Literature and Speech

MIDDMS 800 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, Walt Disney Home Video, Starring Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre, 127 min, color, $?

MIDDMS 800 THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION SHERWOOD ANDERSONS I'M A FOOL, Starring Ron Howard, Amy Irving, Traveling from town to town during the summer of 1919, young Andy has left his Ohio home in search of little "wet behind the ears," . Andy learns a bittersweet lesson about life when he meets Lucy... the girl of his dreams at the race track one day. Ashamed of his occupation, Andy leads Lucy to believe he's wealthy . Soon one lie leads to another...Until there is no way to tell Lucy the truth. The irony of the story is that Lucy and Andy have fallen deeply in love. As Andy dejectdly admits on his way out of town, all is lost because "I'M A FOOL" 38 min $?

HmMS 800 ANNE OF AVONLEA. Starring Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst.
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Home Video, 1989, color, 224 min. $45.00

HmMS 800 ANNE OF GREEN GABLES. Starring Megan Follows, Colleen
Dewhurst, Richard Farnsworth. Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Home Video,
1987, color, 197 min. $45.00

MIDDMS 800 AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS Starring David Niven Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Winner of 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture, 1956
The Michael Todd Company Inc., Renewed 1984 Warner Bros. Inc., 179 min $?

HmMS DVD 800 BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA. A shy 5th grader learns about love when he strikes up a friendship with the new girl in town. Public Media Video, 1985, Color 58 min. $29.95

WiJSH 800 CHILD’S PLAY. SAKI. 1997, 28 min.

MIDDMS 800 THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, George Stevens a Cinemascope Picture 170 min, unrated, $?

MIDDMS 800 ET THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL A Steven Spielberg Film, Spielbergs heartwarming masterpiece of love between a young boy and a visitor from another planet has quickly become the most popular film of all time. Color/ 1 hour 55 mins $?

HmMS 800 LOUISA MAY ALCOTT’S LITTLE MEN. Little men, Jo March and
her husband attempt to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable
and stimulating place. Burbank, CA, Warner Home Video, 1998, Color, 98
min. $14.95

MIDDMS 800 THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY Starring Cliff Robertson, Beau Bridges, Peter Strauss, 1973 Worldvision Home Video 78 min $?

MIDDMS 800 THE NECKLACE. Aims Media, Mathilde Loisel is married to a decent but minor government official. Her dreams of rising to a better stations in life were probably common to the 19th century  French bourgeois class, but the loss of a borrowed necklace reduces her menial work to replace it. What she learns years later will shock us all into pondering the real meaning of the necklace. 21 min $?

WiJSH 800 OPEN WINDOW. SAKI. 1997, 11 min.

HmMS DVD 800 THE OUTSIDERS. Coming of age movie set in Tulsa, OK. in the mid sixties. Warner home Video 1999, Color, 91 min. $29.95

MIDDMS 800 RAY BRADBURYS The Electric Grandmother starring Maureen Stapleton. A magical, agless grandmother whose warmth transforms a skeptical litttle girl and brings love into a motherless home. This is a heartwarming tale of love, friendship and hope. 50 min $?

MIDDMS 800 READING THE BEST: Introducing The Newbery Winners, Cheshire Book Companions, The video begins with a brief motivational vignette. Then the material turns to quick review of many, many Newbery winner and honor books. A brief synopsis of each book is provided. The themes provided by the books in this program are what you teach. PART ONE: Sounder, A wrinkle In Time, It's Like This, Cat, Dicey's Song, Call It Courage, and many more.... 16:35 mins, PART TWO: A Gathering Of Days, Dear Mr. Henshaw, The Summer of the Swans, Charlotte's Web, Johnny Tremain, and many more.... 15:57 mins, PART THREE: Lincoln: A Photobiography, Number The Stars, Jacob Have I Loved, Bridge of Teribithia, My Brother Sam Is Dead, and many more...., 16:05 mins, PART FOUR: The Whipping Boy, The Westing Game, Sarah, Plain and Tall, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, The Grey King and many more.... 16:17 mins$?

