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Case Study No. 2099: Gina (Love Route)

Love Route Trailer
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The trailer for the new Saint Studios film about a bounty hunter named Jude (Darrock Flynn) who goes to collect real estate agent named Charlie (Aaron Brown) and ends up going on a date with librarian Gina (Faith Randall). In the end, Jude and Gina become a couple on the run from a mobster named Joey (Jeremy Hammack) and his entourage of bodyguards. The final film will be presented in three parts online that will be released periodically throughout the summer of 2012.
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[trailer opens with a man groggily rolling over in bed]
JUDE: [in voice over] Hello there. My name's Jude Wenslow ... and I'm a bounty hunter.
[he rolls right out of bed and lands on the floor, then cut to a closeup of another man]
JUDE: [in voice over] See that guy? His name's Joey Angelo ...
[cut to Jude tied up in a chair, with a nylon stocking over his head]
JUDE: Wasn't so bad ...
[Joey kneels down next to him, as another man off camera grabs Jude by the head]
JOEY: He hasn't even started.
[cut to various shots from the film, then to Jude standing in front of a closed door]
JUDE: Who is it?
[cut to a young female librarian (long dark hair, brown dress) standing on the other side of the door]
GINA: It's Gina.
[cut to a different man opening the door, as Jude pushes the door and knocks him down, then cut back to the librarian]
GINA: Are you ready for that date?
[cut back to Jude inside the house (from before the librarian arrived), as he has the man tied up in the closet]
JUDE: I'm gonna take this nice-lookin' girl out on a nice date, because that is what normal people do.
["Love" appears on screen, then cut to various shots of Jude spending time with the librarian (now wearing glasses) ... including teaching her how to fire a gun]
["Hate" appears on screen, then cut to more shots of the movie]
["And a killer bunny" appears on screen, then cut to a man inside of a car looking at his laptop]
MICHAEL: You threaten my family, I call the Hare!
[cut to Jude inside his bathroom, where a little pink bunny doll is clinging to the shower curtain]
[cut to the bunny on the shoulders of another man, using piano wire to "choke" him out]
[cut to Jude driving his car, as the librarian sits in the passenger seat]
JUDE: [in voice over] You should get some of those glasses ... like, the big thick ones? Because then you'd look like a really sexy librarian.
["Love Route" appears on screen]
JUDE: [in voice over] I mean, you look way too good to be one anyway.

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From imdb.com:

Love Route (2012)
63 min - Comedy | Crime | Romance

Director: Curtis Everitt
Writers: Curtis Everitt (story), Curtis Everitt

Jude is a bounty hunter who goes to collect from seedy real estate agent Charlie. Jude ends up pretending to be Charlie in order to go on a date with Gina the librarian. While pursuing his overall objective and trying not to break the shocking truth to Gina, Jude is relentlessly dogged by gangster Joey Angelo, who wants vengeance for embarrassment.

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From saintstudiosfilms.com:

Love Route (2012)

Written and directed by
Curtis Everitt

Cast
Darrock Flynn as Jude
Faith Randall as Gina
Aaron Brown as Charlie
Jeremy Hammack as Joey
Josh Powell as Michael
Jeremy Terrance as Argile
David Shoemaker as Bruno
Seth Kingston as Mars
Isaac Plunkett as Unlucky Fellow
Kayla Walls as Girl by Pool

Music arranged
Curtis Everitt

Assistant camera
Isaac Plunkett

Format consultant
David Shoemaker

Stunt driver
Seth Kingston

Special thanks
Courtney Smith
Lisa Randall

Summary:

On his deathbed, Jude Wenslow's father was swindled out of his house. This house was to be Jude's inheritance, but now it's fallen into the control of gangster Michael Angelo (Josh Powell), who plans to use it for criminal activity. Jude (Darrock Flynn) pursues Joey Angelo (Jeremy Hammack) because he has access to the deed. Jude uses every means at his disposal to harass Joey and his entourage. Even though he is a bounty hunter, Jude is not legally permitted to carry a firearm because of a previous offense. This causes tension whenever Jude grows more paranoid and contacts gun dealer Argile (Jeremy Terrance). Also, Jude goes to collect Charlie (Aaron Brown), a real estate agent associated with Joey, and ends up putting him in a closet and stealing Charlie's beautiful date away. Gina the librarian (Faith Randall) is looking to start over in a healthy relationship, and luckily for her Jude comes along to save her from Charlie's more sinister intentions. A barrier between Jude and Gina is that Jude is not honest about his identity, posing as Charlie on their first couple dates. Not only must Jude break the news to Gina, but he also must collect the deed and stay alive in this hardball game of cat and mouse.

