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SA-I-GU: FROM KOREAN WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVES: [ 6492 VHS 36min. 1993 dir:Dai Sil Kim-Gibson with Christine Choy]; Examines the Los Angeles Korean community in the aftermath of the April 29, 1992 riots.

SABBATH KIT: [JHVC 7167 VHS 18min 1982 ]; Animated/live shorts for children demonstrating the concept ot the Sabbath rest.

SABOTAGE: [fs 5254 Laser 9094 DVD 9228 DVD 9422 DVD76 min bw 1936 dir:Alfred Hitchcock cast:Sylvia Sidney; Oscar Homolka]
: A woman's husband is a saboteur and her son an innocent victim. Based on The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad.

SABOTEUR: [fs 3425 VHS 5184 LaserCLV1 9627 DVD 108min bw 1942 dir:Alfred Hitchcock cast:Robert Cummings; Priscilla Lane]
: A man falsely accused of setting fire to a war factory embarks on a cross-country chase to find the real saboteur, who happens to be a Nazi agent.

SACRED MOUNTAIN: [fs 3942 VHS 3559 VHS 28min bw silent dir:Arnold Fanck cast:Leni Riefenstahl]
: One of the "mountain films." Two young men die in a mountain climbing accident.

THE SACRIFICE (OFFRET) & DIRECTED BY ANDREI TARKOVSKY: [fs 9636 DVD 145min. 1986 Swedish/sub dir:Andrei Tarkovsky cast:Erland Josephson]; An old man wants to offer himself up to save his family from nuclear holocaust. DIRECTED BY... (1988, 101min, dir.Michal Leszczylowski, Swedish & Russian/sub) is an homage to the director by his editor.

SACRIFICED YOUTH: [fs 4199 VHS 95min Chinese subt dir:Zhang Nuan Hsin]
: A young woman leaves her mother to work in a minority nationality region of China, during the years of the Cultural Revolution.

SADAT IN ISRAEL: [JHVC 7084 VHS 20min 1977 ]; CBS News program about Egyptian president Anwar Sadat's historic 1977 visit to Israel under Menachem Begin.

SADIE THOMPSON: [fs 3304 VHS fs 9558 DVD 97min bw silent 1928 dir:Raoul Walsh cast:Gloria Swanson; Lionel Barrymore; Raoul Walsh]
: From the novel Rain by Somerset Maugham, a fun-loving prostitute arrives in Pago Pago and tangles with a self-righteous reformer.

SAFE: [fs 5347 LaserCLV2 119min 1995 dir:Todd Haynes cast:Julianne Moore]
: A housewife in Los Angeles develops an allergy to something and the reaction progresses to where she must isolate herself almost completely from her family and environment.

THE SAINT STRIKES BACK: [fs 3409 VHS 64min bw 1939 dir:John Farrow cast:George Sanders]
: A New Year's Eve murder in a San Francisco night club is followed by three more mysterious deaths.

SAINTS AND SPIRITS: [6411 VHS 1613 16mm 26min 1978]
: Documents religious events in Morocco observed by a woman.

THE SAINT'S VACATION: [fs 3369 VHS 61min bw 1941 dir:Leslie Fenton cast:Hugh Sinclair; Sally Gray]
: A music box contains a key sought by an international gang of thieves.

LE SALAIRE DE LA PEUR: See WAGES OF FEAR.

LA SALAMANDRE: [fs6367 VHS 119min 1971 French/sub bw dir:Alain Tanner cast:Bulle Ogier, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jacques Denis]; Two writers are fascinated by free-spirited Rosemonde, who is trying, not too hard, to find a place in Swiss society.

SALESMAN: [6324 VHS 90min bw 1968 dir:Albert and David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin]
: Documentary that follows four door-to-door Bible salesmen from Massachusetts to Florida, detailing each man's hard-sell campaign on his clients.

SALLAH: [3687 VHS JHVC 7085 VHS 105min bw Hebrew subt 1964 dir:Ephraim Kishon cast:Topol]
: A large immigrant family arrives in Israel with high expectations and get stuck in a camp for transients.

SALLY: fs 5427LD; See DAWN OF SOUND II

SALLY OF THE SAWDUST: [fs9421 DVD 113min. 1925 bw silent dir:D.W. Griffith cast:W.C. Fields, Carol Dempster, Alfred Lunt]; A circus juggler adopts an orphan girl, with complications caused by her wealthy grandfather and well-off suitor.

SALMONBERRIES: [2720 VHS 94min English German 1991 dir:Percy Adlon cast:k. d. lang; Rosel Zech; Chuck Conners]
: A young woman in search of her parents in Kotzebue, Alaska falls in love with a woman librarian from East Germany.

SALÒ O LE 120 GIORNATE DI SODOMA (SALO OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM): [fs 5255 LaserCLV1 115min Italian subt 1975 dir:Pier Paolo Pasolini]
: In Italy in the waning days of World War II four debauched Fascists retreat to a villa and satisfy their basest desires in torturing and murdering young men and women.

SALOME: [fs 3804 VHS 38min bw silent 1912 dir:Natacha Rambova cast:Alla Nazimova]
: A filmed adaptation of Oscar Wilde's stage play Salome, as illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley.; See also AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE FILMS.

SALSA: [4435 VHS 58min 1979]
: Describes the "hot" music which is integral to the Latino culture of New York, Puerto Rico and Cuba.

Salt for Svanetia (Sol' svanetii): fs 5485LD; See CLASSICS OF EARLY SOVIET CINEMA

SALT OF THE EARTH: [fs 4072 VHS 5185 LaserCLV1 94min bw 1953 dir:Herbert Biberman cast:Rosaura Revueltas; Juan Chacon; Will Geer]
: This movie, produced by blacklisted artists and financed by the United Mine Workers, tells of a miner's strike in New Mexico and addresses such social issues as minority rights and gender roles long before it was politically correct.

SALUT COUSIN!: [fs6368 VHS 92min 1996 French/sub dir:Merzak Allouache cast:Gad El Maleh, Mess Hattou]; An Algerian black-marketer spends an unexpected week with his rapping, lying, neurotic Parisian cousin in the 18th arrondissement's poorer section.

SALVADOR: [3677 VHS 122min 1985 dir:Oliver Stone cast:James Woods; Jim Belushi]
: A veteran war correspondent is sent to report on the civil war in El Salvador.

SAMADHI and Other Films: [fs 6001 VHS 22min 1964-1987 dir:Jordan Belson]
: Video art combining excerpts of three early works with two later complete works, with music by John Luther Adams.

SAMUEL BECKETT: Tous Ceux Qui Tombent: [6249 VHS 60min French dir:Michel Mitrani]
: A short play (English title: All That Fall) about a somewhat senile old woman and her blind husband.

SAMURAI 1: MUSASHI MIYAMOTO (LEGEND OF MUSASHI)): [fs 3440 VHS 9559 DVD 90min Japanese/sub 1954 dir:Hiroshi Inagaki cast:Toshiro Mifune]
: First in a trilogy romanticizing the life of 17th-c swordsman/philosopher/artist. The town's black sheep gains experience in war, betrayal, and love, and finds a mentor in his quest to become a samurai.

SAMURAI 2: DUEL AT ICHIJOJI TEMPLE (Ichijôji no kettô): [fs 9560 DVD 103min. 1955 Japanese/sub dir:Hiroshi Inagaki cast:Toshiro Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa]; Musashi continues his quest to become the greatest swordsman in Japan, a quest that encompasses violent battles and spiritual values, but still not love.

SAMURAI 3: DUEL AT GANRYU ISLAND (Kettô Ganryû-jima ): [fs 9561 DVD 104min. 1956 Japanese/sub dir:Hiroshi Inagaki cast:Toshiro Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa]; Musashi attempts to renounce violence to become a humble farmer, but is called to a confrontation with the shogun's champion.

THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT: [1891 VHs 21min 1974]
: Gives evidence of the geologic forces at work in the San Andreas fault system of California and relates these forces to the causes of earthquakes.

SAN FRANCISCO: [fs 3380 VHS 5784 Laser 115min bw 1936 dir:W. S. van Dyke cast:Clark Gable; Spencer Tracy; Jeanette MacDonald]
: The loves and career problems of a Barbary Coast saloon owner are climaxed by the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

SANDRA OF A THOUSAND DELIGHTS: [4906 VHS 100min bw Italian/sub 1965 dir:Luchino Visconti cast:Claudia Cardinale; Jean Sorel]
: A woman returns to her home town to discover the truth about her parents and the men in her life.

SANDS OF IWO JIMA: [fs 9108 DVD 109min b/w 1949 dir:Allan Dwan cast:John Wayne; John Agar; Adele Mara]; John Wayne as a Marine Corps sergeant during the taking of Iwo Jima in World War II.

LE SANG D'UN POÈTE: See BLOOD OF A POET

SANJURO: [fs 3910 VHS 3911 VHS 9186 DVD 96min bw Japanese subt 1962 dir:Akira Kurosawa cast:Toshiro Mifune; Tatsuya Nakadai]
: Sequel to Yojimbo. A wandering samurai turns up in a town where some young warriors are trying to map out a plan to expose the corrupt elders of their clan.

SANS SOLEIL: [fs 4314 VHS 100min 1982 dir:Chris Marker]
: A cinematic essay contrasting the technology of Japan with the poverty of West Africa.

SANS TOIT NI LOI (dir. Varda): See VAGABOND

SANSHIRO SUGATA: [fs 3308 VHS 82min bw Japanese subt 1943 dir:Akira Kurosawa]
: In the first film by Kurosawa, judo is pitted against jujitsu and a young man against his girlfriend's father.

SANSHO THE BAILIFF: [fs 3303 VHS 132min bw Japanese subt 1954 dir:Kenji Mizoguchi]
: In 11th-century Japan a mother sets off with her three children to find her husband, a former deputy governor who has been exiled.

THE SANTA FE TRAIL: See KENNEL MURDER CASE & SANTA FE TRAIL

SANTA MARTA: TWO WEEKS IN THE SLUMS: [3171 VHS 54min Portuguese subt 1987]
: Documentary which interviews people in Rio de Janeiro's slums.

THE SAPHEAD: See ART OF BUSTER KEATON Vol.1

SARATOGA: [fs 4126 VHS 5245B LaserCLV1 92min bw 1937 dir:Jack Conway cast:Jean Harlow; Clark Gable]
: A young woman wants to save her father's horse farm by marrying a wealthy man, but the gambler she loves complicates matters with his own plans.

SARI RED: [fs 2813 VHS 12min 1988 dir:Pratibha Parmar]
: Experimental film made as a tribute to three Indian girls who were victims of ethnic violence in England.

SARTRE BY HIMSELF (SARTRE PAR LUI-MÊME): [fs VHS 1976 Part 1: 1905-1940 2750;6002 93min; Part 2: 1944-1973 6003 102min]
: Biographical documentary of Jean-Paul Sartre and his relationship with Simone de Beauvoir.

SATAN'S BREW: [4789 VHS 112min German subt 1976 dir:Rainer Werner Fassbinder cast:Kurt Raab; Helen Vita; Volker Spengler]
: "..very black comedy about a would-be poet who imagines himself the reincarnation of Stefan George.."

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SATCHMO

See LOUIS ARMSTRONG SATCHMO.

SATYAJIT RAY: INTROSPECTIONS: [6947 VHS 55min ]; Interviews with the great Bengali director; a Museum of Modern Art film.

SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING: [fs 0594-0595 16mm 1639-1640 16mm 4954 VHS 90min bw 1961 dir:Karel Reisz cast:Albert Finney; Shirley Ann Field]
: A restless British factory worker defies authority, gets into trouble in an affair with a married woman, but finally accepts his lot.

SATYRICON: See FELLINI-SATYRICON

SAVAGE CAPITALISM: See CAPITALISMO SALVAJE

SAVAGE NIGHTS: See LES NUITS FAUVES

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN: [fs9210 DVD 169min 1998 dir:Steven Spielberg cast:Tom Hanks]; D-Day and after: a squad must rescue the only surviving brother among 4 soldiers.

SAY GOODBYE: [0637 VHS 50min 1973]
: A eulogy for the many species of wildlife that have died out in recent years and a look at those species in danger of extinction, especially in North America. Narrated by Rod McKuen.

Say it with Songs: fs 5265LD; See AL JOLSON COLLECTION

SAYAT NOVA: See THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES.

SAYING KADDISH

[JHVC 7153 VHS 60min 1991 ]

Drama of a mother's death and the ways her two daughters mourn her.

SAYONARA: [fs 5126 LaserCLV2 148min 1957 dir:Joshua Logan cast:Marlon Brando; Red Buttons; Miyoshi Umeki]
: While on leave from the Korean War theater, an Air Force pilot discovers Japanese racial prejudice, and falls in love with a Japanese woman.

A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA: See ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.

SCAR OF SHAME: See LIBRARY OF CONGRESS VIDEO COLLECTION

SCARAMOUCHE: [fs 5785 Laser 118min. 1952 dir:George Sideny cast:Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker]; Rafael Sabatini's swashbuckling hero is an actor on the stage and in the French Revolution as well.

SCARFACE: [fs 3421 VHS 5186 LaserCLV1 93min bw 1932 dir:Howard Hawks cast:Paul Muni; Ann Dvorak; George Raft]
: Produced by Howard Hughes and based on the life of Al Capone.Although the names were changed, the incidents in the movie were based on fact.

SCARLET EMPRESS: [fs 0847-0849 16mm 4560 VHS 9635 DVD 109min bw 1934 dir:Josef von Sternberg cast:Marlene Dietrich; John Lodge]
: Tells the story of Catherine the Great of Russia.; DVD includes THE WORLD OF JOSEF VON STERNBERG (20min) and a tribute by Jack Smith.

SCARLET LETTER: [fs 3817 VHS 90min German subt 1973 dir:Wim Wenders cast:Senta Berger; Lou Castel]
: The Nathaniel Hawthorne story about a woman in a Puritan settlement accused of adultery.

SCARLET STREET: [fs 0210-0212 16mm 4558 VHS 6741 VHS 103min bw 1945 dir:Fritz Lang cast:Edward G. Robinson; Joan Bennett]
: A timid bank clerk falls for a prostitute who makes him embezzle.

SCENARIO DU FILM "PASSION": [fs 2090 u-matic 54min 1982]
: Jean-Luc Godard discusses the making or, as he says, "the creation" of the film Passion.

SCENE OF THE CRIME: [fs 6213 VHS 90min French/sub 1986 dir:André Techine cast:Catherine Deneuve; Danielle Darrieux]
: The humdrum lives of a small-town mother and son are disrupted when the son stumbles into the hideout of escaped convicts.

SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE: [fs5641 LD 171min 1973 Swedish; also an English-dub soundtrack dir:Ingmar Bergman cast:Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Bibi Andersson]; Originally 6 TV episodes. A lawyer and a scientist live through marriage to each other, divorce, and enduring affection.

SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL: [fs 4843 VHS 38min 1990 dir:Jonas Mekas]
: Art film showing glimpses of parties and events attended by Andy Warhol.

THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA: [5387 LaserCLV1 104min Vietnamese subt 1993 dir:Tran Anh Hung]
: Set in the 1950s in Vietnam, a ten-year-old girl comes to Saigon to be a servant in a merchant's household.

SCHINDLER: [JHVC 7118 VHS 82min 1983 ]; Documentary about Oskar Schindler, who saved more than 1,000 Polish Jews from the Holocaust, including interviews with some who knew him.

SCHINDLER'S LIST: [fs 5382 LaserCLV2 JHVC 7119-20 VHS 197min bw 1993 dir:Steven Spielberg cast:Liam Neeson; Ben Kingsley]
: The true story of a womanizing Nazi war profiteer who saved from the Holocaust more than 1,100 Jews who worked in his factories.

SCHOOL DAZE: [fs 4182 VHS 9621 DVD 121min. 1988 dir:Spike Lee cast:Lee, Larry Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito]; On a Black college campus, sorority sisters and fraternity brothers date and discriminate while an activist tries to arouse them.

SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: [6067 VHS 100min bw 1965 cast:Joan Plowright; Felix Aylmer]
: Live TV adaptation of the 1770s satire by Richard Sheridan.

SCHOOL TIES: [JHVC 7043 VHS 110min 1992 dir:Robert Mandel cast:Brendan Fraser, Chris O'Donnell, Matt Damon]; Antisemitism and football in a 1950s prep school.

LE SCHPOUNTZ: [6923 VHS 135min. 1936 French sub b/w dir: Marcel Pagnol cast:Fernandel, Orane Demazis]; A movie-mad provincial grocer thinks he will become a tragedian in Paris, and instead becomes a star of comedies.

SCORPIO RISING

[fs 3930 VHS 37m total dir:Kenneth Anger]

Avant garde shorts.

See also FILMS OF KENNETH ANGER

Kustom Kar Kommandos: [~3min 1965] A young man strokes his customized car with a powder puff.
Puce Moment: [~6min 1949] An afternoon in the life of a 1920's film star.
Scorpio Rising: [~28min 1963] A juxtaposition of biker culture and religion.

SCRAM: [fs 1811 16mm 20min bw 1932 cast:Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy]
: Two vagrants are ordered out of town by the sheriff but are later found drunk and disorderly with the judge's wife.

SE PERMUTA: [3711 VHS 105min Spanish subt 1984 dir:Juan Carlos Tabio]
: An opportunistic bureaucrat and an idealistic architect are at odds in a humorous film about housing problems in Cuba.

THE SEA HAWK: [fs 5786 Laser 128min. 1940 b/w dir:Michael Curtiz cast:Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall]; Rafael Sabatini's swashbuckling hero is a privateer in the service of Queen Elizabeth I.

SEA OF LOVE: [fs 3239 VHS113min 1989 dir:Harold Becker cast:Al Pacino; Ellen Barkin]
: A detective dates women who could be murderers to solve the case of a serial killer.

THE SEAGULL (CHAIKA): [ 6471 VHS 100min. 1970 Russian/sub bw dir:Yuli Karasik cast:Alla Demidova, Vladimir Chetverikov]; Anton Chekhov's play looks at a young playwright and two actresses.

SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON: [fs 0589-0590 16mm 115min bw 1964 dir:Bryan Forbes cast:Kim Stanley; Richard Attenborough]
: To bolster her reputation as a psychic, a woman makes her husband kidnap a child so she can reveal the location of the child through a seance.

SEARCH FOR THE GREAT APES: [6413 VHS 0670/71 VHS 52min 1975]
: Documents the efforts of Birute Galdikas-Brindamour to study orangutans in Borneo and Dian Fossey to study gorillas in Africa.

THE SEARCHERS: [fs 3891 VHS 5063 LD 5558 LD 10026 DVD 119min 1956 dir:John Ford cast:John Wayne; Jeffrey Hunter; Vera Miles; Natalie Wood]
: A man's search for a niece kidnapped by Indians.

THE SEASON: [0246 16mm 15min 1968]
: A look at Christmas from the viewpoint of greed.

EL SEBOU: EGYPTIAN BIRTH RITUAL: [1631 VHS 25min 1986 dir:Fadwa El Guindi]
: Documentary about the Egyptian ritual for a newborn marking it as male or female, which blends Islamic and Christian customs.

SECONDARY FLOW: [4473 VHS 30min bw 1968]
: When a fluid is made to follow a curved path some of the fluid will flow in a different direction, such as the inward flow at the bottom of a vortex.

SECONDHAND SMOKE: [2881 VHS 15min 1985]
: Demonstrates to smokers how their habit harms those around them, and urges nonsmokers to defend their right to breathe clean air.

THE SECOND SHEPHERDS' PLAY: [6125 VHS 52min 1988]
: Three critical works of early English drama: the Easter trope Quem quaeritis and two mystery plays. The Brome Abraham and Isaac is performed on a pageant wagon and The Second Shepherds' Play on the moors near Wakefield.

THE SECRET AGENT: [fs 3496 VHS 5256 Laser 9097 DVD 9422 DVD 86min bw 1936 dir:Alfred Hitchcock cast:John Gielgud; Peter Lorre]
: A British agent goes to Switzerland in search of an enemy agent where he and a fellow agent nearly jeopardize the mission when they assassinate the wrong man.

SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR: [6080 VHS 99min bw 1948 dir:Fritz Lang cast:Joan Bennett; Michael Redgrave]
: A psycho-thriller about a husband, obsessed by the connection between architecture and death, who collects rooms where murders have been committed and adds them to his mansion.

SECRET GARDEN (1949): [6833 VHS 5787 Laser 92min bw/color 1949 dir:Fred Wilcox cast:Margaret O'Brien, Dean Stockwell, Herbert Marshall, Gladys Cooper]; Frances Hodgson Burnett's story of little Mary Lenox's garden in Yorkshire.

SECRET GARDEN (1984): [6832 VHS 107min 1984 cast: Sarah Hollis Andrews]; BBC version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic story about Mary Lennox's voyage from India to Yorkshire.

SECRET IN BUBBE'S ATTIC: [JHVC 7168 VHS 43min 1991 ]; A genie in a trunk tells children revved-up Yiddish folktales.

THE SECRET LIFE OF SERGEI EISENSTEIN: [fs 3675 VHS 60min 1985]
: The life and films of the great Russian film director.

THE SECRET OF THE SEXES: [3156 VHS 60min]
: Several noted scientists and psychologists interpret how humans consciously and subconsciously typecast both males and females by our actions towards them.

SECRETS OF A SOUL: [6081 58min bw silent, English intertitles 1925 dir:G.W. Pabst cast:Werner Krauss; Jack Trevor; Ruth Weyher]
: A professor is driven into a state of terror by a dream in which he attempts to stab his wife. Film uses superimpositions, symbolic images and shadows to create a demented world.

SECRETS OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN: [4105 VHS 23min 1993]
: Computer aided archaeology, firearms forensics, and corroboration with Indian art records show that, rather than making a heroic last stand on a hill, Custer's cavalry died in panic and disarray, annihilated by a vastly superior force.

SECRETS OF LOST EMPIRES: COLOSSEUM (NOVA): [6543/VHS 60min 1997]
: Examines two hypotheses about the construction of the roof of the Colosseum.

SECRETS OF LOST EMPIRES: INCA (NOVA): [6544/VHS 60min 1997]
: Attempt to reconstruct the building techniques of the Inca, who built suspension bridges and citadels with no arch, wheel or codified mathematics.

SECRETS OF LOST EMPIRES: PYRAMID (NOVA): [6545 VHs 6541/VHS 60min 1997]
: Examination of pyramid-construction theories by Egyptologist Mark Lehner, stonemason Roger Hopkins (of "This Old House") and a team of Egyptian workers.

SECRETS OF LOST EMPIRES: OBELISK (NOVA): [6547/VHS 60min 1997]
: Engineers, scholars and craftsmen test various theories in an attempt to determine how Egypt's massive obelisks were constructed.

SECRETS OF LOST EMPIRES: STONEHENGE (NOVA): [6546/VHS 60min 1997]
: An archeologist, engineer and stonemason attempt to move, raise and cap a Stonehenge-like structure with only Stone Age tools.

THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI: [fs 6157 VHS 89min Ital subt 1972 dir:Lina Wertmuller cast:Giancarlo Giannini; Mariangela Melato; Agostina Belli]
: Political farce in which a laborer's decision not to vote for the Mafia's candidate results in the loss of his job, his wife and his home.

SEE IT NOW: EGYPT-ISRAEL: [JHVC 7086 VHS 60min 1956 bw ]; Edward R. Murrow offers a view of Israel-Palestinian-Egypt relations in the mid-50s, part of an early television public affairs program.

SEE WHAT I'M SAYING: [4161 VHS 31min 1992]
: Documents the first year of a child at the Kendall Elementary School of Gallaudet University, showing the dramatic difference acquisition of sign language can make for the deaf.

SEEDS OF DESPAIR: [2806 VHS 51min 1984]
: Documentary of the living conditions of the Ethiopian people in 1984.

SEEING RED: [6315 VHS 100min bw & color 1984 dir: James Klein, Julia Reichert]
: Documentary about Americans who embraced communism from the '30s to the 50's. Includes newsreel footage, interviews with Pete Seeger, union organizer Rose Podmaka and others.

SEGMENTS

[fs 3224 VHS dir:Robert Breer]

Animated experimental films.

Recreation [~1.5min 1956]
A Man and His Dog Out for Air [~3min 1957]
69 [~5min 1968]
LMNO [~9.5min 1978]
Fuji [~8.5min 1974]
T.Z. [~8.5min 1979]
Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons [~6min 1980]
Trial Balloons [~5.5min 1982]

THE SELLING OF THE PENTAGON: [0640-0641 16mm 52min bw 1971]
: Looks at the expensive ways the Pentagon tries to sell its mission through public relations campaigns.

THE SELLING OF THE PENTAGON REBUTTAL: [0642 16mm 22min bw 1971]
: Several prominent government officials speak in behalf of the way the Pentagon promotes its mission.

SEND ME NO FLOWERS: [fs 1652-1654 16mm 100min 1964 dir:Norman Jewison cast:Rock Hudson; Doris Day; Tony Randall]
: A hypochondriac, assuming he is dying, tries to find a new husband for his wife.

SENSE & SENSIBILITY: [4711-4712 VHS 174min 1986 dir:Rodney Bennett cast:Irene Richard; Tracey Childs]
: BBC TV production of Jane Austen's first novel, about three sisters whose father has died and left them needing husbands.

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY: [5364 LaserCLV2 136min 1995 dir:Ang Lee cast:Emma Thompson; Alan Rickman; Kate Winslet; Hugh Grant]
: Screenplay by Emma Thompson which won an Academy Award. See above.

SENSORY WORLD: [1461 16mm 8140 VHS 33min 1971]
: Describes by experiment how the senses work.

LA SENTINELLE: [fs9142 DVD 139min 1992 French/sub dir:Arnaud Desplechin cast:Emmanuel Salinger, Thibault de Montalembert]; A med student becomes caretaker of a shrunken human head which holds Secret Service secrets.

LA SÉPARATION: [fs9310 DVD 85min 1994 French/sub dir:Christian Vincent cast:Daniel Auteuil, Isabelle Huppert]; Follows the slow disintegration of a marriage.

SEPHARAD: MUSIC OF THE JEWS FROM SPAIN: [6516 VHS 27min. 1993 v. 2 of a Jewish Music series]; Ladino love songs, lullabies, religious and festival music preserved in the Sephardic diaspora.

SERGEI EISENSTEIN: AUTOBIOGRAPHY: [fs9337 DVD 92min 1996 Russian/sub dir:Oleg Kovalov]; The great Russian director's words reflecting on his life, matched with images of his life and times.

SERIAL: [fs 2185-2186 u-matic 91min 1980 dir:Bill Persky cast:Martin Mull; Tuesday Weld]
: Satire on faddish lifestyles in a California community.

THE SERPENT'S EGG: [ 8098 VHS 119min. 1980 dir:Ingmar Bergman cast:David Carradine, Liv Ullmann]; Berlin, November 1923: Inflation, Hitler, an evil doctor running a mysterious clinic. A Jewish trapeze artist and his sister-in-law are drawn into horror.

SERPICO: [fs 2172-2174 u-matic 130min 1974 dir:Sidney Lumet cast:Al Pacino]
: A New York City cop reveals police corruption and is eventually forced to leave the country.

THE SERVANT: [fs6369 VHS 112min 1963 dir:Joseph Losey cast:Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles]; Harold Pinter screenplay in which a vital servant comes to dominate the effete gentleman who employs him.

SET UP, CARE AND OPERATION OF THE VIDEO TAPE SYSTEM: [2108 u-matic 20min 1974]
: From the Necessary Art Series, produced by 3M Corp.

SEVEN: [fs 5358 LaserCAV4 1995 dir:David Fincher cast:Morgan Freeman; Brad Pitt]
: Two detectives search for a serial killer whose motive and methods are determined by the seven deadly sins.

SEVEN CHANCES: See ART OF BUSTER KEATON Vol.2

SEVEN DAYS IN MAY: [6088 VHS fs 9311 DVD 118min 1963 dir:John Frankenheimer cast:Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Frederic March]; Rod Serling's screenplay, based on the Knebel-Bailey novel, depicting a military coup attempt to take over the U.S. government.

SEVEN SAMURAI: [fs 5078 Laser 3925-3926 VHS 9136 DVD 208min bw Japanese subt 1957 dir:Akira Kurosawa cast:Toshiro Mifune]
: In 16th-century Japan a little farming community hires seven unemployed samurai to defend it from bandits.

SEVEN WAYS TO KILL THE SUWANNEE: [2109 u-matic 52min 1982]
: Documents the several ways in which the quality of the Suwannee River is threatened.

SEVEN WOMEN SEVEN SINS: [4283 VHS 101min 1986]
: Seven female filmmakers each make a short film on a vice: gluttony - Helke Sander; greed - Bette Gordon; anger - Maxi Cohen; sloth - Chantal Akerman; lust - Valie Export; envy - Laurence Gavron; pride - Ulrike Ottinger.

THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH: [fs 3978 VHS 105min 1955 dir:Billy Wilder cast:Tom Ewell; Marilyn Monroe]
: A husband of seven years, alone in New York while his family vacations, fantasizes an affair with the television model in the upstairs apartment.

THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (DER SIEBENTE KONTINENT): [6109 VHS 111min German subt 1989 dir:Michael Haneke cast:Dieter Berner; Birgit Doll]
: Based on a true story. An utterly conventional family descends into despair and joint suicide.

THE SEVENTH CROSS: [fs 6723VHS 112min bw 1944 dir:Fred Zinneman cast:Spencer Tracy; Signe Hasso; Hume Cronyn; Jessica Tandy]; Tracy, an escapee from a Nazi concentration camp, is assisted by stranger after stranger while trying to elude the Gestapo.

THE SEVENTH SEAL: [fs 1130-1132 16mm 3844 VHS 9562 DVD 96min bw Swedish subt 1956 dir:Ingmar Bergman cast:Max von Sydow]
: A disillusioned knight, returning home from the Crusades, tries to solve the mysteries of life while playing a game of chess with Death.

Seventh Victim: fs 5487LD; See VAL LEWTON COLLECTION

SEX AND THE CITY: The Complete First Season: [fs9339 DVD 300min 1998 cast:Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall]; HBO TV series about beautiful and prosperous New York City women.

SEX FOR SALE: [0812 16mm 8141 VHS 45min 1977]
: Four documentary segments on how commerce in sex such as pornography and prostitution are damaging the fabric of society.

SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE: [fs 5106 LaserCLV1 101min 1989 dir:Steven Soderbergh cast:James Spader; Andie MacDowell]
: A lawyer turns to his wife's sister for sex, while his frigid wife finds warmth from her husband's friend.

SEX ROLE DEVELOPMENT: [2846 VHS 23min 1974]
: Examines the influence that sex roles and stereotypes have on almost every facet of people's lives.

SGT. BILKO

[fs 6743-44 VHS bw 50min 1955 cast:Phil Silvers]

Television series episodes.

[6743] Vol. 1: Includes "The New Recruits" and "A Mess Sergeant Can't Win."
[6744] Vol. 2: Includes "Sgt. Bilko Presents Bing Crosby" and "The Face on the Recruiting Poster."

SHADOW OF A DOUBT: [fs 1441-1442 16mm 2963 VHS 5064 LaserCLV1 9628 DVD 108min bw 1943 dir:Alfred Hitchcock cast:Joseph Cotten; Teresa Wright]
: A young woman slowly comes to realize her beloved uncle is really the "Merry Widow" murderer.

SHADOW OF ANGELS (SCHATTEN DER ENGEL): [6082 103min German/sub 1976 dir:Daniel Schmid cast:Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Ingrid Caven]
: Film adaptation of Fassbinder's play The Garbage, the City and Death. A businessman and prostitute, whom he hires to listen to him, both find themselves out of place in an unsavory milieu.

Shadow of the Thin Man: fs 5191LD; See THE THIN MAN COLLECTION

A SHADOW YOU SOON WILL BE (UNA SOMBRA YA PRONTO SERAS): [6954 VHS 105min 1994 Spanish/sub dir:Hector Olivera cast:MIguel Angel Sola, Pepe Soriano]; Osvaldo Soriano's allegorical novel of Argentine society: a computer programmer is stranded in remote margins of Argentina.

SHADOWLANDS: [fs 4421 VHS 92min 1985 dir:Norman Stone cast:Joss Ackland; Claire Bloom]
: The marriage of C. S. Lewis - a long-time bachelor - to an American divorcee was begun in secrecy as a legal convenience but ended in true love.

SHADOWS: See OUTSIDE THE LAW.

SHADOWS AND FOG: [fs 4357 VHS 86min bw 1992 dir:Woody Allen cast:Woody Allen; Kathy Bates; John Cusack]
: In a European town in the 1920s a man is caught between a strangler stalking the night and vigilantes after the strangler.

SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (TINI ZABUTYKH PREDKIV; WILD HORSES OF FIRE): [ 6468 VHS 99min. 1964 Ukranian/sub dir:Sergo Paradjanov cast:Ivan Mikolaichuk, Larisa Kadochnikova]; In medieval Carpathia, a man is torn between his dead first love and his wife.

SHAFT: [fs 5556Laser 1971 100min dir:Gordon Parks cast:Richard Roundtree; Moses Gunn]; Isaac Hayes' musical score was nominated for an Oscar. Detective movie set in Harlem and Little Italy.

THE SHAKERS: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (KEN BURNS' AMERICA): [fs 8029 VHS 58min. 1989 dir:Ken Burns]; Documentary about this American Christian religious movement's 200-year history.

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE: [fs9187 DVD 122min 1998 dir:John Madden cast:Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush]; Tom Stoppard's script tells how Will wrote Romeo and Juliet instead of Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter.

SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE THEATRE RESTORED: MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING: [6898 VHS 30min 1998 ]; Documents the restoration of the old Globe Theater in London.

SHALL WE DANCE: [fs 0919-0920 16mm 3368 VHS 116min bw 1937 dir:Mark Sandrich cast:Fred Astaire; Ginger Rogers]
: A ballet dancer and a show dancer must marry so they can stop rumors by getting divorced, in this Gershwin musical. See also fs 5353LD THE FRED ASTAIRE AND GINGER ROGERS COLLECTION

SHALOM SHABBAT: [JHVC 7180 VHS 45min 1994 English/Hebrew cast:Chaim Topol and Hanny Nachmias]; Clay animation, English dialogue, and Hebrew songs.

SHALOM SESAME

[JHVC 7169-79 VHS 35min ea. 1986 English/Hebrew cast:Bonnie Franklin, Itzak Perlman]

Sesame Street goes to Israel.

The Land of Israel. [7169]

Tel Aviv. [7170]

Kibbutz [7171]

People of Israel. [7172]

Jerusalem [7173]

Chanukah. [7174]

Sing Around the Seasons. [7175]

Journey to Secret Places. [7176]

Aleph-Bet Telethon. [7177]

Passover. [7178]

Kids Sing Israel. [7179]

SHAME: [fs 0607-0609 16mm 102min bw Swedish subt 1969 dir:Ingmar Bergman cast:Liv Ullmann; Max von Sydow]
: A married couple who are concert violinists are morally challenged by a civil war in their country.

SHANE: [fs 3828 VHS 5187 Laser 9469 DVD 117min 1952 dir:George Stevens cast:Alan Ladd; Jean Arthur; Jack Palance]
: Former gunfighter comes to the aid of homesteader family and is idolized by their son.

SHANGHAI EXPRESS: [fs 4318 VHS 5170B LaserCLV1 82min bw 1932 dir:Josef von Sternberg cast:Marlene Dietrich; Clive Brook]
: A notorious woman and her ex-lover are captured by rebel forces on a train journey from Beijing to Shanghai.

SHANGHAI GESTURE: [fs 2774 VHS 106min bw 1941 dir:Josef von Sternberg cast:Gene Tierney; Walter Huston; Victor Mature]
: The proprietress of a Shanghai gambling casino taunts her ex-husband by showing him his daughter in a state of degradation.

SHANGHAIED TEXT: [fs6605 VHS 20min 1999 dir:Ken Kobland]; Landscapes and faces of Shanghai now and then (no dialogue).

THE SHAPING OF THE WESTERN WORLD-- BISMARCK: GERMANY FROM BLOOD AND IRON: [6793VHS 30min]; Traces the creation of modern Germany. Bismarck relates, in a series of flashbacks, the steps which led to unification.

THE SHAPING OF THE WESTERN WORLD-- FRENCH REVOLUTION: THE TERROR: [6794VHS 19min]; France from 1791 to 1794, focusing on Robespierre, concluding with a look at present-day totalitarian governments.

SHARING IS UNITY: Ushirika Ni Umoja: [1601 VHS 22min Kiswahili 1983 dir:Ron Mulvihill]
: Shows the distribution of work in an African village. No English, spoken or subtitled.

SHARK RIVER: [fs 2844 VHS 80min 1953 dir:John Rawlins cast:Steve Cochran; Carole Mathews; Warren Stevens]
: A Civil War veteran and his friend battle the Florida wilderness on their way to Cuba.

SHATRANJ KE KILARI (THE CHESS PLAYERS): [6579 VHS Urdu languge sub 1977 dir:Satyajit Ray]; Period drama about colonialism and indigenous culture set in 1856 at the court of Wojil Ali Shah in Lucknow, India.

SHATTERED: [2721 VHS 62min bw silent 1921 dir:Lupu Pick]
: A young woman is seduced by a man without honor, leading her mother to suicide, her father to murder, and herself to madness.

SHATTERING THE SILENCES: THE CASE FOR MINORITY FACULTY: [ 8099 VHS 86min. 1997 dir:Stanley Nelson, Gail Pellett]; As Affirmative Action dissolves, we watch 8 culturally diverse university professors teaching and working.

SHE: [fs 3810 VHS 22min bw silent 1914]
: A sorceress, granted eternal youth by a flame from the earth, steals the life of an Egyptian priest and is avenged two thousand years later by his descendant.

SHE: [fs 5335 LaserCLV1 94min bw 1935 dirs:Irving Pichel; Lansing C. Holden cast:Helen Gahagan; Randolph Scott]
: Lavish film version of the novel by H. Rider Haggard about a secret underground kingdom ruled over by a woman kept young by an "eternal flame."

SHE AND HE: [fs 2901 VHS 110min bw Japanese subt 1963 dir:Susumu Hani cast:Sachiko Hiodari; Eiji Okada; Kiuji Yamashita]
: A lonely wife befriends a ragpicker and a blind girl.

SHE DON'T FADE: [fs 4571 VHS 24min bw 1991 dir:Cheryl Dunye]
: A lesbian love story.

SHE MUST BE SEEING THINGS: [fs 4844 VHS 94min 1988 dir:Sheila McLaughlin cast:Sheila Dabney; Lois Weaver]
: One of two career women in a lesbian relationship disguises herself as a man in order to spy on her partner.

SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON: [fs 3849 VHS 103min 1949 dir:John Ford cast:John Wayne; Joanne Dru; John Agar]
: A cavalry officer must face one more battle with the Indians, before he retires from the army. See also fs 5483LD JOHN WAYNE RKO COLLECTION

THE SHEEP HAS FIVE LEGS: [6427 VHS fs 0659-0660 16mm 94min bw French subt 1953 dir:Henri Vernueil cast:Fernandel; Delmont]
: A town seeking publicity tries to bring together the quintuplet grandsons of its oldest citizen - all played by Fernandel.

SHEREA: Settlement of Disputes by the Permanent Chief: [0574 VHS 23min bw 1975 dir:Emile & Els van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal]
: An Anufo chief in Mango, North Togo, settles a dispute between a husband and wife.

SHERLOCK HOLMES (Jeremy Brett): See ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES and THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON: [fs9312 DVD 68min 1942 b/w dir:Roy William Neill cast:Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce]; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective faces off against Moriarty, who is now working for the Nazis. Includes 4 hours of radio broadcasts of Holmes adventures.

SHERLOCK HOLMES: DRESSED TO KILL: [fs9313 DVD 72min 1946 b/w dir:Roy William Neill cast:Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce]; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective discovers why the owners of certain musicboxes are being murdered. Includes 4 hours of radio broadcasts of Holmes adventures.

SHERLOCK HOLMES: TERROR BY NIGHT: [fs9314 DVD 54min 1946 b/w dir:Roy William Neill cast:Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce]; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective guards a diamond on a London-Edinburgh bullet train.Includes 4 hours of radio broadcasts of Holmes adventures.

SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE WOMAN IN GREEN: [fs9315 DVD 68min 1945 b/w dir:Roy William Neill cast:Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Henry Daniell]; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective traces a series of women's deaths and a hypnotist society to Moriarty. Includes 4 hours of radio broadcasts of Holmes adventures.

SHERLOCK JR.: See ART OF BUSTER KEATON Vol.1 (LD) or OUR HOSPITALITY/SHERLOCK JR. (DVD)

SHERMAN'S MARCH: [fs 1731-1735 16mm 3145 VHS 155min 1985 dir:Ross McElwee]
: Documentary-style film retraces Sherman's Civil War route while examining the mystique of Southern womanhood.

SHIFTING SANDS: [fs 3586 VHS 60min bw silent 1918 dir:Albert Parker cast:Gloria Swanson]
: Good girl from the wrong side of the tracks marries wealth but has her happiness threatened by counterfeiters.

SHIN HEIKI MONOGATARI: See TAIRA CLAN SAGA

SHINE: [fs5645 Laser 105 min 1996 dir:Scott Hicks cast:Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Lynn Redgrave]; Australian wunderkind pianist David Helfgott survives a cruel and tragic father, Rach 3, and an asylum.

SHINEL: See THE OVERCOAT

THE SHINING: [fs9234 DVD 119min 1980 dir:Stanley Kubrick cast:Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall]; Stephen King's novel in which a writer turns into a monster in an off- season hotel.

SHINOBI 1: The Secret of the Ninja: [fs 6032 VHS 105min bw Japanese subt 1962 dir:Satsuo Yamamoto cast:Raizo Ichikawa]
: A young ninja must rescue his fiancée from a cruel warlord. First of a series.

SHINTO: Nature, Gods, and Man in Japan: [1593 VHS 49min 1977]
: Traces the development of the Shinto religion and shows the reconstruction of a shrine according to ancient Shinto documents.

SHIRIM K'TANIM: HEBREW SONGS FOR CHILDREN: [JHVC 7181-88 VHS 45min/ea 1995 cast:Uzi Chitman]; English/Hebrew

SHOAH: [7206-7210 VHS JHVC 7191-7194 570min 1985 dir:Claude Lanzmann renumbered 1/2000]
: A monumental documentary on the Holocaust, primarily composed of persistent interviews of people involved on all sides.

SHOCK CORRIDOR: [fs 5114 Laser 9104 DVD 9586 DVD 101min bw 1963 dir:Samuel Fuller cast:Peter Breck; Constance Towers]
: A newspaper reporter, in order to investigate a murder in a state mental institution, has himself committed.

SHOCK OF THE NEW

[fs 16mm VHS 52min each 1980]

A series on modern art and architecture.

1. The Mechanical Paradise: [1536-1537 4359] Covers the period of 1870 to 1914.A major influence on art was the romance of machinery.
2. The Powers That Be: [1538-1539 4360] The result of World War I was to send many artists into revolt.
3. The Landscape of Pleasure: [1540-1541 4361] The impressionists celebrated the pleasure of light and color.
4. Trouble in Utopia: [1542-1543 4362] Architects attempted to design culture through their buildings and city plans.
5. The Threshold of Liberty: [1544-1545 4363] Surrealism reached for a liberation of the mind and senses.
6. The View from the Edge: [1546-1547 4364] Mythic/religious art retreated in the wake of the photographed horror of World War II.
7. Culture As Nature: [1548-1549 4365] Some art made comments on modern culture, from Dada to Pop Art.
8. The Future That Was: [1550-1551 4366] A discussion of current trends.

THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN: [fs 5788 Laser 167min. 1968 dir:Michael Anderson cast:Anthony quinn, Laurence Olivier]; Morris West novel posits the election of Pope Kyril I, a Russian pope in the Cold War years.

SHOESHINE: [fs 3764 VHS 93min Italian subt 1946 dir:Vittorio De Sica]
: Two boys, to survive in postwar Italy, get involved in the black market and are sent to reform school.

SHOOT THE MOON: [fs 5789 Laser 124min. 1981 dir:Alan Parker cast:Albert Finney, Diane Keaton, Dana Hill]; A California couple separates and divorces, painfully for themselves and their four children.

SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (TIREZ SUR LE PIANISTE): [fs 0621-0623 16mm 5084 Laser 2547 VHS 9188 DVD 84min bw French subt 1960 dir:François Truffaut cast:Charles Aznavour]
: A piano player in a Paris cafe, once a concert pianist, becomes involved with gangsters.

SHOOT TO KILL: [4216 VHS 90min Spanish subt 1990 dir:Carkis Azpurua]
: A mother wages a long campaign in Venezuela to prove that her son was innocent and was murdered by the police.

THE SHOOTIST: [fs 2506 VHS 100min 1976 dir:Don Siegel cast:John Wayne; Lauren Bacall; James Stewart]
: A legendary gunfighter, terminally ill with cancer, tries to die in peace, but can't escape his reputation.

THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER: [fs 3422 VHS 5432 LD 97min bw 1940 dir:Ernst Lubitsch cast:James Stewart; Margaret Sullavan; Frank Morgan]
: Coworkers in a Budapest notions shop don't realize they are lonelyhearts penpals.

THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET: [fs 3373 VHS JHVC 7121 VHS 126min bw Czech subt 1965 dirs:Jan Kadar; Elmar Klos]
: During the German invasion of Czechoslovakia, a well-meaning carpenter tries to shield an old Jewish lady, but his own rough treatment kills her.

SHORT cinema journal

[fs DVD 1997]

"A magazine of award-winning short films with endings that are rarely decided by focus groups." Issues after 1.3 listed separately as SHORT, the magazine's new name.
1:1 [9038]

Mr. Resistor (4)
Big Story (5)
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (7)See also SOME FOLKS CALL IT A SLING BLADE and SLING BLADE.
Black Rider (8)
Trouble (9)
Michael Apted (11)
Baraka (12)
This Unfamiliar Place (14)
Goreville U.S.A. (15)
Henry Rollins - Easter Sunday in N.Y.C. (17)
John Lee Hooker - Performance & Interview (19)
Quisling & Tsai (21)
Shape Without Form (23)

SHORT CINEMA JOURNAL 1:2 [9039]

Café Bar (4)
Bride of Resistor (5)
A Girl's Own Story (7)
Depth Solitude (8)
A Guy Walks Into a Bar (9)
George Hickenlooper (11)
Vincent: The Junkie Chronicles (13)
The Big Brass Ring (15)
La Jetée (17)
Eye Like a Strange Balloon (18)
Commercials (20)

Side 2 - The Making of Portrait of a Lady

SHORT CINEMA JOURNAL 1:3 [10025]

Flying Over Mother, Michael James Rowland;
Os Camaradas, Bruno de Andres;
Joe, Sasha Wolf;
The Whites, Natasha Uppal: Dada, Piet Kroon;
Night and Fog, Alain Resais;
AFI chapter essay.

SHORT 4: SEDUCTION: [fs9334 DVD 6-12min dirs:S. Edlestein, P. Serrazina, M. O. Ulrichsen, R. Wallace, D. Nichol, D. Hertzfeldt, P. Kroon, M. sugano, J. Boxer]; 9 short films: Anticipating Sarah, Tale About the Cat and the Moon, Kom, Tunnel of Love, This is Hardcore, Lily and Jim, T.R.A.N.S.I.T., Hisao, The Last Supper.

SHORT 5: DIVERSITY: [fs9316 DVD 3-20min ]; 6 short films: Silent Rain in the Ninth (J. Rosenberg), Multi-Facial (V. Diesel), Buy My Film (J. Schnall), That Strange Person (E. O'Meara), The Job (A. Fiedler), Sound Bit (E. Friedlander).

SHORT 6: INSANITY: [fs 9356 DVD 9592 DVD 3-20min dirs: Amy Winfrey, David Birdsell, Don Hertzfeldt, Everardo Valerio Gout, Brendan Kelly, Dirk Beilien, Bob Judd, John McCloskey, Joel Bajrech]; 9 short films including: The Bad Plant, Blue City, Billy's Balloon, El Banquette, Franky Goes to Hollywood, Black Coffee, Bovine Vendetta, Midnight Dance, and 60 Channels.

SHORT 7: UTOPIA: [fs9317 DVD 2-15min dirs.: M. Osborne, E. Paesel, F. Chindamo, L. Beauchamp, Young Man Kang, J. Stearns, S. Fiennes, E. & L. Gout]; 9 short films: More, Zoltar from Zoran, The Bar Channel, Lion and the Lamb, Images of Korea, Amplified Man, Lars from I-10, Sam L. Grogg on Utopia, Superstition; also "Junkdrawer."

SHORT 8: VISION: [fs9318 DVD 3-18min dirs: G. Vikene, C. Stone, Chi Chi Zhang, A. Talkington, L. Reifenstahl, J. Stearns, A. Hiu-Fan Chau, G. Bijelonic]; 8 short films: Cinema Ticket, true., Sky Above Heaven Below, Number One Fan, Tag der Freiheit, Why Liberace?, Kite, Serpent and the Sandman.

SHORT 9: TRUST: [fs9372 DVD 6-28min. 11 short films]; CLOWN CAR, Garrett, LOVE BITES, Horowtiz & Tseng; SIDEWALKERS, Veneruso; MY BEAUTIFUL ME, Pi Wara; MAESTRO, Berger; BLOODLOCK, Edgerton & Darcy-Smith; TINY SUNBATHERS, Boulanger & Koscielniak; THE RAVEN (DER RABE), Hannes Rall; ALTERNATIVE HEAD, Koci;

SHORT CUTS: [fs5636 LD 183min. 1993 dir:Robert Altman]; Nine stories and a poem by Raymond Carver inspire this mosaic of Los Angeles middle-class anomie. Large and remarkable cast.

A SHOT IN THE DARK: [fs 9137DVD 112min 1964 dir:Blake Edwards cast:Peter Sellers; Elke Sommer]; Inspector Clouseau is assigned to a high-prestige case in which a millionaire's chauffeur has been murdered.

SHOULDER ARMS: [fs 0850 16mm 30min bw 1918 cast:Charlie Chaplin]
: See also CHAPLIN REVUE

SHOULDER TO SHOULDER

[VHS 58min each 1974]

Biographical-historical series on female suffrage in Britain.

LADY CONSTANCE LYTTON [4508]
OUTRAGE [4509]
SYLVIA PANKHURST [4510]

Show of Shows: fs 5426LD; See DAWN OF SOUND I

THE SHOW OFF: [ 6447 VHS 82min. 1926 b/w silent dir:Malcolm St. Clair cast:Ford STerling, Lois Wilson, Louise Brooks]; A braggart wins a wife but nearly ruins the lives of those he cares about. Shot in Philadelphia.

SHOW PEOPLE: [fs 5790 Laser 78min. 1928 b/w silent dir:King Vidor cast:Marion Davies, William Haines]; Peggy Pepper, star of custard-pie comedies, wants to be a serious Hollywood actress.

SHOWBOAT: [fs 5108 LaserCLV1 110min bw 1936 dir:James Whale cast:Irene Dunne; Allan Jones; Charles Winninger; Paul Robeson]
: Filmed version of the stage musical by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern and the novel by Edna Ferber.

SHOWDOWN IN HAITI: [3139 VHS 57min 1994]
: A PBS Frontline documentary on recent events in the situation in Haiti which interviews the leaders involved and examines U.S. foreign policy on Haiti.

SHTETL: [4973-4974 VHS 173min 1996]
: A holocaust survivor travels to Bransk, Poland to discover his roots and the history of Jews in the village before and after World War II.

SIBERIADE: [4751-4752 VHS 206min Russian subt 1979 dir:Andrei Konchalovsky cast:Nikita Mikhalkov]
: Historical epic spanning six decades in the lives of two Siberian families.

SIEGE: [3688 VHS JHVC 7087 VHS 95min bw Hebrew subt 1970 dir:Gilberto Tofano]
: An Israeli woman who loses her husband in the Six-Day War feels imprisoned by widowhood.

SIEGFRIED: [fs 0277-0278 16mm 3432 VHS 100min bw silent 1924 dir:Fritz Lang]
: A hero of Teutonic myth is brought down by the powers of darkness.

SIGNALS FOR SURVIVAL: [0627-0628 16mm 4429 VHS 51min 1970]
: A documentary made from the photographic records of Niko Tinbergen on the methods of communication of a species of gulls.

LA SIGNORA DI TUTTI: [fs 3054 VHS 89min Italian subt 1934 dir:Max Ophuls cast:Isa Miranda; Memo Benassi]
: A famous actress, after a suicide attempt, recounts a past with too many destructive love affairs.

SIGNS OF LIFE: [fs 4563 VHS 90min bwGerman subt 1968 dir:Werner Herzog cast:Peter Brogle; Wolfgang Reichman]
: German soldiers guard an island munitions dump as World War II windsdown, and then one of them goes insane.

LA SILENCE DE LA MER: [fs 6035 VHS 86min French subt 1947 dir:Jean-Pierre Melville cast:Howard Vernon; Jean-Maris Robian; Nicole Stéphane]
: A sympathetic German soldier, on the verge of making friends in a French village, is ordered to the eastern front.

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS: [fs 5312 LaserCLV1 118min 1991 dir:Jonathan Demme cast:Jodie Foster; Anthony Hopkins]
: A rookie female FBI agent is chosen to try to enlist the help of a psychotic psychologist in finding another deranged killer.

SILENT ENEMY: [4000 VHS 110min bw silent 1930]
: Documentary about how civilization is changing the ways of life of an Indian tribe.

SILENT EXPLOSION: [4790 VHS 23min 199?]
: The Population Institure describes the scope, consequences, and possible solutions to uncontrolled population growth in third-world countries.

SILENT MOVIES.. JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT

[fs 3574 VHS 56m total, bw silent]

The Iron Mule: [~16min 1925] A humorous ride on a rural railroad circa 1830.
For Sadie's Sake: [~17min 1926] A farmer delivering livestock to town gets involved in a vaudeville production.
Hazel From Hollywood: [~23min 1918] A waitress at a studio commissary finds adventure on various sets.

SILENT SHAKESPEARE: [fs3179 VHS 9423 DVD 88min 1899-1911 bw, silent cast:Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Francesca Bertini, Sir Frank Benson]; Digitally restored, some color prints, of mostly British and Italian films of King John, Tempest, Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Merchant of Venice, and Richard III.

THE SILK ROAD: [fs4774 VHS 99min 1988 Japanese/sub dir:Junya Sato cast:Koichi Sato]; China, 1026: a student becomes a warrior and loves a princess who is loved by a prince.

SILKWOOD: [fs 3895 VHS 6697 VHS 9189 DVD 131min 1983 dir:Mike Nichols cast:Meryl Streep; Kurt Russell; Cher]
: Dramatization of Karen Silkwood's problems at a nuclear materials plant and her mysterious death.

SILVER RIVER: [fs 4037 VHS 110min bw 1948 dir:Raoul Walsh cast:Errol Flynn; Ann Sheridan]
: An army officer, embittered by unfair treatment during the Civil War, heads West to amass a fortune.

SIMÓN BOLÍVAR: The Great Liberator: [3146 VHS 58min 1985]
: Documentary biography of the life of Simón Bolívar.

SIMON OF THE DESERT (SIMÓN DEL DESIERTO): [fs 0374 16mm 2907 VHS 43min bw Spanish subt 1965 dir:Luis Buñuel]
: Buñuel's version of the story of St. Simon who lived atop a pillar in the desert to be closer to God and further from temptation.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR: [4798 VHS 6817 VHS 110min 1982 French Language/sub dir:Josée Dayan and Malka Robowska]; The author and activist discusses her life in documented interviews; includes a conversation with Sartre and discussion of Camus.

SIMPLE MEN: [fs 8069 VHS 105min. 1992 dir:Hal Hartley cast:Robert Burke, William Sage]; Two brothers search Long Island for their father, a former baseball player and anarchist/terrorist.

A SIMPLE PLAN: [fs9190 DVD 121min 1998 dir:Sam Raimi cast:Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda]; Three men find a fortune in the woods and plan to secure it for themselves.

SIMPLEMENTE JENNY: [0973 VHS 33min English and Spanish/sub 1975]
: Documentary examines fantasies of the feminine in several Latin American societies, touched by colonialism, religion, and modern commercial culture. Focuses on girls in a Bolivian reform school, a mother in Mexico, an activist in Argentina.

SINBAD: [fs 2898 VHS 98min Hungarian subt 1970 dir:Zolan Huszariik]
: A painterly evocation of memories of love affairs by an aged Don Juan, set at the turn of the century.

SINCE YOU WENT AWAY: [fs 3387-3388 VHS 5061 LaserCLV2 172min bw 1944 dir:John Cromwell cast:Claudette Colbert; Jennifer Jones; Joseph Cotten]
: A family endures World War II with many tragedies.

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN: [fs 1506-1508 16mm 2971 VHS 5129 LaserCLV1 102min 1952 dirs:Gene Kelly; Stanley Donen cast:Gene Kelly; Debbie Reynolds; Donald O'Connor]
: When talkies are invented, the reputation of one female star fades while another blossoms.

THE SINGING BLACKSMITH: [fs 4793 VHS 96min bw Yiddish subt 1937 dir:Edgar G. Ulmer cast:Moishe Oysher; Miriam Riselle]
: A blacksmith who likes women and liquor too much meets the woman to make him change his ways - maybe.

THE SINGING FOOL: [fs 6104 VHS 101min bw 1928 dir:Lloyd Bacon cast:Al Jolson; Betty Bronson]
: A singing waiter makes it to Broadway but suffers family tragedy along the way. See also fs 5265LD AL JOLSON COLLECTION

Singing Kid: fs 5265LD; See AL JOLSON COLLECTION

A SINGING STREAM: A Black Family Chronicle: [3190 VHS 57min 1987]
: Documentary on the tradition of gospel music within a black Southern family, from the 1930's to the present.

