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Annual report - The Corporation for Public Broadcasting. by Corporation for Public Broadcasting.(CARDINAL)139760;
Report year ends Sept. 30.
Subjects: Periodicals.; Corporation for Public Broadcasting;
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Public broadcasting and education : a report to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting / by Corporation for Public Broadcasting.Advisory Council of National Organizations.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Corporation for Public Broadcasting.; Educational broadcasting;
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Craft in America [videorecording] : a journey to the origins, artists and techniques of American craft / by Thompson, Kyra,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)219789; Noble, Nigel,director.; Seeger, Dan,director.; Maloof, Sam,artist.(CARDINAL)732089; Jackson, Mary,1945-artist.; Gold, Pat Courtney,artist.; Bennett, Garry Knox,1934-artist.(CARDINAL)290037; Joyce, Tom,1956-artist.; Yager, Jan,1951-artist.; Gurney, David,1958-artist.; Carson, Kit,1950-artist.; Nakashima, Mira,artist.; Jaeger, Sarah,artist.; Wallace, Denise,1957-artist.; Wallace, Samuel,1936-artist.; Lerea, Yaffa,film editor.; Lenzer, Don,cinematographer.; Karpmann, Laura,composer.; Sauvion, Carol,creator; Oglesby, Randy,narrator; Maloof, Sam.(CARDINAL)732089; Birmingham, Hilary.; Jackson, Mary,basket weaver.; Gold, Pat Courtney.; Bennett, Garry Knox,1934-(CARDINAL)290037; Joyce, Tom.(CARDINAL)718574; Notkin, Richard.; Look, Dona.; Loeber, Ken.; Corporation for Public Broadcasting.(CARDINAL)139760; Crafts in America, Inc.; Independent Television Service.(CARDINAL)219292; KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)(CARDINAL)134589; PBS Home Video.(CARDINAL)218235;
Episode 1. Memory / director, Nigel Noble -- Episode 2. Landscape / director, Daniel Seeger -- Episode 3. Community / director, Hilary Birmingham.Director of photography, Don Lenzer ; editor, Yaffa Lerea ; music by Laura Karpmann.Narrator, Randy Oglesby.Community: Mississippi Cultural Crossroads (Port Gibson, Mississippi), Penland School of Crafts, Sarah Jaeger (potter), Archie Bray Foundation, Pilchuk Glass School, Denise Wallace (jeweler), Sam Wallace (lapidary), Dona Look (artist), Ken Loeber (artist).Landscape: Jan Yager (artist), David Gurney (ceramist), Timberline Lodge (Mount Hood, Oregon), Kit Carson (jeweler, sculptor), Mira Nakashima (furniture designer), Richard Notkin (artist).Memory: Sam Maloof (wood worker), Mary Jackson (basket weaver), Pat Courtney Gold (basket weaver), Garry Knox Bennett (furniture maker), Tom Joyce (blacksmith)."Craft in America is an exploration into the hearts and minds of artisans devoted to a diverse array of mediums -- from furniture making to and basket weaving to pottery and metalsmithing. Each episode reveals that craft has earned itself a place within the realm of fine art"--Container.Not rated by the MPAA.DVD ; Region 1 ; widescreen.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Handicraft; Handicraft; Artists; Artisans; Decoration and ornament; Decoration and ornament;
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Dick Cavett's Vietnam [videorecording] by Bader, Robert S.,television producer.(CARDINAL)376480; Cavett, Dick,commentator.(CARDINAL)161287; Clark, Wesley K.,commentator.(CARDINAL)431865; Harding, Dave,television producer.; Leggett, Mark,1954-composer (expression); Logevall, Fredrik,1963-commentator.(CARDINAL)655465; Naftali, Timothy J.,commentator.(CARDINAL)682559; Scheinfeld, John,television producer,television director.; Crew Neck Productions,television producer.; Daphne Productions,television producer.; PBS Distribution (Firm),distributor.(CARDINAL)309769; Thirteen Productions,television producer.(CARDINAL)849774; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.),broadcaster.(CARDINAL)150050;
Editor, Peter S. Lynch, II ; music, Mark Leggett ; directors of photography, Stan Taylor, Christopher Thibault, Jeffrey Peter Byrd, Jordan Ray.Dick Cavett, Gen. Wesley K. Clark, Fredrik Logevall, Timothy Naftali.Reexamines the Vietnam War and its impact on America through the prism of interviews conducted by the iconic host of The Dick Cavett Show from 1968-75. Those interviews, combined with archival footage, network news broadcasts, and newly filmed interviews with Cavett and other experts, provide fresh insight and perspective on this controversial chapter of American history.This program was made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)DVD; NTSC, Region 1; widescreen.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; War television programs.; Television talk show hosts; Vietnam War, 1961-1975.; Vietnam War, 1961-1975;
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Too important to fail : saving America's boys : Tavis Smiley reports. by Smiley, Tavis,1964-(CARDINAL)382202;
This book examines the staggering drobout rate among young black males. It surveys the causes of it and proposes solutions for it.
