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Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Kamp siblings expect a Christmas without presents. When their father scrapes together a dollar in coins to use for Christmas gifts, everything begins to change. Just when Norman and Ruthie believe their hopes and dreams are dashed, small miracles teach the true meaning of Christmas giving.
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts-- escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi-- and their adventure as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Letterbox.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of the Depression, an entire generation sought out the dance marathon as a means of survival. Gig Young won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as the contest promoter.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set on a Depression Christmas Eve in 1933, this heart-tugging story centers around the Waltons, a rural family, as they prepare to celebrate Christmas together.
Series
Publisher
Dist. by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (194 min.) : mono. sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Our daily bread (King Vidor 1934) is a depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes a prologue to the movie by King Vidor. -- The fake newsreels "California Election News #1 and #2 (1934), were secretly produced by MGM as "dirty tricks" in the film industry's political war against Upton Sinclair. -- The River (Pare Lorentz 1937) dramatizes the stripping of the Mississipi...
Series
Shirley Temple volume 15
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (68 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
FDR appoints a Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up the American public. But when greedy industrialists who are profiting from the Depression thwart his every move, the Secretary begins to lose hope. That is, until he learns that some of the performances he has organized, including one by little Shirley Dugan, are lifting the nation out of its misery.
Series
Shirley Temple collection volume 11
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Fullscreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 70 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A girl helps her Depression-poor father get a job after she befriends a cantankerous millionaire.
11) Disney dogs 2
Publisher
Disney Enterprises Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
[Standard format] (Benji, Rascal, Journey), [Widescreen or standard format] (Where).
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 361 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Benji, the hunted: Benji is left in the wilderness after an accident. Rascal: A boy, a dog, and a pet raccoon provide merriment for the family. Where the red fern grows: A young boy longs for his own red-bone hunting dogs. The journey of Natty Gann: In the 1930s, a tomboyish girl runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away.
Author
Series
Publisher
L.A. Theatre Works
Pub. Date
p2002
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (118 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents a dramatization of John Steinbeck's novel about the plight of American farmers who were forced off their farms by drought and foreclosure during the Great Depression.
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