMS This documentary chronicles one week in Tells the story of the Haitian boat people the life of street kids living in Cusco, and the reasons for their exile-injustice Peru Working in collaboration with the and political repression, widespread Centro Huch'uy Runa (meaning "Kids economic stagnation, a lack of education with Dreams"), a shelter for some of al opportunity, and the absence of free Cusco's 3,000 street kids, the filmmakers speech. enlist several of the youngsters to form a Directed by Collis Davis and street theatre company Through a series Raymond Cajuste of theatrical skits and games, the kids 1983, color, 30 mins., 16mm film/video express their vision of life and work in the Purchase: 16mm $425/video $250 Rental: $50 street and, in the process, reveal a com * Best Video Award plex world of sorrows and joys San Francisco Film Festival Directed by t UC cote, Robbie Hart " .. compelling timely ·,-Book.list and Joel Bertomeu (American library Association) 1990, color, 23 mins., video Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 BITTER CANE * Honorable Mention Examines the history of Haiti, from the 1804 Columbus International Film Festival revolution to the occupation (1915-34) by ****"This programserves as a conscious US. Marines, and the repressive Duvalier ness-raisinginstrument, and forces viewers regimes of 'Papa Doc' and 'Baby Doc ' Jn .. to examinean aspectof one of the world's terviews with peasants, landowners, mer majorsocial problems '·-Video Rating chants and U.S businessmen reveal the Guide for libraries workings of the semi-feudal agricultural "Thefilm is shortand to the point, with good Haiti Dreams of Dtmocractt system and the rapidly growing industrial graphicsand music "-library Journal sector, including such consequences as VILLA EL SALVADOR, growing unemployment in the U S. and the PRODUCING MIRACLES A DESERT DREAM perilous ocean voyage of Haitian refugees EVERYDAY Tells the remarkable storv of Peru's Villa Produced by Haiti Films Over half of the Latin American labor El Salvador, one of latiri' America's best 1983, colqr, 75 mins., 16mm film/video force works in the 'informal economy,' organized squatter settlements, with Purchase: 16mm $1000/video $395 creating their own forms of income and 300,000 inhabitants, dozens of schools, Rental: $125 employment through hard work and in markets and recreation areas Interviews * Silver Plaque, Chicago Film Festival genuity This documentary celebrates the with residents are combined with scenes * Award of Merit resourcefulness of impoverished people of daily life in the community latin American Studies Association throughout the developing world for Directed by Robbie Hart, Luc Cote and " ...an especiallyinstructive case study of whom economic necessity is truly the Joel Bertomeu US -Third Worldrelations. Highly recom mother of invention 1989, color, 50 mins., video mendedfor generaland specialaudiences " Directed by Luc COte, Robbie Hart English and Spanish versions available library Journal and Joel Bertomeu Purchase: $295 Rental: $80 1990, color, 23 mins., video **** HighlyRecommended an inspiring HAITI DREAMS OF Purchase: $195 Rental: $50 tribute "-Video Rating Guide for Libraries DEMOCRACY * Silver Apple, National Educational Film and Video Festival A colorful report on post-Duvalier Haiti PARAGUAY: THE FORGOTTEN in which the Haitian people express their * Certificate of Merit Award DICTATORSHIP Chicago International Film Festival fervent desire for democracy Featuring Offers a rare look at Latin America's lively performances by musicians and * Bronze Plaque, Columbus International Film &: Video Festival oldest dictatorship, that of General street theatre groups, the video focuses Alfredo Stroessner, who took power in on popular music and songs that reflect ***Good" ..entertaining .. educatio1'1Jllof 1954 The documentary analyzes the the way in which Haiti's distinctive cul interestto childrenof junior high/high school power struggle within General ture confronts the political realities of this age "-Video Rating Guide for Libraries Stroessner 's own party, documents impoverished nation GUATEMALA, human rights abuses, and examines the Directed by Jonathan Demme and Jo Menell development of opposition forces within ROADS OF SILENCE 1987, color, 52 mins., video Paraguay which led to Stroessner's Purchase: $350 Rental: $75 Examines the plight of Guatemalan In ouster in 1991 " no otherdocumentary on Haiti caversthis dian peasants victimized by the Directed by Patricia Boero rangeof topics 'Thetape is clearlystruc government's counterinsurgency pro 1988, color, 27 mins .., video turedand edited,and it imaginativelyhigh gram which has led many Guatemalans Spanish dialog with English subtitles lightsHaitian popular music .particularly to go into exile or to become internal Purchase: $250 Rental $50 appropriateforclasses on Carribeanpopular refugees inside the country " a well-structuredinvestigation cultureand tthnomusicology."-Choice Directed by Felix Zurita Booklist (American library Association) (American Library Association) 1988, color, 59 mins .., video Spanish dialog with English subtitles " clearlyorganized and well paced useful " ..only gets moretimely as Haiti'spolitical Purchase: $350 Rental: $90 in universitycontexts because there are few turmoilgoes on .. documentsthe Haitian Silver Caravel, Bilbao Film Festival currentdocumentaries on this subject.'- people'sunquenchable desire for freedom, * Choice (American library Association) " .. clearlyorganized and up-to-date " alongwith the Haitianelite's chronic corrup- "-In These Times Choice (American Library Association) tion and powerlust. 51 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog World Cultures II THE TIME BOMB Examines the debt crisis in Latin America II MIDEAST STUDIES II which has left the international economic system in a state of shock and c.reated a BLUE AND WHITE volatile political situation threatening fragile democratic governments through Traces the struggles of five SO\ iet Jev..ish out the continent Filmed in the Dominican Refuseniks and their families, from the Republic, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ar origins of their desire to emigrate from the gentina and Venezuela, and featuring in Soviet Union to their recent resettlement terviews with economists and government in Israel From their dissatisfaction \\ ith leaders, the video examines the \ arious their old home to the disillusionment with causes of the debt crisis and \\avs to deal their new homeland. the Refusenih are with the problem ~ caught between their dreams and tht:ir realit) Historical footage is combined Directed by Alejandro Saderman 1988, color, 27 mins., video with inten iews with the Refuseniks and Purchase: $250 Rental: $55 leading Israeli acti\ ist~ to present a bit ters½ eet look at emigration to Israel Directed by Lauryn Axelrod L.E.A.R..: THE LEAGUE OF 1991, color, 60 mins, video REVOLUTIONARY WRITERS Russian and Hebrew dialog with AND ARTISTS English subtitles Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 Examines the history of this famous or ganization founded in Mexico Cit\ in THE RAGGED REVOLUTION DOES THE CACTUS 1934 The League, whose founding lnem An incisi, e look at the realities behind the bers included painters such as Diego HAVE A SOUL? romantic rn\ th of the Mexican Re\ olu Rivera and Da\·id Alfaro Siqueiros. in Examines the contrO\ersial historical is tion Ctiliziflg rare photos and archi, al cluded artists from \arious disciplines sues surrounding the Jsraeli destruction footage thi5 film bring~\ i\ id!) to life the all of whom shared a commitment to thE of Palestinian \ illages and the confisca momentous e\ ents and leading per fusion of art and politics tion of Arab-owned land during and fol- sonalities of the first great re, olution of 1ov. ing the Arab-Israeli War The Produced by Yvette Nie\ es-Cruz thi~ ct:ntun 1988, color, 31 mins, video documentan' features in ten ie\\ s v. ith Purchase: $250 Rental: $50 Produced by Tony Essex elderly Arabs ½ho recount their former 1981 color, 37 min...., 16mm film/\ideo village life and describe the Israeli .an excellentexample of the insight oral Purchase 16mm S595/, idEO S:!95 Rental: $60 militar\ attacks in 19i8 which dro\ e them history pruvides Recommendedfor college from their \ ill ages into exile in Lebanon libraries'·-Library Journal PANCHO VILLA'S and other countries or into refugee camps offersa rarelook into therichest post COLUMBUS RAID in the Gaza Strip revolutionaryperiod of cultural work in Examines an unusual episode of the Directed by Gilles