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CAMPUS contains over 3000 National Film Board (NFB) films, features and resources in both English and French.
1) Grace notes
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Rare musical performances: Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grapelli and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in Jazz hot (1939), Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club Orchestra featured in Black and tan (1929), Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen, 1934, and a 1929 performance from the Utica Jubilee Singers.
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One of Hollywood's earliest -- and most peculiar -- musicals, The Great Gabbo stars von Stroheim as an egotistical ventriloquist who casts a Svengali-like spell upon an ingenue (Betty Compson), against a backdrop of singularly strange numbers (including "Icky" and the spider-and-fly-themed "Caught in a Web"). Director James Cruze (The Covered Wagon) allowed von Stroheim to endow the character with his signature flourishes, resulting in a wicked cocktail...
5) Persuade me
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Eleven films designed to influence, including a vintage promotional film of a French-dubbed Laurel & Hardy, theatrical advertisements featuring Michel Simon and Jacques Tati, a 1938 George Pal puppet animation, three WW-II era musical shorts, two political campaign films, and the National Film registry selection Master Hands, a paean to the 1936 Chevrolet automobile.
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Live in concert performing their greatest hits, here are children's music pioneers Gary Rosen and Bill Shontz, the award-winning duo Rosenshontz, performing at a free concert in Boston Common in front of 10,000 ecstatic fans (and their teddy bears). A full hour of their zany humor, superb harmonies, instrumental versatility, and inventive lyrics that speak directly to children and their parents.
10) My fair lady
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Lerner and Loewe's musical version of 'Pygmalion' about a Covent Garden flower girl who becomes a lady.
11) Cabaret
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A musical drama about an American girl who dreams of becoming a star while working as a singer in a third-rate cabaret in Germany on the eve of Hitler's rise to power.
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"Captures all the excitement, drama, music, and dance of the original U.S. film with unique Chinese characters and extraordinary adventures. A new student at a college in Shanghai meets a gifted man and shares a secret passion for singing. Without her parents' support, she and her new group of friends enter an inter-school singing competition and discover their true calling and the value of true friendship"--Container.
20) La Habanera
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Legendary director Douglas Sirk's (Written on the wind, Imitation of life) La Habanera is a lushly poetic and boldly modern musical drama decades ahead of its time. Working at Germany's famed UFA Studios (Metropolis), under the very noses of the Nazi authorities that would later force him into Hollywood exile and eminence, Sirk transformed a glossy musical vehicle for UFA's "new Garbo" Zarah Leander into a dark and intimate anti-colonial melodrama....
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