We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
ll
Double whoopee —James Parrott One of the finest of silent film comedies, this hilarious Laurel and Hardy farce unexpectedly includes an early Jean Harlow in fetching ‘dishabille’ and an unrestrained parody of Erich Von Stroheim. Camera: George Stevens (“Diary of Anne Frank”, “Shane’’).
19 minutes, black & white, silent $10
Do you remember —Tony Thompson Edinburgh International Film Festival. A tale of lost riches; a lighthearted, humorous account of how umbrellas, turtles, glass eyes, female torsos are lost and found in the big city.
10 minutes, black & white, sound $6
also in 35mm; $10
Easy street —Charles Chaplin Generally considered one of Chaplin’s most extraordinary comedies, this cunning satire on organized society and puritanism pits Chaplin as a reformed derelict-turned-policeman against a horde of thugs and _ bullies whom he overcomes for a triumphant and ironic ‘happy end’ in classic sequences of comic transposition. With Edna Purviance. Written and directed by Charles Chaplin.
18 minutes, black & white, silent $10
Eaux d’artifice —Kenneth Anger A nocturnal dream-vision among the fountains of the Villa d’Este, set to Vivaldi music. Filmed in Italy with Carmilla Salvatorelli by the director of ‘Fireworks’ on black and white stock and printed deep blue on Kodachrome, this film produces an exciting visual effect with strange patterns of water and light.
“An evocation of a Fairbank heroine, lost in a baroque labyrinth, in pur
suit of . . . a night moth. Fountains, cascades, a fan, and... a transmogrification.”—Kenneth Anger.
13 minutes, color, sound $10 sale $150
The elephant will never forget —John Krish
Edinburgh International Film Festival. This gentle and beautiful film, pervaded with nostalgic sadness and humor, takes two cockneys on a loving last ride on London’s clattering trolleys, complete with Cockney music-hall ballads. Produced by Edgar Anstey, noted British documentary film director.
1] minutes, black & white, sound $6
also in 35mm; $10
Elisabeth —Jean Beranger Filmed in Paris by a now well-known French film maker, this is an unorthodox story of a lonely young woman whose longing for love finally
culminates in tragedy. The ending carries a shock of its own. 15 minutes, black & white, silent $10 sale $140 (Adult)
The end of summer —Ralph Hirshorn Award Winner, Screen Producers Guild and San Francisco International Film Festival. Designed to satirize avant-garde film cliches by means of a series of absurd, supposedly symbolic incidents, this hilarious film can also be read as an involuntary surrealist farce.
“Without question, the finest film ever produced by the Yale Film Society!”—Ralph Hirshorn; director of the film.
12 minutes, black & white, sound $9 sale $100
Escape —Albert Mertz & Jorgen Roos
A murderer’s harrowing escape from his conscience. Drum accompaniment. Well-known Danish experimental film. 9 minutes, black & white, sound $8
Etude —Pierre Puttemans & Paul Jespers
Brussels International Experimental Film Festival. Abstract art created by nature: utilizing natural, not man-made images, this Belgian experiment by an artist and a scientist working in close collaboration, consists entirely of the beautiful patterns produced on an oscilloscope by the movements of an electric current.
12 minutes, black & white, sound $10 sale $130