MIDDMS 800 RIP VAN WRINKLE, Aims Media, Rip Van Wrinkle was the village charmer in one of New Yorks early Dutch settlements. Having decided preference for leisure, he escaped from his shrewish wife into the hills, and awoke to find himself in a world greatly changed. 18 min $?

HmMS 800 ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY. Set in the South of 1933 and
tells the story of a Black family's struggle to hold on to the land
they have owned for three generations. Van Nuys, CA, Live Home Video,
1992, Color, 115 min. $9.95

MIDDMS 800 ROMEO AND JULIET, Italian director Franco Zeffirelli, most popular motion picture winning international acclaim and four Academy Award nominations, most durable love story ever written 1968/color/138 min $?

HmMS DVD 800 THE SECRET GARDEN. A young orphan is sent to live at the dark and foreboding English estate of her widowed uncle, Warner Bros. Family Entertainment, 1997, Color, 102 min. $29.95

HmMS DVD 800 WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS. A young boy becomes the owner of two redbone hounds, Sterling Entertainment Group, 1991, Color, 98 min. $29.95

MIDDMS 800 THE TELL-TALE HEART The Short Story Collection 2 Edgar Allan Poe 30 min $?

MIDDMS 800 THE VELDT, The Hadley's new house does everything for them. It cooks, cleans, reads to them, and comforts them. Their children's playroom bring Wendy's and Peter's fantasies to life in full color. Then why, in this technological paradise, are Mr. and Mrs Hadleys bitterly unhappy? And why are they increasingly terrified by the images and sounds of the African Veldt on the playroom walls? Satire and horror mix in this story from Bradbury's Illustrated Man. Junior High-Adult, 24 min $?

MIDDMS 800 WALKING ON AIR, Based on a story idea by famed science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury. Starring Lynn Redgrave, Jordan Marder, James Treuer and Katheryn Trainor. At his hydrotherapy swimming class, wheelchair-bound 12 year-old Danny Pearson discovers how wonderful it feels to float. Could that same feeling of weightlessness in outer space free him from the limits of his handicap? With the help of an unorthodox science teacher, Danny confronts his family and friends and NASA in a quest to acheive his dreams of walking in space. Color 58 min $?

MIDDMS 800 WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, Starring Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., Annabella Sciorra, Embark on a supernatural journey beyond the realm of mortality in this visually stunning and unforgettable epic. After Chris Neilsen dies in an accident, he tries to remain close to his beautiful, mortal wife. With the friendly spirit assigned to guide him, he begins to adapt to his new state of being in a setting that can only be described as heavenly. But when his distraught wife takes her ownlife, she is banished to eternal damnation. Chris vows to find her so they can share eternity together, but no one has ever succeeded in rescuing a soul from such a horrific fate. With his heavenly friends, Chris sets out on a most perilous and harrowing journey of his life, or afterlife: a quest for everlasting love that will take him to hell and back. PG-13, 113 min, color $?

HmMS DVD 800 WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS. A young boy becomes the owner of two redbone hounds, Sterling Entertainment Group, 1991, Color, 98 min. $29.95

HmHS 808 THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE. Host, Charles Osgood. Fundamentals
of precise writing delivered in a clear and contemporary way. Great
Neck, NY: Best Film and Video Corp., 1991, 112 min. $29.95

CaVHS 808 HOW TO APPRECIATE POETRY. Young actors present all the
important elements of poetry including alliteration, consonance,
assonance, onomatopoeia, internal rhyme, end rhyme, iambic pentamer,
and more. Scottsdale, AZ: Teacher’s Video Company, 1997, 40 min.

ParMHS 808 HOW TO WRITE AN EXPOSITORY THEME. The basics of putting
ideas and opinions into a concise, well-written format. Huntsville ,
Texas: EVN, 1992, 23 min.

CaPub, CaVHS 808 MARK TWAIN’S A TRAGEDY IN THE GRAVEYARD. A
presentation of the basics of good writing, with humor. Richardson,
Tex: Grace Products Corp., 1992, 43 min.

