Orson Welles
Author
Language
English
Description
Innovative film and theater director, radio producer, actor, writer, painter, narrator, and magician, Orson Welles was the last true Renaissance man of the twentieth century. Welles was a master storyteller, as expansive as he was enigmatic. This collection of penetrating and witty conversations between Welles and Peter Bogdanovich includes insights into Welles's radio, theater, film, and television work; Hollywood producers, directors, and stars;...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Description
192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"Orson Welles, famous actor, writer, producer and visionary director, whose works span the media of theater, radio, film and television, had originally aspired to become a musician or artist. After studying at the Art Institute of Chicago at the age of sixteen, he continued to draw and paint throughout his life. The majority of his art--including costume and set designs for his films and theater productions, and personal paintings, sketches and doodles--has...
5) Dracula
Author
Pub. Date
[1976]
Physical Description
1 disc : 33 1/3 rpm. + mono. ; 12 in.
Language
English
Description
Orson Welles' own adaptation of Bram Stoker's horror novel Dracula.
Author
Language
English
Description
"There have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over regular lunches in the years before Welles died. The tapes, gathering dust in a garage, did indeed exist, and this book reveals for the first time what they contain. Here is Welles as he has never been seen before: talking intimately, disclosing personal secrets, reflecting on the highs...
Author
Language
English
Appears on These Lists
Description
"Old miser Scrooge doesn’t like Christmas. He’d rather spend his time making more money. But on Christmas Eve, he is visited by four apparitions . . . One of them is his late business partner and only friend, Marley. Marley makes it very clear to Scrooge that if he doesn’t change and become a better person, he will forever suffer in the afterlife. Terrified by the ominous messages from the ghosts, Scrooge is determined to change. But is there...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
8 audio discs (approximately 8 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
He's a con man, a manipulator, and a master of every form of deception. He'll look you right in the eye and rob you blind...but you won't care, because he's one of the most fascinating men you'll ever meet! He's Harry Lime -- and before he met a memorable end in The Third Man, he cut a broad swath across most of the inhabited globe! --
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.
14) To build a fire
Pub. Date
1999, 1969.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Retells Jack London's suspenseful tale of a man's struggle against the extreme weather of the Alaskan wilderness and his attempts to build the fire he must have in order to survive.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of the human race and its threatened destruction as foretold by Bible prophecies. The film connects these prophecies and events that have already happened, and ponders what the future holds for mankind.
16) Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rikki Tikki Tavi is the story of a mongoose adopted by a British family.
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood failure), and a crucially important independent filmmaker. Orson Welles's life was magical: a musical prodigy at age ten, a director of Shakespeare at fourteen, a painter at sixteen, a star of stage and radio at twenty, romances with some of the most beautiful women in the world, including...
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Description
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, color , black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
On October 30, 1938 a phony broadcast about the end of the world was all over the airwaves, except no one knew it was a hoax! This program examines the frailty of the world in 1938, the hysteria caused by this broadcast, the scandal that followed and the fallout of Wells popularity that was never recovered.