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Publisher
Digiview Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Jamaican Inn: An Irish orphan girl goes to live with an uncle who is discovered to be involved in a group of smuggling highwaymen ravaging the area.
Sabotage: An undercover Scotland yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage.
The 39 steps: Character Richard Hanney stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.
Easy virtue: A woman goes through a divorce and attempts...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world--she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star--in the make-believe world of the movies ... But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes all too real. Now she is in the hands of the dastardly...
3) The artist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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Author
Publisher
ChiZine Publications
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois Cairns - jobless and depressed in the wake of her son's autism diagnosis - accidentally discovers the existence of lost early 20th century Ontario filmmaker Mrs. A. Macalla Whitcomb. By deciding to investigate how Mrs. Whitcomb's obsessions might have led to her mysterious disappearance, Lois unwittingly invites the forces which literally haunt Mrs. Whitcomb's films...
5) City lights
Language
English
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Description
The little tramp loves a poor blind girl and, in his own bumbling way, raises the money for the operation which restores her sight.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Winding through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey, the battlefields of Belgium during World War I, and the faded Knickerbocker Hotel in 1960s Hollywood, [this novel] follows the intertwined fates of the cinematographer Claude Ballard and his muse, Sabine Montrose"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A gorgeous, lavish history of silent movies - with more than 400 amazing images - captures the birth of film and icons like Chaplin, Garbo, Clara Bow, and Valentino.
Drawing on the extraordinary collection of The Library of Congress, one of the greatest repositories for silent film and memorabilia, Peter Kobel has created the definitive visual history of silent film. From its birth in the 1890s, with the earliest narrative shorts, through the brilliant...
13) Wings
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
p2012, c1927
Language
English
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Description
Two young men who love the same girl join the Air Service during World War I. Includes early aviation combat flying sequences.
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
The first vampire movie. Count Orlock (Nosferatu, the vampire) leaves his castle in the Carpathians and travels by ship to Bremen, bringing coffins filled with dirt and plague rats, where he is destroyed by sunlight.