Case Study No. 2087: Megan Anderson

"Bad BAD Library User", Megan Anderson on State College PA library
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Megan was a bad library user, but ended up a fantastic library employee! Join us in the making of this film and show your love for libraries! Kickstarter campaign going on now! http://kck.st/1mb89A9
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[scene opens with a female librarian (short blonde hair, black sweater, visible tattoos on her cleavage) speaking directly to the camera]
MEGAN: I was actually a really bad ... bad library user!
["Megan Anderson on her childhood library in central Pennsylvania" appears on screen]
MEGAN: I grew up in a really small town, and I was a really messed-up kid. One time, I remember, I actually borrowed a vinyl record that I left on my floor and stepped on it and snapped it.
[she shakes her head]
MEGAN: So I was always paying off fines, or unable to use my card. The director at my community library once told me when I was a teenager that when they did their renovation, that they should name the renovation after me because I had paid more money in fines and fees than any single donor had done for the library.
[cut to another shot of the librarian speaking directly to the camera]
MEGAN: And, um, once I got a little more savvy about the fact that I couldn't borrow anymore because of my fines, I started to steal.
[she smiles]
MEGAN: And I stole a lot, I stole incessantly! I remember the first time I stole a book, it was John Lennon's "A Spaniard in the Works."
[cut to another shot of the librarian speaking directly to the camera]
MEGAN: And, of course, my mother found it. And she figured out that it was a library book, because it had the spine tape on it. And she made me take it back.
[she shrugs]
MEGAN: And, of course I walked in and said, "I found this book outside" and gave it to them, because she had told me that I had to confess ... which I didn't.
[she smiles]
MEGAN: But then I got smarter about it, and realized, "Okay, I should just treat these like library books. I'll borrow them, and then when I'm done with them, I'll bring them back."
[she smiles]
MEGAN: And so that's what I did for years, I stole probably ... hundreds of library books over time. Uh, at one point, I had stolen so many that I realized that when I brought them back, they were gonna catch me before I walk out as they notice all of these books hadn't been checked out!
[she shakes her head]
MEGAN: And so, there was an academic library in my town, too. And it was kind of a hike, but I took my thirty books to the academic library and dumped them in the conveyor return, figuring that they would send them back to the public library ... which I found they did! Those books showed up on the library shelves again!
[cut to another shot of the librarian speaking directly to the camera]
MEGAN: And part of what means a lot to me about libraries is the fact that nobody ever busted me all this time.
[cut to another shot of the librarian speaking directly to the camera]
MEGAN: The public library ... it's not graded. It's something that kids do, that you're not an "A" library user or a "D" library user.
[she shakes her head]
MEGAN: You can't flunk "library," and even when you really mess up, there's some compensation. And then, you know, it's ... the message is "welcome back." Y'know, just be sure you come back.
[cut to another shot of the librarian speaking directly to the camera]
MEGAN: And so then, as I moved up into high school, I applied to be a page in this library that I'm talking about ... and they hired me.
[she pauses]
MEGAN: And nobody ever ... well, I think a few years later, as I worked there--
[she motions with her hand]
MEGAN: Because I was a page, I shelved books, they promoted me to be a librarian assistant, and then I worked with a great children's librarian who let me do story times and let me take on more and more responsibility until now--
[she shrugs]
MEGAN: Y'know, I'm the acting assistant chief of the city library for San Francisco.
["Megan completed her term as Acting Assistant Chief. She is now SFPL's Youth Centers Manager" appears on screen]

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From free4allfilms.org:

Inspired by their love of libraries, filmmakers Dawn Logsdon and Lucie Faulknor are on a mission to tell the grand story of the American public library – from the historic free library movement that swept the nation over a century ago to the dramatic human stories unfolding inside libraries today. Help tell the story of America's most beloved and most endangered public institution. Together we can spark national dialogue and local action – before it's too late.

Free for All: Inside the Public Library is a multi-platform documentary project that brings together library stories from all across America. Whether historic or contemporary, humorous or heartbreaking, these individual dramas shed light on what public libraries mean to our society. The project's centerpiece is a feature-length film chronicling a "day-in-the-life" of the American Public Library, around the country from opening to closing time, interspersed with dramatic chapters of national library history. Shorter films bring alive other extraordinary public library stories - from the puritans and robber barons who launched it, through the immigrants, suffragettes and civil rights activists who transformed it, to the millions of Americans whose lives are changed at the public library today.