Dinnematin Mexico. rescuesthe voicesand visions of a Mexican Re\Olutinn on March 9 1916 1987, color, 56 mins., video cultural movement intricate/1/involv£d U,ifh v. hen Pancho Villas guerrilla band at French and Arabic dialog the socialconsciences of that ex.traordinar1/ tacked the small border tcH\n of Colum with English subtitles time "-Da\ id Brooks, North American bus, Ne\\ M('>..ico In response, the L S Purchase: $350 Rental: $90 Congress on Latin America Arm\ launched a 10,000 man, ele\en '· Tiu faces of Palestiniansas they gi,x voice month puniti\ e expedition into northern to their memoriesand the contra:::.tingimages NEIGHBORS: THE UNITED Mexico to capture Villa and his men to modernIsrael and refugeecamps are STATES AND MEXICO These e\ ent5 are recounted through inter~ cinernaticallyvivid "-Choice (American v iev..s v,. ith sun i\ ors and archi\ al photos library Association) An in-depth look at economic relations and footage between the US and Mexico, including AQABAT JABER: banking, trade and illegal immigration, Produced by William Clark and Jack Parsons 1983, color, 26 mins., 16mm film/video PASSING THROUGH and the impact of maqui/adoras-labor-in Purchase: 16mm $495/video $250 Rental: $55 tensive factories owned by US firms but Portrays life in Aqabat Jaber in the Vvest Bank, one of sixty Palestinian refugee located in Mexico-and how these 'off MEXICO: shore' operations affect American con camps built "temporarily" by the United sumers and workers THE FROZEN REVOLUTION Nations Relief and Works Agency Directed by Jesus Salvador frevino A socio-historical anal\ sis of Mexico, a (UNWRA) in the earl} 1950s The film and Jose luis Ruiz society shov.. n to be the-result of a revolu~ portrays daily life in the camp, and in 1985, color, 60 mins .., video tion v...hich has failed to li\ e up to its cludes interviews with representati\ es of Purchase: $350 Rental: $90 promises The film's starting point and three generations of Palestinians " a current and important topic. the dis continuing frame of reference is the Directed by Eyai Sivan cussion is a valuableone, especiallyfor people Mexican Re\olution of 1910-17; its 1988, color, 52 mins., video living in the borderlandsand for de\'elopment and the ensuing civil war Arabic dialog with English subtitles policymakersin Washington '-Choice are outlined through historical footage Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 (American library Association) depicting the dominant social forces, ***' a good,serious look at Pale5tinian ideologies and personalities refugeesand how they live ''-Video Rating Directed by Raymundo Gle;zu Guide for Libraries 1971, color, 65 mins., 16mm film/video Purchase: 16mm $895/video $350 Rental: $100 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 52 II World Cultures tROSSROADS OF CMLIZATION WAR GENERATION; BEIRUT :'Jhisremarkable series of films, produced in This insightful documentary examines ,c,,llaboration with a distinguished group of the atmosphere of violence in wartorn 11istorians, archaeologists, art historians Beirut as seen through the lives of its ~ political scientists, explores the history children and young people Through in jlnd cultural heritage of the Middle Eastern terviews with Lebanese you th from !World various background, the film examines :inclaced by David Pandine Films _,., color, 58 mim. ea~ 16mm film/video factors contributing to the conflict such as ~ 16mm. $79S each/$3,995 Hri.8 economic deprivation, political aliena l\ddmefVideo $350 each/$1,995 series tion, and the Palestinian question lotall:S90each/$C95 oeries Directed by Mai Masri and Jean Chamoun fiRIG.INSANDEVIDFNCE. 1988, color, SOmins., video Arabic dialog with English subtitles Russia For Sale fl\.man who began as the head of a tribal Study Guide Available lj!Kmatthybecame the ruler of the most ex- Purchase: $295 Rental: $80 1ensive empire of the ancient world Tracing RUSSIA FOR SALE: ~ a audal sta$e in the evolution of civiliza ****" an extremelygood program ' - THE ROUGH ROAD cllon,from pnmitive to civilized society, this Video Rating Guide for Libraries TO CAPITALISM film examines two men, Cyrus and Darius, " .an accurateand objectiveaccount who developed the first Persian empire fells the compelling stories of three Rus•· Recommended."-The Book Report sians against the backdrop of the former HEROES OR HISTORY? " clearly organized and well paced an in Soviet Union's breakup and historic tran·· After 200 years the Persian empire fell to formative overview '·'-Choice (American sition from Communism to Capitalism ;Alexander the Great and two inimical con library Association) Through their own eyes, a steel worker ~ts of dvilization~ne Western, one the videomakerstake the mystifiedand in Oriental---collided. This film discusses from St. Petersburg's largest military :Alexander's conquests., his motives, war crediblycomplex skein of relationscomprising plant, a Moscow police chief, and a aimes and personal drives the conflict in Lebanonand renderit quite daring new entrepreneur show how the sensiblein the spaceof 50 minutes, througha psychology and historical roots of 'lllESHADOW OF GODONEAR'IH combinationof extremelylucid and well decades of Communism influence daily Jnthe 7th century A.O., the prophet Muham editedpersonal testimony and densepolitical life and economic and democratic reform mad led the most rapid religious conquest in and socialcommentary "-Afterimage tuslory. This film examines Islam at two today Archival footage from 1917-35 is levels: by tracing the initial conquest of the interwoven with gripping contemporary Arab armies and why they enjoyed such images of a nation in crisis The juxtaposi-· npid success; and by looking at the nature of tion of Russia's past and present high fs,lam today through the life of a Muslim and lights the evolution of Communism's his famil}' EUROPE AND self-destruction GUARDIANS OF THE OTHER REGIONS Directed by Natasha Lance SACRED FLAME 1992, color, 58 mins., video Purchase: $295 Rental: $95 As the Greek influence in Asia waned, and ;the Romans colonized the West, a new force TO LIVE FOR IRELAND * Honorable Mention _,,,sein the East: brilliantly led, and follow Examines the political turmoil and sectarian American Film and Video Festival in.g,anewcosmicstyleofldngship. 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This film 1986, color, 30 mins., 16mm film/video ** " ..well-researched The creativityin ,examines the paradox of ruthless conquest Purchase: 16mm NA/video $250 Rental: $55 editing and graphicsis outstanding. 1hisfilm _,,d its sequel, enlightened patronage * Special Jury Award could be beneficialin classroomsettings'· J{ALFTHE WORLD San Francisco Film Festival American Film and Video Association fn the 17th century, Persia returned to great- * Emmy Nominee/Best Documentary, Evaluations 1!1"85under the nile ofShahAbbas, a complex National Academy of TV Arts and INn who could reach heights of political and Sciences (Chicago Chapter) THE PACIFIC; " . well-produced .offers graphic insights im,ative imagination as well as depths of bar PARADISE IN PAIN ~m and depravity. This film examines into the rootsof sectarianbitterness Recom :Abbas and his most enduring accomplish mended to all those interestedin Northern Looking behind the romantic South Seas ~!, the construction of Isfahan, the most Ireland "-Choice (American Library As myths, and focusing on New Caledonia, ic;debraledof Persian cities sociation) Palau, Hawaii and the Marshall Islands, this video shows that the Pacific's resi·· hiEPRFDATORS ". a revealingand fascinating portrait " dents are today confronting either !