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TAPE 2 (BASF)
CONCERT: BEETHOVEN/SYMPHONY NO. 5 (CHICAGO SYMPHONY/SIR GEORG SOLTI)
Sir Georg and the CSO update their interpretion of Beethoven's
masterwork. Performed in
Chicago's Orchestra Hall around 1988 or so. Rehearsals are also shown.
CONCERT: PROKOFIEV/CLASSICAL SYMPHONY (NO. 1) (MUNICH
PHILHARMONIC/SERGIU CALABADACHE)
A rare look at the reclusive conductor readying a performance of
Prokofiev's neo-classic gem.
Performed in Munich.
Concert: Mehta/Isreal Phil. do BenHaim and other works
Steve Winwood and Traffic perform some Jazz/Rock fusion
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TAPE 3 (Scotch)
LIVE FROM THE METROPOLITAN OPERA:
>Two 20th Century Masterpieces-
>BELA BARTOK/BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE (Starring Jessye Norman and Samuel Ramey)
>ARNOLD SCHOENBERG/ERWARTUNG (With Jessye Norman)
>Hosted by F. Murray Abraham
>Ballet scene from The Nutcracker
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>TAPE 4 (Fuji)
>CONCERT: KURT MASUR and the NY PHIL play BEETHOVEN'S FIDELIO OVERTURE and
SHOSTAKOVITCH'S 1ST SYMPHONY. From the Live From Lincoln Center series
>TV SPECIAL: PASSING THE BATON- FROM SOLTI TO BARENBOIM
>1991 Profile of the transition of maestroes during the CSO's 100th anniversary season
>TV SHOW: Excerpts from The South Bank Show's profile of violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter
>TV SHOW: The South Bank Show profiles Robert Altman's film Vincent and Theo
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>TAPE 5 (Kodak)
>TV SPECIAL: McTEAGUE
>Robert Altman assembled this fascinating and unusual one-hour presentation. Excerpts are used
from both the 1990 world-premiere production of William Bolcolm's
opera, which Altman directed
for Chicago's Lyric Opera, and Erich Von Stroheim's classic 1925 film
Greed. Studs Terkel
narrates, using excerpts from Frank Norris' 1891 novel Mcteague, upon
which both of the above
were based. Three different versions of the same story, all neatly tied
together by Altman.
Recorded from WTTW (PBS)
TV SPECIAL: BACKSTAGE AT THE LYRIC - THE LAST VOYAGE OF EDGAR ALLEN POE
>A half-hour look at the Lyric Opera's acclaimed production of Dominik Argento's macabre
opera The Last Voyage of Edgar Allen Poe. Includes an interview with
Lyric's renowned
impressario, the late Ardis Krainik.
>MUSIC: The Moscow Phil. plays TCHAIKOVSKY'S tone poem FRANCESCA DE RIMINI
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>TAPE 6 (Maxell)
>LIVE FROM THE MET
>HECTOR BERLIOZ/LES TROYENS
>Berlioz's epic 4-hour opera, given a rare complete production by New York's Metropolitan
Opera. Based on Virgil's The Aenid, it tells the story of the end of
the Trojan War, the
fleeing of Aenas and other survivors to Carthage, and their subsequent
founding
of the Roman Empire.
>Video Special: The Voyager Company produced this behind-the-scenes look at Michaelangelo
Antonioni's 1960 classic L'Aventurra with recollections from the
filmmaker, actors and members
of the crew.
>TV Documentary: Ansel Adams, Photographer
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>TAPE 7 (Maxell)
>VIDEO CONCERT: BEETHOVEN/SYMPHONIES 4 AND 7 (Royal Concertgebou of Amsterdam, Klieber)
>Carlos Klieber, who rarely conducts in the U.S., has a unique conducting style that will come
as a revelation to most Americans. He and the Concertgebou blaze their
way through two
Beethoven masterworks.
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>TAPE 8 (Maxell)
>CONCERT: ROSSINI OVERTURES (CSO,SIR GEORG SOLTI)
>Sir Georg and the CSO play overtures from The Barber of Seville, Semiramede, La Gazza Ladra
and others. Recorded in Orchestra Hall, Chicago around 1980 or so.
@>Sports: U.S. Downhill (slope demonstration)
>CONCERT: TCHAIKOVSKY/ SYMPHONY NO. 4 (CSO,SIR GEORG SOLTI)
>Recorded in London's Wembley Auditorium as part of the CSO's 1984 European tour. Preceding
the performance is a Channel 2 News profile of the CSO on tour.
>Movie Scene: Salieri helps the dying Mozart write his Requiem in Amadeus.
>Academy Awards 1984: The award for Special Visual Effects. Nominees included 2010 and
Ghostbusters.
>TV Show excerpt: The atonal music of Schoenberg and Varese is demonstrated in The Music of Man
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>TAPE 9 (Warner Bros.)
>CONCERT: MENDELSOHN/SYMPHONIES 3 AND 4 (CSO,SOLTI)
>Videotaped from Orchestra Hall, Chicago 1976
>CONCERT: CHRISTIAN LINDBERG/TROMBONE CONCERTO (MOTORBIKE CONCERTO)
Laserdisc
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>TAPE 10 (Kodak)
>THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA IN CONCERT
>Ricardo Muti and Eugene Ormandy conducting. Features the music of Tchaikovsky and Brahms.
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>TAPE 16 (Maxell Gold)
>CONCERT: OZAWA/BSO AT CARNEGIE
>Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony open Carnegie Hall's 1995 season.
The program includes a stunning performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano
Concerto # 1 with Evgeny
Kissin as soloist.
Movie: Yankee Doodle Dandy w/James Cagney
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>TAPE 17 (Fuji 160)
>CONCERT: BARENBOIM/CSO AT CARNEGIE
>Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony open Carnegie Hall's 1997 season. The program
includes Elgar's Cello Concerto with soloist Yo Yo Ma, and
Tchaikovsky's Symphony # 4.
>MUSIC (audio only): Mayazumi/Nirvana Symphony, Chants for Chorus
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>TAPE 18 (Fuji)
>CONCERT: BARENBOIM/CSO IN EUROPE
>Barenboim and the orchestra on an earlier, 1994 tour of Europe. This concert from Cologne,
Germany features three works by Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspeigel, Don
Juan, and Ein
Heldenleben.
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>TAPE 20 (Maxell)
>CONCERT: MASUR/NYPO - LIVE AT LINCOLN CENTER
>Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic and Chorus perform Claude Debussey's oratorio
The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian. Prior to this is an excerpt from a
little-known oratorio by
Carl Orff.
