The Adventure of Photography: 150 Years of the Photographic Image (DVD)
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The Adventure of Photography: 150 Years of the Photographic Image (DVD)
Featuring over 1700 pictures by 300 artists, this four hour look at the history of photography is a sumptuous look at the possibilities created when artists attempt to capture life as they see it. From early daguerreotypes to modern artists, from amateur photographers to the surrealists, and from war photography to science and nudes, you will learn about the many facets that cover the art of photography. Includes dazzling photographs by the likes of Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Robert Capa, Lewis Carroll, Robert Doisneau, Max Ernst, Roger Fenton, Eadweard Muybridge, Nicephore Niepce, Man Ray,
Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, Andy Warhol, and many more.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33
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Art Institute of Chicago - Sister Wendy's American Collection (DVD)
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Art Institute of Chicago - Sister Wendy's American Collection (DVD)
Art enthusiast Sister Wendy visits the Art Institute of Chicago to reveals the hidden facts surrounding historic French Impressionist paintings. Studies on Marc Chagall's stained glass masterpieces and Grant Wood's American Gothic are also highlighted.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseSingle Side - single LayerFull Frame - 1.33:1
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Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy (DVD)
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Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy (DVD)
This three-part PBS documentary explores the details surrounding the new global economy and its importance to the worldwide community. Filmed on five continents and based on the best-selling book by Pulitzer Prizewinner Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, COMMANDING HEIGHTS is an intricate look at the fight for economic power featuring stunning footage and interviews with world leaders and thinkers such as former U.S. President Bill Clinton, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, former President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, Mexican President Vincente Fox, Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, and Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseThree-Disc SetSingle Side - Single LayerFull Frame - 1.33Interactive Material: Scene AccessDVD-ROM Features: Commanding Heights Web Link Time Map Interactive Atlas Interview Transcripts Biographies Teacher's Guide Companion Book Excerpts Subjects List Chapter Breaks
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Nova - Physics: The Elegant Universe Beyond (DVD)
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Nova - Physics: The Elegant Universe Beyond (DVD)
Nova - Physics: The Elegant Universe Beyond (DVD)
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Sonar 3 (DVD)
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Sonar 3 (DVD)
This instructional video teaches the viewer how to use the SONAR 3 audio computer program. The program is Windows-based and designed to interface with audio workstations for the purposes of recording and producing some of the finest-sounding music that can be made. With this instructional guide, the viewer will learn how to utilize the program, how to set Sonar 3 to correctly interface with recording and mixing hardware, and how to export finished files into the format of the viewer`s choosing. The complexity of the SONAR 3 program is made easy with this release.
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Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd (DVD)
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Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd (DVD)
New York filmmaker Nick Zedd is a central figure in the history of underground filmmaking. Focused on breaking sexual taboos and provoking strong reactions against the status quo, Zedd has influenced other filmmakers, such as Richard Kern and Tommy Turner, practice in a Cinema of Transgression. THE SINEMA OF NICK ZEDD is the first DVD collection of the filmmaker's works, and includes 11 of his films as well as outtakes, interviews, and rare concert footage of Zedd's music project, the noise band Zyklon-B.DVD Features:Region 1Full Frame - 1.33
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Middle of the Moment (DVD)
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Middle of the Moment (DVD)
MIDDLE OF THE MOMENT poetically explores the notion of nomadic existence as an experience of total freedom and living entirely in the moment, without attachments to any particular location. Filmmakers Nicolaus Humbert and Werner Penzel study with a philosophical eye the nomads of the South Sahara and the Cirque O, as well as abstract nomads such as the poet Robert Lax. Noted musician and composer Fred Frith supplies the musical soundtrack.DVD Features:Hard Bound BookletAnamorphic WidescreenAdditional Release Material: Two Bonus TracksInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access
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The Port of Last Resort - Zuflucht in Shanghai (DVD)
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The Port of Last Resort - Zuflucht in Shanghai (DVD)
The Port of Last Resort - Zuflucht in Shanghai (DVD)
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Standard Deviants: French Parts 1& 2 (DVD)
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Standard Deviants: French Parts 1& 2 (DVD)
This edition of Standard Deviants educational videos attempts to explain the mysteries of French. Both parts are included in this special box.Includes highlighters, pencils, and sticky notes.
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Alfred Brendel: In Portrait (DVD)
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Alfred Brendel: In Portrait (DVD)
A portrait of Alfred Brendel's life and work as one of the greatest classical pianists. Also includes a discussion between Sir Simon Rattle and Alfred Brendel on Beethoven's Piano Concertos Nos. 2& 3.DVD Features:Region 1Keep Case
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A Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Portrait and Concert / Adventures of a Wunderkind (DVD)
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A Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Portrait and Concert / Adventures of a Wunderkind (DVD)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold is mostly known as a film composer during Hollywood's golden age, from his reknown scores for such films as ROBIN HOOD starring Errol Flynn and A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM, but little is known about his life in Europe beforehand. In the years before Hollywood beckoned, he had become the musical sensation in Europe in the 1920s and ADVENTURES OF A WUNDERKIND, a documentary about his life, covers many of these different aspects of Korngold's career. Countless home movies, photographs and private tapes are presented, along with a ten minute montage of extracts from his Warner Brothers films. Additionally, A PORTRAIT AND A CONCERT presents conductor Hugo Wolff showing us two pieces of classical music that Korngold wrote while scoring for Hollywood: a cello concerto and a violin concerto.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseWidescreen AnamorphicAudio: PORTRAIT: Dolby Digital 2.0 - English Concert: PCM Stereo
Dolby Digital 5.1Additional Release Material: Trailer - 1. Arthaus Musik TrailerInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access
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Walking with Dinosaurs (DVD)
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Walking with Dinosaurs (DVD)
Learn all about the dinosaurs and how they ate, fought, mated, and more. High-tech animatronics and computer graphics are used to bring the world of the dinosaurs to life, in this popular documentary series. Includes six episodes featuring the most up-to-date discoveries, narrated by Kenneth Branagh. Made in association with The Discovery Channel.DVD Features:Region 1 Encoding2-Disc SetDisc 1: Single Side/Dual LayerAnamorphic Widescreen - 1.78Disc 2: Single Side/Single LayerWidescreenMaking-of DocumentaryDeleted ScenesScene SelectionPicture-in-Picture Behind-the-Scenes FootagePromotional TrailersChapters
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