(bis film deals with the discovery of oil in The Chicago Sun-Times colonial domination by France, military Middle East and how the great raids of " ..an excellentdocumentary "-Variety \\\,stem world on the resources of the domination by the U S ., or economic E, . t began. It tells a story of exploration and domination by Japan and Southeast Asia jaxploitation., of how Persia managed to sur•• Directed by Otto Schnunnan Onve the ambitions of both British and Rus 1985, color, 60 mins., video ~ imperialism. Purchase: $350 Rental: $75 t 53 The Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog · ·11, World Cultures II ABOUT THE UNITED NAIJONS APARTHEID Th.is series of educational videos, dealing Examines apartheid as seen through the with international issues and the work of eyes of a young South African. It shows how the UN, is ideally suited for use at the the majority of South Africans, who are secondary school level. from grades 5-12 black, are denied basic human rights, and Most of the programs feature a young on discusses UN initiatives against apartheid camera host and narrator Each video is Produced by the UN Department of accompanied by a Teaching Guide, and Public Information both the videos and the Guides are avail~ 1990, color, 10 mins., video able in either English or Spanish versions. Purchase; $150 Rental: $30 The entire eight••part series ma:: be rented **** Highly Recommended" .would be for $125 or purchased for $795; each useful in junior and senior high schools " episode may also be rented or purchased Video Rating Guide for libraries separately at the prices indicated belov. AFRICA RECOVERY "'.. an excellentseries." -Booklist (American library Association) Africa toda; is a continent beset by drought, famine, war and debt ln Zambia, LITERACY a news reporter examines these problems Over one quarter of the world's population and discusses potential solutions that today cannot read or write This video might be applicable to the entire continent shows how the UN, along with govern~ Produced by the UN Department of ments and other organizations, is working Public Information tosolvetheproblem of illiteracy worldv. ide, 1990, color, 15 mins., video Purchase: $150 Rental: $30 with the goal of substantiaUy reducing il literacy during the coming decade **** Highly Recommended an excel- Produced by the UN Department of Public lent, unbiased, nonjudgmental perspective' - Information and Shelley Productions Video Rating Guide for libraries Albanian Journly: End of an Era 1990, color, 18 mins., video Purchase: $150 Rental: $30 ENVIRONMENT ALBANIAN JOURNEY, AND DEVELOPMENT **** Highly Re-commended .excel- END OF AN ERA lent "-Video Rating Guide for Libraries Examines UN efforts to encourage govern Examines the rise and fall of socialism in ments to develop policies supporting sus Albania, tracing thenation's history from RIGHTS OF lliE CfilLD tainable de\'elopment and the its 194-1 establishment as a communist improvement of the quality of people's lives Discusses the UN Convention on the republic b; En\ er Hoxha to its recent Rights of the Child, adopted in 1989 without destroying natural resources The emergence from decades of authoritarian which established the standards that help 'Video also shov-.-sactidties of the UN En rule following Hoxha's death in 1985 The to guarantee children a right to life, liber- 'l.'ironment Program, including a reforesta film features interviews with a variety of ty, a name, a nationality, an education and tion project in Thailand and Polish Albanian citizens during the transitional good health The video shows the plight anti-pollution efforts in the Baltic Sea four year period encompassing Albania's of many children throughout the world Produced by the UN Department of late Eighties economic crisis, the mass ex and what UN agencies are doing to im Public Information odus of refugees in 1990, and the first 1992, color, 20 mins ., video prove their lives multi-part") elections in 1991 This story of Narrated by Olivia Newton-John the clash between utopian dreams and Produced by the UN Department of Public Purchase: $150 Rental: $30 Information and Nudeus Productions ltd harsh realif) characterizes the recent col 1990, color, 16 mins., video PALESTINE lapse of communist regimes throughout Purchase: $150 Rental: S30 Examines the intifada,the Palestinian upris Eastern Europe Directed b) Paul Jay PEACEKEEPING ing in the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, by investigating 1991, color, 60 mins,, video Examines the role of UN peacekeeping Albanian dialog with English subtitles the historical background and b} speaking forces who stand betv-.1een opposing sides Purchase: $350 Rental: $95 to people on both sides of the conflict in trouble spots of the world. hoping to * Blue Ribbon encourage people to resohe their Produced by the UN Department of Public American Film and Video Festival Information and The Mosaic Group Bronze Apple, National Educational problems peacefully rather than resort to 1990, color, 19 mins., video * Film and Video Festival war Through the eyes of a UN peace Purchase: $150 Rental: $30 keeper, we get a firsthand vie¼ of the du ties **** Highly Recommended ably of these "men and women in the middle " DECOLONIZATION presents the implosion of the communist sys Produced by the UN Department of Public Examines the process whereby former tem as.felt b1/one small country and will · Information and The Center for colonial territories have gained their in servEas a discussion platform in civics world Independent Productions dependence and the right to govern government, and political scienceclasses ap 1990, ~olor, 19 mins., video themsehes. Archival footage, interviews propriatefor senior high schooland college Purchase: $150 Rental: $30 and maps trace the changes during the s(udents as well as for most public library col **** Highly Recommended ' rieryinfor last three decades throughout Africa, lections. an admirableselection "-Video mative and well-produced ·"-Video Rating Asia, the Carribean and the Pacific Rating Guide for Libraries Guide for libraries Produced by the UN Department of Public a realfind This portrait of a disintegrat " .Usefulfor socialstudies, current e-vents Information and Globa1vision, Inc ing society has a dtpth thnt s rare "-The and politirnl scienceclasses .a qualitit mtro- 1991, color, 18 mins., video Toronto-Star duction ··'-School library Journal Purchase: $150 Rental: 530 Tiu Cinema Guild Video & Film Catalog 54 Alphabetical Title Index ' • 11 "II Purchase Rental Purchase Rental Film/Video Iitle Page Length YeaT 16mm!Video Price f'ilm/Video Title Page Length Ym 16mm(Video Price Bitter Cane St 7S 1983 $1000/$395 SUS A The Blank Point: What is Transsexualism? 17 S8 1991 NA/$350 $90 Abortion: Stories from North and South .. ss 1984 $89SIS3SO$100 The Blockade 39 15 1993 NA/539.95 NA About the United Nations (Series) 54 13S 1990 NA/$795 SUS Blood Memory: 30 56 1992 NA/$350 $95 About the United Nations: The Legend of Beanie Short Africa Recovery 54 1S 1990 NA/$150 $30 Bloody Schemes 33 18 1974 $3SOISI95 $45 Aboul the United Nations: Apartheid 54 10 1990 NA/$150 $30 Blue and White 52 .. 1991 NA/$350 $9S About lhe United Nations: Decoloniution 54 18 1990 NAISlSO $30 The Boardwalk □uh • 27 1992 NA/$59.95 NA About the United Nations: Body Sculpt The Video 19 35 1992 NA/5250 sss Earrironment and Development 54 20 1992 NA/$150 $30 Bombing L.A. .. .. 1990 NA/$295 560 About the Unik-d Nations: Literacy 54 18 1990 NA/$150 $30 The Brain 20 1976 $380/5250 $SO About the United Nations: Palestine 54 19 1990 NA/$150 $30 The Brazilian Connection .. 1983 NA/$350 $90 About the United Nations: Breaking the Silence 30 S8 1984 $850l$295 $9S Peacekttping 54 19 1990 NA/$150 $30 The Brick~Makers 24 ., 1972 $5951$295 $65 About the United Nations: Brief Landscape 49 21 198S $280/NA $40 16 1991 NA/$150 $30 Rights of the Child 54 A Bright Future ...For Some 33 15 1974 $350/$195 $4S 26 1976 $4251$250 Ame sss Bronx Cheers 6 30 1989 NA/$59.95 NA 198S NAIS350 $90 Acts of Violence 27 .. Brother Bread, Sister Puppet 1 1993 NAl$350 $9S $95 .. 47 58 1990 $89Sl$350 After the Battle Budd Boetticher: One on One 3 S8 1989 NAJS350 $90 1976 $400/5250 $SO Aging 20 Building More Effective Teams 26 26 1978 $4251$295 $55 NAIS350 $100 AIDS Babies 14 58 1990 Burley: Growing Tobacco in America 34 28 198S NA/5250 $SO 14 28 1990 $42S1$2SO $SO AIDS in the Barrio Business 20 1970 $400'$250 $SO Air Pollution 20 1970 $400/$2SO $SO Alan Bean: Art Off This Earth 11 26 1991 NA/5250 sss C Albanian Joumey: End of an Era 54 .. 1991 NAJ$350 $95 Camilo Torres: The Guerrilla Priest S4 1975 $89S/$350 $8S Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: A Sped.al Gift 20 30 198S $425/5250 $55 Can Polar Bears Tread Water? 22 58 1989 NA/$295 $90 Alberta Hunter: My Castle's Rodcin' 10 .. 1988 $895/$350 $100 Cancer: The Wayward Cell 26 1976 $425/$295 sss Alcoholism 19 26 1976 $42S1S2SO $5S The Cancer War 18 .. 1983 $895/5350 $100 ...All Our Lives 43 54 1986 NA/S350 $9S Can't Hear You Knocking 1S S7 1991 NA/$350 $95 The All•Star Jazz Show 10 47 1976 NA/$295 $7S Castles in the Air 49 10 1986 $150/NA 52S The Amazon: A Vanishing Rainforest 23 29 1988 NA/$250 $SO Catching Up With Yesterday 8 28 1990 NA/5250 $SO America and Lewis Hine 13 56 1984 $89S1S3SO $125 A Celebration of Life 4 43 1993 NA/$250 $6S Anarchism in America 37 7S 1982 $950/5395 $125 Champions 49 17 1988 $250/NA $40 And Another Honkytonk Girl Changing Organizations 25 26 1978 $4251$295 sss Says She Will 6 30 1990 NA/$59.95 NA Charge and Countercharge 37 43 1969 $5951$295 560 The Animals Film 40 136 1981 $2000/$395 $150 Chen and China's Symphony 8 S8 1988 NA/$350 $9S Ai\o Nuevo 34 ss 1981 NAIS350 $90 Cherokee 36 26 .1972 $400'$29S $55 Any Child is My Child 47 27 1989 NA/$250 $SO Chicano Park 26 .. 