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Film
Directors Mediagraphy - Steven Spielberg
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1941
[videorecording] / Universal Pictures and Columbia
Pictures. Universal City, CA . c1996. 2 videodiscs
(146 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 in. Screwball characters
run wild on Hollywood Boulevard as manic serviceman,
zealous homeowners, teary-eyed generals, high-stepping
chorus girls and bickering Nazis are thrown together
in this comedy spectacular set in Los Angeles just
days after the attack on Pearl Harbor when the fear
of a Japanese invasion threw the city into a state
of pandemonium. Laser disc extended play (CLV);
stereo. Spielberg, Steven, 1947- Zemeckis, Robert,
1952- Gale, Bob. Milius, John. Aykroyd, Dan. Beatty,
Ned. Belushi, John. Gary, Lorraine. Hamilton, Murray.
Lee, Christopher, 1922- Matheson, Tim. Mifune, Toshir¯o,
1920- Oates, Warren, 1928-1982. Stack, Robert, 1919-
Williams, Treat. Universal Pictures (Firm) Columbia
Pictures. MCA Home Video (Firm). VDD 179 and VHS
6087
Always
[videorecording] / Universal Pictures ; United Artists
; Amblin Entertainment ; U-Drive Productions.
Universal City, CA : Universal, [1997]. 1 videocassette
(123 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Pete Sandich (Dreyfuss),
a legendary firefighter pilot sacrifices himself
to save his friend Al (Goodman). Pete returns from
the dead to Help Dorinda (Hunter), the woman he
loves, move on with her life. VHS 6094
Amistad
[videorecording] / [presented by] DreamWorks Pictures
in association with HBO Pictures. Universal City,
CA . c1998. 1 videocassette (155 min.) : sd.,
col. ; 1/2 in. Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board
a slave ship bound for America. Much of the story
involves the court-room drama about the slave who
led the revolt. VHS 5415
Close
encounters of the third kind [videorecording] /
a Columbia presentation in association with EMI.
[Culver City, Calif.] : Columbia TriStar Home Video,
[c1999]. 1 videocassette (137 min.) : sd., col.
; 1/2 in. Humans make contact with aliens after
witnessing the arrival of flying saucers from another
world. In the night sky near his Muncie, Indiana,
home, power repairman Roy Neary (Dreyfuss) experiences
something out of this world. His close encounter
sets into action an amazing chain of events that
lead to contact with the benevolent aliens and their
Mothership. VHS 6086
The
Color purple [videorecording] / Warner Brothers
; Amblin Entertainment ; Guber-Peters Co. Burbank,
Calif. c1992, 1985. 2 videodiscs (154 min.)
: sd., col. ; 12 in. This is the story of a black
family's growth and flowering as told through the
life of Celie. Set in the rural South about 1909,
it tells of the loving relationship between Celie
and her sister Nettie. At the center of everything
is Celie, who as a young girl is raped by her father
and gives birth to two children by him who are both
taken away from her. She and her sister are also
separated as Celie is forced to marry a brutal man
she calls "Mister." Her life is one of virtual servitude
filled with oppression and grinding disappointments
until she is transformed by the friendship of two
remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength
to forgive. CLV laser discs; extended play ; stereo.
Spielberg, Steven, 1947- Walker, Alice, 1944- Color
purple. Kennedy, Kathleen. Marshall, Frank. Peters,
Jon. Guber, Peter. Jones, Quincy, 1933- Meyjes,
Menno. Goldberg, Whoopi, 1950- Glover, Danny. Caesar,
Adolph, d. 1986 Avery, Margaret. Winfrey, Oprah.
Pugh, Willard. Chong, Rae Dawn. Busia, Akosua. Warner
Bros. Warner Home Video (Firm) Guber-Peters Company.
Amblin Entertainment (Firm). VDD 129 and VHS 3484
Duel
[videorecording] / a Universal Picture. Universal
City, CA . c1990. 1 videocassette (90 min.)
: sd., col ; 1/2 in. A businessman is menaced on
the highway by a psychopathic driver of a huge diesel
truck out to kill him. VHS 5256
E.
T. [videorecording] : the Extra-Terrestrial / Universal
City Studios ; Amblin Entertainment. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Extra Terrestrial. Universal City, CA . c1988.
1 videocassette (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
A moving story of a lost little alien who befriends
a 10-year-old boy named Elliott. While E.T. learns
about life on Earth, Elliott learns that friendship
knows no earthly bounds. VHS 1036
Empire
of the sun [videorecording] / Amblin Entertainment
; Warner Bros. Burbank, CA . 1988. 1 videocassette
(154 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Examines what happens
to children caught up in war. Jim Graham, an eleven-year-old
British boy, sees his privileged life obliterated
when the Japanese invade Shanghai and he finds himself
in a World War II Japanese internment camp. VHS
2687
The
Film school generation [videorecording] / co-production
of the New York Center for Visual History, KCET/Los
Angeles, and the BBC. South Burlington, VT :
Annenberg/CPB Collection, c1994. American Cinema
; pt. 9. 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. and
b&w ; 1/2 in. Traces the rise to prominence
of a generation of directors who emerged primarily
from the film schools of the University of California,
Los Angeles, the University of Southern California
and New York University in the 1960s. Examines the
financial and cultural forces that made their ascendence
possible. Examines such directors as Martin Scorsese,
Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg by looking
at the financial and cultural forces that made their
ascendance possible. VHS 2909
Hook
[videorecording] / TriStar Pictures, Inc. Burbank,
CA . c1992. 1 videocassette (ca. 144 min.) :
sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Robin Williams is a grown-up
Peter Pan and Dustin Hoffman is the infamous Captain
Hook in this updated version of the classic tale.
