Conejos Library District

A young Cockney laundress tells her friends that she is the daughter of an archduke, who has turned her out of their mansion so that she will be loved for herself, not her money. She is so desperate for love that she tells her troubles to the laundry's delivery horse. When Mary rescues the nag from the glue factory and brings him home with her, the result is hilarious.

Utopia: In their very last film, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy travel to London so that Stan can claim his uncle's inheritance. On a yacht that his uncle left him, the boys take a cruise and are marooned on an atoll where they are forced to survive in a Robinson Crusoe-like existence. Best of Laurel & Hardy. Mud & Sand: Slapstick parody of Rudolph Valentino's Blood and Sand. Stan Laurel Home Movies: Collection of footage shot during a tour. The...

A collection of four of Chaplin's films.

Silent film detailing the events leading up to the Russian Revolution. The filem was commissioned to Sergei Eisenstein to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Eisenstein chose to capture the spirit of the era by focusing on one place at one point in time: Petrograd between February and October 1917, and using a political perspective. The original version was heavily censored by Stalin, but in 1967 a full restoration was made,...

An expressionistic drama about authoritarianism and revolt in an industrialized metropolis of the 21st century.

Paris, 1911. Andre du Monde, director of a famous horror theater, has married a young girl from the country. As a child, Andre experienced something terrible. Now he can't be close to anyone except by frightening them.His wife is frightened too. Because Andre keeps telling her she's going to poison him...Alexander von Reisden, doctor to the mad and Andre's friend, seems to have outlived his own terrible past. He has a wife and a son, and work he loves....

When silent movie director Larry Trimble decides to put Strongheart, a police dog, into his movies as the lead actor, he must first train him to play with toys and walk like a regular dog, but Strongheart becomes a sensation until his military training leads to trouble, and possibly the end of his career. Includes author's note on the real Strongheart.

"This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The...

"A collection of two feature films and eleven short films from the silent movie era on baseball"--videodisc container.