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1776. (166 min.). 1776 is a delightful musical celebration of the founding of The United States of America. The story centers around the familiar historical characters as they organize a movement for independence from Mother England. All events lead up to that most significant date, July 4, 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was signed. This is the DVD "restored" version which runs ca. 166 minutes -- longer than the theatrical release cut, yet shorter than the laserdisc "restored" version. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 4969, VHS 996 20 centímetros. (ca. 113 min.). Welcome to the vibrant world of Marieta/Adolfo - a narcoleptic, pre-op transsexual woman who longs to remove her last eight inches. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 2456 42nd street. (89 min.). The movie musical that introduced the choreography of Busby Berkeley, 42nd Street also contains the classic plot involving a tyrannical director, egotistical leading lady and wide-eyed ingénue, all set to a standout musical score. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 2068 The 5,000 fingers of Dr. T. (89 min.). Young Bart Collins dreams of his piano teacher, Dr. Terwilliker. Dr. T wants to prove that his method of teaching piano is the best method in the world. He banishes all other musical instruments and lures 500 boys to perform on the biggest grand piano ever built. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 5607 8 femmes 8 women. (111 min.). A wealthy industrialist is found murdered in his home while his family gathers for the holiday season. The house is isolated and the phone lines have been found to be cut. Eight women are his potential murderers. Each is a suspect and each has a motive. Only one is guilty. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 3755 Across the universe. (133 min.). Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 3985 All that jazz. (120 min.). The story of an obsessed, pill-popping chain-smoking choreographer/ director dancing simultaneously with love and death. But even while dying, he creates some great dancing. Based on the life of Bob Fosse. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 668 An American in Paris. (102 min.). Charming love story set to the melodies of Gershwin. Jerry Mulligan, an ex-G.I., has stayed in Paris to paint. He falls in love with a lonely French shop girl who is due to wed a successful entertainer; ultimately, the painter and his French beauty are happily united. The film is known for the seventeen-minute ballet sequence featuring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 273, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 1438 The American ruling class a dramatic-documentary-musical. (100 min.). Is there an American ruling class, and if so, how do you join? Two hapless Yale grads embark on a star-studded journey of meetings with America's establishment to unearth some uncomfortable answers and find out the truth about what the future really holds for them. A dramatic, musical, documentary satire on class in America that attempts to answer the question "Who rules America?" DVD 4759 Anchors aweigh. (140 min.). Two lovesick sailors on shore leave in Hollywood fall hard for the same beautiful singer. The race for Susie's heart leads them both into a series of comical and musical adventures. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 4905 Annie. (127 min.). The story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 221 The band wagon. (112 min.). A musical comedy satirizing theatrical production problems. Hollywood song-and-dance man Tony Hunter (Astaire) is persuaded by his friends Lester and Lily (Levant and Fabray) to star in a Broadway musical. He joins the show in New York where he is confronted by a prima ballerina (Charisse), a jealous and hostile choreographer (Mitchell) and a pig-headed producer-director (Buchanan). When the show flops at its New Haven opening, Tony must raise money and take over the production which becomes a Broadway smash. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 1271 Boarding house blues. (ca. 90 min.). Tenant troubles in a show-business boarding house form the backdrop for this musical revue notable for its guest appearances. An "evil" landlord threatens to evict "Moms" and her tenants because she can't pay the rent. Since the tenants are mostly entertainers they decide to put on a show to raise the money. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 7018 Bombay talkie. (111 min.). A troubled romance laced with barbed wit and pointed melodrama and an affectionate view of the Indian film industry (aka Bollywood). A visiting English author becomes involved with a married Indian movie star; when the romance fizzles she flees to an ashram. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 661 Boy! What a girl. (ca. 70 min.). Tim Moore (Kingfish from television's Amos 'n Andy) impersonates a wealthy spinster from Paris. Includes musical performances by Gene Krupa and Black artists including Slam Stewart, Sid Catlett, and Deek Watson. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 7022 Bride & prejudice. (111 min.). Based on Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, with a Bollywood twist. In Ammritsar, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find matches for her four daughters. Second sister, Lalita, meets American Will Darcy - is it love? DVD 1784 Brigadoon. (108 min.). In this musical, two cynical New Yorkers, Tommy (Kelly) and Jeff (Douglas), come to Scotland on a hunting expedition. They stumble upon a Scottish village which rises out of the Highland mists only one day every century. There Tommy falls in love with Fiona (Charisse) and must decide whether to stay with her forever or return to civilization. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 1951 The Broadway melody. (100 min.). This is the first musical to win a Best Picture Oscar. Anita Page and Bessie Love star as two sisters in love with the same man. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 1995 Broadway melody of 1938. (111 min.). Eleanor Powell plays a girl who dreams of making it big on Broadway, Robert Taylor plays a Broadway producer-composer who tries to make it all happen. VHS 7905 Broadway the American musical. (ca. 120 min. each). This documentary series details the razzle-dazzle history of a unique American art form. Each episode chronicles a different era and features the Broadway shows and songs that defined the period. The series draws on feature films, rare television moments, archival news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in creating the American musical. DVD 1278 The Busby Berkeley bonus disc. (163 min.). This collection features 21 song-and-dance spectaculars staged and directed by Busby Berkeley, from movie musicals released in the 1930's. Included are excerpts from "42nd Street" (1933), "Gold diggers of 1933" (1933), "Fashions of 1934" (1934), "In Caliente" (1933), "Footlight parade" (1933), "Wonder Bar" (1934), "Dames" (1934), "Gold diggers of 1935" (1935), and "Gold diggers of 1937" (1937). HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 2073 The Busby Berkeley collection. (650 min.). Five remastered classics include: 42nd Street (1933), Gold Diggers of 1933, Footlight Parade (1933), Dames (1935), Gold Diggers of 1935, plus a bonus disc with more than 20 complete musical numbers from Busby Berkeley. DVD 2068-2073 Bye bye Birdie. (112 min.). When rock star Conrad Birdie gets drafted, his manager organizes a nationwide contest in which one lucky girl wins a farewell kiss on The Ed Sullivan show. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 1531 Cabaret. (119 min.). An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate Berlin cabaret. "Cabaret deals with the psychology of a decaying society, 1930's pre-World War II Germany, at a time when the ... collapsing Weimar Republic was being replaced by the rising tide of Nazism. Set in Berlin, a hotbed of vice, depravity, and anti-Semitism, this musical drama revolves around the seedy Kit Kat Klub, which serves as a microcosm of Germany in transition." - Magill's survey of cinema. DVD 41, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 574 Cabin in the sky. (99 min.). Little Joe Jackson (Eddie Anderson) is a good-hearted gambler with a weakness for dice and a shameless hussy named Georgia Brown (Lena Horne). But his wife, Petunia (Ethel Waters), is a good woman with a powerful gift for prayer. She loves him and wants to save him. In this musical fantasy, the soldiers of heaven struggle with the devil's henchmen over Little Joe's soul. VHS 1839 Can't stop the music. (123 min.). "New York City DJ/songwriter Jack Morell needs just one big break to get his music heard and land a record deal. But with the help of his retired supermodel roommate and an uptight tax attorney, they bring together six singing macho men from the Greenwich Village scene for an outrageously 80s adventure of fun, fantasy and disco fever." -- from container. DVD 671 Candide. (ca. 112 min.). A dramatization of Voltaire's novel of the same title, about a simple, optimistic man whose journeys take him from one disaster to another. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 1382 Cannibal the musical. (96 min.). A gory musical farce loosely related to the story of the Alferd Packer expedition of miners into Colorado and resulting trial of Packer for cannibalism. Contains considerable violence. DVD 662 Chicago. (113 min.). At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves on Chicago's famed Murderess Row. They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 626 Chitty chitty bang bang. (145 min.). Eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts creates an extraordinary car called Chitty chitty bang bang. It not only drives--but also flies and floats--as it leads him, his two children and his beautiful lady friend, Truly Scrumptious into a magical world of pirates, castles and adventure. There, the group encounter a host of unforgettable characters, including Baron Bomburst of Vulgaria, his persnickety wife, a lovable village toymaker and an evil child catcher. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 2915 Colma the musical. (100 min.). An enchanting musical film that captures the comedy and drama of 'coming of age' in the shadow of a great city. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 4500 Cover girl. (107 min.). A dancer in a Brooklyn night club catches the eye of a magazine publisher, who sees in her potential as a future cover girl. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 1709 Dames. (90 min.). Three relatives stand to inherit a multi-millionaire's money if they turn against his pet hate, the theater. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 2071 Damn Yankees. (110 min.). Starring the original Broadway cast, this is the musical adaptation of the novel 'The Year the Yankees Won the Pennant'. A Washington Senators fan sells his soul to the devil to become a great baseball player and to help his favorite team win the pennant. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 2706 Der blaue engel = The blue angel. (200 min.). One of the early sound masterpieces of German cinema. A middle-aged, tyrannical professor named Rath (Jannings) is led to his destruction through his infatuation with a heartless cafe singer named Lola Lola (Dietrich). Rath marries Lola-Lola (thereby losing his school position) and is increasingly degraded by her until he is completely humiliated as an abused stage clown. When Lola leaves him for another man, he returns to his school a broken old man and dies at his desk. This film made Dietrich an overnight star. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 727, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 10 Der kongress tanzt = The congress dances. (97 min.). Comic operetta set during the 1815 Congress in Vienna. Considered a fine example of the then new medium of sound filmmaking, the production incorporates beautiful art direction, editing, costuming, a droll script, and finely directed performances. Christel Weinzinger (Harvey) is an ambitious glove seamstress who sees the potential for financial and romantic opportunity the Congress provides and subsequently creates havoc in her efforts to make contact with nobility. She throws a bouquet of flowers with her address into the parade of dignitaries entering the city. When the Tsar of Russia visits her, they fall in love. VHS 6011 Die dreigroschenoper = The threepenny opera (113 min.). Social satire set in Victorian London in which both government and underworld are portrayed as amoral and polluted by economic and political chaos. Polly Peachum, daughter of the king of the beggars, with the help of Mackie Messer and his gang, opens a bank in the belief that legal thievery is more profitable than larceny. In the end, Polly's father, Mackie, and the corrupt police commissioner become partners in the bank and mainstays of society. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 3125, VHS 211 Dilwale dulhania le jayenge. (179 min.). Rahul and Simran fall in love while travelling in Europe on an inter-rail holiday. Simran's father, settled in London for twenty-two years, is determined that his daughter should marry a family friend, back in their homeland of rural Punjab. All his plans undergo serious revision once the family travels to India and Rahul also shows up. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 3693 Dixiana. (ca. 100 min.). Set in New Orleans in the 1840s. Carl Van Horn (Marshall), the son of a wealthy cotton plantation owner, and Dixiana (Daniels), a beautiful circus entertainer, fall in love. When Dixiana is fired by the circus, Royal Montague (Harolde), a gambler, hires her to work in his gambling establishment. Dixiana must spend a good deal of time rescuing Carl from the clutches of Montague. Notable for the first screen appearance of Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 5045 Down Argentine way. (89 min.). Bright and breezy musical romance about Glenda, a rich New Yorker (Gable), who collects fine horses and Ricardo, an Argentine rancher (Ameche) renowned for his prize jumpers. They meet at a horse show but any possible romance is threatened by Ricardo's father's feud with Glenda's father. VHS 5052 The Duke is tops. (94 min.). Duke is tops: Lena Horne, in her film debut, plays a successful singer who very nearly loses her man because his career as a producer is declining. Black and tan: Duke Ellington's first film showcases his piano playing genius with the story of a struggling musician's wife who agrees to dance in his show in order to assure its success, knowing that her heart condition will not allow her to survive the performance. VHS 5047 El otro lado de la cama = The other side of the bed. (114 min.). The story of two couples, along with a collection of their friends and co-workers, whose switching back and forth between their lovers leads to lies and heartache and lots of song and dance. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 3308 Elaine Stritch at Liberty from the Old Vic Theatre, London. (146 min.). A career spanning more than 50 years, Elaine Stritch is one of Broadway's Grande Dames. Now, at age 77, she is as dynamic as ever, giving an astonishing one-woman performance. In a series of vignettes, punctuated by songs from the shows in which she starred, she tells stories of her career, ranging from the hilarious to the deeply moving. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 2815 Everyone says I love you. (101 min.). It's the fun-filled story of one wealthy, eccentric and romantically challenged extended family from New York's Upper West Side. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 142 Evita. (135 min.). Musical production of the true-life story of Eva Peron, who rose above childhood poverty and a scandalous past to achieve fortune and fame. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 2164, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 5265 Fame. (VHS) (133 min.). A musical-drama set in Manhattan's High School of the Performing Arts. Looks at the hopes and dreams of eight young people vying for a foothold on the world of show business. VHS 6723 Fiddler on the roof. (179 min.). Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 2015, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 3826 First a girl. (93 min.). Jessie Matthews leads a double life, pretending to be a boy who is a female impersonator at a famed Paris cabaret. VHS 7622 Flying down to Rio. (89 min.). This film, containing the first of many Fred Astaire - Ginger Rogers partnerships, concerns a troupe of entertainers stranded in Rio. Notable for a brilliantly photographed finale with chorus girls on the wings of flying airplanes, the movie was the musical that broke with the rather contrived Busby Berkeley production and moved toward a closer integration of musical and narrative elements. Astaire's dance numbers come not as interruptions but as extensions of the plot. Songs include "The Carioca," "Orchids in the Moonlight," and the title song. VHS 3570 Footlight parade. (108 min.). Chester Kent (Cagney) is a diligent musical comedy director who is continually warding off snoopers hired by his competitors to steal his ideas. He succeeds and what results is a parade of stars, songs, and lavish production numbers. Film features showstopping Busby Berkeley productions choreographed with the colossal imagination and scope that became Berkeley's trademark. Includes the classic "Human Waterfall" number that displays countless beautiful chorus girls costumed in little more than ropes of pearls and showered in a colored mist from 300 tiny water sprays. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 2072 French cancan une comédie musicale. (105 min.). Nineteenth-century Paris comes alive in Jean Renoir's tale of the opening of the Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women: an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl-turned-cancan star. Includes a cameo by Edith Piaf. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 1275 Funny face. (103 min.). A Cinderella story about an inconspicuous salesgirl who is whisked off to Paris by a group of fashion magazine sophisticates and is transformed into a dazzling model with whom the magazine's photographer falls in love. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 5486 A funny thing happened on the way to the forum. (97 min.). Bawdy tale set in early Rome, about Pseudolus, a comically sly and conniving slave, eager to win his freedom. His plan: to hook up his innocent, young master with the virgin courtesan next door! VHS 5477 Gentlemen prefer blondes. (97 min.). A musical comedy about the adventures of two beautiful showgirls--an apparently stupid blonde gold digger and her provocative brunette friend--during a voyage from New York to Paris. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 244 Gigi. (117 min.). The musical story of a French girl groomed to be a courtesan, but who blossoms into a lady. VHS 4058 Girl crazy. (99 min.). Danny Churchill is a rich kid with a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. His father ships him to an all-male college out West, where he meets the dean's granddaughter who is trying to help her grandfather keep his college from folding. VHS 7290 Gold diggers in Paris. (97 min.). When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love. After the ship is underway, Padrinsky, the head of the real ballet academy, reads about the departure and also heads to Paris, bringing with him his ballet loving gangster patron, Mike Coogan, with orders to eliminate the pair of imposters. Things look bleak for Terry as Kay becomes angry and severs her relationship with Terry when she learns that Mona was once married to him and he never told her that. And Padrinsky gets a deportation order for the whole group on the day they were to perform in the contest. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 4742 Gold diggers of 1933. (98 min.). Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler play two young hopefuls struggling to make it on Broadway. Even falling in love has its hardships, as Powell's high-brow Eastern family is determined to break them (and the show) up. More complications set in when his brother falls for Keeler's wise-cracking roommate. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 2069, VHS 477 Gold diggers of 1935. (95 min.). A medical student working as a clerk in a ritzy New England hotel falls in love with a rich woman's daughter. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 2070 Gold diggers of 1937. (101 min.). A musical comedy about a group of insurance salesmen who back a show. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 4741 Grease. (110 min.). Musical homage to rock 'n' roll set in the 1950s. They have a summer romance. Then she turns up as the new girl at school. He's Mr. Tough Guy. She's naive and a little too nice to fit in with the gang. Can love find a way? VHS 5498, VHS 5499 Guys and dolls. (149 min.). A gentleman-gambler falls in love with a missionary, while a floating crap-game operator avoids marriage to his long-time fiancée. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 3373 Gypsy. (ca. 150 min.). Mama Rose is the ultimate vaudeville stage mother, whose blind ambition for her two daughters forces one to desert her and the other to emerge as the world's most famous striptease artist, Gypsy Rose Lee. DVD 1379, VHS 2757 Hair. (121 min.). Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park Lake and finally, in the army. But Berger's final effort to save Claude from Vietnam sets in motion a bizarre twist of fate ... with shocking consequences. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 3327, VHS 1426 Hallelujah. (90 min.). An all-Black cast film which chronicles the tragedy-laced tale of a cotton farmer named Zeke. After getting a good price for his crop, he is lured by Chick, loses his money in a rigged dice game, and then accidentally kills his brother in a fight to recover the cash. He repents and becomes a powerful preacher, but temptation awaits when Chick becomes a half-hearted convert. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 7034 A hard day's night. (90 min.). A rock musical which recreates the excitement of the Beatles' early days with a fictional account of an average day in the life of the Beatles. Richard Lester meets John, Paul, George, and Ringo in this exuberant film as they take Paul's grandfather under their wing while preparing for a television special in London. Along the way there are 15 now classic songs and a barrage of verbal and visual gags. VHS 145 Hedwig and the angry inch. (91 min.). Based on the smash hit New York show, this is a high-energy rock musical in the tradition of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This is the story of Hedwig, an ambitious glam-rocker who comes to America determined to find fame, fortune, and his "other half." HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 301 Here come the girls. (100 min.). Bob Hope plays Broadway hopeful Stanley Snodgrass in this musical comedy. He's plucked from the chorus & put in a starring role opposite siren Irene Bailey (Arlene Dahl). But a psycho who's been carving up Miss Bailey's leading men is on the loose, and Stanley is the unsuspecting bait intended to trap him. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 5055 Hi de ho. (64 min). Musical revue with an all black cast. Big band sensation Cab Calloway (portraying himself) becomes the interest of two women’s' desires: his steady girlfriend Minnie (Jeni Le Gon) and his manager Nettie (Ida James). Jealous of Nettie's maneuvers, Minnie hires a rival club owner to do away with Cab. Minnie later feels guilty and tries to prevent the killing. Instead she gets dusted by the thugs, leaving the door open for Cab to marry Nettie. Features Calloway performing some of his all time hits such as "Minnie the Moocher," "St. James Infirmary Blues," and "Hi Di Ho.". VHS 5048 Hollywood canteen. (124 min.). A corporal wins a date with Joan Leslie in this salute to the World War II landmark, the Hollywood canteen. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 5183 Hollywood Hotel. (109 min.). Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band has won a talent contest an got a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But this lady doesn't want to go, so the bosses decide to use for Mona a double, Virginia. When Mona finds out next morning that happened, she insisted to fire her double and Ronny. Ronny finds work as singing waiter in a drive in, and is spotted by a director of the same studio, who wants him to lend his voice for an leading actor in a musical. After the first screening the actor is invited by Louella Parsons to sing in her program "Hollywood Hotel". He accepts, but he doesn't know that Ronny Bowers does not want to lend him his voice again. So everybody starts to play his little game to solve his own problems. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 4743 Hot summer. (93 min.). Set on the Baltic Sea, is the lovin' and fightin' of 10 teenage boys and 11 teenage girls on vacation. A musical version of coming of age. This bit of fluff lit up the East German box offices in 1968. There is a blend of pop songs, rock and upbeat lyrics. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 495 Idlewild. (121 min.). Set in the Prohibition-era American South, a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend, not only with gangsters who have their eyes on the club, but also his piano player and partner Percival. Percival must choose between his love for Angel or his obligations to his father. DVD 4915 Into the woods. (153 min.). The fairy tale characters of Little Red Ridinghood, Cinderella, and Jack (and the Beanstalk) are linked together with the characters of a baker and his wife. Their stories intertwine as they all search for something different in the woods. After they have all found happiness, they must band together to fight a giant. DVD 5008, VHS 6572 Irving Berlin's this is the army. (125 min.). Screen adaptation of the stage play that raised nearly $2 million for Army Emergency Relief. Features real-life GIs in a tale of a father and son who put on a show before the son marches off to war. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 5181 The jazz singer. (89 min.). A young boy's intense desire to sing jazz conflicts with his father's wish that his son follow in his footsteps as a cantor. Features the songs "Blue skies," "Mammy," and "Toot toot tootsie goodbye." VHS 6724 Jekyll & Hyde the musical. (134 min.). A musical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale about the battle between good and evil. After being turned down to allow an instituted person to become part of his experimentations, Dr. Jekyll decides to use himself instead and finds that the evil in him cannot be controlled. DVD 3639 Jesus Christ superstar. (108 min.). Depicts in song, images, and music, the story of the last week of Christ's life, his betrayal and crucifixion as seen from the point of view of Judas. VHS 1425 Junction 88. (ca. 60 min.). A little known but high energy musical with some great dancing. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 7037 Kabhi khushi kabhie gham. (209 min.). A young man goes against the wishes of his beloved father to marry the girl he loves. When he leaves home, his younger brother vows to reunite the family and bring back the happiness they once shared. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 3690 Karmen Gei. (83 min.). Karmen escapes prison through her lesbian relationship with the warden. She then wrecks the marriage and career of a police corporal by making him her lover and co-conspirator in a smuggling ring. She abandons the corporal who, in a fit of jealous rage, stabs her. Contains much singing and dancing. VHS 7214 Killer diller. (ca. 70 min.). All-black musical variety show with the story of a magician who does disappearing acts between the stage performances. Includes musical numbers: "Ain't misbehavin," "Breezy and the bass," "Don't sit on my bed," "I believe," "If I didn't care," "Now he tells me" and "Ooh kick a rooney." The Congaroo Dancers dance the Lindy Hop. VHS 5046 The King and I. (133 min.). Anna Leonowens is an English school teacher who comes to teach the children of the King Mongut of Siam in the middle 1860s. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 923 Kiss me, Kate. (147 min.). The first Broadway revival in nearly 50 years of the musical comedy masterpiece by composer Cole Porter and book writers Sam and Bella Spewack. Recounts the backstage and on-stage antics of two feuding romances during an out-of-town tryout for a musical adaptation of The taming of the shrew. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 2560 Lady be good. (113 min.). A husband and wife song writing team (Young and Sothern) know how to turn out the hits, but when it comes to marriage, they can't seem to hit anything but sour notes. Features the Busby Berkeley directed "Fascinating Rhythm" with Eleanor Powell and the Berry Brothers. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 5050 Lady sings the blues. (143 min.). Diana Ross stars in this musical drama charting the life of Billie Holiday, a life tormented by racism and drug abuse. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 1857, VHS 6083 Lerner & Loewe's Camelot. (147 min.). Filmed at New York's Winter Garden Theater in 1982, the classic story of King Arthur and the love triangle between him, his wife, Queen Guenevere, and his best friend Lancelot. DVD 5306 Lili. (81 min.). A shy, young orphan is befriended by a group of carnival puppets. VHS 4086 The little colonel. (81 min.). An old-fashioned Southern colonel has disowned his daughter for marrying a Yankee and resists all entreaties for reconciliation until he succumbs to the charms of his little granddaughter. Previews of other Shirley Temple films precede feature. DVD 1893 The littlest rebel. (74 min.). Only a plea to President Lincoln can help when the father of a plantation girl is arrested and charged with espionage against the Yankees. DVD 1894, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 5766 Love me tonight. (89 min.). "Carefree tailor Maurice Chevalier leaves a backlot Paris where music literally radiates from every stoop, sidewalk and boudoir to collect on a past due bill at a recalcitrant aristocratic client's family chateau. Mistaken for royalty, Maurice runs a gauntlet of lunatic blue-bloods, including love-happy Myrna Loy and screwball icon Charlie Ruggles. But it is Princess Jeanette MacDonald's closely guarded pluck to woo her without revealing his well-meaning romantic deception." -from container. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 669 The love parade. (109 min.). The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 4321 Love's labour's lost a romantic musical comedy. (ca. 94 min.). The King of Navarre (Alessandro Nivola) and his friends think that they cannot love again. When the Princess of France (Silverstone) and her attendants arrive for a visit, their plans are completely turned upside down. DVD 194 Lubitsch musicals. (365 min.). Love parade: In mythical Sylvania, Queen Louise's cabinet are worried that she will become an old maid, and are delighted when she marries the roguish Count Renard. Unfortunately, he finds his position as Queen's Consort unsatisfying and without purpose, and the marriage soon runs into difficulties. The Love parade introduced the screen operetta genre. Monte Carlo: A wealthy count passes himself off as a hairdresser in order to meet an impoverished countess. The smiling lieutenant: Chevalier has the task of choosing between his wild musician sweetheart and a prissy princess when the latter mistakes a wink and a smile as intended for her. One hour with you: Chevalier and MacDonald are a devoted husband and wife who test the sanctity of their marriage in Lubitsch's remake of his own silent 1924 film The marriage circle. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 4321-4324 Meet me in St. Louis. (113 min.). The entire Smith family is crushed to learn that father has accepted a transfer to New York City. Leaving friends and most of all missing the upcoming St. Louis World's Fair is painful. The ending makes an unforgettable, heartwarming movie. Songs in this musical include "The Trolley Song", "Boy Next Door", "Have Yourself a Merry Christmas". HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 906, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 20 Le million. (81 min.). A musical comedy about a pair of young lovers who lose a lottery ticket worth a million francs and chase it frantically across Paris. Considered one of the very first musical films. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 394 Mistaken identity. (60 min.). A mystery musical set against the background of a big city nightclub. A murder occurs in the nightclub, possibly connected to a singer's relationship with an escaped convict. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 7032 Moon over Harlem. (67 min.). An all-black cast is directed by the German director Edgar G. Ulmer, a visionary poet, whose work was influenced by F.W. Murnau and other German expressionists. The film is an unusual musical melodrama about a Harlem widow who unwittingly marries a double-talking gangster involved in the numbers racket. Delving into some of the complexities of black life in Harlem, the cast features 20 chorus girls, a choir, and a 60-piece symphony orchestra under the direction of Donald Heywood. VHS 3010 Moon over Miami. (92 min.). Two sisters, Kay (Grable) and Barbara (Landis), and their Aunt Susan (Greenwood) come into a small inheritance. Kay poses as a wealthy woman with Barbara as her secretary and Susan as her maid. They head for Miami in search of rich husbands. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 5053 Mother India. (152 min.). A rural matriarch loses her husband after a farming accident. With her sons, she struggles to survive despite a cruel landlord. VHS 6705 Moulin Rouge. (128 min.). Christian (McGregor), an idealistic and impoverished young writer who, newly arrived in Montmartre, is haphazardly inducted into a circle of young bohemians led by Toulouse-Lautrec. A comedy of mistaken identities ensues, quickly enmeshing the young poet in a love triangle involving the unobtainable and consumptive Satine (Kidman), queen courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, and the foppish Duke of Roxbury, his villainous rival for her affections. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 297 Murder with music. (60 min.). A musical drama where a reporter goes underground to crack the case of a notorious gangster. Music and dance numbers embellished by a murder mystery which involves a young woman who works at a cabaret as a performer and her former boyfriend who escapes from prison. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 7028 My fair lady. (173 min.). Professor Higgins, a linguist, has to win the bet that any common Cockney girl, once taught to speak properly, can pass as a duchess in London society. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 2083, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 414 New York, New York. (169 min.). A musical love story set against the backdrop of the twilight of the big-band era. On VJ Day, 1945, in a New York nightclub teeming with celebrants, Jimmy Doyle (De Niro) meets Francine Evans (Minnelli). He is a struggling saxophone player whose music is ahead of its time; she is a golden-voiced singer whose talent is yet to be recognized. They fall in love, marry, and have a child. However, the ambitions that brought them together eventually sweep them tragically apart. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 5458 Newsies. (121 min.). July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 2575, VHS 5447 Oh! What a lovely war. (144 min.). Follows the Smith family as they go off to fight World War I, and revolves around the songs and words of the soldiers. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 4149 Oklahoma! (ca. 180 min.). Laurey, an Oklahoma farm gal is courted by boisterous cowboy Curley and by menacing, obsessive farm hand Jud Frye. Fearing that Jud will do something terrible to Curley, Laurey accepts Jud's invitation to the box social. But Curley rescues Laurey from Jud's unwanted advances, and wins her hand. On the eve of their wedding, Laurey and Curley are menaced by Jud. During a fight with Curley, Jud falls on his own knife and is killed. The local deputy insists that Curley be arrested, but he is outvoted by Curley's friends, and the newlyweds are permitted to ride off on their honeymoon. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 916, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 2279 Oliver! (ca. 145 min.). Musical adaptation of Dicken's classic tale. A young orphan, Oliver, is left to fend for himself in London until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But Oliver is not content to be a thief for he knows that life holds great joys and true happiness cannot be stolen, but must be earned. VHS 4545 On the town. (98 min.). New York, New York, it's a wonderful town -- especially when sailors Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Jules Munshin have a 24-hour shore leave to see the sites. Those sites include Ann Miller, Betty Garrett, and Vera-Ellen. "On the town" changed the landscape of movie musicals, opening filmmakers' eyes to what could be done on location. Brilliant location is blended with studio production numbers to produce an ebullient, up-and-at-'em perfection. No one can be down after going "On the town". HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 276 L'Orfeo favola in musica. (140 min.). Monteverdi's reworking of the most popular of all Greek myths, that of Orpheus and Euridice. DVD 1144 Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen Jones. (105 min.). Joe, a military policeman about to make officer, is infatuated with the flirtatious and sexy Carmen Jones. Their ill-fated romance comes to a grisly end by the conclusion of the drama but not before their liaison has wreaked havoc with their lives and all who cross their paths. DVD 1728, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 6725 Pal Joey. (109 min.). Relates the story of a nightclub entertainer who is also a heel. He romances a wealthy socialite to get her to finance his own nightclub, then falls for a chorine he hires for the club. DVD 1707 Paradise in Harlem. (ca. 85 min.). All black musical. A Harlem cabaret performer (who only wants to act in serious drama) witnesses a gangland murder, sees his sick wife die and is pressured into leaving town by the mob. The road to skid row follows. Fascinating glimpse into the life of black entertainers before the war. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 7012 Les parapluies de Cherbourg The umbrellas of Cherbourg. (ca. 91 min.). Story of two star-crossed lovers. Two lovers, separated by the Algerian war, meet again after she has remarried. A cinematic triumph unique in its presentation -- all of the dialogue is sung. The haunting music and beautiful photography combine to make this an outstanding dramatic romance. DVD 302, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 4900 Pardon my sarong. (84 min.). Algy (Abbott) and Wellington (Costello) are two screwball Chicago bus drivers who agree to drive playboy Tommy Layton (Robert Paige) to Los Angeles where he plans to enter a yacht race. The bus company wants the bus back and Algy and Wellington in jail. They all end up on an uncharted tropical island where cannibals are said to abound. Actually the innocent natives are being cheated by a sinister villain (Lionel Atwill). HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 5051 Parsifal. (255 min.). An interpretation of Wagner's last opera of German and Christian mythology. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 478 Pennies from heaven. (108 min.). The story of a young sheet-music salesman during the Depression who is doomed forever to believe in the lyrics of the songs he sells. VHS 6758 The pirates of Penzance. (120 min.). Gilbert and Sullivan's raucous and comedic operatic tale of Federic, a 'slave to duty' pirate, and the lowly band of 'orphaned' pirates, is captured in all its fun and glory in this never before released production. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 915 Private Buckaroo. (68 min.). High energy musical featuring wartime entertainment (comedy, song, and the trumpet of Harry James) with Army camps as the backdrop. A rebellious young WWII inductee has trouble "toeing the line" until he meets a retired officer's lovely daughter. James and his band are also drafted and decide to perk up their camp by putting on a big show. Musical numbers include: "Don't Sit under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else but Me," "Johnny Get Your Gun Again," "You Made Me Love You," "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen,” "We've Got a Job to Do," "Six Jerks in a Jeep," "and "Ma, I Miss Your Apple Pie.". HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 5049 Ragtime. (155 min.). From the E.L. Doctorow novel of 1906 America, a compelling story of human emotions and a reflection of the innocence, excitement and drama of an important time in America's history. It is now an award winning Broadway musical. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 4164 Reet, petite, and gone. (105 min.). A dishonest lawyer tries to do young Louis out of his inheritance by changing his dying father's eccentric will. A boyhood sweetheart and a faithful servant save the day. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 7011 Rent filmed live on Broadway. (152 min.). A year in the life of a group of friends who love, fight, and laugh together as they face important social issues such as AIDS, homosexuality, drug abuse, and homelessness. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 5526 Saaheb. (ca. 95 min.). Saaheb is more interested in football [soccer] than school. Consequently he has failed his exams for the last two years. His father (Utpal Dutt) is mad at him and his brothers taunt him for being unemployed. Saaheb's father, who needs money so his daughter can marry, asks his employed sons for help but they refuse. Saaheb sells his kidney (and thereby abandons his dream of a career as a soccer player) for the money. Includes musical numbers. VHS 4550 Sarafina! (98 min.). In a world where truth is forbidden, an inspiring teacher dares to instill in her students lessons not found in schoolbooks. In doing so, she challenges their freedom and hers. VHS 6566 Sepia Cinderella. (70 min.). A songwriter leaves the woman he loves to pursue his career and the high life. Eventually he discovers there is more to life than a place in society and returns to his singer/girlfriend. VHS 7009 Show boat. (115 min.). Film is a musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler. Magnolia Hawks (Grayson) grew up on the Cotton Blossom, the Mississippi showboat owned by her father, lovable Captain Andy (Joe E. Brown) and her stern mother, Parthy (Moorehead). Her heart is broken by a dashing gambler, Gaylord Ravenal (Keel). Includes musical numbers: "Old Man River," "Make believe," "Can't help lovin' that man," "Why do I love you?," "Bill," and more. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 274, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 1476 Singin' in the rain. (ca. 104 min.). This favorite musical comedy is a gentle parody of Hollywood's frantic transition to the "talkies" during the late '20s. The unappealing voice of Lina Lamont, a silent movie queen, nearly forces her producer to scrap their new talking film, until an aspiring young singer, Kathy Selden, is found to dub Lamont's lines. Trouble brews on the set when Lamont's leading man, Don Lockwood, and Kathy fall in love. DVD 674, DVD 675, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 144 Small town girl. (94 min.). Musical highlighted by some of Busby Berkeley's song and dance routines. Country Judge Gordon Kimbell (Robert Keith) lives with his family in the small town of Duck Creek. The Judge sentences big city boy Rick (Granger) to 30 days in jail when he tries to buy his way out of a speeding ticket. He convinces Cindy (Powell), the judge's daughter, that he wants out of jail to attend his mother's birthday, and she helps him escape back to New York. When they get there she learns he really wanted to get back to show girl fiancee (Miller). VHS 5054 The smiling lieutenant. (89 min.). A Viennese lieutenant is enamored of a freethinking all-girl-orchestra-leading cutie. But complications ensue when the sexually repressed princess of Flausenthurm sets her sights on him. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 4323 The sound of music. (175 min.). Set in Austria at the time of its annexation by Nazi Germany. A young girl named Maria is uncertain about her decision to enter a religious order. While deciding what to do, she becomes the governess of the seven Von Trapp children who live with their widowed father, Baron von Trapp, a former captain in the Austrian navy. Bringing warmth and music to the strict household, Maria soon wins over the children, and finally the Baron as well. She then must help the family escape from the Nazis. VHS 5233 South Pacific. (157 min.). A young American nurse from Little Rock meets the handsome and mysterious French planter on a South Pacific island during World War II. Seeking respite from the battles around them, they find refuge in each other as their romance blooms in the lush tropical paradise. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 5174, VHS 862 A star is born. (176 min.). A classic story of fame, innocence and destruction. A matinee idol falls in love with a young girl and propels her to stardom. Her career skyrockets, while his continues to fade with tragic results. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 609, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 2590 Sunday in the park with George. (146 min.). A musical interpretation of the George Seurat's painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 913 Sunday sinners. (65 min.). Gangsters frame a minister's son for robbery and murder but the congregation of his father's church helps prove his innocence. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 7014 Swing! (ca. 70 min.). Ted Gregory is trying to become the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway but his star singer is getting in the way. VHS 7025 Swing time. (103 min.). Fifth in the series of Astaire-Rogers musicals. John "Lucky" Garnett (Fred Astaire) is a featured troupe dancer and professional gambler intent on raising $25,000 in New York in order to marry his fiance back home. Romantic complications occur when he meets dancing teacher, Penny Carroll (Ginger Rogers). Their efforts to audition as a dance team are hampered by band leader Ricky Romero (Metaxa) who is in love with Penny. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 7048 Ten minutes to live. (60 min.). A mystery-musical built around a threatening note which gives the heroine who sings and dances in a Harlem nightclub only "ten minutes to live." There is much nightclub entertainment as the mystery unravels with song and dance numbers and a stand-up comedy routine. VHS 7008 That's dancing. (105 min.). In the great tradition of That's Entertainment a dance-happy, star-filled musical treat that celebrates the art of dance in all its forms. VHS 2954 That's entertainment. (122 min.). Musical sequences from nearly 100 MGM musicals and the narration of such entertainers as Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby, and others, are used to mark MGM's 50th anniversary of movie-making. VHS 15 Tim Burton's The nightmare before Christmas. (76 min.). Jack Skellington is the King of Halloween. He becomes bored with the same routine every year. He decides to take a walk in the woods. There, he discovered a door leading to Christmastown and decides to spread Christmas joy to the world. When he is back in Halloweentown he shows his friends what Christmas is like, and he suggests doing Christmas this year instead. But things do not go as planned when Oogie Boogie, an evil gambling boogey man, plots to play a game with Santa Claus' life and creates a nightmare for all the good little boys and girls everywhere. Although Sally attempts to stop him, Jack embarks into the sky on a coffin-like sled pulled by skeletal reindeer. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 4711 Top hat. (100 min.). Rogers and Astaire are caught up in a mistaken identity plot, in which Rogers assumes that Astaire is already married, and is alternatively charmed and repelled by his advances. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 1436, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 1 Trollflöjten = The magic flute. (134 min.). Prince Tamino must overcome the evil power of the Queen of the Night before the ruler of the Kingdom of Light will award him the hand of the beautiful Pamina. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 704 TSirk Circus. (89 min.). Alexandrov's attempt at importing American musical comedy into Soviet film. Marion Dixon (Orlova), an American vaudeville performer who was driven from the U.S. due to her bearing an illegitimate black child is now performing her act as a human cannonball in a circus in the Soviet Union when she falls in love with a Soviet acrobat. Her German manager von Kneischitz (Massalsky) knows of her illegitimate child and seeks to blackmail her. Love wins out and in the finale the cast, now joined by thousands of others, sing and march their way across Red Square. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 5209 U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha. (122 min.). Acted and sung by the internationally acclaimed South African theater company Dimpho Di Kopane (DDK), this film is a stunning adaptation of perhaps the world's best-loved opera, Carmen. Re-imagined in the modern world of South African pool halls, bars, courtyards and barracks, this film tells the story of a cigarette factory worker, Carmen, and her doomed love affair with a police sergeant. As the two grow more emotionally connected, their relationship escalates violently, culminating in a tragic conclusion of revenge and madness. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 3852 Umrao Jaan Umaråava jåana. (121 min.). Costume spectacular/musical of the life of a courtesan, musician and dancer of mid 19th-century Lucknow, who achieves great renown and remains independent of the three men she gets involved with over time. Based on first major Urdu novel. DVD 322 Une femme est une femme = A woman is a woman. (84 min.). Offbeat homage to Hollywood musicals finds a stripper rousing her lover's jealousy by seducing his best friend. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 67 Veselye rebiata muzykal naia kino-komediia = The world is laughing. (93 min.). A musical comedy which pits Kostia (Utesov) a good-hearted young shepherd with a fine voice and a Pan-like effect on all who hear him against the so-called "finer" stratum of society. Aniuta (Orlova) falls in love with him under the impression that he is a famous conductor. Kostia leaves a trail of mirth and mayhem from the seaside to the Moscow theater world until he bluffs his way onto the concert stage and finds harmony and lifelong love. VHS 5208 Visitatio sepulchri = Visit to the sepulcher. (29 min.). A performance of the 12th-century music drama which relates the Easter story of the visit of the three Marys to the tomb of Christ. Introductory material gives the historical setting and describes the content and significance of the drama. DVD 3309 West side story. (152 min.). This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 278, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 150 Whoopee! (93 min.). A scrawny hypochondriac moves West for his health and soon becomes tangled up in some of the locals' romantic antics. VHS 7223 Window shopping. (96 min.). An upbeat Hollywood-style musical set in a Parisian shopping mall that follows the love entanglements of a family who run a boutique in the mall. In the mall, the son of the boutique owner falls in love with the mall flirt, who runs the adjoining hairdressing salon. The wife of the boutique owner, after all these years and quite by chance, meets up with the American soldier who liberated her from a concentration camp during World War II and almost runs off with him. VHS 3291 The wizard of Oz. (102 min.). Whisked away by a swirling tornado, 12-year-old Dorothy, her dog Toto - and even her Kansas farmhouse - sail over the rainbow and into the land of Oz that is filled with playful Munchkins, enchanted forests and endless surprises. Dorothy and her new found friends, The Tin Woodman, The Cowardly Lion and The Scarecrow, must go in search of the kingdom's mysterious wizard to find the secret that will allow her to go home again. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 666, VHS 5232 Wolga, Wolga Volga, Volga. (102 min.). Love story in which the boy and girl quarrel over whether his classical music performance or her folk music performance will win the Moscow amateur talent show. VHS 3960 Yaadon ki baaraat Yadon ki barata. (154 min.). Three brothers are separated as children after their parents are murdered. The only way they can find each other is through a family song only the brothers know. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 3695 Yankee Doodle Dandy. (126 min.). A rousing musical depicting the life of George M. Cohan--playwright, entertainer, and composer. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 4797, VHS 2568 Yellow submarine. (86 min.). Animated feature. The adventure begins in Pepperland, where the despicable Blue Meanies have declared war on all that is good, especially music. The Fab Four vow to save the day with some tuneful ammunition of their own including such Beatles classics as "Nowhere man", "All you need is love" and "Yellow submarine". VHS 5100 Yentl. (134 min.). Set in Eastern Europe in the early 1900's. Yentl is the daughter of a kindly scholar, a man able to instill in his daughter a love of learning as deep as his own. However, in the world of Eastern Europe at the turn of the century, higher education is denied women so Yentl disguises herself as a man in order to gain entrance to an orthodox Jewish school. VHS 4244 Yiddle with his fiddle. (92 min.). A classic Yiddish language musical-comedy. After they are thrown out of their home, a young girl fiddle player, disguised as a boy for safety, goes off to the Polish countryside with her musician father. They meet up with two other traveling musicians, one of whom is a young man. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 5715 The young girls of Rochefort. (125 min.). "In the picturesque seaside village of Rochefort, Delphine teaches dance while her twin Solange composes and gives piano lessons. As the girls dream of success and romance in the far-off big city, they don't realize that true love may be just around the corner!"--Container. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 309 Page Created by Media Services Back to Top |