>TV Show: NOVA (excerpts)
>Men and Monkeys explores the striking and sometimes astonishing similarities between humans
and primates.
>Recorded from PBS.
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VIDEO TAPES
MOVIES (recorded by me)
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>TAPE 1(TDK)
>Various wierd highlights including Robin Williams and animation
Audio only: WNIB interview with Conductor/composer Lief Segerstam.
Several recordings
by Segerstam including Rott Symphony in E.
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>TAPE 2 (Maxell)
>MOVIE: THE LEGEND OF SURAM FORTRESS (USSR, 1987)
Strange but compelling from Paradjanov (The Color of Pomegranates)
>TV SHOW: The South Bank Show profiles the brief meteoric career of Jimi Hendrix (1987 show)
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> TAPE 3 (Fuji)
>TV SHOW: American Chronicles (1990)
>Episode from David Lynch's short-lived TV series explores the last days of the old Comiskey
Park, then examines past visions of the future, including a film made
for the 1940 World's
Fair about the world of 1960.
>MOVIE: QUE' VIVA MEXICO (USSR, 1933)
>Sergei Eisenstein's hallucinatory cinematic symphony of Mexico was completed by his disciples
after the great Soviet filmmaker's death. A celebration of Mexico's
history and culture that
transcends it's Raison Detre' as socialist propoganda.
>'Fabulous footage, marvelous to look at'...Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies
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>TAPE 4 (BASF)
>MOVIE: DRUGSTORE COWBOY (1989)
>Engrossing, nonjudgemental portrait of the early 70's drug subculture and it's outlaw way of
life. Inspired cameo by author William S. Burroughs. Stars Matt Dillon,
Kelly Lynch.
>'Best Film of 1989'.....National Society of Film Critics
>'****...Cool, hallucinogenic sensuality. A kind of high in itself'.....Jim Farber, Video
Review
>3 Disney Silly Symphonies
>MUSIC: Three Frescoes of Piero Della Francesca/Bohuslav Martinu (OSM,Libor Pesek)
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>TAPE 5 (TDK)
>Movie Scenes: Body and Soul (1981)
>Sleazy remake of the John Garfield classic has Leon Isaac Kennedy as the boxer who works his
way to the top through devious means. Good trash.
>Movie Scenes: Fantastic Animation Festival (1978)
>Includes Quasi at the Quackadero.
>MOVIE: THE CONVERSATION (1974)
>Francis Coppola's superbly crafted thriller about a wire tap expert who becomes the victim of
his own professionalism. A haunting tale of Watergate-style paranoia.
Stars Gene Hackman,
Robert Duvall, Harrison Ford.
>'****...Brilliant, Disturbing. One of the best films of the 70's.'....Leonard Maltin,TV Movies
>'****...Gene Hackman's performance is a great one'.....Roger Ebert, Movie Companion
>Carnegie Hall 100th anniversary concert: Mehta/NYPO playing Beethoven's Egmont Overture
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>TAPE 6 (Maxell)
>Music: Old Russian Circus Music/Rodion Schedrin (Loorin Maazel/CSO World premiere 1991)
>MOVIE: THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES (British 1937)
>Delightful film version of the H.G. Wells comic fantasy.
>'***1/2...Charming film with marvelous special effects and a good cast'.....Leonard Maltin, TV Movies
>'One of the most touching and good natured of all the films that employ 'supernatural' tricks
and illusions, and one of the few with any real point'.....Pauline
Kael, 5001 Nights at the
Movies
>2 Tex Avery cartoons
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>TAPE 7 (Kodak)
>TAPE 8 (Maxell)
>MOVIE: FREUD (1961)
>John Huston's dark and brooding look at the famed psychologist's career. Stars Montgomery
Clift.
>TV SHOW: From the Bravo channel, a dramatization of Freud's exile from Nazi Germany.
>Movie: Fresh (1993)
>A young streetsmart boy becomes a drug runner in the inner city.
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>TAPE 9 (Maxell)
>Movie Scenes: Death Race 2000 (1976)
>Outrageous tongue-in-cheek action flick where a murderous auto race is the national sport of
the future. A 'pre-Rocky' Sylvester Stallone steals the show.
>Video: Are You Experienced/Jimi Hendrix
>Sports: Highlights from the Bears 1963 championship victory over the NY Giants
>MOVIE: SORCEROR (1977)
>William Friedkin's remake of The Wages of Fear concerns four fugitives in a seedy
Latin American town trying to buy freedom by driving
nitroglycerine-filled trucks over rugged
terrain to help put out an oil fire. Moody film generates alot of
suspense. Stars
Roy Scheider. Music by Tangerine Dream.
>'****...Stunning!'.....Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
>MOVIE: THE WAGES OF FEAR (French, 1953)
>And here is H.G. Clouzot's classic original, for direct comparism with the above remake. Stars Yves Montand.
>'The most powerful and shocking French melodrama of the 1950's'....Pauline Kael, 5001 Movies
>'Heart-stopping impact. Has never been matched for sustained, unrelenting suspense'...
L. Hammond, Thriller Films
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>TAPE 10 (Maxell Hi-Fi)
>MOVIE: IVAN THE TERRIBLE-PART 1 (USSR, 1943)
>Part 1 of Sergei Eisenstein's epic on the autocrat who forged modern Russia. Stunning visual
compositions throughout.
>MOVIE: IVAN THE TERRIBLE-PART 2 (USSR, 1944)
>Part 2 of Eisenstein's epic.
>MOVIE: THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER (1941)
>The Voyager Company restored to it's full length William Dieterle's stylish film based on the
classic American fable, All That Money Can Buy. Stars Walter Huston as
Old Scratch.
Music by Bernard Hermann.
>Documentary scenes: The Republic Pictures Story
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>TAPE 11(Maxell)
>MOVIE: MAID OF SALEM (1937)
>Hollywood version of the Salem witch trials. Stars Claudette Colbert, Fred Macmurray.
Several animated shorts by Alexiev and Parker using their famous
'Pinboard' technique.
>Video: Tunnel of Love/Bruce Springsteen
>MOVIE: CURSE OF THE DEMON (British, 1957)
>Psychologist investigates a series of deaths caused by an ancient witches' curse.
Exceptional shocker directed by Jaques Tournier, the master who helmed
many of the Val Lewton
horror classics such as Cat People. Stars Dana Andrews.
>'The most intriguing film ever made on the subject of witchcraft'.....Danny Paery, Cult Movies
>Movie Scenes: Rattle and Hum (1990)
>Irish rockers U2 play several songs in concert including Desire and When Love Comes to Town.
