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O. Winston Link: Trains that Passed in the Night ED-470
60 min / 1990 / CG / VHS
High school through adult
O. Winston Link spent the 1950s photographing and recording audio of the last steam trains in our country running on the Norfolk and Western line in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains. In his spare time, without pay, Link captured not only amazing images of the behemoth machines but also lifestyles of the era’s people who lived near the rails. This film is loaded with Link’s gorgeous photographs and loving commentary as he demonstrates his techniques.

The Odyssey Tapes PE-19
30 min / color / 1986 / MOMA / VHS
High school through adult
"Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending...." These opening words of Homer's Odyssey spring to life when spoken in the vibrant voice of concert artist Richard Dyer-Bennett. Dyer-Bennett has set for himself an ingenious challenge: to record the ancient poem in all its epic length and beauty-in the spoken form in which the world first heard the tale, 3 millennia ago. Dyer-Bennett discusses his reasons for taking on the project and performs several readings from the Odyssey. History, literature, and language teachers will find the film inspiring to their students.

"Oh! For a Life of Sensations" ED-175
22 min / color / 1984 / KL / 16mm
College through adult
David Rockefeller, Jr. narrates this film study of the Arts in Education Program in 4 Midwestern schools. Here, artists, teachers, and children work together in a variety of roles. A folk singer reveals the importance of the senses in understanding nature and art. An arts coordinator conducts a teacher's workshop connecting language with movement. A poet relates creative writing to a geography lesson. A dancer uses theater games to introduce teachers to exercises in social and spatial awareness. An architect teams up with a high-school drafting teacher to hold a design competition. This is an excellent film for teachers, parents, school administrators, artists, and school board members-anyone interested in helping children express themselves creatively.

Oil on Canvas NEW!
6 parts, 30 min ea / 1998 / VHS
High school through adult
This series is a different approach to the usual instructional art video. The series explores 6 crucial elements of oil painting technique by spotlighting contemporary painters who have their own particular specialty. What results are very revealing lessons on using oil paints and achieving the results many students would like to know but also learning the fascinating working methods and the creative approaches of these featured artists. Examples from classical masters are also discussed in relation to the artists' works.

Color w/June Redfern            OC-1
Brushstrokes w/ John Virtue           OC-2
Composition w/ Ray Richardson            OC-3
Light w/ John Greenwood            OC-4
Perspective w/ Ben Johnson and Patrick Hughes            OC-5
Portrait w/ Tai-Shan Schierenberg            OC-6

Old Treasures from New China OA-16
55 min / color / 1977 / UC / 16mm
High school through adult
This film superbly portrays China's dynamic evolution from its early primitive society through the more sophisticated society of the 13th-century Yuan dynasty. It explores China's technological and artistic achievements and its contributions to world civilization through exquisitely photographed selections from an archaeological exhibition from the People's Republic of China, which toured the United States in 1975.

On Snow’s Wavelength: Zoom Out EX-3
56 min / 2001 / FRIC / VHS
College through adult
In 1966, Michael Snow made an experimental film called Wavelength. It was a 45-minute camera zoom-in across his loft room, from a long view to a specific close-up of a photo on the far wall. Snow said he was “trying to make a definitive statement of pure film space and time”. It became an instantaneous avant-garde milestone that impacted on the evolution of cinema in general. This is an offbeat profile of Snow with his own descriptions of his conceptual cinematic work, sculpture, photography, and music.

On the Move: The Central Ballet of China PE-28
60 min / color / 1987 / DC / 16mm
Middle school through adult
A delightful example of East meets West, On the Move follows the dancers of the Central Ballet of China from their home base in Beijing to the energetic atmosphere of New York. Classically trained Chinese dancers work with innovative American dance companies, encountering jazz, modern dance, and even the rap rhythms of hip hop. Recommended for studies in performing arts and Asian and world cultures. Suggested Classroom Activities: Discuss with your students their favorite hobbies, sports, and pastimes; have them consider how they might introduce their interests to students visiting from China. Also examine what insights about American culture Chinese students might have.

On the Rocks: Prehistoric Art of France and Spain ED-273
25 min / color / 1989 / GPA / VHS
High school through adult
Douglas Mazonowicz, an artist and historian specializing in prehistoric cave art, is working to preserve and interpret a fragile legacy: the memory and artistic production of mankind's earliest ancestors as seen in examples in France, Spain, the Central Sahara, and Australia's outback. Mazonowicz has perfected his abilities to reproduce, in serigraphic form, these ancient works, which are rapidly disappearing or are being closed off for their own protection. Scholarly research and deduction have enabled him to "fill in the blanks" in his modern-day interpretations. An excellent complement to printmaking classes.