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From neh.gov:

Free For All: Inside the Public Library

To support: Development of a 90-minute documentary and related Web programs on the history and current state of public libraries.
Project fields: Gender Studies
Program: Media Projects Development
Division: Public Programs Total amounts: $40,000 (approved); $40,000 (awarded)
Grant period: 4/1/2013 – 6/30/2014

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From kickstarter.com:

Free For All: Inside the Public Library
by Dawn Logsdon & Lucie Faulknor

980 backers
$79,720 pledged of $75,000 goal
Funded!
This project was successfully funded on October 27.

Free for All: Inside the Public Library is the first major documentary project about our nation's most beloved and most threatened public institution. It captures dramatic personal stories from library users across America, highlighting the diverse communities that depend on public libraries and the surprising ways libraries are reinventing themselves to serve more people than ever.

ABOUT THE PROJECT
Big decisions about the future of the American public library -decisions that will resonate for generations - are being made NOW in local communities across the country. How these decisions will be made and who will make them are questions at the heart of our documentary.

We're an experienced team of award-winning filmmakers who are passionate about public libraries and their role in our democracy. Many people think of libraries as quaint book repositories growing obsolete in our digital age. We're on a mission to dispel that myth.

The reality is that people are using our local libraries more than ever before. If you haven't been in a library lately, you'll be astonished to discover what's going on inside them. Libraries are providing digital media labs for youth, computer and internet access, literacy programs, job search resources, creative maker-spaces, baby yoga classes, senior technology training, romance book clubs, tools for genealogy buffs, rare databases for scholars, safe spaces for kids after school, and whew, much, much more. At some libraries, you can even check out fishing gear, cake pans, heirloom seeds, power tools, a painting or a laptop, along with the latest bestseller.

America's more than 16,000 public library branches are a vital lifeline for millions of people. But in many communities that lifeline is in danger. Despite record-high usage, over 50% of U.S. public libraries have faced cuts or closures since the recession. Many are debating survival options like branch closures, severe reductions in hours, charging fees, or privatization.

Intended for PBS broadcast in 2016, FREE FOR ALL: Inside the Public Library will be a rollicking and visually stunning mosaic of faces, architecture and stories that brings to life the astonishing diversity of the American library experience and the urgent issues libraries face today. This feature-length documentary film chronicles "a day-in-the-life of the American library" from open to close in public libraries large and small. It features a handful of the millions of dramatic stories unfolding within them, including an Illinois immigrant teen struggling to understand her new country, a retired Louisiana fisherwoman in search of new adventures, a California actor who's recently become homeless, and a young Nebraskan entrepreneur with big dreams.

OUR GOAL
Free for All: Inside the Public Library seeks to inspire, entertain, and spark dialogue and action about the future of public libraries. We feel it is urgent to complete production now, so the film can begin to have impact as soon as possible while critical decisions are being debated. That's why we're asking for your support now to complete shooting our film — and for your help in expanding the national conversation about the future of our public libraries.

WHERE WE ARE
We have received Research and Development funding awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, California Humanities, the San Francisco Foundation, the Creative Work Fund, the Eastman Fund, and others. With this support, we've been able to spend the past two years studying the issues, learning from library experts, traveling to libraries to discover stories and characters, and beginning to film them. We've formed key partnerships with Urban Libraries Council and other national library organizations who are helping us develop a comprehensive outreach strategy designed to maximize the film's impact and engage audiences of all ages, community groups, and policymakers.

WHAT WE NEED
We urgently need $75,000 so we can finish filming library stories across the United States. As you can see from the trailer, we've already shot some compelling moments with our participants in several communities. But we're not done yet. We still have to shoot over 60% of the film and traveling is expensive. We've applied for additional grants, but grant cycles take time, and funding is limited. Your support now will guarantee that we can continue filming around the country in libraries like yours, and complete principal cinematography in late 2014/early 2015, in time to meet our goals.

MORE ABOUT US
Free for All: Inside the Public Library is a production of Serendipity Films, under 501(c)3 fiscal sponsorship from our partner Video Veracity, Inc. Producer/Director Dawn Logsdon and Executive Producer Stanley Nelson (Freedom Summer) are leading the project, along with Oscar-nominated cinematographer Vicente Franco, co-producer Lucie Faulknor, editor Veronica Selver, consulting producer Janet Cole, and other award-winning colleagues, whose films have received wide exposure and acclaim over the past thirty years. Read more about our team here.