A SINGLE GIRL (LA FILLE SEULE): [6111 VHS fs9371 DVD 90min. 1995 French/sub dir:Benoît Jacquot cast:Virginie Ledoyen; Benoît Magimel]; Chronicles a day in the life of a young Parisian woman who reveals to her boyfriend that she is pregnant.

THE SINGLE STANDARD: [fs 3551 VHS 5791 Laser 72min bw silent 1929 dir:John S. Robertson cast:Greta Garbo; John Mack Brown]
: A free-spirited young woman rebels against an era that condones men's amorous dalliances and condemns women for doing same.

SINGLE WHITE FEMALE: [fs 5318 LaserCLV1 107min 1992 dir:Barbet Schroeder cast:Bridget Fonda; Jennifer Jason Leigh]
: A young woman's new roommate turns out to be a psychotic who wants to take over her life and become her twin sister.

SINK OR SWIM: [fs6370 VHS 48min 1990 bw dir:Su Friedrich]; Autobiographical film combining home movies, old TV, and other documents to tell of a father-daughter relationship.

SISTERS IN THE LIFE: First Love: [fs 4572 VHS 22min 1993 dir:Yvonne Welbon]
: A black woman reminisces about her first feelings of love for another girl in high school, and talks with her current female lover.

SISTERS OF GION: [fs 2843 VHS 66min bw Japanese subt 1936 dir:Kenji Mizoguchi cast:Yoko Umemura; Isuzu Yamada]
: Two geisha sisters cope with life in a male-dominated society.

SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION: [fs9424 DVD 112min. 1993 dir:Fred Schepisi cast:Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland, Will Smith]; John Guare's play about wealthy Manhattanites looking for a connection to authenticity, that is, Sidney Poitier.

SIX FOIS DEUX / Sur et Sous la Communications

[u-matic 50min each French w/English voice-over 1976]

In this television series, Jean-Luc Godard analyzes television and communication in relationship to society, family, and the individual, pairing six interviews on work and leisure with visual essays.

Personne [2010]
Louison [2011]
Leçons de Choses [2012]
Jean-Luc [2013]
Photos et Cie [2014]
Marcel [2015]
Pas D'Histoire [2016]
Nanas [2017]
Nous Trois [2018]
René [2019]
Avant et Après [2020]
Jacqeline et Ludovic [2021]

SIX IN PARIS

[fs 4173 VHS 93min total French subt 1965]

A collection of six short films by French New Wave directors.

Saint Germain des Pres: [18min dir:Jean Douchet] An American art student gets wise to young Frenchmen.
Gare du Nord: [16min dir:Jean Rouch] A discontented housewife witnesses the suicide of a would-be lover.
Rue Saint Denis: [12min dir:Jean-Daniel Pollet] A hooker visits the apartment of a bashful dishwasher.
Place de L'Etoile: [15min dir:Eric Rohmer] A timid store clerk thinks he has killed a thief.
Montparnasse et Levallois: [14min dir:Jean-Luc Godard] A young woman sends the wrong letters to her two boyfriends.
La Muette: [15min dir:Claude Chabrol] A boy finds a way to ignore his obnoxious parents.

SIX SHORT FILMS OF LES BLANK

[fs 4002 VHS 83min 1960-85 dir:Les Blank]

Cigarette Blues [~5min]
Chicken Real [~3min]
The Sun's Gonna Shine [~10min]
God Respects Us When We Work, but Loves Us When We Dance [~10min]
Dizzie Gillespie (bw) [~24min]
Running Around Like a Chicken with Its Head Cut Off (bw)

THE SIXTIES: [0247 16mm 15min 1970]
: An overview of events in the 1960s culled from CBS news footage.

DET SJUNDE INSEGLET: See THE SEVENTH SEAL.

SKIN GAME: [fs 3489 VHS 102min 1971 dir:Paul Bogart cast:James Garner; Louis Gossett; Susan Clark]
: Before the Civil War, a white man repeatedly sells his "slave" and helps him escape.

THE SKIN GAME: [fs 4615 VHS 88min bw 1931 dir:Alfred Hitchcock cast:Edmund Gwenn; Phyllis Konstam]
: Based on a John Galsworthy play in which a pottery manufacturer's plans for expansion are thwarted when he is blackmailed.

SKRIVÁNCI NA NITI: See LARKS ON A STRING.

SKYJACKED: [fs 5792 Laser 100min. 1972 dir:John Guillermin cast:Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux]; Who has the bomb aboard the Boeing 707 passenger flight to Alaska?

SKYSCRAPER SOULS: [fs 4092 VHS 99min bw 1932 dir:Edgar Selwyn cast:Warren William; Maureen O'Sullivan]
: A ruthless businessman manipulates stock prices and people to gain control of a skyscraper. See also fs 5419LD FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD COLLECTION

SLASH AND BURN AGRICULTURE: [0500 VHS 16min 1975]
: Shows this primitive method of farming in the tropics as practised by the Mesquito Indians of Nicaragua.

SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE: [fs6821 VHS 104min. 1972 dir:George Roy Hill cast:Michael Sacks, Ron Liebman, Valerie Perrine]; Film of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s novel. Billy Pilgrim wanders from WWII camps to the planet Tralfamadore to a honeymoon with a rich wife.

SLEEPER: [fs9373 DVD 87min. 1973 dir:Woody Allen cast:Allen, Diane Keaton]; Cryogenically frozen nebbish wakes up in a pallid future and leads a revolution.

SLEEPING BEAUTY: [fs5637 LD 75min. 1959 Walt Disney; also Grof‚'s Grand Canyon Suite and The Peter Tchaikovsky Story]; Animated version of the Grimms' fairy tale, via Tchiakowsky, of Aurora, the cruel witch, and the prince who rescues his Briar Rose. Deluxe edition; Side 4 includes the Grof‚ music with a filmed tour of the Grand Canyon, and a Disneyland TV special.

SLEEPING BEAUTY SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL: [fs5638 LD 50min. 1959; color/bw Walt Disney]; Making of the animated film, including storyboards, character design, and a Mickey Mouse Club segment; also trailers, restoration information, etc.

SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY: [fs 4845 VHS 99min 1991 dir:Joseph Ruben cast:Julia Roberts; Patrick Bergin]
: A woman fakes death to escape her psychotic husband.

SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE: [fs 5313 LaserCLV1 105min 1993 dir:Nora Ephron cast:Tom Hanks; Meg Ryan]
: The son of a recently widowed man calls a radio psychologist, prompting offers from all over the country from women to meet his father.

SLEUTH: [fs 1933 16mm 9min bw silent cast:Stan Laurel]
: A detective hired to spy on a woman's husband uses disguises, including feminine attire.

SLING BLADE: [fs5409 LD 135min. 1996 dir: Billy Bob Thornton cast:Thornton, Dwight Yoakum, John Ritter]; A released mental patient who had killed his mother and her lover returns to his hometown. See also SOME FOLKS CALL IT A SLING BLADE.

SLIPPING WIVES: [fs 1860 16mm 20min bw silent 1927 dir:Fred L. Guiol cast:Priscilla Dean; Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy]
: A wife tries to make her husband jealous by hiring Laurel to make passes at her.

THE SLUM HEART OF JACKSONVILLE: [1992 VHS 10min bw 1950]
: Documentary urges "us" to take advantage of federal Slum Clearance funds to raze the unsanitary dwellings of "those not able to help themselves" and move these people into housing projects. Poor quality video.

SMALL CHANGE (L'ARGENT DE POCHE): [fs 5370 LaserCLV1 105min French/sub 1976 dir:François Truffaut]
: Vignettes of a few weeks in the lives of the children in a small French town.

SMALL TOWN GIRL: [fs 5793 Laser 93min. 1953 dir:Leslie Kardos cast:Jane Powell, Farley Granger, Ann Miller]; Busby Berkeley choreography as a judge's daughter aids the escape of a New York boy from jail (for a speeding ticket).

SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT: [fs 3950 VHS 5158 LaserCLV1 108min bw Swedish subt 1957 dir:Ingmar Bergman]
: Romantic comedy of manners, marriage, and infidelity.

SMILIN' THROUGH: [fs 4133 VHS 98min bw 1932 dir:Sidney Franklin cast:Norma Shearer; Fredric March; Leslie Howard]
: A young womanfalls in love with the son of the man who murdered her uncle's bride.

Smiling Lieutenant: fs 5494LD; See THE LUBISTCH TOUCH

SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW: [fs 9526 DVD 125min. 1997 dir:Billie August cast:Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne]; Peter Hoeg's novel about an Eskimo woman from Greenland living in Copenhagen, who detects a murder and investigates.

SMOKE: [fs 4863 VHS 112min 1995 dir:Wayne Wang cast:Harvey Keitel; William Hurt]
: Events in the lives of several people find a common focal point in a tobacco shop in Brooklyn.
See also BLUE IN THE FACE

SMOTHERING DREAMS: [fs 2571 VHS 23min 1981 dir:Dan Reeves]
: Experimental video juxtaposes real war images and the make-believe war games of children.

SMOULDERING FIRES: [fs 3638 VHS 114min bw silent 1925 dir:Clarence Brown]
: A tough businesswoman falls for a handsome young employee, marries him, then has to keep him away from her younger sister.

THE SNAKEPIT: [fs 5327 LaserCLV1 108min bw 1948 dir:Anatole Litvak cast:Olivia de Havilland; Mark Stevens; Leo Genn]
: A woman's descent into insanity and eventual recovery in a state mental hospital.

SNOW COUNTRY: [fs 3318 VHS 134min bw Japanese subt 1957 dir:Shiro Toyoda]
: The attraction of an urban artist for a country geisha causes each to realize they belong in separate worlds.

SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS: [fs9357 DVD 168min 1999 dir:Scott Hicks cast:Ethan Hawke]; David Guterson's novel: a reporter's affair with an American Japanese woman was interrupted by World War II. Now her husband, a fisherman, is charged with murder....

SO MANY MIRACLES: [JHVC 7122 VHS 58min 1987 ]; Documentary in which a Jewish couple return to Poland to meet with the Polish woman who sheltered them from the Holocaust.

SOCIAL BIOLOGY OF BUTTERFLY FISHES: [0653 VHS 12min 1977]
: Shows the behavior of butterfly fish in relationship to the reef environment and other fishes.

SOCIAL REACTIONS IN IMPRINTED DUCKLINGS: [0747 16mm 21min 1968]
: The behavior patterns of ducklings that have been imprinted on something other than their mothers.

SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION

[VHS 30min each 1991]

An introductory course in sociology.

From Social Interaction to Social Structure [2681]
Sociological Interaction: Conflict and Change [2681]
Sociological Thinking and Research [2682]
Culture [2682]
Socialization [2683]
Groups [2683]
Formal Organizations [2684]
Societies [2684]
Cities and Population [2685]
Community [2685]
Social Control [2686]
Deviance [2686]
Social Stratification [2687]
Social Class [2687]
Race and Ethnicity [2688]
Sex and Gender [2688]
Aging [2689]
Education [2689]
Family [2690]
Economics Systems [2690]
Religion [2691]
Mass Media [2691]
Political Systems [2692]
Science, Technology, and Health [2692]
Social Movements [2693]
Social Change [2693]

SOCIOLOGY IN OUR TIMES

[4717 VHS 1996]

A video supplement to the textbook of the same title. Contains the following sections:

Pockets of Hate [14min] Racially motivated hate crimes.
Nature and Nurture [10min] Importance of family environment.
Sexual Harassment from 9 to 5 [10min]
Working: the American Worker [12min] Negative trends in employment.
Domino [8.5min] Mixed-race identity.
Disability and Motherhood [10min]
The Status of Latina Women [7min]
Family Violence: Breaking the Chain [11min] Why men batter.
Religious Fundamentalism [10min] On the separation of church and state.
Demography [7min] Population growth.
Rocking the Boat: You Can Fight City Hall [11min]

SOCRATES: [fs4775 VHS 120min 1970 Italian/sub dir:Roberto Rossellini cast:Jean Sylvère, Anne Caprile]; Athens, 404-399 B.C.: the final years and death of the Greek philosopher. Note: appears to have been dubbed into Italian.

SOFT AND HARD: [fs 2085 u-matic 48min French subt 1985 dir:Jean-Luc Godard]
: Two friends discuss hard subjects with soft conversation. Godard appears in his own production.

THE SOFT SKIN (LA PEAU DOUCE): [fs 4552 VHS 118min bw French subt 1964 dir:François Truffaut cast:Françoise Dorléac; Jean Desailly]
: On a business trip a successful and happily married man meets a beautiful airline stewardess and begins an affair.

DIE SÖHNE DER GROSSEN BÄRIN (SONS OF GREAT BEAR): [6435 VHS 93min. 1966 German/sub dir:Josef Mach cast:Gojko Mitic]; An "Indianerfilm," a Western focussing on Native American protagonists.

SOLARIS: [fs 4553-4554 VHS 167min Russian subt 1971 dir:Andrei Tarkovsky cast:Donatas Banionis; Natalya Bondarchuk]
: A psychologist is sent to a space station to investigate mysterious deaths.

THE SOLDIER: [fs 1931 16mm 9min bw silent 1931 cast:Stan Laurel]
: A prospector in the Alaskan gold rush must keep a dishonest lawman fromjumping his claim.

I SOLITI IGNOTI: See BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET.

SOLO: [0248 16mm 15min 1971]
: An ode to mountain climbing.

SOLO SUNNY: [6778VHS German/sub 113min 1980 dir:Konrad Wolf & Wolfgang Kohlhaase cast:Renate Kroessner]; The frustrations and longings of a young East German pop singer.

SOME CAME RUNNING: [fs 5794 Laser 137min. 1958 dir:Vincente Minnelli cast:Frank Sinatra, Shirley Maclaine]; James Jones novel of a GI returning after World War II to his small Indiana hometown.

SOME FOLKS CALL IT A SLING BLADE: [fs 6851 VHS 9038 DVD 29min. bw 1997 dir:Billy Bob Thornton cast:Thornton, Molly Ringwald]; Reporter interviews matricidal inmate of hospital for the criminally insane. VHS Includes 13-min "Making of..." documentary. This film preceded Thornton's commercial film SLING BLADE.

SOME LIKE IT HOT: [fs 0824-0826 16mm 2997 VHS 9641 DVD 119min bw 1959 dir:Billy Wilder cast:Marilyn Monroe; Jack Lemmon; Tony Curtis]
: Two musicians witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and try to elude their pursuers by joining an all-girl band heading for Miami. DVD includes interview with Curtis.

SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME: [fs 5795 Laser 113min. 1956 b/w dir:Robert Wise cast:Paul Newman, Pier Angeli]; Biopic of boxer Rocky Graziano.