100 Great Paintings
50 min / color / 1983 / FFH / VHS
High school through adult
This comprehensive series examines some of the greatest artists and masterpieces of Western civilization. Unlike the typical art survey, it is divided into programs based on themes rather than chronology, featuring internationally renowned scholars discussing individual works in detail. Viewers are given the opportunity to compare styles, innovations, and techniques. Recommended for art history, art appreciation, or fine arts classes.

1. Grief HGP-1
Giotto di Bondone, Lamentation of the Dead Christ. Matthias Grünewald, Crucifixion (The Isenheim Altarpiece). El Greco (Domenikos Theotocopoulos), The Burial of Count Orgaz. Jacques Louis David, The Lictors Returning the Bodies of His Sons to Brutus. Nathanial Bacon, Three Studies of Figures at the Foot of a Crucifix.

2. Love HGP-2
Antonio Correggio, Leda and the Swan. Nicolas Poussin, Venus Spied on by the Shepherds. Thomas Gainsborough, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews. Kangra miniature, Radha and Krishna in the Grove. Max Ernst, The Robing of the Bride.

3. Processions HGP-3
Benozzo Gozzoli, Procession of the Magi. Antoine Watteau, Embarkation for the Island of Cythera. Antonio Canaletto, The Bacino on Ascension Day. Francisco Goya, The Burial of the Sardine. Fernand Léger, The Wedding.

4. Music HGP-4
Giorgione (Giorgio da Castelfranco), Concert Champêtre. Annibale Carracci, Roman Landscape with Bridge. Henri Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy. Georges Braque, The Musician.

5. War HGP-5
Paolo Uccello, Rout of San Romano. Albrecht Altdorfer, The Battle of Issus. Diego Velàzquez, The Surrender of Breda. Eugéne Delacroix, Scenes from the Massacre at Chios. Pablo Picasso, Guernica.

6. Children HGP-6
Leonardo da Vinci, Virgin and Child with Saint Anne. Raphael Sanzio, Madonna of the Meadow. Diego Velàzquez, Prince Baltasar Carlos on Horseback. Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, The Young Schoolmistress. Egon Schiele, Woman with Two Children.

7. Gardens HGP-7
Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights. Giovanni Bellini, The Agony in the Garden. Claude Monet, Woman in a Garden. Piet Mondrian, Flowering Apple Tree. Paul Klee, Garden with Bird.

8. Outdoor Life HGP-8
Chinese, 12th century, Clear Weather in the Valley. Hendrick Avercamp, Winter Scene. Thomas Eakins, Max Schmitt in a Single Scull. Pierre Auguste Renoir, The Luncheon of the Boating Party. Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

9. Bathing HGP-9
Guido Ricci, Bathsheba Bathing. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Turkish Bath. Edgar Degas, Woman in the Tub. Paul Cézanne, The Bathers.

10. Self-Portraits HGP-10
Albrecht Dürer, Self-Portrait. Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait as the Apostle Paul. Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait. James Ensor, Self-Portrait with Masks. Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Self-Portrait.

11. Storytelling HGP-11
Masaccio (Tommaso Guidi), The Tribute Money. Vittore Carpaccio, The Miracle of the Relic of the True Cross. Peter Paul Rubens, Mercury and Argos. Georges de la Tour, The Fortune-Teller. Honoré Daumier, Ecce Homo.

12. Farming HGP-12
Pieter Bruegel, The Fall of Icarus. Peter Paul Rubens, Chateau Steen. Thomas Holman Hunt, The Hireling Shepherd. Marc Chagall, I and the Village. John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows.

13. Adoration HGP-13
Jan Van Eyck, The Madonna with Chancellor. Piero della Francesca, The Resurrection. Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus. Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV. Giambattista Tiepolo, The Triumph of Virtue and Nobility Over Ignorance.

14. Hunting HGP-14
Titian (Tiziano Vecelli), Diana and Callisto. Jan Bruegel, Huntsman in the Snow. George Stubbs, The Grosvenor Hunt. Gustav Courbet, The Huntsmen's Picnic. Winslow Homer, The Fox Hunt.

15. Reclining Nude HGP-15
Giorgione (Georgio da Castelfranco), Sleeping Venus. Francois Boucher, Recumbent Nude. Francisco Goya, The Naked Maja. Edouard Manet, Olympia. Henri Matisse, Blue Nude.