1989 $79S/$3SO $90 Approaches to Organizational Chico Mendes: Voice of the Amazon 22 57 1989 NA/5295 $90 Behavior Modification (OBM) 25 26 1978 $425/$295 sss Children in Debt so 29 1987 $42S1$250 sss Aqabat Jaber: Passing Through 52 S2 1988 NA/$350 $9S The Children's War so S2 1991 NA/$3SO $90 19 1970 $365/$250 sss Archology Chile: B)' Reason or By Force .. 1983 NA/$495 $90 The Arctic 17 1970 $315/$195 sss Choosing Suicide 18 S8 1980 NA/5350 $9S Are We Winning Mommy?: Choreography 11 1964 NA/NA 520 87 1986 $1200/5395 $125 America and the Cold War 33 Chuck Solomon: Coming of Age 14• 57 1986 $89SIS3SO $95 18 1976 $3S0/$2SO $45 Armaments: The War Game Cimarrones 24 24 1983 S400'S2SO $SO 1982 $4251$250 El Arresto 28 sss Cinema: The Uving Cinema 24 1970 S400'S2SO $55 4 11 1967 NA/NA $20 Art and Technique of the Ballet Cissy Houston: Sweet Inspiration 10 S8 1987 $89S/$3SO $9S 18 1970 $3SOl$250 $4S The Art, Cities 18 1970 $3S0/S280 $SO 6 28 1990 NA/$59.95 NA Assurances Citizen: The Political Life of Astroworkers 20 26 1988 $42S1$250 sss Allard K. Lowenstein 37 72 1983 $89S/$3SO -$100 At Dawn, Overcoming All Difficulties 33 17 1974 $3S0/$195 $4S Civilized Tribes 36 26 1972 $4CKW$295 $55 Autumn Across America 21 47 1970 $595/$125 $7S The Closing Door 39 59 1984 NA/$350 $90 Avenue of the Americas 82 197S SSS0/$39S $9S Collection and Disposal 28 1979 $4251$250 $SO B Come Fly With the Hawk 23 24 1976 NA/$39.95 NA Comedienne ., 82 1983 $99S/S3SO$125 The Badge 6 30 1990 NA/$59.95 NA Coming Home 33 1979 $4251$29S $55 jA Bailar!: $45 The Journey of a La.tin Dance Company 4 30 1988 $450/5250 $SO The Coming of Darkness 33 18 1974 $350/$195 $100 Balcwet: Refugees in Their Own Land 47 33 1989 NAIS250 $SO Coming Out ., 63 1989 $89SIS3SO $9S Ballad of an Unsung Hero 26 28 1983 $4251$250 sss Coming to Terms 15 S7 1990· NA/$350 $400'$250 $SO Ballet in Jazz 4 11 1962 NA/$150 $20 Communications: The Wired World 20 1970 BallyhooBaby 6 30 1990 NA/$59.95 NA The Complete Cardin 20 1970 $400'$250 sss $400'$200 $SO The Battle of Vieques 38 1986 $5951$295 560 Computers 20 1976 .. $350/$200 sss Bay of Pigs 103 1972 NA/NA $125 Computology 19 1970 NA/529S Before Stonewall: The Making of Concerto at Work 7 47 198S sss a Gay and Lesbian Community 16 8'7 1984 $1200/$395 $125 Conservation of Rare Trees 21 25 1992 NA/$195 $SO Benec:Utada Silva 48 29 1991 NA/5250 $SO Consumerism 20 1970 S400'S2SO $55 Best Offer 2 28 1992 NA/$250 $50 Consumerism in Medicine 26 1976 $4251$2SO sss Bingo: You Betcha! 18 28 1992 NA/5250 sss Contraception: The Stalled Revolution 15 S8 1992 NA/$3S0 $95 The Biochernedkal Revolution 17 1970 $350/$195 $50 Conversations with Ancient History 32 62 1991 NA/$350 $100 Biofeedback 19 1976 $36Sl$ZSO $50 Conversations with Willard Van Dyke 12 59 1981 $89S/$3SO $100 Birthwrite: Growing Up Hispanic: 7 57 1989 NAIS295 $90 Coping with Technology 2S 26 1978 $4251$29S sss 55 • ' Alphabetical Title Index II Pun::hasf Renta I Purchase Rental Fil,n/Vituo Title Page Length Year 16mm/Video Pri.c' Film/Video Title pgge Length Year 16mm!Video Price Cops: Behind the Badge 27 60 1986 NA/$350 $95 For the First Time 3 12 1967 NA1$100 535 Corporation with a Movie Camera 34 34 1992 NAIS250 $50 For the Love of Ben: A Fathers View 29 27 1988 NA1$250 550 The Cost of Cotton 23 30 1979 5450/5250 $55 Forever in Time: Counterfeit Coverage 34 28 1992 NA/5250 555 The Art of Edward S. Curtis 13 50 1990 NA/5295 575 Creation of the World: A Samba-Opera 8 56 1978 NA/5350 S95 The Four Seasons (Series} 21 188 1970 NA/5395 $200 Crime 19 1970 $365/$250 $50 Frame-Up! 28 30 1974 542515250 $55 Criminal Justice 28 58 1986 NA/5350 $90 free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Amuddsls 37 55 1980 $895/5350 $95 Criminology 20 1976 $400/$250 $50 Freedom Rings: A Six Week Journey Crossroads of Civilization (Series) 53 7x58 1978 $3995/$1995 $495 through Freedom Theatre 24 29 1992 NA1$250 550 Crow Dog 28 57 1979 $795/$350 $95 Freefall 6 28 1990 NA/$59.95 NA Cuba and Fidel 24 1976 $400/$250 $50 Fresh Talk {Series) 16 85 1992 NA/$395 $100 Cuba: A View from Inside (Series) 49 From My Grandmother's Grandmother Unto Me 43 52 1990 NA/5350 595 D From the Ashes: Nicaragua Today 60 1982 $895,'$350 $95 A Dali for a Dollar 11 20 1974 S400/$195 550 From Vigilance to Violence 39 15 1993 NA/539.95 NA The Dance 4 74 1960 $895/$395 $95 from Wild Woods to Town Gardens 21 25 1992 NA/$195 $50 Daws Butler: Voice Magician 3 58 1988 NA/$350 595 Fusion 20 1976 $400/5250 $50 The Day the Cold War Came Home 32 21 1988 NA/$250 $50 The Future of Trees 21 25 1992 NA/$195 $50 Dead End Kids: A Story of Nuclear Power 5 87 1986 $995/$395 S150 Future Wave: Japan Design 12 58 1990 NA/$350 5100 Deadline for Action 40 1946 $495/$295 $50 G Debut 8 60 1989 $895/$350 595 Gathering Up Again: Fiesta in Santa Fe 40 47 1992 NA/5275 $75 Delivered Vacant 41 118 1992 NA/5395 $150 Genetics: Man the Creator 20 19 1070 $365/$250 550 Depression and Suicide 18 26 1976 $425/$250 555 Geopolitics 20 1970 $400/5250 $50 Depth Charge 6 20 1989 NA/$59.95 NA George Stuart Sculptor, The Descent of the Hordes 53 58 1978 $795/$350 590 Entertainer and Historian 11 60 1991 NA/5295 $95 The Devil's Dream 48 58 1992 NAl$350 595 God, Gays and the Gospel 38 58 1991 NA/$295 595 Does the Cactus Have a Soul? 52 56 1987 NA/5350 $90 Graffiti 5 28 1986 $450/5250 555 Doin'Life 28 60 1980 NA/$350 $75 The Grand Jury 28 55 1979 5895/$350 $90 Doing Business 15 1981 $300/$195 $50 The Great Bison Herds and the Old West 23 24 1976 NA1$39.95 NA Doing Justice 28 57 1984 NA1$350 $90 The Great Swindle 30 1947 $3951$250 550 Dollar a Day, lOt a Dance 47 30 1985 $425/$250 $50 Grenada: The Future Coming Toward Us 55 1984 $895/5350 $100 Dolores 29 50 1988 NAIS250 $80 Growing Up in the South 51 23 1990 NA/5250 $50 The Double Day 44 53 1975 $795/$350 $85 Guardians of the Sacred Flame 53 58 1978 $795/$350 $90 A Dream of Europe 19 1970 $350/$200 555 Guatemala: Roads of Silence 51 59 1988 NA/S350 $90 Dreams and Nightmares 33 60 1974 S795/$350 575 Guazapa: The Face of War in El Salvador 37 1984 $595/5250 $60 E A La Guerra 10 1979 $150/$95 $25 Early Misgivings: A Film on Child Abuse 29 29 1984 $425/$250 $50 Guerrilla Priest 24 1982 NA/$195 550 Earth: No Vacancy 19 1976 $365/$250 550 H Ecology: The Silent Bomb 20 1976 $400/$250 $50 Habitat2000 18 1976 S350/S200 550 Ecstasy Unlimited 17 60 1985 NAl$350 $90 Haiti Dreams of Democracy 51 52 1987 NAl$350 575 Education 20 1970 $365/$200 555 Haiti: Reason to Aee 27 1983 NA/5250 $55 Education: A Basic Human Right 45 45 1992 NA/$295 $70 Half the World 53 58 1978 $7951$350 590 El Salvador. The People Will Win 80 1981 $1000/$395 S125 Halftime: Five Yale Men at Midlife 18 90 1988 NA/5295 5100 El Salvador. What's at Stake? 28 1983 NAl$200 550 Halloweenie 12 1986 $1951$100 $30 The Emerging Woman 44 40 1974 $550/$295 $60 Hard Drugs 19 16 1976 $325/$195 $50 Energy 24 1976 $400/$250 550 Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union 58 1992 $895/5350 595 Eritrea 46 30 1990 $425/$250 550 Havana Postmodern: The New Cuban Art 12 54 1988 NA/$350 590 Escorts 39 15 1993 NA/$39.95 NA The Heart of Loisaida 41 30 1979 $4251$250 $55 The Eterna1 Mysteries of Migration 23 24 1976 NA/$39.95 NA Heroes or History? 