Subjects: African American dropouts.; High school dropouts; Dropouts; African American teenage boys.;
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Pocahontas revealed [videorecording] / by Collins, Matthew(Matthew C.)ausprd(CARDINAL)209105; Glenn, Sean.; Madden, Neil.; Neufeld, Robert.(CARDINAL)848933; Rauscher, Jed.; Wolfinger, Kirk.prodrt(CARDINAL)848146; Wolfinger, Lisa.prodrt(CARDINAL)852118; Lone Wolf Documentary Group.(CARDINAL)852218; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)(CARDINAL)154259; WGBH Video (Firm)(CARDINAL)268015;
Special features: Letterboxed version -- Printable materials for educators -- Access to the NOVA Web site -- Scene selection -- Language: English -- Subtitles: English -- Video description for the visually impared.Directors of photography, Sean Glenn, Yoram Astrakhan ; music, Robert Neufeld ; edited by Jed Rauscher ; wardrobe, Andrew Poleszak, Deborah Hobson ; art, Vern Crofoot, Mark Hughes, Linda Hughes.Narrated by Lisa Q. Wolfinger ; commentators: William Kelso, James Horn, David Silverman, Helen Rountree, Randolph Turner, C. Lynn Ripley, Mildred Moore, Dan Firehawk Abbott, Jeff Brown, Crystal Wynn, Anne Richardson, Martin Gallivan, Leanna Giancarlo, Carter C. Hudgins, David Stahle.Neil Madden, Ashlee Harless, Teshena Conlon, Robert Green.On the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, science is revealing the truth behind the myth, a saga of adventure, greed, and savagery. Archaeologists have discovered the site of Chief Powhatan's capital, the spot where John Smith met him and his daughter.Not rated.Funded by David H. Koch, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television viewers.DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; letterboxed ; Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Pocahontas, -1617.; Powhatan, approximately 1550-1618.; Smith, John, 1580-1631.;
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Lantern Hill [videorecording] by Bennett, Mairon.; Benson, Robert.; Caldwell, Zoe.(CARDINAL)743934; Campion, Joyce.; Dewhurst, Colleen.(CARDINAL)748359; Montgomery, L. M.Jane of Lantern Hill.; Paterson, Florence.; Phillips, Patricia.(CARDINAL)741129; Polley, Sarah.; Reis, Vivian.; Sullivan, Kevin.(CARDINAL)560326; Waterson, Sam.; Sullivan Films.;
Executive producer Trudy Grant ; screenplay by Fiona McHugh and Kevin Sullivan ; produced and directed by Kevin Sullivan.Sam Waterson, Zoe Caldwell, Patricia Phillips, Vivian Reis, Joyce Campion, Florence Paterson, Robert Benson, Mairon Bennett, Sarah Polley, Colleen Dewhurst.Twelve-year-old Jane has grown up thinking that her father has passed away, until he suddenly writes one day, requesting custody of his daughter.