16. The Magic of Light HGP-16
Caravaggio (Michelangelo de Marisi), Supper at Emmaus. Francisco de Zurbaràn, Still Life: Lemons, Oranges, and a Rose. Pierre Bonnard, Nude Against the Light. René Magritte, The Empire of Lights. Mark Rothko, Red, Brown, and Black.

17. The Language of Color HGP-17
Nicolas Poussin, The Adoration of the Golden Calf. Jan Vermeer, The Artist in His Studio. Paul Gauguin, The Day of the God. Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 6. Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm.

18. Touch HGP-18
Duccio di Buoninsegna, The Blind Man. Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti), Ariadne, Bacchus, and Venus. Georges de la Tour, The Dream of Joseph. Rembrandt van Rijn, The Jewish Bride. Pablo Picasso, La Vie.

19. Cities HGP-19
El Greco (Domenikos Theotocopoulos), View of Toledo. Jan Vermeer, View of Delft. J.M.W. Turner, Venice, the Dogana and Santa Maria Della Salute. Vincent van Gogh, Outdoor Café at Night. Auguste Macke, The Hat Shop.

20. The Elements HGP-20
Sotatsu, Waves at Matsushima. J.M.W. Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Parliament. James McNeil Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold. Paul Cézanne, The Montagne Sainte-Victoire from the Bibemus Quarry. Oskar Kokoschka, The Tempest.

One Hundred Years of Modern Art
3 part series / RC
This series gives a rudimentary exposure to painting, sculpture, and architecture dating from the late nineteenth-century to 1970. Each film in the series gives a very brief introduction to themes, movements, and artists followed by unnarrated footage of major works. The series does not present any analysis of movements or works of art, but chooses to let the works speak for themselves.

Part One OH-1
19 min / color / VHS
Middle school through adult
This video introduces painting of the period from 1870 to 1907. Video sequences touch on the painters Degas, Cézanne, Monet, Seurat, Gauguin, van Gogh, Picasso, Matisse, and Rousseau. The video introduces Neo-Impressionism, Pointillism, and the Fauves. Many works are presented without identification.

Part Two OH-2
23 min / color / VHS
Middle school through adult
This video introduces painting of the period from 1907 to 1930. The video introduces Cubism and touches on Expressionism, Surrealism, and Dada. Artists represented in the video include Picasso, Braque, Mondrian, Matisse, Roualt, Munch, Klee, Chagall, and Paul Nash. Many works are presented without identification.

Part Three OH-3
26 min / color / VHS
Middle school through adult
This video introduces painting, sculpture, and architecture of the period from 1930 to 1970. The video touches upon the major artists, movements, and works of this period without analysis or explanation. Many works are presented without identification.

One Turkey, Two Turkey ED-222
6 min / color / 1971 / AIMS / VHS
Preschool through elementary school
Combine the following: the numbers 1 through 10, a lively fiddled version of Turkey in the Straw, and an amusing collection of barnyard gobblers. Now you have One Turkey, Two Turkey, a highly entertaining and educational film! The rhythm, humor, and action of this video are destined to captivate young viewers, helping them to visualize number concepts and to recognize the numbers themselves. While this film is extremely helpful for math and reading, art teachers will also find it stimulating for drawing or painting activities.

Open a Door
Varied times / color / 1994 / AGC / VHS
Preschool through adult
This delightful series of nonnarrated programs, filmed in different countries, focuses on a child passing through a door into a world of wonderful adventures. Open a Door is an innovative means of learning more about the world in which we live and the world we imagine.

1. England, Cyprus, Holland OAD-1
In England, a young girl and her dog find themselves following her lost hat as it travels downstream to the river and out to sea. In Cyprus, a young boy follows the flight of a bird into the forest where he meets a herd of wild goats. Finally, in Holland, a small boy finds himself daydreaming of being in charge of a building site.

2. Philippines, Dominica, Tanzania, New Zealand OAD-2
Margie, a young girl in the Philippines, watches coconuts being cut down to provide milk for cooking. She learns that palm leaves work well for musical horns. In Dominica, Saskia fetches water from the river and winds up losing track of time as she plays. A kind man in Tanzania helps Muja make a broom to sweep the steps at his school before class begins. In New Zealand, a young Maori girl cannot afford the gift she wants for her grandfather, so she makes something beautiful from the stones and shells she finds at the seashore.

3. Canada, Sweden, Poland, Byelorussia OAD-3
In Canada, Chris is sent outside to play ice hockey. Suddenly, a puck sails over the fence, and he discovers a game he can join. Matilda, who lives in Sweden, collects the Sunday paper; but a gust of wind sends the pages flying. With the help of some animal friends, she puts the pieces together. Poland is the setting for a little boy and his dog. When the dog's leash gets caught in the door, they find themselves being entertained by imaginary characters. A Byelorussian girl helps her parents put on a puppet show for young children.