53 58 1978 $795/5350 590 Evolution by DNA 23 1976 $400/$250 550 Heroism: A Community Responds 14 28 1987 NA/$250 550 Exploring the Edge 20 26 1988 $425/$250 555 High Water Exploring the Kingdom of the Reptile 23 24 1976 NA/$39.95 NA (& High Water: Behind the Scenes) 2 63 1989 $450/$295 575 Export TV: Anatomy of an High Water 6 36 1989 NA/$59.95 NA Electronic Invasion 35 25 1989 NA/$195 _ $50 The History Book (Series) 33 157 1974 $2000/$1000 5150 F History from Trees 21 25 1992 NA/$195 550 The Fabulous Sixties (Series) 31 450 1993 NA/$2000 5250 Holy Father and Gloria 50 43 1987 $4251$295 550 The Family 21 1970 $400/$250 550 Holy Tenor 40 58 1986 $8951$550 $100 Fashion 20 1970 $365/$200 555 Home 41 28 1986 NA/$250 550 A Fat-Free Society 20 1974 $400/$200 550 Home of the Brave 35 53 1984 $850/5550 590 Favelas 50 50 1989 NAIS295 $65 Homeboys 27 60 1978 $7951$550 590 Field Flowers 11 42 1991 NA/$49.95 NA Homosexuality and Let.bi.anism 17 26 1976 $4251$250 $55 Finally Got the News 25 55 1970 NA/$350 585 Hong Kong 19 1970 $350/$200 555 Fire Sermon 9 1965 NA/$150 520 Housing Court '1 30 1985 $4251$250 555 The Flapper Story 42 29 1985 $450/$250 555 How the West was Lost 36 26 1972 $400/5295 555 A Flickering Light in the Darkness 33 18 1974 $3501$195 $45 Howard Koch: You Must Remember This 3 57 1992 NA/$350 $95 The Flour Mill 13 1970 $295/NA 555 Hull House: The House that Jane Bunt 30 58 1990 NA/$350 595 Flymg 20 1970 $365/$200 $55 The Human Potential Movement 17 1976 $330/5250 550 Flying on Fire 20 26 1988 $42515250 555 Human Resources and Organizational Behavior (Series) $3995/$2500 $495 Folklore of Trees 21 25 1992 NAIS195 $80 25 338 1978 Follow the Dirt Road 39 53 1992 NA/$295 $90 I Food 20 1970 $400/$200 555 l Am Juana Bacallao 49 9 1989 $125/NA 525 56 II Alphabetical Title Index PJ1rc.hlueRental Purchase Rental film/Video litle Page Length Ym 16mm!Video Priu film/Video Title Page Length Year 16mm/Vuho Price I Dream, Too 14 so 1991 NA/$295 $95 Long Distance Commuting I Promise to Remember: The Story of with the Grey Whale 25 24 1976 NA/$39.95 NA Fnnkie Lymon and the Tttnagrm 10 27 1983 $4751$250 $55 Longevity - 20 1976 $400/$2SO $50 I Spent My Ufe in the Mines so 40 1977 $5SO/S295 $65 Lyman H. Howe's High Cass 28 1983 $4251$250 $55 lowo 24 40 1978 $5SOIS295 $55 Moving Pictures 2 If it Bleeds, It Leads 35 14 1986 $2951$195 $30 M 111Go to Santiago 49 15 1964 $200'NA $35 Made On Rails: A History of I'm OK, You're Ok 20 1974 $4111>'$250 $50 the Mexican Railroad Workers - 40 1988 NA/$250 $50 tm..,."'nshTalkJ 16 22 1992 NA/$150 $40 Makeshift Solutions 33 18 1974 $350/$195 $45 ImqeofaDancer 4 32 1989 $4251$250 $55 Makhalapile: The Dauntless One ., 54 1989 NA/5350 $90 tm-••Snuggl, 13 28 1990 NAl$250 $50 Making Do 50 59 1989 NA/$295 595 Ima~ of Faith 38 28 1992 NA/$250 $50 Making the News Fit 34 28 1986 NA/$250 550 In Search of the Rilff Everglades Kite 25 24 1976 NAl$39.95 NA Mama Goes to War 49 18 1984 $300/NA $40 In the Jungle There Is Lots to Do 2 17 1972 $2001$125 $30 Man of Leather - 20 1979 $3951$195 $50 In the Name of Demoaacy 31 1984 $4251$250 $50 Management of Coppice Woodland 21 25 1992 NA/$195 $50 Inciting to Riot - 35 1970 $4251$250 $55 Manos A La Obn: Indian Country 36 26 1972 $40<>'$295 $55 The Story of Operation Bootstrap 37 59 1983 58951$350 5100 Innovating Nicaragua - 40 1986 NA/$295 $50 A Man's Woman 42 52 1988 NA/$295 590 The lntrmational Sweethearts of Rhythm 9 30 1986 $4751$250 $55 Many Wonder 6 40 1989 NA/$59.95 NA Is This Dreaming? 40 53 1985 NA/$350 $60 Martin Cham.bi and the Heirs of the Incas 12 50 1986 $7951$295 585 'lsitwalandwe': The Story of Mass Transit - 20 1970 $400/$200 $55 the South African Flftd.om Chatter .. 51 1980 NA/$295 $85 Master Misery 6 40 1989 NA/$59.95 NA It Happened in Hualfin 41 1969 $5951$295 $65 The Master of Light 20 25 1984 $4251$250 $55 It's a. Rock and Roll World - 20 1976 $40<>'$200 $55 Maurice - 27 1984 $4251$250 $55 It's Our Baby 30 25 1990 NA/$250 $50 Maurits F.scher. Painter of Fantasies 11 27 1970 $400/$250 $50 Maxine Sullivan: Love to Be in Love 7 48 1990 NA/$295 570 I Media: Massaging the Mind 19 1976 $3651$250 $50 The Jamestown Story 25 26 1978 $4251$295 $55 - Media Only 34 47 1992 NA.1$295 $65 Japan 20 1970 $3651$200 $55 - Medical Carttrs 26 1976 $4251$250 $55 Jari 60 1983 NA/NA $90 - - Meditation 18 1976 5350'5250 $50 Jerusalem 20 1970 $3651$200 $55 - Mega-Buildings - 17 1976 $330'$195 $50 Jimmie Rodgers: 29 1992 NA/$250 $50 The Father of Country Musk 10 30 1986 NA/$39.95 NA Men. Women, Angels and Harps 10 .60 1983 NA/$350 $90 John Hoagland: Frontline Photographer 13 29 1985 NAl$250 $50 The Mercenary Game - 52 65 1971 58951$350 $100 Journey into Summer 21 47 1970 $5951$125 $75 Mexico: The Frozen Revolution M. F. K. Fisher: Writer with a Bite 5 28 1992 NA/$250 $50 JungJe Pharmacy 22 53 1989 NA/$295 $90 A Minor Altercation 25 30 1976 $450/$250 $55 K Miss ...Or Myth? 43 60 1986 58951$350 $100 Kababaihan: Filipina Portraits 47 40 1989 NAl$295 $60 Missing Cltildnm 50 28 1985 $4251$250 $55 Kama.Sutras - 10 1965 NAl$1SO $20 Mobility - ,. 1976 $270'$150 $50 Karl Brown's Adventuft!I with The Moncada Program - 51 1973 NA/NA $80 D.W. Griffith 3 30 1990 NA/$250 $50 Mother ln!land 44 52 1988 NA/$350 $90 Keep the Circle Strong 36 28 1990 NA/$250 $50 Motivation 25 26 1978 $4251$295 $55 Kenned.ya Don't Cry 37 100 1975 $9951$395 $100 Motivations 49 13 1988 $200/NA $25 NA/$250 $50 The Kissing Booth 17 28 1988 Movement - 26 1976 $4001$250 $55 L Moving Myths 38 52 1989 NA/$295 585 NA/$350 590 The Land Bums - 12 1968 $1751$150 $35 Mozambique The Struggle for Survival .. 57 1988 NA/$350 595 Land for Rose 50 83 1987 NA/$350 $100 Murder: No Apparent Motive 27 60 1984 Last of the Karaphuna 36 50 1983 $7951$295 $85 The Music of the Devil, the Bear, and the Condor 7 52 1989 NA/$350 $90 Lui Summn Won't Happen 60 1968 $7951$350 $75 - Music: The Electronic Edge 20 1970 $3651$200 $55 Laura Clay: Voice of Change 42 $6 1992 NA/$350 $95 - My Dinner With Abbie 39 57 1991 58951$350 $100 L.LA.R.: The League of NA/$195 $40 Rrvolutionary Writen and Artists 52 31 1988 NA/$250 $50 My Ytddishe Momme McCoy 43 20 1991 Leam to Live with Stress - 19 1974 $3651$250 $50 N Leaming to Paint with Namibia: No Easy Road to Freedom 58 1989 NA/$350 $90 Carolyn Berry (Series) 11 282 1991 NA/$199.95 NA .. Namibia: Rebirth of a Nation 45 1990 NA/$295 $75 20 1970 $3651$250 $45 .. ,Loisure - The NationalMs 38 28 1973 $425/$250 $55 e Lemon Grove Incident 26 58 1985 58951$350 $95 ;Th The Native Americaru (Series) 36 260 1972 $2995/$1995 $395 58 1991 NA/$350 $95 ,The Liberia Tn:&edY .. Native~d 35 58 1986 NA/$350 $95 29 1978 $4251$295 $55 ,TMLibertarians - Natural Enemies: The Deer and the Wolf 23 24 1976 NA.1$39.95 NA mKlll 27 20 1984 $4251$250 $55 ,u. Navajo: Race for Prosperity 36 26 1972 $400/$295 $55 e 1J& and Poetry of Julia De Burgos 5 28 1979 $4251$250 $55 ,Th Neighbors: The Unitrd Statr1 and Mexico 52 60 1985 NA/$350 $90 al lhe Soutte: Neon: An Electric Memoir 1 26 1984 NA/$250 $55 ,Lifethe Adventures of an Amazon Explon!r 24 47 1989 NA/$295 $75 The New Cinema 100 1983 NA/$395 $55 e Stoty of an African Inyanga 45 27 1991 NA/$250 $50 ,w New Cinema of Latin America (Series) • 168 1985 NA/$595 5150 tfelines: A Career Profile Study 26 26 1978 $4251$295 $55 ,L Part 1: Cinema of the Humble • 83 1985 NA/$350 $85 Llftlng the Blackout: Part D: The Long Road • 85 1985 NA/$350 $85 Jmagea of North Kotea 48 54 1989 NA/$350 $90 A New Dawn 33• 20 1974 $350'$195 $45 t Memories of Rio 13 33 1987 NAIS250 $55 "Ugh New Leadership Styles 25 26 1978 $4251$295 $55 t Slte.inga 1 13 1990 NA/$1SO $30 'Ugh Nlcaragu: The Dirty War 68 1985 58951$350 $100 Lily Dale: M~aaages from the The Night is Sinister 33 18 1974 $350l$195 $45 Spirit Side of life 38 28 1991 NA/$250 $50 No F.uy Walk (Serin) 45 180 1988 NA/$1000 $220 t,nCanas 50 19 1979 $3751$250 $50 No Easy Walk: Ethiopia 45 60 1988 NA/$395 .$90 57 , • ·~ Alphabetical Title Index ii Purc.hase Rental Purchase Rental Film/Video Title Page Length Year 16mm/Video Price Film/Video Title Page Length Year 16mm!Video Price No Easy Wa1k: Kenya 45 60 1988 NA1$395 $90 Puerto Rico: Paradise Inv.1ded 3'7 30 1977 $425/$250 $55 No Easy Walk: Zimbabwe 45 60 1988 NA/$395 $90 No Vietnamese Ever Ci.lied Me Nigger 25 1968 $895/$350 $95 .. A Quiet Revolution 39 60 1988 $8951$350 $95 Noel Nutels 30 1977 $4251$250 $55 North with the Spring 21 47 1970 5595/$125 $75 R Not All Parents are Straight 30 58 1986 $895/$350 $95 .Runanah: A World of Our Own 33 28 1982 $4251$250 $55 Nutrition 26 1976 $4251$250 $55 Race Relations 24 1976 5400/$250 $55 0 The Ragged Revolution 52 37 1981 $595/$295 560 The Rain Forest's Green Hell 23 24 1976 NA/539.95 NA The Occult 20 1976 $365/$250 $45 Ralph Nader: Up Oose 2 72 1990 5995/$395 $100 Oceans 19 1976 $365/$250 $50 Ralph Nader: Up Close 2 49 1990 NA/$295 $75 The Oceans:Going Under in the Bahamas 23 24 1976 NA/$39.95 NA Ralph Nader: Up Close 2 30 1990 NA/5250 $50 Off Limits 19 52 1991 NA/$295 $90 Ralph's Arm 6 30 1991 NA1$S9.95 NA Old Oaks 21 25 1992 NA/5195 $50 Rape/Crisis 28 87 1983 $8751$395 $US Omara 49 26 1983 $400/NA $50 Reconciliation in Zimbabwe 34 1990 NA1$250 $55 On Borrowed Land 47 51 1990 NA1$350 $90 .. Red Squad 37 45 1972 $595/$295 560 On the Line 5-0 1977 $675/$295 $80 Redlands 6 28 1989 NA/S59.95 NA On the Trail of the Bighorn 23 24 1976 NA/$39.95 NA Religion 20 1970 $365/$250 $45 One More Among Them 49 31 1989 $400/NA $50 Responsibility (Fresh Talk) 16 22 1992 NA/SlSO $40 One, Two, That's It! 49 11 1986 $150/NA $25 Restoring Scotland's Native Trees 21 25 1992 NA/5195 $50 La Operacion 44 40 1982 5595/5295 $75 Retratos 38 53 1980 $850/$350 $90 Oracle of the Branch 12 1965 NA/$150 $20 The Return of Joe Hill 32 57 1990 NA/5350 $95 Organic Farming 20 1976 $400/$250 $50 Returning to Chile 28 1986 $400/$250 $50 Origins and Evidence 53 58 1978 5795/$350 $90 Review of the Seventies 33 44 1979 $595/$295 $55 Our Union 22 1949 $350/$200 $40 Review of the Sixties 33 44 1969 $595/$295 $55 Outward Bound 20 26 1988 $425/$250 555 The Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls 38 80 1989 NA/$295 $100 The Oxcart 7 20 1970 NA/Sl95 $50 Riding with the King 9 59 1989 NA/$350 $95 p Rigoberta 49 13 1985 $150/NA $25 Pablo Neruda: Poet 7 30 1972 NA/$250 $55 The Road to Liberty 65 1983 $895/5350 $95 The Pacific Paradise in Pain 53 60 1985 NA/5350 $75 Roads Home 30 1987 NA/$250 $50 Panama: The Fifth Frontier 78 1975 NA/NA $90 Robotics 20 1976 $400/$250 $50 Pancho V'tlla's Columbus Raid 52 26 1983 $495/$250 $55 Rocky Mountain Adventures 23 ,. 