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>TAPE 13 (Konica)
>MOVIE: LOLITA (1962)
>James Mason stars as a middle-aged college professor in love with a fourteen-year-old girl in
this hilariously perverse yet bittersweet comedy. An early feature by
Stanley Kubrick. Also
stars Sue Lyon, Peter Sellars, and Shelly Winters.
>Videos: I've Been Thinking About You/Londonbeat
Someday/Mariah Carey
Pride (In the Name of Love)/U2
>Movie: HOT DOG: The Movie
>Entertaining trash about a skiier who travels to compete against his idol in a championship
and has alot of sex along the way.
>Videos: Don't Come Around Here No More/ Tom Petty In My House/The Mary Jane Girls
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>TAPE 14 (Maxell)
>VIDEO SPECIAL: Fangoria Magazine salutes makeup maestro Tom Savini who specailized in gory
effects used in such 80's horror classics as Dawn of the Dead.
>MOVIE: SCARFACE (1931)
>Howard Hawks' grim and brutal gangster drama traces the rise and fall of a ruthless liquor
kingpin. Both endings - original and studio imposed - are included.
Stars Paul Muni,George Raft
and Boris Karloff.
Audio only: Blues Channel on cable
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>TAPE 15 (Maxell)
>MOVIE: SCARFACE (1983)
>Al Pacino stars in Brian DePalma's bloody remake of the gangster classic. This time the
illicit business is cocaine instead of alchohol. Also stars Michelle
Pfiefer. Screenplay by
Oliver Stone.
>'****...Wonderful, exciting portrait of a real louse'.....Roger Ebert, Movie Home Companion
>SPORTS: The Bears through the 70's and the 84' season.
>Videos: Caribbean Queen California Girls/David Lee Roth
Love Ain't No Stranger/Whitesnake
>TV SHOW: Siskel and Ebert special looks at the 80's boom in sci-fi films like Starman and Dune
>Movie Scene: Bruce Lee beats up a karate class in The Chinese Connection (1972)
>Movie Scene: The camera takes a motorcycle ride through the desert in Sidewinder (1985)
>Movie Scenes: Sean connery returns as James Bond in Never Say Never Again (1983)
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>TAPE 16 (Maxell)
>MOVIE: KING KONG(1933)
>The grandaddy of all monster movies, restored with storyboards, photographs, and surviving
footage to recreate several scenes that were cut out of the final
version of the film. one of
these is the notorious 'Spider-Pit' sequence, a scene so gruesome that
many in the preview
audience walked out. Stars Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot. Music by Max Stiener.
>MUSIC: From the Apocalypse/Liadov (USSR State Symphony, Svetlanov)
A Voice in the Wilderness/Bloch (Isreal Phil, Mehta)
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>TAPE 17 (TDK)
>MOVIE: THE HIDDEN FORTRESS (Japanese, 1958)
>Magnificent action-adventure film by Akira Kurosawa about two runaway misfit soldiers who get
involved with a hunted princess and her bodyguard. The inspiration for
Star Wars.
Stars Toshiro Mifune
>Excerpt from John Adams' opera Nixon in China
>DOCUMENTARY: MAURICE RAVEL
>Traces the life and career of the great French composer. Includes performances of Ravel works
by Charles Dutoit and L'Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal.
>Video: Harlem Shuffle/The Rolling Stones
>Movie Scene: Tarzan introduces a frightened Jane to his tree-top friends in
Tarzan the Ape Man (1931)
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>TAPE 19 (Maxell)
>MOVIE: AGUIRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (German, 1972)
>Werner Herzog's mad, hypnotic film of a doomed 16th-century expedition of Spanish
conquistadors searching in primitive South America for the legendary
lost city of Eldorado.
A stunning film that parodies the insanity of it's subject. Stars Klaus
Kinski
>Movie Scenes: Several women try to arouse an impotent junkie in Andy Warhol's camp shocker
Trash (1970)
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>TAPE 20 (Maxell)
>Animated short from either France or Spain Animated short Sundae in New York
>Video: I Believe/Steve Martin
>MOVIE: NOTORIOUS (1945)
>One of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest films, the story of the daughter of a convicted Nazi spy,
and how she is hired by the U.S. government to spy on Nazis in South
America. Stars Ingrid
Bergman, Cary Grant. Includes a scene that was cut from the film due to
pressure from the
Hays Office; recreated using script and still photographs.
>'One of the 10 greatest films of all time'.....Roger Ebert, Movie Companion
>Assorted videos by Todd Rundgren, The Dead Kennedys, The Fixx, and Talking Heads (Burning Down the House)
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>TAPE 21 (Maxell)
>MOVIE: KNIFE IN THE WATER (Poland, 1961)
>Roman Polanski's first film was this taut, gripping suspense thriller about three people
playing deadly games on a secluded boat.
>Excerpt from the Philip Glass/Robert Wilson opera Einstein On the Beach
>Actress Meg Tilly discusses the film Agnes of God with David Hartman on Good Morning America.
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>TAPE 22 (Fuji)
>MOVIE: KANSAS CITY (1996)
>Robert Altman directed this underrated look at 30's-style political corruption and it's
relation to the jazz-filled criminal underworld. Stars Jennifer Jason
Leigh,
Miranda Richardson, and Harry Belafonte.
>Video: Where the Streets Have No Name/U2
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>TAPE 23 (Kodak XHG)
>MOVIE: FAUST (German, 1924)
>Classic silent film directed by F.W. Murnau (The Last Laugh, Nosfaratu)
. A visually brilliant retelling of the ancient legend. With organ
score.
Movie Scene: Blood of a Poet (Cocteau, 1930)
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>TAPE 24 (Fuji)
>MOVIE: NAPOLEON (French, 1927)
>Abel Gance's masterpiece, restored to almost it's original length by Francis Copolla. Full
orchestral score.
>MOVIE: NOSFARATU (German, 1922)
>Another masterwork by Murnau, the first great vampire film. Based loosely on Bram Stoker's
Dracula. Feature-length commentary.
>'Most vampire films are so silly, this one hardly seems to belong to the genre'.....Pauline
Kael, 5001 Movies
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>TAPE 25 (Fuji)
>Carnegie Hall 100th anniversary concert (highlights):
>R. Strauss/Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (Levine,NY Phil)
Handel/Alleluia Chorus from The Messiah
>Copland/Fanfare for the Common Man
>Movie Scenes: From the bizarre Russian sci-fi import Liquid Sky
>MOVIE: THE FLY (1986)
>Outstanding remake of the 50's horror classic has Jeff Goldblum as a scientist who becomes a
victim of his own expirements. Also stars Gena Davis. Directed by David
Cronenburg.