SOMEONE I ONCE KNEW: [2622 VHS 32min 1983]
: Documentary on Alzheimer's disease and its effects on relatives.

SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME: [fs9191 DVD 106min 1987 dir:Ridley Scott cast:Tom Berenger, Mimi Rogers]; A cop falls in love with a socialite crime witness whom he is assigned to protect.

SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN: [1883 VHS 21min 1964]
: Early solar energy projects were envisaged to help the tropical thirdworld; here, anthropologists and engineers introduce a low-tech solar cooker to peasants in Mexico.

SOMETHING WILD: [fs 4616 VHS 114min 1986 dir:Jonathan Demme cast:Melanie Griffith; Jeff Daniels]
: A conservative man is lured into a relationship with a crazy woman whose ex-husband poses a lethal threat.

SOMEWHERE IN BERLIN: See IRGENDWO IN BERLIN.

SON OF THE SHEIK: [fs9425 DVD 68min. 1926 bw silent dir:Georgre Fitzmaurice cast:Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Banky]; An Arab prince imprisons a beautiful young woman, contemplating revenge.

SONES CUBANOS

[3507 VHS 93min Spanish 1976-1980]

Three documentaries on the music and prominent musicians of Cuba.

Ignacio Piñeiro [~19min]
Félix Chapotín y Miguelito Cuni [~18min]
Con Sabor a Caña, Tabaco y Ron [~15min]

A SONG FOR MICHAEL: [0217 16mm 15min bw 1966]
: Documents how music was used to help teach a handicapped boy to communicate.

SONG OF THE SOUTH: [fs 5535 LD 94min Japanese language 1946]; Walt Disney musical, animated and live-action, based on Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus stories.

Song of the Thin Man: fs 5191LD; See THE THIN MAN COLLECTION

SONG TO REMEMBER, A: [fs 0473 16mm 112min 1945 dir:Charles Vidor cast:Cornel Wilde; Paul Muni; Merle Oberon]
: The life of Chopin.

SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE AND OTHER ELIZABETHAN LYRICS: [9004 audio 45min 1985]
: Anthony Quayle reads 23 of Shakespeare's sonnets and 15 other poetic works of the period.

SONS OF GREAT BEAR: See DIE S™HNE DER GROSSEN BŽRIN.

SONS OF THE DESERT: [fs 1812-1813 16mm 68min bw 1934 dir:William A. Seiter cast:Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy; Charley Chase]
: Two married men sneak out on their wives to attend a fraternal convention.

SOPHOCLES: Oedipus the King: [3835 VHS 45min 1975 cast:James Mason; Claire Bloome; Ian Richardson]
: Performed by the Athens Classical Theatre Company.

SORCERER'S APPRENTICE & RICH AND STRANGE: [fs9192 DVD 1962 b/w dir:Alfred Hitchock]; Alfred Hitchcock Presents television episode set in a circus. For Rich and Strange, see separate listing.

SORTING OUT SORTING: [2122 u-matic 30min 1981]
: Educational documentary illustrating computer sorting algorithms by use of animation.

SOSUA: [7239 VHS 30min 1981]
: Documents European Jews who escaped to the Dominican Republic in 1940.

SOUL

[VHS 50min each 1992]

A trilogy of programs that attempts to bridge the gulf between modern science and religion, asserting that the price of scientific knowledge is not spiritual emptiness.

The Evolving Soul [6243] - How our increasing knowledge of nature has failed to answer spiritual questions.

Silicon Soul [6244] - How science has failed to decipher much of the mystery of the human mind.

Soul of the Universe [6245] - Challenges the “big bang” theory of the creation of life.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC: [fs 1267-1270 16mm 9443 DVD 174min 1965 dir:Robert Wise cast:Julie Andrews; Christopher Plummer]; Maria makes the nuns, and Baron von Trapp's children, laugh and sing all over Salzburg until the Nazis arrive.

THE SOUND OF MY OWN NAME: [0200 16mm 28min 1973]
: Focuses on the significance of adult education on the personal level in helping undereducated adults acquire a sense of meaning and self-concept.

SOUNDER: [fs 2916 VHS 105min 1972 dir:Martin Ritt cast:Paul Winfield; Cicely Tyson]
: A black sharecropper in Louisiana during the Depression must steal in order to feed his family.

SOUTH: [fs9426 DVD 81min. 1919 bw silent dir:Frank Hurley]; Documentary shot by Hurley on the Endurance expedition to the South Pole with Ernest Shackleton.

SOUTH AFRICA'S BLACK ENONOMY: [4517 VHS 40min 1993]
: Examines where black entrepreneurs of the future will emerge and looks at examples of current successful black South Africans.

SOUTH CENTRAL: [fs5514 LD 99min 1992 dir:Steve Anderson cast:Glenn Plummer; Carl Lumbly]; An African-American ex-convict tries to keep his son from the same fate.

SOUTH PACIFIC (RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN COLLECTION): [fs9444 DVD 151min. 1958 dir:Joshua Logan cast:Rossano Brazzi/Giorgio Tozzi, Mitzi Gaynor, Ray Walston]; Lushly produced musical based on James Michner's stories of romance among sailors, nurses, and islanders during World War II.

SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER, AND UNCUT: [fs9193 DVD 81min 1999 animated; prod:Trey Parker & Matt Stone]; Cartoon musical about a group of rude kids who nevertheless consider what would Brian Boitano do.

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: [4160 VHS 22min 1988]
: Describes the efforts of this organization to protect the rights of the poor and in particular to do battle with such as the Ku Klux Klan.

THE SOUTHERNER: [fs 4617 VHS 91min bw 1945 dir:Jean Renoir cast:Zachary Scott; Betty Field]
: A poor Southern family struggles to make their farm successful.

SPAIN: The Moorish Influence: [6264 VHS 28min Spanish 1990]
: Examples of the Moorish influence on art and architecture in various parts of Spain.

THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

[fs VHS 113min each 1983]

A visual history of the war that served as a prelude to World War II.

Volume 1 [Call No:6192]

Volume 2 [Call No:6193]

THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR: [1066-1067 16mm 70min 1955]
: The causes and impact of the Spanish Civil War.

THE SPANISH PRISONER: [fs 6745 VHS 9194 DVD 110min 1997 dir:David Mamet cast:Ben Gazzara; Felicity Huffman; SteveMartin]; A man who invents a formula which promises to make his company rich is drawn into an intricate con game.

THE SPARRING PARTNER: [fs 1926 16mm 8min bw silent cast:Charlie Chaplin]
: Charlie is overmatched sparring with the champ.

SPARROWS: [fs 3529 VHS 5155 LaserCLV1 81min bw silent 1926 dir:William Beaudine cast:Mary Pickford; Gustav von Seyffertitz]
: An intrepid girl struggles to protect a band of orphans from their wicked captor.

SPARTACUS: [6525-6526 VHS 9528 DVD 196min 1960 dir:Stanley Kubrick cast:Kirk Douglas; Jean Simmons; laurence Olivier; Peter Ustinov; Charles Laughton]
: Restored edition of the epic adventure starring Kirk Douglas as the slave who fights to lead his people to freedom from Roman rule.

SPAWNING IN AN AFRICAN MOUTHBREEDING FISH: [0757 VHS 16min 1969]
: The reproductive behavior of Tilapia macrocephala.

SPEAKING DIRECTLY: [2743 VHS 110min 1973 dir:Jon Jost]
: Avant garde film mixing autobiography, socio-political observation and reflexive cinema.

THE SPEAKING OF SHAKESPEARE'S VERSE: [9001 audio 48min 1983]
: Instructs on how to improve an actor's rendering of Shakespeare's English. On audio cassette.

SPEAKING PARTS: [fs 6234 VHS 92min 1989 dir:Atom Egoyan]
: A movie extra and two women become “fatally tangled in a web of psycho-sexual desire” as he tries to get a speaking part in a film.

THE SPECIALIST: [ 7261 VHS 128min. 1999 Hebrew and German/sub, b/w dir:Eyal Sivan]; Inspired by Hannah Arendt's book Eichmann in Jerusalem, this is an edit of the documentary footage of the trial of Adolph Eichmann, the Nazi who designed the bureaucracy of the death camps.

THE SPECKLED BAND: See ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.

THE SPEECHES OF ADOLF HITLER: [fs 4916 VHS 50min bw German subt 1990]
: An assortment of Hitler's most dramatic speeches.

SPEED: [fs 9084 DVD 115min. 1994 dir:Jan de Bont cast:Keanu Reeves; Sandra Bullock; Dennis Hopper]
: A young cop must save the passengers, and charming driver, of a bus that has a bomb set to explode if the bus goes below 50 MPH.

SPELLBOUND: [fs 3344 VHS 5188 LaserCLV1 111min bw 1945 dir:Alfred Hitchcock cast:Gregory Peck; Ingrid Bergman]
: The new director of a mental institution is an impostor and an amnesiac, and a staff doctor must cure him to solve the mystery.

SPENCER TRACY LEGACY: A TRIBUTE BY KATHARINE HEPBURN: [fs 5708 Laser 87min. 1986 ]; A review of the life and work of the American actor. With FURY.

SPICES (MIRCH MASALA): [6949 VHS 98min 1986 Hindi/sub dir:Ketan Mehta cast:Smita Patil]; India, the 1940s: A beautiful village woman resists a tax collector's advances, stirring up some resistance to injustice even in her patriarchal culture.

SPIDERS: [fs 2961 VHS 9195 DVD 137min bw silent 1919 dir:Fritz Lang]
: An organized band of criminals scheme to dominate the world. The first two parts of an unfinished serial. DVD includes color tinting.

THE SPIDER'S STRATEGEM: [6018 VHS 97min Italian subt 1970 dir:Bernardo Bertolucci cast:Giulio Brogi; Alida Valli]
: A man investigates the murder of his father thirty years before and digs up a lot of trouble.

SPIES: [fs 2945 VHS 3666 VHS 9470 DVD 90min bw silent 1928 dir:Fritz Lang]
: A master spy masquerades as a famous banker in order to steal government secrets and to create chaos in the world.

Spiklenci slasti: See CONSPIRATORS OF PLEASURE and FOOD.

SPILLS AND CHILLS: [1998 16mm 10min bw silent dir:Robert Youngson]
: Motion picture footage of daredevils.

SPIRIT DOCTORS: [6310VHS 30min 1996]; Documentary about folk healing in Mexican American communities of the lower Rio Grande Valley.

THE SPIRIT OF CRAZY HORSE: [4107 VHS 60min 1990]
: Explains the Sioux point of view in their conflict with the white man stemming from the confiscation of the Black Hills of South Dakota, a sacred land.

SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE: [fs 3765 VHS 95min Spanish subt 1973 dir:Victor Erice]
: Two young sisters are profoundly affected by viewing the film Frankenstein.

SPIRIT OF THE SAMBA: See BLACK MUSIC OF BRAZIL

THE SPIRIT POSSESSION OF ALEJANDRO MAMANI: See AYMARA FILM SERIES

SPITE MARRIAGE: [fs 3674 VHS 5402 LaserCLV2 77min bw silent 1929 dir:Edward Sedgwick cast:Buster Keaton; Dorothy Sebastion]
: A stage actress marries a stage-door admirer to spite her fickle leading man.

SPLASH: [fs 4573 VHS 7min 1991 dir:Thomas Allen Harris]
: Experimental video about a young black man accepting his homosexuality.

SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS: [fs 5139 LaserCLV2 124min 1961 dir:Elia Kazan cast:Warren Beatty; Natalie Wood]
: Teenage emotions and adult hypocrisy collide in 1920's Kansas.

SPRING FEVER: [fs 1915 16mm 10min bw silent cast:Harold Lloyd]
: A man catches spring fever and leaves his job for a day in the park.

SPUR DER STEINE (TRACE OF STONES): [ 6449 VHS 134min. 1966 German/sub b/w dir:Frank Beyer cast:Manfred Krug, Krystyna Stypulkowska]; Banned in East Germany. Romance between a swaggering construction foreman and an engineer.

A SPY IN THE HOUSE THAT RUTH BUILT: [fs 3755 VHS 29min 1989 dir:Vanalyne Green]
: A young female journalist comes to terms with her feelings for the macho world of professional baseball.

ST. AUGUSTINE: History of the City: [3162 VHS 30min 1974]
: Documentary history of the discovery and development of Florida's oldest city.Includes several sequences from St. Augustine's annual presentation of " The Cross and the Sword."

STAGE DOOR CANTEEN: [fs 1173-1174 16mm 132min bw 1943 dir:Frank Borzage]
: A wartime tribute to the common soldier with cameo appearances by many Hollywood stars.

STAGE FRIGHT: [fs 3511 VHS 5270 LaserCLV1 110min bw 1949 dir:Alfred Hitchcock cast:Marlene Dietrich; Jane Wyman; Michael Wilding]
: Drama student is suspected in the murder of an actress'shusband.

STAGECOACH: [fs 1726-1727 16mm 2739 VHS 5189 LaserCLV1 10067 DVD 97min bw 1939 dir:John Ford cast:John Wayne; Claire Trevor; Thomas Mitchell]
: Diverse travelers are thrust together in a perilous journey by stagecoach through Indian country.

STAGING CLASSICAL COMEDY: [4162 VHS 35min 1988]
: Shows the archaeological research involved, and the construction of the stage area of a classical Roman play, with a performance of some of the comedy Miles Gloriosus by Plautus.

STALAG 17: [fs 4016 VHS 9196 DVD 120min bw 1963 dir:Billy Wilder cast:William Holden; Don Taylor; Otto Preminger]
: American sergeant in a World War IIP.O.W. camp is suspected of being a German spy.

STALINGRAD: [fs 4964 VHS 9078 DVD 150min German subt 1993; 9078 DVD 150min English & German tracks dir:Joseph Vilsmaier]
: Epic antiwar movie about the bloodiest battle of World War II.

STALIN'S REVOLUTION: [0016 16mm 20min bw]
: Documents the dramatic changes in Russia due to the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin.

STAND AND DELIVER: [fs 3340 VHS 103min 1988 dir:Ramon Menendez cast:Edward James Olmos; Lou Diamond Phillips]
: Based on a true story about a Los Angeles math teacher, whose tutelage guided students from poor Hispanic backgrounds to the achievement of record scores on advanced math placement tests.

STANLEY AND IRIS: [fs5640 LD 105min 1989 dir:Martin Ritt cast:Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda]; A widow helps a blue-collar worker to learn to read.

STAR!: [fs 6699-6700VHS 176min 1968 dir:Robert Wise cast:Julie Andrews; Richard Crenna]; Rise from the vaudeville halls of London of legendary musical performer Gertrude Lawrence, with Noel Coward at her side.