1976 NA/539.95 NA Paraguay: The Forgotten Dictatorship 51 27 1988 NA/5250 $50 Romance, Sex and Marriage 17 26 1976 $4251$250 $55 Paradise Camp 32 56 1986 NA/$350 $90 Roosevelt, New Jersey 32 52 1983 $8751$350 $95 Pam 20 1970 $365/$200 $55 Routes of Rhythm with Penology 20 1970 $400/5250 $50 Harry Belafonte (Series) 174 1990 NA/$298 $150 Personal Decisions 43 30 1986 $395/5250 55-0 Routes of Rhythm (Episode #1) 7 58 1990 NA/5150 $95 Perspective 11 30 1991 NA/$49.95 NA Routes of Rhythm (Episode #2) 7 58 1990 NA/$150 $95 The Physicists 20 22 1976 $400/$250 $50 Routes of Rhythm (Episode #3) 7 58 1990 NA/$150 $95 The Pipes are Calling 9 29 1990 $425/5250 550 Running Gay 16 20 1991 NA/$195 $5-0 Pirate's Dagger 2 30 1992 NA/$250 $50 Russia for Sale 53 58 1992 NA/$295 $95 The Plan 54 1980 $850/$295 $90 s Plasmasis 14 1974 NA/NA $30 SL Louis Blues 17 1929 NA/NA $25 Pleasure (Fresh Talk) 16 16 1992 NA/$150 $40 Sm Francisco Good Ttmes 33 60 1974 $750/$350 $90 Plena is Work, Plena is Song 9 ,. 1989 $450/$250 $55 Sanctuary: A Question of Conscience 39 26 1986 $4251$250 $55 Poker 6 21 1988 NA1559.95 NA Santa Marta: Two Weeks in the Slums 24 54 1988 NA/$350 $90 Pompeii, A.D. 79 23 1979 $395/5250 550 Saving the Largest Bird in the World 23 24 1976 NA/$39.95 NA Portrait Drawing 11 60 1991 NA.1$49.95 NA Sculpture 19 1970 $350/$200 555 Portrait Painting 11 60 1991 NA.1$49.95 NA A Sense of Freedom 58 1992 NA/$35-0 $95 Potlatch People 36 26 1972 $400/5295 $55 .. The Sensational Seventies (Series) 31 480 1993 NA/$2000 $250 Poverty 18 1976 $350/5200 $50 The Sexes: Breaking the Barriers 18 1970 $350/5200 $50 Power (Fresh Talk) 16 25 1992 NA/5150 $40 Shadow Children 29 30 1991 NA/$250 $50 Power and Conflict in the Organiz..ltion 25 26 1978 $4251$295 $55 The Shadow of God on Earth 53 58 1978 $7951$350 $90 Prayer 49 9 $150/NA 1983 $25 She Sold Candies 49 13 1985 $150/NA $25 The Predators 53 58 1978 $7951$350 $90 Shop Talk 34 83 1980 $950/$395 $100 Presenting George Stuart: Short Stories (Series) 6 NA./$.389.35 NA How the Historical Figures are Made 11 uo 1991 NA/$395 $15-0 Shout Youngstown 33 45 1984 NA/$295 $75 Presumed Innocent 28 60 1980 $8951$350 $100 Simplemente Jenny 33 1975 $4251$250 $55 The Primal Mind 35 58 1984 $895/5350 $100 .. The Six Nations 36 26 1972 $400/$295 $55 Primal Thnapy ,. 1976 $365/$250 550 Six O'Oock and All's Well 35 60 1980 $7951$350 $90 Prisoners of Conscience 30 1980 $4251$250 $50 Smoking: Games Smokers Play 19 26 1976 $42515250 $55 Privacy 20 1976 $400/$250 $50 Sociobiology 20 1976 $400/$250 $50 The Probable Passing of Elk Creek 60 1983 $8951$350 $95 Sometimes the Metro Bus Producing Miracles Everyday 51 23 1990 NA/$195 $50 Doesn't Stop for Me 15 28 1991 NA/$250 $55 Profits from Poison 22 1989 NA/$295 $90 .. Song of the Spear 57 1986 $8951$350 $95 Protecting the .. Songololo: Vokes of Change ., 54 1990 $850/$350 $100 Global Environment (Series) 17 214 1989 NA/$995 $250 Soul of the Islands 30 1988 NA/5250 $50 Prowling with the Mighty Polar Bear 23 ,. 1976 NA/$39.95 NA Sound/Noise 20 1976 $400/$250 $50 Pueblo Renaissance 36 26 1972 $400/$295 555 The Sound of Rushing Water 42 1973 $550/$295 $60 Puerto Riro ,. 1975 NA/NA $95 The Sounds of New York 9 60 1990 NA/$35-0 $90 Puerto Riro: A Colony the American Way 27 1982 $4251$250 $50 South of the Border 8 63 1987 $8951$350 $100 Puerto Riro: Our Right to Decide 28 1981 $42515250 $50 58 Alphabetical Title Index ' •• 11 ii P&trc:haseRent ., Pun:hase Rental film/Video 'Title Length Year 16mmfVuleoPril:.e FilmlVideo Title Page Length Year 16mm/VideoPrice Soweto to Berkeley 25 50 1988 NA/$295 $SO 'To Save the Amazon's Green Hell 20 1974 $400/$250 $50 Space 22 1976 $400/$250 $50 To Solve the E.S.P. Mystery 20 1974 $400/5300 $50 The Space Experience (Series) 20 156 1988 $2000/$1000 $250 To the People of the World 21 1975 $350/$200 $45 Space, Inc. 20 26 1988 $4251$250 $5 5 Together and Apart 6 26 1986 NA1$59.95 NA Space: Lab in the Sky 24 1970 $400/$250 $5 5 Too Much, Too Soon 15 1987 NA/$195 $30 Space Pioneers: A Canadian Story 20 53 1988 NA/$295 $90 Top Guru; and Toxic Whales 23 52 1991 NA/$295 $95 Spinning Out t9 55 1991 NA/$350 $95 The 1rail North 26 20 1983 $4251$195 $55 The Spirit Travels: Trail of Broken Treaties 36 26 1972 $400/$295 $55 ImmigrantMusic in America 8 55 1991 NA/$350 $95 Transactional Analysis 25 26 1978 $425/$295 $55 Spirit of Trees (Series) 21 200 1992 NA/5995 $195 liiumphant Symphony 33 15 1974 $350/$195 $45 Sports Injuries 26 1976 $400/$250 $55 'lrouble on Fashion Avenue 33 60 1982 NAl$3SO $90 Sports: Programmed Gladiators 24 1970 $400/$250 $55 Troublemakers 54 1966 $7951$350 $90 Spray Paint 11 15 1991 NA/$150 $30 Tupamaros! so 1972 57951$295 $85 Squatters 41 27 1984 $4251$250 $50 Turning Dreams into Reality 4 1988 NA/$250 $50 Stand Up for Choice (Series) 39 45 1993 NA/$99.95 NA Two for Ballet 4 "57 1991 NAl$350 $95 Staying Alive 20 26 1988 $4251$250 $55 Stefan Roloff: Faces of an Artist at Work 11 20 1992 NAJ$195 $40 u 17 Steppin' 24 56 1992 NA/$350 $95 The Ultimate Test Animal 40 1985 NAl$295 $55 Still life 11 60 1991 NAJ$49.95 NA The Uncompromising Revolution 49 54 1988 $850/5350 $100 The Story of Chaim Rumkowski Understanding Behavior in Organizations 26 26 1978 $4251$295 $55 and the Jews of Lodz 32 53 1982 $8951$350 $100 Universities 20 1976 $380'$200 $55 The Storytellers 5 28 1991 NA/$250 $50 V Strategic Trust 45 59 1984 $8951$3SO $95 The Valentine Lane Family Practice 29 1978 $425/$250 $55 Stream of Social Intercourse 6 26 1990 NA/$59.95 NA Vi: Portrait of a Silent Star 3 30 1986 NA/$250 $50 Sudden Changes: Vietnam: After the Fire 106 1988 NA/$395 $100 Post Hysterectomy Syndrome 17 29 1985 NA/$250 $50 .. Villa El Salvador: A Desert Dream 51 1989 NA/$295 $80 The Sugar Mill 10 1970 $195/NA $35 so Violence 19 1976 $3651$250 $50 Sun, Moon md Feather 36 30 1989 $425/$250 $55 Vision of Juazeiro 19 1970 $3751$250 $45 Superconductors 20 24 1974 $400/$250 $55 Voices from Within 27 20 1977 $400'$195 $50 Los Sures 41 58 1983 $8951$350 $100 51 30 1983 $4251$250 $50 Surrealism: Poetic Vision 5 59 1993 NAl$350 $95 Voyage of Dreams T w Wandering Through Winter 21 47 1970 $5951$125 $75 Tai Ki 52 1976 $600/$350 $90 Wank.els, Jets and Gems 18 1970 $3651$250 $55 Technology 20 1970 $400/$2.50 $50 Wat Generation: Beirut 53 50 1988 NA1$295 $80 Teenage Mothers: A Global Crisis 16 55 1990 NA/$295 $90 War Lab 40 30 1987 NA1$250 $50 10 Days, 10 Years: The Nicaraguan Elections of 1990 54 1990 NAl$295 $90 Waste 20 1976 $400/$250 $50 Tesla: The Zenith factor 21 28 1986 NA/$250 $55 Water 20 1970 $400/$250 $50 Theresienstadt: Gateway to Auschwitz 33 58 1987 NA/$350 $90 Water Color Techniques 11 30 1991 NA/$49.95 NA They Promised. to Take Our Land 36 26 1972 $4001$295 $55 We Dig Coal 42 58 1982 $7951$350 $100 They're Doing My Time 29 56 1988 $8951$350 $95 We've Got Rhythm 49 30 1967 $400/NA $50 Think Tanks 20 1976 -$250 $50 Weather 20 1976 $400/$250 $50 The Third Generation 19 so 1988 $7951$295 $60 Weirded Out and Blown Away 15 43 1986 $595/$295 $70 The Third Millenium 95 1982 NA/NA $125 WhatCanaGuyDo? 17 15 1983 $275/$195 530 This Bloody, Blundering Business 30 30 1978 $4251$250 $55 What's In it for Us? 10 1970 $1951$150 $30 This Other Haiti .f8 58 1993 NA/$350 $95 What's Wrong with this Building? 1 28 1989 $4251$250 $55 A Three Letter Word for Love 17 27 1976 $4251$250 $55 When the Dance is Over 49 10 1985 $150/NA $25 Through the Wire 27 68 1990 $1000/$350 $100 When the People Awake 60 1972 $850/$495 $90 Through Young People's Eyes 28 29 1983 $4251$250 $55 When Your Head's Not a Head, It's a Nut 17 57 1992 NA/$350 $95 Tiem y Cultura 24 38 1987 $4951$295 $70 Where Can I Live? '1 32 1984 NA/$250 $50 nmeand Light A Film about Photographs 12 24 1987 NA/$250 $50 White Justice 28 57 1987 NA/$350 $95 The Time Bomb 52 27 1988 NA/$250 $55 Who Will Cast the First Stone? 