>An hour or so of available tape
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>TAPE 26 (Maxell)
>MOVIE: THE MYSTERY OF PICASSO (French, 1956)
>The renowned artist allows director H.G. Clauzot(The Wages of Fear) to film him in his studio
as he creates twelve new canvases. A rare and fascinating glimpse into
Picasso's technique.
>MOVIE SCENES: From the documentary on the making of Fellini's Satyricon plus some scenes from
the film itself, one of Fellini's most visually extravagant.
>TV SHOW: The South Bank Show looks at the career of the great British filmmaker Michael Powell
>Music: Prokofieff/Autumn
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>TAPE 27 (Konica)
>Rock TV Show: Jason and the Scorchers and REM in concert. Recorded from Showtime.
>MOVIE: AL CAPONE (1959)
>Rod Stieger stars as the notorious kingpin. Directed by Welles protege Richard Wilson.
>MOVIE: ALL OF ME (1984)
>Steve Martin won the NY Film Critics Award for Best Actor for his outrageously physical
performance as a lawyer who becomes posessed by a dead spinster (Lily
Tomlin). Hilarious from
start to finish.
>About 40 minutes of blank tape
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>TAPE 28 (Maxell)
>MOVIE: THEREMIN (1996)
>Documentary about the scientist Leon Theremin who, as a young man in
20's America, won fame in by inventing the first electronic musical
instrument, named after
himself. The film also details his subsequent kidnapping by the
Soviets, and half a century of
life behind the Iron Curtain. A remarkable story.
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>TAPE 29 (BASF)
>MOVIE: QUEEN MARGOT (1994)
>Grim, brutal, but absorbing historical pagaent about the events surrounding the Huguenot
Massacre in 16th-century France. Stars Isabelle Adjani,
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>TAPE 31 (Fuji)
>MOVIE: A SAFE PLACE (1971)
@>Early Henry Jaglom film about a beautiful but spaced out girl who
lives in her own dreamworld
in between affairs. Stars Tuesday Weld, Jack Nicholson, Orson Welles.
>MUSIC (audio only): RALPH SHAPEY/CONCERTO PHANTASTIQUE (Shapey, CSO World Premiere)
>I was at this concert. Half the audience walked out, the other half stayed and cheered.
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>TAPE 32 (BASF)
>MOVIE: THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN (1933)
>Frank Capra out-Sternbergs Joseph Von Sternberg himself in this hypnotic pipedream of a film,
set against the Chinese civil war of the 30's. Barbra Stanwyck plays an
American missionary who
falls in love with the ruthless cheiftain of the title.
>TV Show: Sneak Previews reviews the Best of '92
>Music: Stevie Ray Vaughn at the El Mocambo
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>TAPE 34 (TDK)
>MOVIE: MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (1937)
>Leo Macarrey's sad, unsparing tale of what happens when parents get too old to take care of
themselves. Made when the Social Security system was still new, this
film takes a hard look at
the issue. Stars Thomas Mitchell. Music by George Antheil
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>TAPE 35 (TDK)
>MOVIE: ALEXANDER NEVSKY (Russian, 1939)
>Two great Soviet artists, filmmaker Sergie Eisenstein and composer Sergei Prokofiev, collaborated on this monumental epic of the 12th century nobleman who saved Russia from Germany's Teutonic Knights. Made, on the eve of WWII, as a warning to all potential
invaders, including Hitler's Nazi Germany. For this re-issue,
Prokofiev's music was re-recorded in digital stereo by the St.
Petersburg Philharmonic, conducted by Yuri Tamerkanov.
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>TAPE 36 (Polaroid)
>MOVIE: DAY OF WRATH (Danish,1943)
>Carl Dryer's eerie and disturbing film of the witch hysteria of the 1600's. Suggests a fusion
of Kafka and Hawthorne, where emotions supressed by puritan society
boil over into the
communal madness of religious persecution.
>'Dreyer's art picks up where other filmmakers leave off'.....Pauline Kael, 5001 Movies
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>TAPE 38 (STD)
>MOVIE: RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY (1962)
>Early film by Sam Peckinpah about two ageing cowboys who team up together for one last adventure: transporting gold from a northwest mine. Stars Randolph Scott, Joel Macrae, and Marriette Hartley.
>'The best western ever made'.....Western Films
>Music (audio only): Dvorak/Othello Overture
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>TAPE 39 (TDK)
>MOVIE: FRENCH CAN-CAN (French, 1957)
>One of Jean Renior's most vibrant and colorful films tells several intertwining stories in
turn-of-the-century Paris. All revolve around a nightclub where the
Can-Can is being revived
as part of a resurgence in French nationalism.
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>TAPE 42 ()
>MOVIE: THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
>John Huston's brilliant adventure film of three down-and-out Americans who go searching for
gold in the hills of Mexico. Stars Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, and
Tim Holt. On the AFI's
list of the 100 greatest American movies of all time.
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>TAPE 43 (MGM)
>MOVIE: THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1975)
>David Bowie stars in Nicholas Roeg's sci-fi fantasy about an alien who comes to Earth to find
water for his dying, desert planet. This is the full-length, uncut
version. Also stars
Rip Torn, Candy Clark, and Buck Henry
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>TAPE 44 (Vestron)
Movie: THE GLASS KEY(1942)
>Alan Ladd stars with Veronica Lake in a Dashiel Hammet thriller.
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>TAPES 45, 46, and 47 (2 Maxells and a Sony)
@>MOVIE TRILOGY: BLUE, WHITE, AND RED (Poland, 1995)
>The great Polish director Kieslowski's stylish trilogy on the relationship between human
weaknesses and fate.
>Blue stars Juliette Binoche
>White stars Julie Delpy
>Red stars Irene Caras
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>TAPE 48 (BASF)
>MOVIE: THE BLACK ROSE (1951)
>Tyrone Power stars in this colorful adventure set in the 12th century about a disposessed
Saxon nobleman who travels to the far east in search of a fortune.
Orson Welles co-stars as a
Mongol Chieftain. With Jack Hawkins and Cecille Aubry.
Scenes from OW movies, including The Southern Star and the 50th
anniversary LD of Citizen Kane.
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>TAPE 49 (BASF)
>MOVIE: PRINCE OF FOXES (1950)
>Welles and Power in another historical adventure, this time set in the 15th-century Florentine
court of Ceasare Borgia. Power plays a cunning opportunist in Borgia's
court, helping his plot
to overrun the other Italian republics to create one Italy. Welles
plays Borgia, as one critic put it, 'killing them with ham'.
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>TAPE 50 (Maxell)
>MOVIE: PINK FLOYD AT POMPEII (1973)
>Sensational document of the British supergroup as they prepare their then latest album
The Dark Side of the Moon, and jam amidst the ancient ruins of
Pompeii's Coloseum.
