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Triumph des willens : das Dokument vom Reichsparteitag 1934 -- DD253.28 1934 .T7 1983

A pictorial record of the sixth Nazi congress at Nuremberg, and a controversial propaganda film on Nazi Germany. Shows troops of Hitler youth at play, ranks of laborers, parades of storm troopers, close-ups of Hitler, etc., creating a mystical, primitive union between the dictator and his followers and exalting Nazi unity in Germany.

Origins of the gangster film : D.W. Griffith's The narrow road (1912) and Maurice Tourneur's Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915) -- PN1997 .L51 V.2

The narrow road: The story of Elmer Booth, a criminal who was pursued by a suspicious detective, Alfred Paget. Alias Jimmy Valentine takes up all the familiar elements of the crime drama with suspense and wit. It is the visual style, however, that remains the most stunning.

Origins of American animation : 1900-1921 -- PN1997 .L51 V.3

This collection, 21 complete films and two fragments, showscases the best of the Library of Congress's animated cartoons from the first decades of this century, an era full of surprises and experimentation.

Origins of the fantasy feature : The patchwork girl of Oz (1914) and A Florida enchantment (1914) -- PN1997 .L51 V.4

Patchwork girl of Oz: "whimsical fairy tale" about munchkins in the land of Oz ; A Florida enchantment: the unusual fable about a woman who discovers magic seeds that transform women into men (and men into women)