48 52 1989 NA/$350 $85 Tune of the Locust 13 1966 $1SOl$100 $30 Wild Refuge (Series) 23 312 1976 NA/$395 NA Wmter Sports 24 1976 $400/$250 $55 Tmy and Ruby: HeU Divin' Women 9 30 1988 $4251$250 $55 To Alter Human Behavior 20 1974 $400/$200 $50 The Witchy Weed 21 1970 $375/NA $50 To Build a Hockey Dynasty 24 1976 $400/$250 $55 With Her Own Light 49 20 1988 $300/NA $40 To Build a Pollution Free Car 18 1976 $3651$200 $55 With One Voice 49 10 1988 SlS 60 ,~ Subject Index I Promise to Remember: The Story of Los Sures 41 Delivered Vacant , 41 Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers 10 The Time Bomb 52 Grand Jury '' 28 ·rhe International Sweethearts Trouble on Fashion Avenue .. ,.,33 Housing Court 41 of Rhythm '9 Villa el Salvador.: A Desert Dream 51 Hull House: Maxine Sullivan.: Love to be in love .7 The House that Jane Built 30 A Minor Altercation 25 EDUCATION ls This Dreaming? ' 40 Routes of Rhythm Kennedys Don't Cry 37 with Harry Belafonte 7 Body Sculpt: The Video ,19 Laura Clay, Voice of Change 42 The Spirit navels: Education.: A Basic Human Right , , ,,45 The Lemon Grove Incident 26 l'lllffligrant Music in America ,8 Freedom Rings: A Six Week Journey Ralph Nader: Up Close ,2 TheStorytellers '5 through Freedom Theatre . ,24 Red Squad 37 A 1'11reeLetter Word for L.ove 17 I Dream, Too ,14 Roads Home .. , ,1 Tiny ond Ruby.: Hell Divin' Women ' '9 The Lemon Grove Incident 26 Through the Wire 27 Your Money or Your life 40 Literacy ,.. 54 White Justice 28 A Minor Altercation 25 Yo Soy, 26 CRIMINAL JUS IICE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Bombing LA. 40 GUIDANCE Early Misgivings 29 Environment and Development ...54 Alcoholism 19 Home 41 Follow the Dirt Road .39 Best Offer ,,2 Shadow Children 29 Life at the Source: The Adventures of Body Sculpt, The Video 19 Squatters .. '' 41 an Amazon Explorer .. .. , , , .. .. 24 Early Misgivings: They're Doing My Trme 29 Vietnam.: After the Fire .48 A Film on Child Abuse 29 Your Money or Your I ife 40 Fresh Talk (Series) 16 FAMILY RELATIONS Hard Drugs 19 High Water , ,,2 DEATH AND DYING Alcoholism ,19 A Minor Altercation 25 Choosing Suicide . . 18 AIDS Babies ,, 14 Not All Parents Are Straight 30 The Day the Cold War Came Home , 32 1 The Children's War .. 50 Pirate s Dagger . .. ,.2 follow the Dirt Road . . . ,,39 Choosing Suicide .. 18 Romance, Sex and Marriage 17 From My Grandmother's Grandmother Chuck Solomon: Coming of Age 14 Shadow Children 29 Unto Me ..43 Heroism: A Community Responds 14 Teenage Mothers: A Global Crisis . 16 License to Kill 27 Growing Up in the South . 51 Halftime: Five Yale Men at Midlife ,.18 A Three Letter Word/or Love . 17 Lily Dale: Messages from Through Young Peopl~'s Eyes .. 28 the Spirit Side of life , 38 High Water 2 What Can a Guy Do? .. 17 Murder: No Apparent Motive 27 A Minor Altercation ..25 Missing Children 50 HISTORY ECONOMICS Spinning Out ,.19 Sun, Moon & Feather 36 ,.,,All Our Lives 43 Albanian Journey: End of an Era 54 The Third Generation 19 Albanian Journ.ey: End of an Era . 54 America and Lewis Hine . 13 When Your Head's Not a Head, America and lewis Hine 13 Afio Nuevo 34 It's a Nut ..17 Anarchism in America 37 Bitter Cane 51 Before Stonewall 16 Burley.: Growing Tobacco in America .34 GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES Bitter Cane . . .51 Children in Debt , 50 Charge and Countercharge .. 37 Corporation with a Movie Camera 34 Before Stonewall: The Making of Chicano Park 26 Delivered Vacant ,, '' 41 a Gay and L.esbian Community . ..16 Citizen: The Political Life Follow the Dirt Road 39 The Blank Point: What is Transsexualism? ..17 of Allard K Lowenstein 37 Future Wave:· Japan Design 12 Fresh Talk (Series) . , ,.16 Crossroads of Civilization (Series) .. 53 Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union .. ..1 God, Gays and the Gospel , 38 Does the Cactus Have a Soul? 52 Human Resources and Organizational Dollar a Day, 10t a Dance 47 Behavior (Series) .. ,. ,, ,, .... , .. .. , 25 Heroism.: A Community Responds .... 14 1he Emerging Woman .. 44 Making Do . , 50 Homosexuality and Lesbianism 17 The Flapper Story 42 Monos a la Obra: Not All Parents Are Straight , ,,30 f'orever in lime; The Art of The Story of Operation Bootstrap , 37 Running Gay , 16 Edward S. Curtis 13 Ntighbors: The United States Tiny and Ruby: Hell Divin' Women 9 Free Voice of Labor: 52 Together and Apart 6 1111dMerico The Jewish Anarchists 37 On Borrowed Land . , 47 F'rom My Grandmother's Producing Miracles Everyday 51 GOVERNMENT AND CMCS Grandmother Unto Me 43 Roosevelt, New Jersey: Gathering Up Again: Visions of Utopia , 32 Are We Winning, Mommy?: America and the Cold War . ,.33 f'iesta in Santa Fe . 40 Russia for Sale: George Stuart: Sculptor, The Rough Road to Capitalism 53 Charge and Countercharge ....37 Chicano Park .... 26 Entertainer, Historian 11 Shop Talk '' 34 Harry Bridges.: A Man and His Union .. 1 Shout Youngstown 33 Citizen, The Political Life of Allard K. Lowenstein ...... ,.. 37 Howard Koch: The Space Experience (Series) '20 You Must Remember This ... 3 Conversations with Ancient History ..32 61 • -" 11· Subiect Index II The International Sweethearts Raananah: A World of Our Own H Havana Postmodern: of Rhythm 9 The Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls . 38 The New Cuban Art 12 Is This Dreaming? 40 The Spirit Travels: Home of the Brave 15 'lsitwalandwe'; The Story of the South Immigrant Music in America 8 lawo 24 Afn·can Freedom Charter 46 The Story of Chaim Rumkowski Jungle Pharmacy 22 Kennedys Don't Cry 37 and the Jews of Lodz 32 Keep the Circle Strong 36 l. E..A R.: The League of Revolutionary Theresienstadt.: Last of the Karaphuna 36 Writers and Artists 52 Gateway to Auschwitz 13 Life at the Source: The Adventures of Laura Clay: Voice of Change 42 The Third Generation 19 an Amazon Explorer 24 The Lemon Grove Incident 26 Light Memories of Rio 13 Light Memories of Rio 13 LABOR STUDIES Martin Chambi and the Lyman H ..Howe's High Class Heirs of the Incas 12 Moving Pictures 2 America and Lewis Hine 13 The Music of the Devil, the Bear, Manos a la Obra: The Brick-Makers 24 and the Condor 7 The Story of Operation Bootstrap 37 Cops: Behind the Badge 27 Native Land 35 Mexico: The Frozen Revolution 52 The Double Day 44 The New Cinema of Latin America 3 My Yiddishe Momme McCoy 43 Follow the Dirt Road 39 Pablo Neruda: Poet 7 The Nationalists 38 Free Voice of Labor: A Quiet Revolution 39 Native Land 35 The Jewish Anarchists 37 Routes of Rhythm The Native Americans (Series) 36 Harry Bridges: with Harry Belafonte 7 No Easy Walk (Series) 45 A Man and His Union 1 Sanctuary.: A Question Pancho Villa's Columbus Raid 52 The History Book 33 of Conscience 39 Puerto Rico.: Paradise Invaded 37 Human Resources and Organizational Santa Marta: Two Weeks The Ragged Revolution 52 Behavior (Series) 25 in the Slums 24 The Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls 38 I Spent My Life in the Mines 50 Simplemente Jenny 44 Roads Home 1 Making Do 50 South of the Border 8 Surrealism.: Poetic Vision 5 Manos a la Obra.: Teenage Mothers.: A Global Crisis 16 The Third Generation 19 The Story of Operation Bootstrap 37 Tierra y Cultura 24 Neighbors: The United States Trouble on Fashion Avenue 33 Turning Dreams Into Reality 4 and Mexico Wizard of the Strings .8 52 Producing Miracles Everyday Yo Soy Chicano 26 51 The Return of Joe Hill 32 MULTICULTURAL S IUDIES Roosevelt, New fersey: The All-Star Jazz Show 10 HUMAN RIGHTS Visions of Utopia . 32 jA Bailar.r.:The Journey of a Latin Dance About the United Nations (Series) 54 Russia for Sale: Company . 4 Any Child Is My Child . 47 The Rough Road to Capitalism 53 Birthwrite.: Growing Up Hispanic 7 Aqabat Jaber; Passing Through 52 We Dig Coal 42 A Celebration of life 4 Blue and White 52 Chicano Park 26 The Children's War 50 LANGUAGE ARIS Crow Dog 36 The Closing Door Free Voice of Labor.: 39 Best Offer 2 The Devil's Dream The Jewish Anarchists 37 48 Brother Bread, Sister Puppet 1 Does the Cactus Have a Soul? From My Grandmother's Grandmother 52 Comedienne 42 Education: A Basic Human Right 45 Unto Me 4.3 Daws Butler: Voice Magician 3 Gathering Up Again: Guatemala: Roads of Silence 51 From My Grandmother's Grandmother Makhalapile.: The Dauntless One 47 Fiesta in Santa Fe 40 Unto Me 4.3 Maxine Sullivan: Love to be in Love 7 Missing Children 50 High Water 2 Off Limits 19 My Yiddishe Momme McCoy 4.3 In the fungle There Is Lots To Do 2 'r'he Native Americans (Series) 36 Paraguay: T'he F'orgotten Dictatorship 51 Pirate's Dagger 2 Sanctuary: A Question of Conscienc:e 39 Plena is Work, Plena is Song 9 The Return of Joe Hill . 