>TV Special: A Night of Music (excerpts)
>Beverly Sills hosts. Excerpts include Liszt's Mephisto Waltz and many other Classical, Jazz,
and Folk performers from around the world.
>NASA ANIMATION FROM VOYAGER'S JOURNEY THROUGH THE SOLAR SYSTEM
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>TAPE 51 (Maxell)
>TV Show: Saturday Night Live, SCTV (excerpts)
>MOVIE: BIRD (1988)
>Clint Eastwood directed this heartfelt biographical film of Jazz great Charlie Parker.
Film chronicles his life, music, and battle with drug addiction. Stars
Forest Whitaker,
with actual Parker performances on the soundtrack.
>'***1/2...A valueable film. Forest Whitaker's performance is substantial'....Roger Ebert,
Movie Companion
>Video scenes of Vancouver at 1500 MPH
>Music: Jessye Norman sings Mahler's Ruckertlieder, with Mehta/NYPO. Wagner and Mozart music
as well.
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VIDEO TAPES
VARIETY TAPES
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>TAPE 1 (Maxell)
>Movie Scenes: Highlights from the film FOLLOW THE BOYS including Orson Welles, George Raft,
and W.C. Fields, among others.
>TV SPECIAL: CONSENTING ADULTS (1998)
>ABC special turns a quizzical eye to the judicial system as it pertains to victimless crimes
such as prostitution and recreational drug usage. It bluntly questions
the wisdom and the
justice of locking people up for these and other vices which are, for
the
most part, non-violent acts between consenting adults.
>Movie Scenes: The last half or so of Brian DePalma's The Untouchables.
>NASA Animation: Based on data from Voyager's trip to Uranus.
>Movie Scenes: The Last Waltz
>The Band's final 1976 concert, with guests Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton and Niel Young.
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>TAPE 2 (SKC)
TV Show: The World- A TV History (4 episodes)
>TV SPECIAL: ART IN THE THIRD REICH
>Stacy Keach hosts this informative, disturbing look at how the Nazis used art for propaganda
purposes.
>Music (audio only): Jadwiga, Queen of Poland Overture
>MovieScene: A boy's nightmare comes true in the 1986 remake of Invaders From Mars
>SPORTS SPECIAL: DAYS OF OUR BEARS
>Highlights from the Bears' tumultuous 1986 season, as they try to defend their Super Bowl
crown.
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>TAPE 3 (TDK)
>TV SHOW: Four episodes from the second season of TWIN PEAKS (1991)
>CONCERT: Zubin Mehta leads the NY Phil in an emotional performance of the
FINALE OF MAHLER'S 3RD as part of Carnegie Hall 100th Anniversary
special.
Also a documentary on the hall's fabled history
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>TAPE 4 (Kodak)
>TV SHOW: THREE EPISODES OF THE SOUTH BANK SHOW
>The history of Dracula, from Bram Stoker's original 1891 novel to Francis Coppola's 1991 film
version.
>Avante-Garde novelist William S. Burroughs and the film made from his underground classic
Naked Lunch
>The haunted life and career of pianist/composer Sergei Rachmaninoff
>MUSIC (audio only): 1990 CSO CONCERT (conductor Kenneth Jean)
>Franz Liszt/Piano Concert opus posthumous (World premiere)
Dan Welcher/Visions of Merlin
>TV SHOW: AMERICAN CHRONICLES (1990)
>Two episodes from the David Lynch produced show:
>Hugh Hefner and the Playboy empire
>Mardi Gras and it's history
>TV Show: A&E Comedy Club with two young comedians
>Jazz concert excerpt: The Bob James Fusion
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>TAPE 5 (Konica)
>Short documentary films from the 30's including one made for the 1940 World's Fair that takes
a look at a then futuristic 1960.
>Movie Scenes: A guy drags his buddy along on a road trip to persuade his girlfriend to have
an abortion in some frank and raunchy scenes from Patti Rocks (1988)
>Video: Beds are Burning/Midnight Oil
>Cartoon Scene from Popeye
>MOVIE: MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY (French, 1955)
>Charming Jaques Tati comedy finds the bumbling Mr. Hulot wrecking havoc at a seaside resort.
Basically a throwback to the great age of silent comedy, but with sound
effects and a little
dialogue.
>Videos: Tunnel of Love/Bruce Springsteen Gimme All Your Lovin'/ZZ Top
> Heaven is a Place on Earth/Belinda Carlisle New Sensation/INXS
>Photograph gallery from the 1931 Dracula
>MOVIE: JIMI PLAYS BERKELEY (1970)
>Hendrix in top form blazes through Johnny B. Good, Purple Haze, Voodoo Chile and others.
>Movie Scene: From Andy Warhol's 1975 film Bad, a baby gets tossed out of a highrise. A prime
example of Warhol's decadent humor, not for the squeamish.
>Movie Scenes: From the 1931 horror classic Dracula with Bela Lugosi
>TV Special: Siskel and Ebert at the Movies
>Hail! Hail! Black and White! takes a look at the artistry of many black and white films.
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>TAPE 6 (Maxell)
>Movie Essay: Goldfinger (1964) Stereo with audio essay on 2nd channel
>RAPID FIRE HIGHLIGHTS with bits from movies like Forced Vengeance with Chuck Norris, gory
movies like Videodrome, and special effects films like Disney's Tron,
Foxfire, Star Wars,
Superman, StarTrek etc.
>NASA special: Voyager's encounter with Uranus.
>Videos: Proof/Paul Simon Wicked Games/Chris Isaak Hysteria/Def Leopard
>Sports: Hagler/Leonard fight (HBO Boxing)
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>TAPE 7 (TDK)
>Two Charlie Chaplin shorts from around 1915.
>JAZZ CONCERT: Guitar Great AL DIMEOLA at the MONTREAL JAZZ FESTIVAL
>Movie Scene: Lulu meets Jack the Ripper in GW Pabst's silent classic Pandora's Box
>MOVIE: THE THREE PENNY OPERA (German,1931)
>Gritty, atmospheric film version of the Bertold Brecht/Kurt Weill musical finds Mack the Knife outwitting the police in the Berlin underworld. Also directed by GW Pabst. Banned by the Nazis, this is the restored version.
>MUSIC (audio only): BOB MARLEY/LEGEND
>includes Exodus, Wait in Vain, others
>Music: Guitarist Mason Williams performs his song Classical Gas with John Williams and the
Boston Pops
>Sports: A couple of innings from the Cub's first ever night game, 1988 or so. With Harry Carey announcing.
>Sports: A few plays from the Bear/Viking 1988 exhibition game, the first NFL game ever played
in Sweden.