Orange ED-77
3 min / color / 1970 / SBC / 16mm
Preschool through adult
Filmmaker Karen Johnson shows us nothing more than the eating of a navel orange. Through her combination of macro-photography and a soft musical soundtrack, Johnson presents a sensual adventure into the essence of this common fruit. Orange is in film collections throughout the country, has won numerous awards, and is considered a film classic. This film is excellent for teaching children visual awareness and tactile sensation.

Origami: The Art of Paper Folding AT-74
65 min / 1988 / CRYS / VHS
Elementary school through adult
This instructional video is a beginner’s guide to the ancient art form, origami. With step-by-step, easy to follow instructions, children can learn as quickly as adults. Several forms are demonstrated including a sailboat, flying bird, butterfly, a lion, and a box. Also, learn how to make origami paper and giant figures and about the history of paper folding.

The Originals: Women in Art
Varied; see below / color / 1977 / FI / 16mm, VHS
High school through adult
This series celebrates some of America's most brilliant women artists, both past and present. Producer Perry Miller Adato is widely acknowledged as a leading maker of films on art. In this series she examines the personalities, lifestyles, and work of those American women whose creative talents have made valuable contributions to the visual arts.

1. Georgia O'Keeffe (60 min) WIA-1
This is the only film that this great American modernist ever allowed to be made of her life and work. In the film, O'Keeffe discusses her early life, her art, and her marriage to photographer Alfred Stieglitz.

2. Louise Nevelson in Process (28 min) WIA-2
Louise Nevelson admitted that her works were "really for my visual eye...a feast for myself." In this film, the feast can be shared by all. Nevelson is acknowledged as one of America's greatest women sculptors. The film shows the development of two of her innovations: her famous black-box assemblages and her huge cubistic "environmental" structures.

3. Helen Frankenthaler (28 min) WIA-3
The background and evolution of Frankenthaler's art are traced from the explosive force of color and shape in her early "stain paintings" to the controlled, majestic, unfolding forms of her more recent canvases.

4. Mary Cassatt-Impressionist from) Philadelphia (28 min) WIA-4
Cassatt, recognized as an equal by Degas, Monet, and Renoir, received little notice within the American art scene upon her return to the United States in 1898. This film reveals the quality, variety, and originality of her paintings, prints, and drawings, and clearly presents her as a leading figure in American art.

5. Spirit-Catcher: The Art of Betye Saar (28 min) WIA-5
This intriguing film probes the art, the spirit, the symbols, and the revelations of assemblage artist Betye Saar. In developing her art, she has had to face the double prejudices of sexism and racism. What has emerged is the simultaneous penetration of old and new levels of black awareness. Her constructions use astrology, the occult, fetishes, and historical photographs.

6. Anonymous Was a Woman (28 min) WIA-6
This film explores the origins of our folk art traditions in the creative spirit of the 18th and 19th centuries. Primary sources such as letters, journals, and diaries reveal that women created much of what has been called "anonymous" folk art. In designing useful and pleasing household articles, the anonymous artisan was not a self-conscious artist but rather an unsung aesthetic innovator.

Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer ED-254
28 min / color / 1985 / BEA / 16mm, VHS
Middle school through adult
Oscar Micheaux is remembered for his work as a pioneer producer-director of films offering a positive image for black Americans in the 1920s and 1930s. The program is built around the on-camera reminiscences of 2 performers who appeared in Micheaux films: Bee Freeman, who was a featured actress, and Lorenzo Tucker, known as "the Black Valentino." The film features a reenactment of Bee Freeman's performance in the Broadway show Shuffle Along, danced by Janice Morgan.

The Other Half Revisited: The Legacy of Jacob Riis WA-509
59 min / color / 1996 / CG / VHS
High school through adult
More than 100 years ago, photojournalist Jacob Riis dramatically portrayed issues of homelessness, poverty, crime, public health, and race relations in America. His words and images were the catalyst for reforms in housing and public health that endure to this day. A century later, however, the very same issues resonate in today's headlines and national political debates. This video provides a historical perspective on the plight of America's "other half" today. The program combines Riis's original photographs and his rarely-seen and recently restored magic lantern slides and text, with the social vision of contemporary award-winning photographers such as Margaret Morton and Eli Reed.