A STAR IS BORN: [fs 0233-0235 16mm 4561 VHS 111min 1937 dir:William Wellman cast:Fredric March; Janet Gaynor]
: An aspiring actress marries a veteran star.Her career takes off and his sinks in alcoholism.

STAR MAKER: [fs 1822-1823 16mm 94min bw 1939 dir:Roy Del Ruth cast:Bing Crosby; Louise Campbell]
: Loose biography about Gus Edwards, a vaudeville producer who discovered talent.

STAR TREK II: The Wrath of Khan: [fs 2179-2180 u-matic 113min 1982 dir:Nicholas Meyer cast:William Shatner; Leonard Nimoy; Ricardo Montalban]
: A genetic superman seeks revenge on Capt. Kirk.

STAR TREK: BREAD AND CIRCUSES: [6511 VHS 9599 DVD 51min 1968 cast:William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley]; Gene Roddenberry's classic TV show. Spock and Kirk deal with Roman Gladiators in this episode (43).

STAR TREK: BREAD AND CIRCUSES, JOURNEY TO BABEL: [ 9599 DVD 100min. 1967 cast:William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Mark Lenard, Jane Wyatt]; For Bread and Circuses (43), see preceding listing. Journey to Babel (44): Spock must deal with his parents and conflicted heritage.

STARDUST MEMORIES: [fs9374 DVD 88min. 1980 b/w dir:Woody Allen cast:Allen, Charlotte Rampling]; A famous director of comic films wants to make tragedies.

STARTING FROM NINA: [1305 16mm 30min 1978]
: Documents three examples in which the approach to education developed by Paul Freire has been implemented in Toronto.

STARTING PLACE: [4805 VHS 80min Vietnamese subt 1993 dir:Robert Kramer]
: Revisits the people and places in Vietnam of the filmmaker's late 1960s documentary People's War.

STATE FAIR (RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN COLLECTION): [fs9445 DVD 100min. 1945 dir:Walter Lang cast:Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews]; The Frake family visits the Iowa State Fair for livestock prizes, romance, and songs.; See alsoIT HAPPENED ONE SUMMER

THE STATE OF THINGS: [fs 3989 VHS 120min bw German subt 1983 dir:Wim Wenders]
: A German director, doing his first American film, runs out of film and must go back to Hollywood and track down his producer.

THE STATIONMASTER'S WIFE: [4240 VHS 111min German subt 1977 dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder cast:Kurt Raab; Elisabeth Trissenaar]
: A version of Madame Bovary in which the bored wife of a German train station supervisor has adulterous affairs and causes her husband to go to jail.

STATIONS: [fs 3992 VHS 60min 1985 dir:Robert Wilson]
: An experimental performance art video.

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY: [4197 VHS 37min 1985 dir:Ken Burns]
: A short documentary history of the Statue of Liberty, with interviews of ordinary and famous people about its significance. For a longer version, see next item.

STATUE OF LIBERTY (KEN BURNS' AMERICA): [fs 8030 VHS 58min. 1985 dir:Ken Burns]; Documentary about this New York City monument, covering both its history and its meaning. Previous item is a shorter version.

STAVISKY: [fs 3078 VHS 117min French subt 1974 dir:Alain Resnais cast:Jean-Paul Belmondo; Anny Duperey; Charles Boyer]
: Recounts the last days of a famous French con man of the 1930's.

STEAMBOAT BILL JR.: [fs 0400-0401 16mm 5322C LaserCLV 69min bw silent 1928 dir:Charles F. Reisner cast:Buster Keaton; Ernest Torrence; Marion Byron]
: The son of a riverboat captain has to prove himself to his father.
: See also ART OF BUSTER KEATON Vol.3

STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. & CONVICT 13 & DAYDREAMS: [fs9197 DVD b/w silent shorts dir:Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline]; Steamboat Bill Jr.: see above. Two 20-min shorts, one about a prisoner's struggles, the other about a job-hunter.

THE STEEL HELMET: [fs 6063 VHS 85min bw 1951 dir:Samuel Fuller cast:Gene Evans; Robert Hutton; Steve Brodie]
: Early in the Korean War a soldier survives a POW massacre and joins with other stranded GIs to find a way back to their units.

STELLA DALLAS: [fs 3856 VHS 106min bw 1937 dir:King Vidor cast:Barbara Stanwyck; John Boles]
: A lower-class woman who marries above her station in life, loses her husband and must give up her daughter so the daughter can have a better life.

STELLA MARIS: [fs9427 DVD 84min. 1918 bw silent dir:Marshall Neilan cast:Mary Pickford, Conway Tearle]; Pickford plays a crippled heiress and also an abused lowly servant-girl, both in love with the same married man.

STEP LIVELY: [fs 1937 16mm 9min bw silent cast:Harold Lloyd]
: An unemployed man gets chased by a dog into a hotel where he foils a thief.

STOLEN KISSES (Baisers volés): [fs9198 DVD 90min 1968 French/sub dir:François Truffaut cast:Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig]; Antoine Doinel juggles jobs and romances.

Stolen Life: fs 5167LD; See THE BETTE DAVIS COLLECTION

STOP MAKING SENSE: [fs9082 DVD 88min 1984 dir:Jonathan Demme cast:Talking Heads (David Byrne)]; Concert film presented in widescreen with "bonus" tracks, interviews, etc.

STOP TRAIN 349: [fs 6209 VHS 95min 1963 dir:Rolf Hadrich cast:Sean Flynn; Jose Ferrer; Nicole Courcel]
: An East German tries to stow away on an American train going from Berlin to West Germany.

STORM OVER ASIA {Heir of Genghis Khan, Potomok Chingus Khana): [0326-0328 16mm 3455 6112 VHS 70min bw silent 1928 dir:V. I. Pudovkin]
: A Mongolian fur trader becomes involved in the Mongolian uprising against British forces during the Russian Civil War. Heir of Genghis Khan, Potomok Chingus Khana See also fs 5485LD CLASSICS OF EARLY SOVIET CINEMA

STORMÉ: The Lady of the Jewel Box: [3331 VHS 21min 1987 dir:Michelle Parkerson]
: A documentary about a female impersonator and the interracial Jewel Box Revue of the 1940's to 1960's.

STORMY WATERS: [fs 3563 VHS 75min bw dubbed 1939 dir:Jean Gremillon cast:Jean Gabin]
: The captain of a sea rescue vessel has an affair with a woman he rescues, until his wife falls ill.

STORMY WEATHER: [fs 0355-0356 16mm 77min bw 1943 dir:Andrew L. Stone cast:Lena Horne; Bill Robinson]
: A musical based loosely on the life of Bill Robinson.

THE STORY OF BABE RUTH: [4193 VHS 55min bw 1991]
: The life and career of the baseball player.

THE STORY OF BOYS AND GIRLS: [4886 VHS 92min Italian subt 1991 dir:Pupi Avati cast:Davide Benchini; Lucrezia Lante Della Rovere]
: An engagement banquet becomes an occasion for spilling family secrets and having romantic intrigues.

THE STORY OF ELIZABETH CADY STANTON & SUSAN B. ANTHONY: See NOT FOR OURSELVES ALONE .

THE STORY OF ENGLISH

[VHS 58min./episode 1986]

Host Robert MacNeil travels the world to examine the history and varieties of the English language.

[6374]1:An English-Speaking World; 2: Mother Tongue
[6375] 3: A Muse of Fire; 4: The Guid Scots Tongue
[6376] 5: Black on White; 6: Pioneers! O Pioneers!
[6377] 7: The Muvver Tongue; 8: The Loaded Weapon
[6378] 9: Next Year's Words

STORY OF G.I. JOE: [fs9319 DVD 108min 1945 b/w dir:William Wellman cast:Robert Mitchum, Burgess Meredith]; War correspondent Ernie Pyle accompanies U.S. forces from North Africa throught the invasion of Italy in World War II.

THE STORY OF GILBERT AND SULLIVAN: [fs 1431-1433 16mm 111min bw 1953 dir:Sidney Gilliat cast:Robert Morley; Maurice Evans]
: A recounting of the collaboration of Arthur Sullivan and William Gilbert to compose operettas in Victorian England.

STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR: [fs 5796 Laser 87min. 1936 b/w dir:William Dieterle cast:Paul Muni]; Biopic of the 19th-century French doctor who pioneered vaccination. With LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA.

THE STORY OF O: [fs 5797 Laser 97min. 1975 dir:Just Jaeckin cast:Corinne Cleri]; Two men dominate a chateaufull of women, encouraging masochism as the extreme sexual experience.

STORY OF THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM: [fs 2905 VHS 142min bw Japanese subt 1939 dir:Kenji Mizoguchi]
: A young man becomes unwilling to follow the family tradition of kabuki acting.

STORY OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER: [1075 16mm 12min bw 1959]
: A satiric documentary on the efforts of politicians to stop war.

LA STRADA: [fs 0650-0651 16mm 4307 VHS 107min bw Italian subt 1954 dir:Federico Fellini cast:Giulietta Masina; Anthony Quinn; Richard Basehart]
: A simple-minded peasant girl is sold to a circus strongman who abuses her.

STRAIT JACKET: [fs 6724VHS bw 93min 1964 cast:Joan Crawford; Leif Erickson; Diane Baker]; Crawford, released from a mental institution 20 years after killing her husband and lover with an axe, is suspected of new murders.

THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF UNCLE HARRY: [fs 5597Laser bw 1945 80min cast:George Sanders; Geraldine Fitzgerald]; Film version of the Broadway show "Uncle Harry" about a young man whose jealous sister interferes with his romance.

Strange Cargo: fs 5418LD; See GABLE AND CRAWFORD COLLECTION

STRANGE DAYS: [fs5619 LD 145min. 1995 dir:Kathryn Bigelow cast:Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett]; Dec. 30, 1999: there's a market for virtual replays of other people's experiences, and a dealer in such clips finds himself in danger on the eve of the Millenium. Screenplay by James Cameron.

STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS: [fs 9456 DVD 118min. 1946 b/w dir:Lewis Milestone cast:Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson]; Film noir: a man returns to Iverstown to find that his childhood friends assume he is going to blackmail them.

Strange Love of Molly Louvain: fs 5484LD; See FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD II

THE STRANGE WOMAN: [fs9320 DVD 99min 1946 b/w dir:Edgar G. Ulmer cast:Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders]; Beautiful, manipulative woman in 1820s New England dominates several men.; On the same DVD:MOON OVER HARLEM

THE STRANGER: [fs 0213-0215 16mm 9322 DVD 95min bw 1946 dir:Orson Welles cast:Orson Welles; Loretta Young; Edward G. Robinson]
: A Nazi war criminal, hiding in a small Connecticut town, is brought to justice.; DVD version also includes CAUSE FOR ALARM

THE STRANGER (dir. Ray): See AGANTUK

STRANGER AMONG US: [JHVC 7044 VHS 109min 1992 dir:Sidney Lumet cast:Melanie Griffith]; A cop goes undercover in Brooklyn's Hasidic community to solve a murder.

STRANGER THAN PARADISE: [fs5562 Laser 9471 DVD 89min b/w 1984 dir:Jim Jarmusch cast:John Lurie; Eszter Balint]; Offbeat drama/comedy about a mismatched Manhattan trio fleeing Ohio for Florida to avoid the cold winter.

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN: [fs 0934-0935 16mm 3853 VHS 5097 Laser 9446 DVD 101min bw 1951 dir:Alfred Hitchcock cast:Farley Granger; Robert Walker; Ruth Roman]
: Patricia Highsmith's novel: a tennis star is pestered on a train by a psychotic who wants to trade murders, and proceeds to carry out his part of the bargain.

STRATEGY FOR SURVIVAL: Behavioral Ecology of the Monarch Butterfly: [1511 VHS 30min 1976]
: Describes the sophisticated survival strategies employed by these migratory insects.

STRATIFIED FLOW: [4474 VHS 29min 1970]
: The flow behavior of fluids with layers of differing density.

STRAVINSKY: [0142 VHS 49min bw 1965]
: Shows the composer directing a recording session in Canada and traveling to Europe. NOTE: first half is shaky.

STRAW DOGS: [fs 3240 VHS 114min 1972 dir:Sam Peckinpah cast:Dustin Hoffman; Susan George]
: A pacifist mathematician retreats to a remote Cornish village to escape the violence of the cities, and then his wife is raped.

STRAWBERRY AND CHOCOLATE FRESA Y CHOCOLATE: [fs 5853 LD 104min 1993 Spanish/sub dir:Tomás Gutiérrez Alea & Juan Carlos Tabío cast:Jorge Perugorria, Vladimir Cruz]; Cuba, the 90s: Can a cultured but apolitical gay man and a naive communist heterosexual student be friends?

STRAY DOG: [fs 3456 VHS 122min bw Japanese subt 1949 dir:Akira Kurosawa cast:Toshiro Mifune]
: A rookie detective loses his gun and must track it down as it is being used by a thief. Painfully vivid images of postwar Japan.

THE STREET: [fs 2928 VHS 101min bw silent 1923 dir:Karl Grune]
: A bored married man gets a lifetime of thrills in one night.

STREET ANGEL: [fs 3403 VHS 100min bw Chinese (illegible subtitles) 1937 dir:Yuan Muzhi]
: In Shanghai in 1935 a young street musician tries to take care of his sisters, one a prostitute, the other a tea-house singer.

STREET OF SHAME: [fs 3420 VHS 88min bw Japanese subt 1956 dir:Kenji Mizoguchi]
: The dreams and problems of the prostitutes in a Tokyo brothel.

STREET SCENE: [0403-04 16mm JHVC 7045 VHS 78min 1931 bw dir:King Vidor cast:Sylvia Sidney]; Elmer Rice's play about the tenants of a poor New York City street, their politics and families.

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE: [fs 0938-0939 16mm 5515 LD 122min bw 1951 dir:Elia Kazan cast:Marlon Brando; Vivien Leigh]
: Film version of the Tennessee Williams play in which a faded Southern Belle confronts her brutish brother-in-law in their New Orleans tenement.

STRIKE (STACHKA): [fs 0329-0330 16mm 3918 VHS 9378 DVD 94min. 1925 b/w silent dir:Sergei Eisenstein]; A worker's strike in 1912 Czarist Russia is brutally suppressed by the authorities. DVD includes Russian titles, 1998 score, 1999 English subtitles, and scholarly commentary.

STRIKE UP THE BAND: [fs 5798 Laser 120min. 1940 b/w dir:Busby Berkeley cast:Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland]; High school bandleader and his singer get everyone doing the Conga.

STROMBOLI: [fs 4312 VHS 107min bw Italian subt 1949 dir:Roberto Rossellini cast:Ingrid Bergman; Mario Vitale]
: A war refugee from Lithuania marries an Italian fisherman to avoid internment but finds herself trapped in a rigid island society.