>Movie Scenes: Lee Marvin gets nasty with Gloria Graham in The Big Heat (1953)
>Movie Scenes: from Francis Coppola's offbeat 1969 road picture The Rain People
>Movie Scenes: from Ted Turner's wretched colorization of Welles' The Stranger (1945)
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>TAPE 8 (Maxell)
>MOVIE: BEETHOVEN'S NEPHEW (1988)
>Paul Morrisey, director of many Warhol films, including the 3D Frankenstein, helmed this
frank look at the relationship between the famed composer and his
wayward nephew. A vivid
portrait of Beethoven's obsessive, domineering personality.
>Several animated shorts by the great Japanese cartoonist Yoji Kojuri
>Sports: Highlights from Boxing on HBO.
>TV Show: Funny business from the 80's cult show SCTV with John Candy, Martin Short
>TV Show: Nightflight, another 80's cult show from the USA network profiles
The Psychedelic Furs
>Several animation videos Two Tex Avery cartoons
>TV SPECIAL: FOR THE WHALES
>Half hour Bravo show features symphonic composers dedicated to the presevation and protection
of whales.
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>TAPE 9 (Maxell )
>TAPE 10 (Scotch)
>Music: Pharoah Sanders and other Jazz musicians play an ambient piece of avante-garde jazz.
>TV ROCK SPECIAL: BEHIND THE MUSIC - TED NUGENT
>The revealing VH1 series about the rock world. This installment focuses on the Motor City
Madman.
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>TAPE 11 (Maxell)
>Excerpt from Dvorak's 9th symphony, played by the Czech Philharmonic.
>Video: Riverrun/Paul Winter Consort
>Dance: Netherlands Dance Company performing to music Takemitsu and Stravinsky
>Movie Scene: A gorgeous, surrealistic dance sequence from The Red Shoes
******************>Jazz Concert: Jean-Luc Ponty performs live
***************************
>MOVIE SCENES: NAJINSKY (1983)
>The legendary dancer/choreographer causes scandals at the beginning of this century with Diaghalev's Ballet Russe.
>Videos: Material Girl/Madonna ***************Legs/ZZ Top**********************
Scene from The Empire Strikes Back in slow motion
>VIDEO: MONEY FOR NOTHING/DIRE STRAIGHTS
>THREE CLASSIC SUPERMAN CARTOONS 3 stooges short
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>TAPE 12 (Fuji)
>TV Show: Twin Peaks
>Diane Keaton directs this second-season episode from the bizarre David Lynch show. In this
episode, Windom Earle continues to terrorize the town while Ben Horne
is pulled from his Civil
War dementia.
>MOVIE: EMPORER OF THE NORTH (1973)
>Interesting depression-era saga of a murderous train conductor who kills any hobo trying to
hitch a ride with his train, and the resourceful hobo who tries to
break him. Stars Lee Marvin,
Ernest Borgnine, and Keith Carridine. Robert Aldrich directed.
>MOVIE: TREASURE ISLAND (British, 1972)
>Handsome, if lackluster, version of the Stephenson classic. Orson Welles as Long John Silver
is so hammy you may wish you could pour a bottle of rum over his head.
>TV SHOW: SINFONIETTA
>Bravo special looks at the music of Charles Ives and Anton Webern, two of the 20th century's
most distinctive composers.
>TV Show: Siskel and Ebert review the movie The Doors. From 1991 or so.
>Music (audio only): Hector Berlioz/Racoczy March (Solti/CSO on tour in Japan)
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>TAPE 13 (Maxell)
>TV SPECIAL: ORSON WELLES - WHAT WENT WRONG?
>From Cinemax's film documentary series Crazy 'bout the Movies comes a one hour biography of
Welles' life and career.
>OSCARS 91': The great Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini is given a lifetime acheivement
award.
>Movie Scenes: Excerpts from Busby Berkely musicals
>Movie: 5th Avenue Girl (1938)
>Ginger Rogers stars as a beautiful vagabond who manages to befriend a rich New York store
owner. Nice light entertainment. Co-stars Tim Holt.
>ORIGINAL THEATRICAL TRAILERS: from 5 Alfred Hitchcock classics including PSYCHO, THE BIRDS,
ROPE, and VERTIGO
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>TAPE 14 (TDK)
>STRING QUARTET CONCERT: The Guarneri String Quartet play 2 Quartets by BEETHOVEN
>The Last half or so of Renior's Rules of the Game
>The Rules of the Game with an audio essay by Peter Bogdanavitch
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>TAPE 15 (Maxell)
>MOVIE SCENES: Jimi Hendrix and others explode into fame in Monterrey Pop (1967)
>MOVIE: SABOTAGE (1936)
>One of the best of Hitchcock's early thrillers finds Sylvia Sydney as a woman who suspects
that her husband may be a pro-Nazi spy.
>Movie Scenes: A spoiled British youth comes of age in a Japanese prison camp during WWII in
Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun.
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>TAPE 16 (Maxell)
>MOVIE: THE NIGHT THAT PANICKED AMERICA (1978)
>Dramatization of the effect that Orson Welles' infamous War of the Worlds broadcast had on
the nation. Made-for-TV movie.
>MOVIE: T-MEN (1950)
>Anthony Mann's first feature was this gritty, documentary-like film-noir based on an actual
government case of undercover agents infiltrating organized
counterfieters.
>Part of a computer animation special
>TV SHOW: MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS (1972)
>Includes the classic Cheese Shop skit and an outrageous spoof on Sam Peckinpah, Salad Days
Excerpts from Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
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>TAPE 17 (Maxell)
>TV SHOW: THE WORLD - A TELEVISION HISTORY Episode on the History of Africa
>CSO Youth Concert: A talented youngster performs a piece by Hindemeth
>TV SHOW: TWO EPISODES FROM THE SOUTH BANK SHOW
>Conductor GEORG SOLTI discusses his life and career (excerpts only)
>Novelist GORE VIDAL takes aim at the right-wing extremism of the Reagan administration.
>Excerpt from an Oprah show on managing money.
>Excerpt from a Fleischer cartoon special featuring Popeye and Superman
>MUSIC: FRANZ LISZT/LES PRELUDES (SOLTI/BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY)
>The notorious 'Kennedy' exchange from the Quail/Benson Vice-presidential debates of 1988.
>Movie Scene: Errol Flynn in The Adventures of Robin Hood makes a daring entrance and escape.