Otto Dix: The Painter Is the Eyes of the World WA-391
58 min / color / 1989 / AA / VHS
College through adult
Early in his career, his paintings were considered obscene. Later, he was blacklisted by the Nazis and even arrested on suspicion of plotting to assassinate Hitler. The German painter Otto Dix (1891-1969) captured the constant movement, raw energy, and atrocities of war, rather than its political meaning. This program explains the work of this important 20th-century artist and seeks to fathom the depths of his vision of war by considering both his life and his paintings. It offers valuable reappraisal of his many well-known portraits and his 2 famous triptychs, War and City.

Our Buildings, Ourselves: Architecture in Virginia WA-411
25 min / color / 1993 / VM / VHS
High school through adult
Produced in conjunction with the exhibition The Making of Virginia Architecture: Drawings and Models, 1719-1990, this video explores how Virginia's architecture reflects the beliefs and values of her citizens from the Colonial period to the present. The Educator's Resource Kit, Introducing Virginia Architecture, complements this video.

Out Art: Creativity with Bill Moyers ED-287
30 min / color / 1989 / PBS / VHS
High school through adult
What is the definition of art? Is it only found in a museum or can it be found on the side of a truck driving down the highway? Out Art explores these questions by discussing the work of artists who are not concerned with the buying and selling of art. Whether they create a roadside sculpture or a mural painting to beautify a sewer system, these artists have one thing in common, making public art for the public good. According to one "out" artist,"...I wish to bring a little joy and a little change to the everyday routine."

Out of Ireland ED-370
111 min / color / 1995 / PBS / VHS
Middle school through adult
Narrated by actress Kelly McGillis, this video traces the story of flight from the famine-swept villages of 19th-century Ireland to the industrialized cities of 20th-century America. The program personalizes this transatlantic journey by focusing on the lives of 8 specific immigrants, utilizing letters they wrote home to Ireland describing their experiences in the New World. In Ireland, the story is of a people yearning for change even as they cling desperately to ancient traditions, while in America, the immigrants bemoan their forced departure from the Old World as they reap the benefits of the new. This wave of immigration to America tested and profoundly changed America's notion of itself. Out of Ireland becomes a video about Americans and the profound historical and psychological consequences that are our heritage as a nation of immigrants.

Out of Rock WA-199
30 min / color / 1980 / AFA / 16mm
High school through adult
The dynamic stone, wood, and rope pieces of Israeli-born sculptor Boaz Vaadia recall primitive objects, yet are vividly contemporary. This film records Vaadia's work in Palisades Interstate Park, New Jersey, and in New York. In the film, Vaadia collects "found" materials (mountain rocks and discarded curbstones), makes them into a sculptured piece, and installs it at New

York's Jewish Museum. Outdoor Sculpture: Preserving the Hirshhorn Museum's Collection AT-36
15 min / color / 1987 / AFA / 3/4"vc
High school through adult
An examination of the continuing preventive care program used by conservators at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., this video addresses the special requirements of outdoor sculpture. A variety of treatments are discussed by conservator Lee Aks, founding director Abram Lerner, and art historian Sidney Lawrence.

The Owl and the Lemming ED-172
7 min / color / 1973 / NFB / 16mm
Elementary school through adult
This film, a charming example of Eskimo art and folklore, is an intriguing counterpart to the classic European fable about the fox and the crow. Small sealskin puppets enact the story of a hungry owl who captures a wily lemming. The lemming praises the owl's dancing and escapes while the owl is absorbed in his performance. When the owl's wife arrives, she is angry to find that, through his vanity, the owl has allowed their dinner to escape.

The Owl and the Raven ED-164
8 min / color / 1974 / P / 16mm
Preschool through adult
An Eskimo legend is retold through songs and sealskin puppets created in traditional Eskimo design. Inside an igloo, an owl and a raven pass the time playing games. Then they decide to paint each other. When the brush slips, the raven is covered with black, and has been black ever since. A film by Co Hoedeman.

The Owl Who Married a Goose ED-165
8 min / color / 1976 / NFB / 16mm
Elementary school through adult
This film tells an Eskimo legend that seems to be loosely based on the saying "birds of a feather flock together." A goose captures the fancy of an owl, and they set out to share their lives together. The owl tags along as the goose teaches her goslings to survive. But he cannot do what they do, and finally when the geese land on a lake, the owl plummets to the bottom. The sadness of the ending may be alleviated for children if the teacher prepares them before screening the film. Children should also be advised that the dialect in the film is Eskimo, so they should not feel frustrated if they cannot understand; the teacher might suggest that children listen to the tone of voice to help them understand what is happening.

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