NaWMS 808 TRAGEDY IN THE GRAVEYARD: AN ADVENTURE OF LAUGHTER AND
LEARNING. How to write a story in the style of Mark Twain. Richardson,
TX: Grace Production, Inc., 1993. 43 min. $89.00

NaWMS 808.02 HOW TO WRITE AN ESSAY: PREWRITING, WRITING, EDITING,
REVISING AND SUBMITTING. Scottsdale, AZ: Teacher’s Video Company, 2002.
$30.00

CaPub 808.066 GRANT YOUR WISH. Valuable insights into the grant
writing process. Ft. Lauderdale, FL: Successful Images, Inc., 1998.

CaVHS 808.2 JUNIOR CLASS SKITS: VALLIVUE HIGH SCHOOL. 1986 and 1987.

CaVHS 808.2 LA BELLE ET LA BETTE. Beauty and the Beast presented in the French language.Silver Screen Partners, 199-, 84 min.

CaVHS 808.2 TWELVE ANGRY MEN. Henry Fonda stars in drama of one
dissenting juror against eleven in a jury trial. Orion-Nova, 1984, 95
min.

NaChHS 808.3 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA. Jules Verne. 127 min.

NaSMS 808.3 UNDERSTANDING LITERATURE. Highlights works of Hemingway,
Twain, Stevenson and others. Also covers plot, elements, character,
etc. Goldhil Media, 2003, color, 30 min. $30.00

HmHS 808.5 1990 CONTEST SPEECHES. Univ. of Northern Iowa, 1990, 50 min. $35.00

HmHS 808.5 PERSUASIVE SPEAKING. Esquire Video, 1985, color, 60 min. $39.95

ParMHS 808.5 PUBLIC SPEAKING MADE EASY. Huntsville, TX: Educational Video Network, 1997, 13 min.

HmHS 808.5 SAY IT BETTER: FEARLESS PUBLIC SPEAKING. The Learning Seed, 1988, color, 23 min. $89.95

HmHS 808.5 SPEECHES TO ENTERTAIN, 1989. Univ. of Northern Iowa, 1989, color, 50 min. $35.00

HmHS 808.5 SPEECHES TO INFORM, 1989. Univ. of Northern Iowa, 1989, color, 50 min. $35.00

HmHS 808.5 SPEECHES TO PERSUADE, 1989. Univ. of Northern Iowa, 1989, color, 50 min. $35.00

NamHS 808.51 LEARN PUBLIC SPEAKING. The Standard Deviants Series. Cerebellum Corp, 2002, color, 60 min. $20.00

CaVHS DVD 808.7 ANIMAL FARM. Kelsey Grammer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julia Ormond. A satire in fable form expressed through the animals at Manor Farm. Hallmark Home Entertainment, 1999, 91 min.

CaVHS 808.82 THE PIANO LESSON. August Wilson’s Pulitzer
Prize-winning tale of a family caught between their heritage and a
dream for the future. Hallmark Home Entertainment, 1998, Color , 104
mins. Starring Charles Dutton and Alfre Woodard. $29.95

CaVHS 808.83 THE COUP DE GRACE and AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK
BRIDGE. 1st film (20 min.) After battle, a Union soldier, a Captain,
searches for his childhood friend. He realizes that he has to put his
friend out of his misery. 2nd film (28 min.) Impressions passing
through a man’s mind in the instant before he is hanged during the
Civil War. North Hollywood, CA : Hollywood Select Video with Concord
Video, 1987.

MarSH 808.83 WILLA CATHER'S PAUL'S PLACE. Monterey Home Video, 1986, 52 min. $24.95

NaSMS 809 EVERYBODY’S READING. Biographical data on contemporary
authors: Lois Lowry,  Mike Thaler, Bill Wallace, Richard Brenner, Brian
Pickney, Patricia Hermes, Kate Duke, and Patricia Polacco.

MarSH 809 HEROES AND COWARDS. Orson Welles, commentator. Lord Jim,
Middlemarch Red Badge of Courage. Learning Corp. of America, 1986, 31
min. $99.00

MarSH 809 POWER AND CORRUPTION. Narrated by Orson Welles. Macbeth,
Paradise Lost, All the King’s Men. Learning Corp. of America, 1986. 34
min. $89.00