THE STRONG MAN: See HARRY LANGDON ...THE FORGOTTEN CLOWN.

STRONG MEDICINE: [fs 2792 VHS 84min 1980 dir:Richard Foreman cast:Kate Mannheim]
: Surreal story of a disturbed woman.

STROSZEK: [fs 3624 VHS 108min German subt 1977 dir:Werner Herzog]
: A Berlin street singer and former mental patient joins a prostitute and an old eccentric in pursuit of the American dream in Wisconsin.

STRUGGLE FOR SELF-ACCEPTANCE: [2880 VHS 90min 1980]
: Carl R. Rogers is shown conducting an interview with one of his clients. Part of the Great Minds in Counseling series by the American Association for Counseling and Development.

THE STUDENT OF PRAGUE: [4254 VHS 60min bw silent 1913 dir:Paul Wegener]
: A young man sells his soul to gain the affections of a young noblewoman.

THE SUBJECT: [3205 VHS 95min bw German subt 1951 dir:Wolfgang Staudte cast:Werner Peters; Erich Nadler]
: Satire based on Heinrich Mann's novel about the type of subordinate who allows himself to be used for military or totalitarian purposes.

THE SUBJECT IS WATER: [0601 16mm 30min 1977]
: Describes the importance of water in general and some of the government efforts to ensure adequate water resources.

SUBWAY TO THE STARS: [2915 VHS 103min Portuguese subt 1987 dir:Carlos Diegues]
: A young saxophone player roams the back streets of Rio in search of his missing girlfriend.

SUDDEN FEAR: [fs10070 DVD 110min bw 1952 dir:David Miller cast:Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame]; Thriller in which a San Francisco playwright marries an actor with a girlfriend.

THE SUFI WAY: [0605 VHS 27min 1971 dir:Elda Hartley]
: Huston Smith narrates presentation of Islamic mysticism and Sufism.

SUGAR CANE ALLEY: [3048 VHS 107min 1984 French subt dir:Euzhan Palcy]
: An 11-year-old boy and his self-sacrificing grandmother barely survive in a Martinique shantytown in the 1930's.

SUGARBABY: [fs 3147 VHS 87min German subt 1985 dir:Percy Adlon]
: An obese mortuary attendant gets a crush on a subway-train driver.

SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS: [fs 1139-1140 16mm 3359 VHS 91min bw 1941 dir:Preston Sturges cast:Joel McCrea; Veronica Lake]
: A movie director decides to research real life, in order to begin doing serious films.

THE SULTAN'S BURDEN: [4965 VHS 50min 1992]
: Ethnographic documentary of the life of a Cameroon sultan, a Moslem ruler with slaves and a harem whose way of life is fast disintegrating.

THE SUM OF ITS PARTS: Regions, Nations, State: [4600 VHS 28min 1993]
: A discussion of the regionalized political structure of Canada, in which Quebec may not be the only province that feels separated from Canada.

SUMMER (LE RAYON VERT): [fs 3238 VHS 9199 DVD 96min French subt 1986 dir:Eric Rohmer]
: A young woman sets out to have a happy vacation by herself and doesn't succeed.

SUMMER HOLIDAY (1947): [fs 5799 Laser 92min. 1947 b/w dir:Rouben Mamoulian cast:Mickey Rooney, Gloria DeHaven]; Eugene O'Neill's AH, WILDNERNESS becomes a musical about the summer after high-school in a turn-of-the-century small town. With ATHENA.

SUMMER HOLIDAY (1962): [fs 1758-1759 16mm 109min 1962 dir:Peter Yates cast:Lauri Peters; Cliff Richard]
: Four London Transport mechanics borrow one of their buses and take it for a musical holiday in Europe.

SUMMER LOVERS: [fs 3647 Beta 98min 1982 dir:Randal Kleiser cast:Daryl Hannah; Valerie Quennessen; Peter Galagher]
: Three young people having relationships on a Greek resort island.

THE SUMMER OF AVIYA: [fs 4966 VHS 96min Hebrew subt 1989 dir:Eli Cohen cast:Gila Almagor]
: Autobiographical (Almagor) account of one summer in the life of a girl whose mother was a Jewish resistance fighter in World War II.

THE SUMMER OF MISS FORBES (EL VERANO DE LA SEÑORA FORBES): [4484 VHS 87min Spanish subt 1988 dir:Jaime Humberto Hermosillo cast:Hanna Schygulla]
: Two boys want to murder their oppressive governess; she lusts for a handsome young man who ignores her advances. From a story by Gabriel García Márquez.

A SUMMER PLACE: [fs5570 LD 130min 1959 dir:Delmer Daves cast:Troy Donahue; Sandra Dee; Richard Egan ]; Romance which takes place at a resort in Maine. Based on the novel "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit."

SUMMER RENTAL: [fs 2166-2167 u-matic 87min 1985 dir:Carl Reiner cast:John Candy; Richard Crenna]
: A frazzled air traffic controller takes his family for a vacation in a Florida resort town.

SUMMER STOCK: [fs 5827 Laser 110min. 1950 dir:Charles Walters Cast:Judy Garland, Gene Kelly]; Musical comedy in which a Broadway production rehearses on a farm--and the actors help do chores.

A SUMMER'S TALE (CONTE D'ÉTÉ): [fs 6053 VHS 6783 VHS 9498 DVD 113min French subt 1996 dir:Eric Rohmer cast:Melvil Poupard]
: A young man spends his vacation confiding his romantic problems with two girls to a third girl.

SUMMERTIME: [fs 4306 VHS 98min 9563 DVD 1955 dir:David Lean cast:Katharine Hepburn; Rossano Brazzi]
: A middle-aged spinster, looking for romance on a vacation in Venice, reluctantly settles for an affair with a married shopkeeper.

SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY: [fs 3913 VHS 5571 LD 110min 1971 dir:John Schlesinger cast:Glenda Jackson; Peter Finch]
: A love triangle involving a man, a woman, and a bisexual man.

SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY (UN DIMANCHE À LA CAMPAGNE): [fs4776 VHS 9321 DVD94min 1984 French/sub dir:Bertrand Tavernier cast:Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont]; Pierre Bost's novel of an aging Impressionist painter's relationships with his son and daughter.

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE: [fs 5554Laser 1986 146min dir:James Lapine cast:Mandy Patinkin; Bernadette Peters]; The classic painting of Georges Seurat portrayed in the award-winning musical from Stephen Sondheim and Lapine. Full-length commentary by Sondheim, Lapine, Patinkin and Peters.

SUNDAYS AND CYBELE: [fs 0341-0344 16mm 110min bw French subt 1962 dir:Serge Bourguignon cast:Hardy Kruger; Nicole Courcel]
: A mental casualty of war befriends an orphaned girl but the relationship is misunderstood and turns tragic.

SUNRISE: [fs 1518-1519 16mm; 5430 LD 6004 VHS 110min bw silent 1927 dir:F. W. Murnau cast:George O'Brien; Janet Gaynor]
: A farmer in love with a city woman tries to kill his wife but then repents and spends a happy day with her.

SUNRISE AT CAMPOBELLO: [fs 1332-1335 16mm 143min 1960 dir:Vincent J. Donohue cast:Ralph Bellamy; Greer Garson]
: Tells the story of Franklin D. Roosevelt's life before becoming president.

SUNSET BOULEVARD: [fs 0815-0817 16mm 2500 VHS 5147 LaserCLV1 110min bw 1950 dir:Billy Wilder cast:Gloria Swanson; William Holden; Erich von Stroheim]
: A faded silent film star lives in the past and keeps a young hack screenwriter as a boyfriend.

SUNSHINE: [fs 9642 DVD 180min 2000 dir:István Szabó cast:Ralph Fiennes, Jennifer Ehle]; History of several generations of men in a 20th-century Hungarian Jewish family.

THE SUNSHINE BOYS: [fs 5828 Laser 112min. 1975 dir:Herbert Ross cast:George Burns, Walter Matthau]; Neil Simon play about a vaudeville comedy duo who irritated each other when they were famous, and still do when reunited for a television special.

SUPERFLY T.N.T.: [fs 2175-2176 u-matic 87min 1973 dir:Ron O'Neal cast:Ron O'Neal; Roscoe Lee Brown]
: After leaving the Harlem drug racket, Superfly and his girlfriend retire to Rome, where he gets bored and dabbles in African revolution.

SURFACE TENSION IN FLUID MECHANICS: [1090 16mm 4475 VHS 29min bw 1966]
: Uses several experiments to illustrate the properties of surface tension in a fluid.

SURNAME VIET, GIVEN NAME NAM: [fs 4348 VHS 108min 1989 dir:Trinh T. Minh-ha]
: A personal documentary surveying the historical and contemporary social roles of Vietnamese women.

SURREALISM AND SCIENCE: [fs6901 VHS PAL 95min. 1926-76, Color & b/w dir:Jean Painlevé]; 9 films by the surrealist scientist Jean Painlevé, including: Mathusalem, The Sea Horse, The Vampire, Sea Urchins, Shrimp Stories, Hyas and Stenorhyncus, Love Live of the Octopus, Acera or the Witches' Dance, and Liquid Crystals.

SURVIVING DESIRE: [fs 8070 VHS 60min. 1991 dir:Hal Hartley cast:Martin Donovan, Mary Ward]; A student wanting experience in order to write poetry seduces her professor, who falls in love. Also two 1991 shorts, Theory of Achievement (18min) and Ambition (9min).

SUSAN: [2771 VHS 55min 1987]
: A survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp and of the experiments of Dr. Mengele tells her story.

SUSPICION: [fs 3374 VHS 5334 LaserCLV1 99min bw 1941 dir:Alfred Hitchcock cast:Cary Grant; Joan Fontaine]
: A sedate young woman marries a playboy and then suspects he is trying to murder her.

SUZANNE'S CAREER: See LA CARRIÈRE DE SUZANNE

SUZHOU: [6412 VHS 1595 VHS 28min 1981]
: An observation of life and points of interest of a city in China.

SUZY: [fs 4125 VHS 93min 1936 dir:George Fitzmaurice cast:Jean Harlow; Franchot Tone; Cary Grant]
: In 1914 London a penniless American chorus girl settles for marrying a young inventor who is apparently murdered, making her flee to Paris and into marriage to a wealthy French aviator.

THE SWAN: [fs 5829 Laser 108min. 1956 dir:Charles Vidor cast:Grace Kelly, Alec Guiness]; From Ferenc Molnar's Ruritanian romance about the attempt to marry off an awkward princess to a Crown Prince. Includes a short on Kelly's actual 1956 marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco.

SWEDENHIELMS: [fs 5124 Laser bw Swedish subt 1935 dir:Gustaf Molander cast:Ingrid Bergman; Gösta Ekman]
: A Swedish scientist and his family become financially dependent upon his winning the Nobel Prize.

SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH: [fs 5830 Laser 113min. 1962 dir:Richard Brooks cast:Geraldine Page, Paul Newman]; Tennessee Williams play about a boy from a small Southern town juggling affairs with a local girl and a middle-aged Hollywood actress.

THE SWEET HEREAFTER: [6730 VHS 5505 LaserCLV 1997 113min dir:Atom Egoyan cast:Ian Holm; Maury Chaykin]
: A high-profile lawyer investigates a schoolbus accident in a small town and discovers everyone has secrets.

SWEET LORRAINE: [JHVC 7046 VHS 91min 1987 dir:Steve Gomer cast:Maureen Stapleton, Trini Alvarado]; Comedy and romance at a somewhat rundown Catskills Mountain resort.

SWEET MOVIE: [fs 4576 VHS 97min 1975 dir:Dusan Makavejev cast:Carole Laure; Anna Prucnal]
: A cult-status movie intended to be shocking, erotic, disgusting, funny, and anti-authoritarian.The two female leads are covered in sugar and chocolate at the end.

SWEEHEARTS: [fs 5831 Laser 115min. 1938 b/w dir:W.S. Van Dyke II cast:Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy]; Dorothy Parker script, based on the Victor Herbert operetta, has a married Broadway couple attempting to make a Hollywood movie.

SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA: [fs 5348 LaserCLV1 85min 1987 dir:Jonathan Demme cast:Spalding Gray]
: Filmed performance of Spalding Gray telling about his experiences as an actor in the production of the film The Killing Fields in Southeast Asia.

SWIMMING WITH WHALES: [4310 VHS 58min 1991]
: Follows the voyage of a research ship as it looks for whales around Vancouver Island. Discusses marine ecology.

SWING HIGH, SWING LOW: [fs6965 VHS 95min 1937 bw dir:Mitchell Leisen cast:Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray]; A singer and a trumpet player meet in the Panama Canal Zone and try to mix love and career.

SWING TIME: [fs 0862-0864 16mm 3366 VHS 5128 LaserCLV1 103min bw 1936 dir:George Stevens cast:Fred Astaire; Ginger Rogers]
: A dance team can't get together romantically because he has a commitment to a girl back home.

SWISS MISS: [fs 1824-1825 16mm 73min bw 1938 dir:John Blystone cast:Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy]
: Two mousetrap salesmen find music and romance in Switzerland.

SWOON: [fs 5328 LaserCLV1 93min bw 1992 dir:Tom Kalin cast:Craig Chester; Daniel Schlachet]
: Very stylistic telling of the thrill-murder of a young boy by two rich youths. Based on the Leopold and Loeb murder case of 1923.

THE SWORD AND THE FLUTE: [0085 VHS 24min 1959 dir:James Ivory]
: Saeed Jaffrey narrates a documentary about the the art of miniature painting fostered under the Moghul dynasty in India; music includes work by Ravi Shankar.

SWORD IN THE STONE: [fs 9527 DVD 79min. 1963 Disney animation]; T. H. White (Once and Future King) wrote this story of King Arthur's childhood, educated by Merlin through being transformed into various types of animals and experiencing their society.

SWORD IN THE DESERT: [fs 1183-1184 16mm 100min bw 1949 dir:George Sherman cast:Dana Andrews; Marta Toren]
: Jews are smuggled into Palestine during World War II.

SYLVIA PANKHURST: See SHOULDER TO SHOULDER

SYLVIA SCARLETT: [fs 5145 LaserCLV1 94min bw 1936 dir:George Cukor cast:Katharine Hepburn; Cary Grant; Brian Aherne]
: A woman con-artist - disguised as a boy - and her father team up with another swindler.

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: [fs6900 VHS 101min 1968 dir:Jean-Luc Godard cast:Anne Wiazemsky, the Rolling Stones (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, etc.)]; See One Plus One. This version includes an "unauthorized" addition of a complete take of the title song.

THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: [0155 16mm 14min 1956]
: Traces the evolution of the orchestra.