Subjects: Films for the hearing impaired.;
© n.d., Walt Disney Home Video : [Distributed by] Buena Vista Home Video,
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A biography of America [videorecording] / by Barzyk, Fred.(CARDINAL)219884; Miller, Donald L.; Annenberg/CPB.(CARDINAL)215886; WGBH Educational Foundation.(CARDINAL)132712;
Pt. 1. New world encounters: The beginnings of America--pt. 2. English settlement: New England and Virginia--pt. 3. Growth and empire: The best poor man's country in the world--pt. 4. The coming of independence--pt. 5. A new system of government--pt. 6. Westward expansion: The empire of liberty--pt. 7. The rise of capitalism: The unseen hand--pt. 8. The reform impulse: Religion and individualism--pt. 9. Slavery: The South and slave culture--pt. 10. The coming of the Civil War--pt.11 The Civil War: Vicksburg--pt. 12. Reconstruction--pt. 13. America at its Centennial: The revolution betrayal--pt. 14. Industrial supremacy--pt. 15. The new city: Planned order and messy vitality--pt. 16. The West--pt. 17. Capital and labor--pt. 18. TR and Wilson: Two faces of power--pt. 19. A vital progressivism--pt. 20. The twenties: The tensions of prosperity--pt. 21. FDR and the depression--pt. 22. World War II: Total war--pt. 23. The fifties: From war to normalcy--pt. 24. The sixties: Vietnam and civil rights--pt. 25. Contemporary history: Critical thinking about 1972-2000--pt. 26. The redemptive imagination.Speakers: Donald L. Miller, Pauline Maier, Louis P. Masur, Waldo E. Martin, Douglas Brinkley, Virginia Scharff.This 26 part series of half-hour programs explores the human side of American history and encourages critical thinking about the forces that shaped America. Using photos, film footage, and documents, host historians lecture in a first-person narrative to describe a collective life story and history of American people and their every-day events.Adults.VHS.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
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The Appalachians [videorecording] / by Barnett, Charlie,1951-composer.; Burst, Barbara,editor of moving image work.; Green, Sam,1943-editor of moving image work.; Cash, Johnny,interviewee.(CARDINAL)138847; Evans, Mari-Lynn,television producer.(CARDINAL)466350; Geller, Phylis,screenwriter,television producer.; Mahoney, James,1949-narrator.; Evening Star Productions,production company.; WNPT (Television station : Nashville, Tenn.),presenter.; Appalachians Home Video,publisher.;
Executive producer, Mari-Lynn C. Evans ; project developers, Mari-Lynn C. Evans and Tom Robertson ; original music composed by Charlie Barnett ; edited by Barbara W. Burst and Sam Green.Narrator, J.W. Mahoney ; Interviewees: Johnny Cash, Ricky Skaggs, Loretta Lynn, Marty Stuart, Little Jimmy Dickens, and others.Episode 1 (55 minutes). Examines the earliest settlers of the Appalachians, the Cherokee; the arrival in the 1700s of European settlers who brought their traditions and music with them; the regional role of whiskey distilling; the large evangelical tent meetings which brought together blacks and whites and fostered the development of regional white gospel influenced by African rhythms -- Episode 2 (55 minutes). The Cherokees are cruelly relocated along the Trail of Tears; the Civil War splits families; modernization arrives as railroads make it possible to strip raw materials and timber from the mountains; mining companies change entire towns and ways of life; miners demands better working conditions and the region suffers from the violence of the great Coal Wars -- Episode 3 (62 minutes). The phonograph and radio take mountain music to the outside world; Great Depression devastates the region; the New Deal provides new ways of making a living and brings wider access to electricity; strip mining and mountain-top removal change the landscape forever; people of Appalachia keep their traditional culture alive and vibrant.Funding provided by US Department of HUD/VA, The Sierra Club and Sierra Club Productions, The Vandalia Heritage Foundation, MountainMade Foundation, The Robert H. Mollohan Family Charitable Foundation, Appalachian Regional Commission, West Virginia High Tech Consortium Foundation, NASA, Corporation for Public Broadcasting.DVD.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Educational television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Appalachians (People); Music;
For private home use only.
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The Blues [videorecording] : a musical journey / by Cappa Productions.; Jigsaw Productions.; Road Movies Filmproduktion.(CARDINAL)843322; Vulcan Productions.(CARDINAL)273630;
[1] Feel like going home : a film / by Martin Scorsese -- [2] The Soul of a man : a film / by Wim Wenders -- [3] The Road to Memphis : a film / by Richard Pearce and Robert Kenner -- [4] Warming by the devil's fire : a film / by Charles Burnett -- [5] Godfathers and sons : a film / by Marc Levin -- [6] Red, white & blues : a film / by Mike Figgis -- [7] Piano blues : a film / by Clint Eastwood.A seven-part television series of personal and impressionistic films, viewed through the lens of seven world-famous directors, capturing the essence of blues music and delving into its global influence, from its roots in Africa to its inspirational role in today's music.DVD, 5.1 surround sound.
Subjects: Blues (Music); Documentary television programs.; Television programs.;
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