After Granny Wendy Darling convinces the middle
aged lawyer Peter Banning that he was once the legendary
Peter Pan, he is off to Neverland to save his two
children from Captain Hook. VHS 6209
Indiana
Jones and the last crusade [videorecording] / Paramount
Pictures presents a Lucasfilm Ltd. production ;
a Steven Spielberg film. [Hollywood, CA?] :
Paramount [Home Video], 1999, c1989. The complete
adventures of Indiana Jones ; chapter 25. 1 videocassette
(144 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Harrison Ford dons
his rumpled fedora for the third time as Indiana
Jones, and Sean Connery joins the fun as Indy's
feisty dad. The Joneses set out to find the mystically-empowered
Holy Grail and encounter so many spectacular pursuits
and narrow escapes that this movie is more than
the culmination of Indy's exploits. VHS 6089
Indiana
Jones and the Temple of Doom [videorecording] /
Paramount Pictures presents a Lucasfilm Ltd. Production
; a Steven Spielberg film. [Hollywood, Calif?]
: Paramount [Home Video], 1999, c1984. The complete
adventures of Indiana Jones ; chapter 23. 1 videocassette
(135 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Indiana Jones,
the daredevil archeologist, is out to find the famous
Ankara Stone and to save hundreds of children who've
been enslaved by a mysterious cult. VHS 6088
Jaws
[videorecording] / Universal Pictures. Universal
City, CA . c1995. 1 videocassette (125 min.)
: sd., col. ; 1/2 in. The police chief of a small
Long Island town, a young ichthyologist and a shark
fisherman become allied in a life-and-death hunt
to destroy a three-ton white killer shark. VHS 3992
and DVD 98
Jurassic
Park [videorecording] / Universal Pictures presents
an Amblin Entertainment Production. Universal City,
Calif. c1997. 1 videocassette (127 min.) :
sd., col. ; 1/2 in. On a remote island a wealthy
entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring
living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before
opening it to the public he takes his two grandchildren
along with a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist
and a mathematician/theorist to experience the park.
When the park's security system breaks down, the
prehistoric predators escape and begin stalking
the island's human inhabitants. VHS 6090
Raiders
of the lost ark [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures
presents a Lucasfilm Ltd. production. Indiana Jones
and the raiders of the lost ark. Hollywood, CA .
c1989. 1 videocassette (115 min.) : sd., col. ;
1/2 in. Indiana Jones is a bullwhip-cracking archeologist
assigned by the U.S. Government to find the mystically
empowered Ark of the Convenant before the Nazis
can obtain it for their own evil use. VHS 1037
Saving
Private Ryan [videorecording] / DreamWorks Pictures
; Amblin Entertainment ; Mutual Film Company ; Mark
Gordon Productions ; Paramount Pictures. [United
States] . CA : distributed exclusively by Image
Entertainment, c1999. 2 videodiscs (ca. 169 min.)
: sd., col. ; 12 in. Seen through the eyes of a
squad of American soldiers, the story begins with
World War II's historic D-Day invasion. Once ashore
Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) must take his men
behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three
brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with
impossible odds, the men question their orders.
Why are eight men risking their lives to save just
one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war each
man searches for his own answer and the strength
to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency
and courage. Extended play Laserdisc, stereo Dolby
digital. Spielberg, Steven, 1947- Williams, John,
1932- Rodat, Robert. Hanks, Tom. Burns, Edward,
1968- Damon, Matt. Sizemore, Tom. DreamWorks Home
Entertainment (Firm) Amblin Entertainment (Firm)
Paramount Pictures. Mutual Film Company. Image Entertainment
(Firm) ID5916DW Image Entertainment. VDD 225
Schindler's
list [videorecording] / Amblin Entertainment production
; Universal Pictures. Universal City, Calif.
1994, c1993. 2 videocassettes (197 min.) : sd.,
b&w & col. sequences ; 1/2 in. The true
story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member
of the Nazi party, womanizer and war profiteer,
who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during
the Holocaust. VHS 3116
The
sugarland express [videorecording] / a Universal
Pictures. New York . c1997. 1 videocassette
(109 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Based on a true
story. Lou Jean Poplin and her escaped convict husband
kidnap a Texas State Trooper and lead the police
on a wild chase across the state in an effort to
save her son from adoption. Spielberg, Steven, 1947-
Zanuck, Richard D. Brown, David, 1916- Barwood,
Hal. Robbins, Matthew. Williams, John, 1932- Hawn,
Goldie. Atherton, William. Johnson, Ben, 1919- Sacks,
Michael. Universal Pictures (Firm). VHS 6049
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