32 The Primal Mind Songololo: Voices of Change 47 35 Songololo: Voices of Change 47 Routes of Rhythm This Other Haiti 48 Sun, Moon & Feather 36 with Harry Bela/ante 7 Through the Wire 27 The Spirit Travels: Voices from Within 27 Immigrant Music in America 8 Who Will Cast the First Stone? LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES 48 Steppin' 24 Abortion: Stories from Sun, Moon & Feather 36 North and South JEWISH S JUDIES .44 The Trail North 26 The Amazon: A Vanishing Rainforest ..23 Yo Soy Chicano 26 Blue and White 52 The Brick~Makers 24 Breaking the Silence: A Celebration of Life 4 The Generation after the Holocaust 30 Chico Mendes: Voice of the Amazon 22 Does the Cactus Have a Soul? 52 Cimarrones 24 Free Voice of Labor: The Cost of Cotton 23 The Jewish Anarchists .. 37 Creation of the World: My Yiddishe Momme McCoy 4.3 A Samba-Opera 8 My Dinner with Abbie 39 The Double Day 44 Paradise Camp 32 For the First 'Time 3 62 Subject Index • 11 "II~ MUSIC Paraguay:· 'The F'orgotten PUERTO RICAN STUDIES Dictatorship .51 1A BailarJ: The Journey of A Quiet Revolution .,39 AIDS in the Barrio 14 a Latin Dance Company 4 The Ragged Revolution 52 jA Bailar.r: The Journey of Can't Hear You Knocking I5 Ralph Nader: Up Close 2 11 L.atin Dance Company 4 Birth.write: Growing Up Hispanic Haiti Dreams of Democracy , SI The Return of foe Hill , ,32 7 Dolores 1 Am fuana Bacollao 49 Roads Home l 29 Frame~Up! Omara 49 Russia for Sale: 28 The Return of foe Hill ,32 The Rough Road to Capitalism ,,5,3 The Heart of Loisaida 41 The Life and Poetry of Song of the Spear '46 San Francisco Good Ttmes '3.3 fulia d, Burgos 5 Songololo: Voices of Change 47 Sanctuary: A Question of Conscience , , 39 st.,,,,in' 24 La Operacion 44 Shop Talk ' '34 Two for Ballet ,.4 Shout Youngstown T'he Oxcart 7 '3.3 Plena is Work, Plena is Song We've Got Rhythm 49 Soweto to Berkeley 25 9 The Spirit Travels: With One Voice 49 Stand Up for Choice (Series) 39 Jmmigr11.nt Music in America ,8 This Other Haiti , ,,48 Los Sures 41 Through the Wire ,27 NA:IIVE AMERICAN STUDIES Through the Wire 27 To live for Ireland 53 The Devil's Dream 48 The Uncompromising Revolution 49 f'orever in Time: The Art of Yo Soy ,26 WOMEN'S STUDIES Edward S. Curtis 13 Alberta Hunter:· My Castle's Rockin' 10 Gathering Up Again: PSYCHOLOGY Benedita da Silva 48 fiesta in Santa Fe '' 40 Best Offer ,2 listen Caracas .SO Acts of Violence ,.27 Bingo: You Betcha r 18 Martin Chambi and the Alcoholism ,19 The Blank Point: Heirs of the Incas 12 The Animals Film AO What is Transsexualism? 17 1'ie"a y Cultura 24 Are We Winning, Mommy?.: Cissy Houston: Sweet Inspiration 10 America and the Cold War 33 Contraception: , 16 POLITICAL SCIENCE Before Stonewall The Stalled Revolution . 15 Best Offer 2 Cuba: A View from Inside (Series) 49 About the United Nations (Series) 54 The Blank Point: Dolores 29 Albanian Journey.: End of an Era 54 lVhat is ·rranssexualism? , 17 Eorly Misgivings: Aqabat Jaber; Passing ·Through 52 Body Sculpt, The Video 19 A Film on Child Abuse 29 Are We Winning, Mommy?: Breaking the Silence ,30 Ecstasy Unlimited 17 America and the Cold War 3,3 Cl'ming to Terms . 15 Fresh Talk (Series) 16 Bitter C11.ne Sl Cops: Behind the Badge 27 Holy Terror 40 Burley: Growing Tobacco The Day the Cold War Came Home ,32 in America 34 Hull House: Dolores ,29 The House that Jane Built 30 The Closing Door 39 Early Misgivings: The International Sweethearts Corporation with a Movie Camera 34 A Film on Child Abuse , ,29 of Rhythm ,9 34 Counterfeit Coverage Follow the Dirt Road ,39 It's Our Baby 30 Crow Dog 36 For the Love of Ben.: A Father's View ,29 Kababaihan: Filipina Portraits 47 'The Day the Cold War Came Home 32 Freedom Rings 24 The Kissing Booth 17 Delivered Vacant 41 '. fresh Talk (Series) , ,,16 The Life and Poetry of The Devil's Dream 48 Gathering Up Again, Julia de Burgos '' '5 The Emerging Woman 44 Fiesta in Santa fe .40 M. F..K. Fisher: Writer with a Bite 5 Export TV:Anatomy of an Electronic God, Gays and the Gospel 38 Maxine Sulliv11n: L.ove to be in Love ,,7 lnv11sion 35 Hard Drugs ,19 Men, Women, Angels and Harps 10 Gathering Up Again., Human _Resources and Organiz11tional Not All Parents Are Straight 30 J'iesta in Santa Fe 40 ,25 Behavior (Series) R11pe/Crisis 28 Haiti Dreams of Democracy Sl A Minor Altercation ,25 Romance, Sex Rnd Mt:i"iage 17 Harry Bridges.: A Man and His Union 1 Miss .. or Myth? '' ,43 Stand Up for Choice , 39 Holy ·re"or . , 40 Murder: No Apparent Motive '' 27 Sudden Changes: Home of the Brave 35 No Vietnamese Ever Post Hysterectomy Syn.drome 17 Laura Clay: Voice of Change 42 , , 25 Called Me Nigger Sun, Moon & Feather 36 The Liberia Tragedy ,,30 46 Not All P11rents Are Straight Teen11.geMothers.: A Global Crisis 16 Making the News Fit 34 Running Gay '' '' , 16 They're Doing My Time 29 A Man's Woman 42 Shadow Children '' ,29 Through the Wire . . , 27 Media O•ly 34 Smoking: Games Smokers Pl11y '' ,19 Tiny and Ruby: Hell Divin' Women ,9 Dinner with Abbie 39 , ,,39 My Stand Up for Choice 11at Ultimate Test Animal 17 The Nationalists 38 , •• 16 Teent:ige Mothers: A Global Crisis Who Will Cast the First Stone? '48 The Native Americans (Series) 36 They're Doing My Time . , 29 No Easy Walk (Series) 45 Through Young People's Eyes ,28 No Vietnamese Ever Through the Wire ,27 Called Me Nigger 25 'Too Much, Too Soon ,43 On Borrowed Land 47 Your Money or Your life ,40 63 • II Ordering Information ii BOOKING you must fik a claim for loss or damage Failure to return film'.~or \ ideocassettes in the manner prescribEd abm e, or any delay in their Rental or purchase orders may be made by telephone. mail or return,. makes you liable for purchase or replacement cost in the fax if an institutional purchase order number is supplied All e, ent of loss or damage \'I hile in your possession or during return telephone orders must subsequently be confirmed i~ \H?in.g b:, shipment. or in the imposition of additional fees for late return mailing or faxing a purchase order or an order on mshtutional letterhead stationery signEd by someone v. ith purchasing PREVIEW POLICY authorization, or by sending prepayment Rental orders should be placed v. ell in ad, ancc of your desired playdate, gi\ ing alternate FreE pre, iev-.s for purchase consideration are a\ ailablE onl: to schools or other non-profit institutions with budgets for the pu1- datts \\ henn Er possible All orders should includE film or \ ideo title(s), rental pla) date(s), 16mm film or , ideo format desired chase of audio-, isual materials A pre\ ie\.-..fee, payable in ad\ ancl shipping and billing address(es) and your name and phont num is required from businesses and other commercial organization:,, ber An order form is pm, ided herein for ) our com enience Rrntal and this pre\ iev, fee may be deducted from the purchase price if cancellations should reach us at least twent\ (20) da\S before your purchase order is recei\ed v.ithin sixty (60) da)-S of pre, in,., scheduled pl a:date Orders canceled after title has beerl shipped All academic pre, iev-. requests should be made by the school en \\ill be im·oiced for shipping and handling charges plus a 515 uni\ ersit\< audio-\ isual di rec tor or purchasing agent Ne\\ or go()d cancellation frE conditiol1 circulation prints or \ ideocassettes are sent for prC\'iC\\ and a 10'\, discount is a\ ailable if the pre\ iew print or, idcocassette RENTAL FEES is retained for purchase A 12'\, discount is a\ ailable for purchase "' ithout prE\ ie\\ Pre\ iews for rental consideration arc not a, ail Rental fees listed in this catalog are for one to tv,o da:s use abk and all pre, ie,.-..s for purchase consideration are intended for Ren tab Im three to fi, e consecuti, e da\ s are billed at an additional screening only by pre\ iew committees or other purchasing pErson 50°<,of rcntal foe: six tQ ten consecuti, f:'days are billed at tv. ice the nel and not for classroom screening or public exhibition Pre, ie\'I ~ rEntal frc Classroom rEntal fees are appli(able only v-.hen the film for purchase consideration are not a\ ailable for VHS\ id SEND ALL ORDERS TO THE CINEMA GU IL D, INC. 1697 Broadway, Suite 506 Fax (212) 246-5525 New York, NY 10019-5904 To Place Orders, Phone Phone (212) 246-5522 Toll-Free 1 (800) 723-5522 "TheCinema Guild has becomea trulyformidable playerin the fieldof educationaland independent cinema,representing a collectionof titles on film and videothat is remarkablein its rangeof con tent... a distinctiveblend of independent,foreign and documentarytitles that representsa bonanza to educatorsas wellas filmenthusiasts." --TheInternational Film Guide THECINEMA GUILD, INC. 1697Broadway, Suite 506 NewYork, NY 10019-5904 Phone(212) 246-5522 Fax (212)246-5525 ToPlace Orders, Phone Toll-Free 1 (800)723-5522