Any extra monies raised above $75,000 will go to paying our tireless and dedicated producing staff - especially Lucie Faulknor who believes in this film and public libraries so much that she's been working pro bono for the past year, while working a second job at night to pay the bills.

Here's Lucie's own library story:

"I grew up as the youngest in a family of seven kids -plus many dogs, cats, and miscellaneous other critters. The library was the only place where I found peace and quiet. I went to the SFPL West Portal branch library to study all through high school. Without it I know I wouldn't have become the first person in my family to graduate from university."

Thanks for considering our project!

Sincerely,

Dawn & Lucie

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From sfgate.com:

'Free for All' explores libraries' value
Documentary Film to explore popularity, contributions to democracy

By Neal J. Riley
Updated 8:46 pm, Friday, February 22, 2013

It was in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when filmmaking couple Dawn Logsdon and Lucie Faulknor really came to appreciate libraries. After their New Orleans home was flooded in the storm, they found themselves outside a library in Baton Rogue, where lines stretched around the block to submit disaster relief applications online.

"It was the only place to go to fill out information," Logsdon said. "The city and state government all failed miserably where the library was able to help."

Now they're aiming to make a first-of-its-kind documentary called "Free for All," exploring why Americans are using public libraries in record numbers and what would happen to democracy if libraries became extinct.

"Libraries are in a real crisis in terms of funding all around the country," Logsdon said. "If more attention isn't drawn to it, they aren't going to be able to keep up."

The pair are focusing on the Main Library in San Francisco, where they now live. Though many places across the country are struggling to fund their libraries, Logsdon said they chose San Francisco because of its strong financial investment in the library.

"We want to focus on what a library can do, not what it can't do," she said. "San Francisco turns out to be perfect for that."

Personal stories

On Thursday, the documentary filmmakers and their crew set up cameras and a green screen on the ground floor of the Main Library. While their film will feature a few characters including participants of an adult literacy program, reference and children's librarians, and homeless patrons, the task this week was to collect personal stories about the importance of libraries.

So far they've gotten everything from a story told by a library official who had a problem stealing books as a young girl to patrons who knew nothing about what being gay meant until they hesitantly tracked down a book about it at the library.

For Albertina Zarazua Padilla of San Leandro, the library was "a matter of survival" when growing up in Carmel Valley, where English was not her first language.

"I had to learn quickly to survive in school," said Padilla, 57. "The library was the opportunity to be at the same level as everyone else; it was the great equalizer."

Eileen Asher of Petaluma said her library in Michigan helped her do life-changing research while she was growing up. After learning as a teenager that a family member was part of the Ku Klux Klan, she devoted her time to researching the group at the library and came to the conclusion that she would never go down that path.

"I've spent my life in libraries," Asher said. "I don't know what I'd do without them."

Fire chief's memories

Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White grew up next to the Merced branch. Once she had a family of her own, she made sure to instill a love of libraries among her three teenage sons. But for all the happy memories, Logsdon and Faulknor were also able to get the chief to retell a painful library experience about a 12-year-old girl who died at a Sunset branch after an asthma attack about 10 years ago.

"It was a difficult scene where she did not survive," Hayes-White said. "It's not a good story about a library, but that's what we deal with as firefighters."

Filming for the project will continue through Saturday in the Jewett Gallery, and interested participants should go to www.freeforalldocumentary.com or call (415) 824-4910. The filmmakers are working to release a feature-length documentary in two years, but an edited collection of interviews will be shown at the Main Library during National Library Week on April 20.

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From libraryjournal.com:

When documentary filmmakers Lucie Faulknor and Dawn Logsdon were evacuated to Baton Rouge, LA, from their home in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, they were struck by the essential role played by the public library in the days following the disaster. Staff worked long hours to help people locate missing family members, friends, and pets; fill out FEMA forms; communicate with insurance companies; and use the library computers. "They had an assembly line to give everybody a library card," Faulknor said, "and we realized that librarians were also first responders."

That recognition, along with many hours spent in libraries researching past projects, eventually convinced Faulknor and Logsdon that the world needed a documentary focused on the importance of America's public libraries. Free for All: Inside the Public Library, which will be released in 2016, seeks to showcase the vitality of libraries large and small, urban and rural, successful and struggling, and the very personal stories of their patrons.