>Computer animation in slow motion with music by Philip Glass
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>TAPE 18 (TDK)
>MOVIE: SLAPSHOT (1977)
>Paul Newman stars as an ageing minor-league hockey player in this fast, funny and
profanity-filled comedy. Co-stars Michael Ontkean, Strother Martin
>Movie Scenes: Two telekinetic teenagers go haywire in Brian DePalma's 1979 gorefest The Fury
>TV SHOW: RODNEY DANGERFIELD'S YOUNG COMEDIANS SPECIAL
>Featuring such then up-and-coming talents as Sam Kineson and Bob Saget
>MOVIE SCENES: From ASSORTED DAVID LYNCH FILMS including Eraserhead, Dune, Wild at Heart, Blue
Velvet and others.
>Videos: The Doors/Break on Through, People are Strange, Light My Fire, Wild Child, LA Woman
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>TAPE 19 (TDK)
>SPORTS: 4 GAMES from the CHICAGO BEARS 1985 CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON (abridged)
>Regular Season: BEARS VS. DALLAS Cowboys
>Playoffs: BEARS VS. NY Giants NFC Championship: BEARS VS. LA Rams
>Super Bowl: BEARS VS. NEW ENGLAND Patriots
>3 Three Stooges shorts
>Movie Scene: The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms tears a city apart.
>TV Show: The Outer Limits Episode: The Guests (with Gloria Graham)
>Videos: The Doors/The End, The Crystal Ship
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>TAPE 20 (Memorex)
>TV ROCK SPECIAL: LIVE AID (1986)
>LED ZEPELLIN performs WHOLE LOTTA LOVE and STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
>SPORTS SPECIAL: NBC-WMAQ looks at the BEARS 1985 REGULAR SEASON
>VIDEO ESSAYS ON TWO ORSON WELLES FILMS: CITIZEN KANE AND MR. ARKADIN
>Highly informative analysis of two works by the master, quite different stylistically, yet
similar thematically.
>TV SPECIAL ON THE DRUG WAR
>ABC looks at the losing crusade against marijuana
>Movie Scenes: The Love Goddess
>Lynda Carter plays Rita Hayworth in this Made-For-TV movie which dramatizes her turbulent
marriage to Orson Welles and abuse by the old Hollywood system.
>Movie Scenes: Gilda (1946)
>And here is the real Rita in her most tantalizing and provocative role.
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>TAPE 21 (Scotch)
>Music (audio only): Nielson/Symphony # 6 (Segerstam, CSO)
>TV Show: Orson Welles guest stars on the zany 60's comedy staple Laugh-In.
>Concert: Mozart/Double Concerto (Itzahk Perlman, Pinchas Zuckerman and the CSO)
>HOME VIDEO: ORSON WELLES FILM FESTIVAL (Woodstock, IL Feb.23, 1990)
>Held in the restored Woodstock Opera House. Hosted by Michael Dawson, who would later supervise the 1992 restoration of Othello. Special guest is Orson Welles' daughter Beatrice.
>Music (audio only):
>Berlioz/Overture to Benvenuto Cellini (David Zinman, Baltimore Symphony)
>Diepenbrock/Suite from Marcius
>EJ Meoran/Lonely Waters (Vernon Handley, Ulster Orchestra)
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>TAPE 22 (Memorex)
>Radio: A brief excerpt from the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast
>Movie Preview: Citizen Kane
>TV SHOW: THE SOUTH BANK SHOW
>John Houseman discusses his partnership with Orson Welles in the 1930's, as co-founders of
the legendary Mercury Theatre.
>Music (audio only): WXRT's Jazz Transfusion WNIB's Sunday Night/Monday Morning show
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>TAPE 23 (TDK)
>TV SHOW: AMERICAN CHRONICLES (1990)
>Episode from David Lynch's short-lived show focuses on America's love affair with the
automobile.
>VIDEO SPECIAL: WORKING WITH ORSON WELLES (1995)
>Welles' longtime cinematographer Gary Graver put together this affectionate tribute to his
former boss. Includes interviews with cast members from Welles'
unfinished final work The
Other Side of the Wind. Priceless anecdotes from Gary Marshall, Susan
Strasburg, Cameron
Mitchell, Stacy Keach and others.
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>TAPE 24 (Maxell)
>TV SPECIAL: GORE VIDAL'S AMERICAN PRESIDENCY
>Vidal made this scathing look at US history for British television. It was subsequently shown
in the US on The History Channel, with a stern rebuttal afterwards by
Sander Vanocur and
Arthur Schlessinger Jr.
Movie Scene: Freaks (1932)
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>TAPE 25 (TDK)
>Opera: Monteverdi's Orpheo, one of the first operas ever written, dating from around 1610.
>MOVIE SCENE: The Spectacular chariot race from BEN-HUR (1959)
>CONCERT: BACH/THE SIX BRANDENBURG CONCERTI
>Music (audio only): 1st movement from the CSO world premiere of Ellen Taffe Zwilich's
Concerto for Trombone (Jay Friedman, soloist)
>MOVE SCENE: Charlton Heston as Moses parts the Red Sea in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956)
>Classic 40's Superman cartoons from the Fliescher studio
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>TAPE 26 (TDK)
>Movie: Macbeth (1948)
>Short, studio version of Orson Welles' low budget Shakespeare adaptation, done for Republic
studios. Flawed recording, has visual static during the second half.
>Movie Scenes: Douglas Fairbanks stars in The Thief of Baghdad (1924)
>Sports: John Macenroe gets a $10,000 fine for verbal abuse to a linesman
>Sports: The Bears release Mike Hartenstein Boxing: Tyson vs. Thomas/Spinks vs. Cooney
>Movie Scenes from Race With the Devil, The Seven Ups, and Tales from the Crypt
>TV SHOW: PHIL DONAHUE WITH JERRY RUBIN (1968)
>American Movie Classics' conference on film colorization with Jimmy Stewart and Burt Lancaster.
>Led Zepellin special with Jimmy Page (excerpts)
>Music (audio only): Songs from The Beatles' 2nd album, including It Won't Be Long, All My Loving, Don't Bother Me, Roll Over Beethoven, Hold Me Tight
>Movie Scene: The last scene of Night of the Comet
>SPORTS SPECIAL: BEARS '85: A SEASON TO REMEMBER
>WBBM (Channel 2) looks at the Bears' championship season. Hosted by Johnny Morris.
>Video: Don't Tell Me You Love Me
>Disney animation with Donald Duck and Goofy
>Videos: Hungry Like the Wolf/Duran Duran Always Something there to remind Me
Somewhere/Barbra Striesand Never/Heart
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>TAPE 27
>ASSORTED HIGHLIGHTS including Jean-Luc Ponty videos, Frank Zappa videos, Japanese animation,
and Computer animation from Nightflight.
>VIDEO ART SPECIAL: The massive art collection of The Louvre in Paris
>MOVIE: I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING (1945)
>Powell and Pressburger's enchanting tale of an about-to-be-married woman who gets lost on a
pastoral island off the coast of Scotland. A second audio track
features commentary about the
making of the film.
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>TAPE 28 (Maxell)
>CONCERT: EVELYN GLENNIE PLAYS NEY ROSAURO'S MARIMBA CONCERTO
>MOVIE SCENES: RICHARD PRYOR LIVE ON THE SUNSET STRIP
>Pryor talks about his trip to Africa and his freebasing accident
>Concert: Herbie Hancock in Africa
>Live on the Sunset Strip continued
>Video: Jump/Van Halen
>MOVIE SCENES: RICHARD PRYOR LIVE IN CONCERT
>Pryor at his peak.
'Maybe the greatest of all recorded performance films'...Pauline Kael,
5001 Movies
>Herbie Hancock continued Pryor Live in Concert continued
>Video: New Frontier/Donald Fagen Dream Silver Field Song
Computer Graphics from Nightflight
>John Cage and Nam June Pick
>Animation: Twirling light in a living room Mandala Snippets
>VIDEO: INDIVIDUAL CHOICE/JEAN-LUC PONTY Pleasure of Love/Tom Tom Club
>MOVIE: RICHARD PRYOR HERE AND NOW
>Not quite up to the other two Pryor films, but has it's moments.
>More Herbie Hancock filler
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>TAPE 29 (Maxell)
>TV special: The Horror of it All
>Jose Ferrer hosts this look at the great horror films of the silent era including The Cabinet
of Dr. Caligari, Nosfaratu and The Phantom of the Opera.
>Video: Save a Prayer/Duran Duran
>TV Show: Nightflight
>The USA Network show from the 80's looks at the sci-fi films of Christmas 84' including 2010,
Starman, and a special look at the making of Dune
>Movie Scenes: Bo Derek gets poked twice in the otherwise execrable Bolero (1985)
>SPORTS: HBO's Inside The NFL reviews the BEARS' 84' PLAYOFF VICTORY over the
Washington Redskins.
>Videos: Ashes to Ashes, Boys Keep Swinging/David Bowie
>Computer animated video of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons (excerpt)
>JAZZ CONCERT: CHARLES MINGUS' final, posthumous work EPITAPH is performed in NYC's Lincoln
Center by an all-star Jazz ensemble.
>TV Show: Sneak Previews
>Lyons and Gabler review The Beatles final movie Let It Be
>Video: Panama/Van Halen Surrender Your Heart/Missing Persons
>Computer animation with Jazz music
Mini series scenes: A fictional trip to the Moon in Space
>2 classic car chase sequences BULLIT (1968) and AGAINST ALL ODDS (1985)
>Movie Scenes: Sword and Sorcery in Jim Henson's rather dark Muppet fantasy The Dark Crystal
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>TAPE 30 (Sony)
>TV SPECIAL: AFI 100 GREATEST AMERICAN MOVIES
>Chosen by a national poll of AFI members.
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>TAPE 31 (Sony)
>TV SPECIAL: AMERICAN CINEMA
>This episode of the series produced by the AFI for the centenniary of American film focuses
on FILM NOIR
>TV MOVIE: GORE VIDAL'S LINCOLN
>Vidal's controversial novel is impressively realized. A first-rate cast includes Sam Waterston
and Mary Tyler Moore.
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>TAPE 32 (Kodak)
>TV SPECIAL: KNOCKOUT! HOLLYWOOD'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH BOXING
>AMC special on New York movies
>TV SHOW: THE SOUTH BANK SHOW
>Ken Russel directs a film called The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner which looks at the
great Austrian composer's obsession with counting.
>MUSIC: ABADDO IN BERLIN
>A profile of Claudio Abaddo's first year as conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. The program
concludes with a complete performance of Mahler's first symphony.
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>TAPE 33 (Scotch)
>MUSIC: WEBER/DIE FRIESCHUTZ OVERTURE (Berlin Philharmonic,Herbert Von Karajan)
BOULEZ/MUSIC FOR STRING ORCHESTRA (Pierre Boulez conducting)
>TV SHOW: AMERICAN JUSTICE
>PBS Series. This episode chronicles the Hughes/Irving hoax where writer Clifford Irving tried
to pass off a fake biography of Howard Hughes.
>TV SHOW: JOHN CALLOWAY
>A debate on the merits of drug prohibition from 1995.
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>TAPE 34 (Kodak)
>TV SHOW: SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
>TWIN PEAKS SKIT with guest host Kyle McGlaughlin. From 1990.
>TV SHOW: TWIN PEAKS
>The two hour 2nd season finale, which unfortunately, turned out to be the last episode, as
the series was cancelled shortly afterwards.
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>TAPE 35 (Scotch)
>MUSIC: JAZZ AT RAVINIA
>Recorded from PBS in Summer 1998. Features the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.
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>TAPE 36 (TDK)
>CONCERT: STRAVINSKY/SYMPHONY IN THREE MOVEMENTS (Bavarian Radio Orchestra, SOLTI)
>MUSIC (audio only): MILES DAVIS/KIND OF BLUE
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>TAPE 37 ( )
>RADIO: ORSON WELLES and the MERCURY THEATRE REHEARSE their 1938 broadcast of Shakespeare's
JULIUS CEASAR. Guest star H.V. Keltenborn.
>TV SHOW: QUARTET
>A history of quartets of all kinds, from the middle ages down to today.
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>TAPE 38 (BASF)
>TV SPECIAL: WITH ORSON WELLES - STORIES FROM A LIFE IN FILM
>The great filmmaker reviews his brilliant career. Abridged from a 1986 BBC documentary,
broadcast in America on TNT.
> A couple of woodwind quintets
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>TAPE 39 ( )
>TV SHOW: DAVID LYNCH SPECIAL traces the bizarre filmmaker's career, from his student works to
his then latest film Lost Highway. Also features a behind-the-scenes
look at the making of
Lost Highway.
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>TAPE 40 ( )
>TV SHOW: THE SOUTH BANK SHOW
>Russian violist Yuri Bashmet is featured. Includes the great Russian composer Alfred Schnittke
discussing his Viola Concerto, written for Bashmet.
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>TAPE 41 (Maxell)
>VIDEO SPECIAL: ZEN, THE BEST OF ALAN WATTS
>Short films made in the early 70's about Alan Watts, who was a leading authority on Zen
Buddhism and meditation. Relaxing and enlightening.
>Movie: Bananas (1969)
>Early Woody Allen film about a mild-mannered New Yorker who gets caught up in a Latin American
revolution.
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