The evolution of the project dates back to their previous documentary film, Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans. While researching it, Faulknor and Logsdon spent a great deal of time in the Louisiana Historical Archives at the New Orleans Public Library, and became fascinated by the cross-section of people who passed through on a daily basis. "At some point," Faulknor told LJ, "I don't remember how exactly it came up, Lucie turned to me and said, 'You know, this would make a great movie.'"

Faulknor replied that she was sure somebody else had done it and they had just never seen it. "How can this story not have been told in a documentary form before?" they wondered, Logsdon told LJ. "It's screaming out to be told. It's one of the great American stories, to me. Ken Burns did ten hours on baseball and jazz - the public library system certainly deserves a major broadcast documentary." They discovered that smaller documentary projects about specific libraries or library subjects had been made, but nothing about the nation's public library system.

TAKING SHAPE

Free for All received its first development grant from Cal Humanities in 2012, and the project began to come together. Faulknor and Logsdon initially planned to pick one library system to represent the whole, and focus on its interplay in the community. They had, by then, moved to San Francisco and decided to focus on the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL), but their approach changed as they learned more about libraries.

"At some point we started to understand if we wanted to tell the story of the American public library we needed to show a broader range of what libraries meant to their own communities," Logsdon explained. "Because even though it's a national institution, it's also a very profoundly local institution." After presenting some clips from the film at the 2013 American Library Association Conference in Chicago, Faulknor and Logsdon surveyed the audience to ask what they thought was missing, and the response was clear: People agreed that SFPL was a great story, but it alone didn't represent the rest of the country.

Faulknor and Logsdon decided the only way to capture that diversity would be to travel around the United States visiting different types of libraries: small town, rural, and various cities. They began interviewing library patrons, and realized that there was a second platform to the project: a series of personal narratives that will eventually be hosted on a dedicated interactive website. "When we tell people we're doing a documentary about libraries," said Faulknor, "the first thing they want to do is tell us their own library story."

They set up a storytelling booth at SFPL where patrons could record their own narratives, and it proved to be hugely popular. People told of how their local libraries helped them assimilate as immigrants and become citizens, or understand their sexuality, or just get away from their families. "When we did the booth, I think five people burst into tears as they told us their library stories," Logsdon told LJ. Some were traumatic - tales of researching abuse, or discovering that a father had been in the Ku Klux Klan - but some, said Logsdon, were just about love, like one woman's description of growing up in suburban Illinois and walking to the library with her mother every week, filling up her little red wagon with books.

"It made us realize the depth of passion that individual Americans have for the institution," said Logsdon, "and it kind of took me aback because I don't think people feel that way about other public institutions."

The two plan to take the storytelling booth on the road, although how it evolves will depend on funding. One possibility would involve an elaborate traveling mobile setup, but in its simplest form the "booth" could be a toolkit, easily set up with a camcorder in a library media lab or Maker space. Faulknor and Logsdon have applied for NEA funding to develop a prototype, and hope to eventually amass an archive that would combine contemporary and historical library stories.

"If I have a trademark in terms of what I'm drawn to for documentary storytelling," said Logsdon, "it's bringing history and contemporary stories together to illustrate each other, for the history to inform what's going on today and for what's going on today to be enriched by what happened in the past.... A lot of the library world doesn't even know [its] own history." The filmmakers are particularly excited about the idea of working with teen media labs to produce and upload their own content for the site.

RESONATING FOR EVERYBODY

Faulknor and Logsdon have received funding awards from such organizations as the National Endowment for the Humanities, Cal Humanities, the San Francisco Foundation, the Creative Work Fund, and the Eastman Fund. They also launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise the money they would need to travel with a cinematographer, sound person, and equipment in order to continue gathering interviews. The campaign surpassed its goal of $75,000 in October 2014.

While the Kickstarter campaign was just one prong of their fundraising strategy - it "allows us to keep the lights on," said Faulknor - it has also been a great audience-building tool, with built-in marketing and PR via social media. They continue to take contributions on the project's website.

Free for All's filmmaking team, many of whom Faulknor and Logsdon have worked with on previous films, includes noted documentarian Stanley Nelson serving as executive producer. Library historian Wayne Wiegand, whose forthcoming book A Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library will be published by Oxford University Press in 2015, is their historical research director.

Faulknor and Logsdon hope to premier the film at a major film festival, do the film circuit, and then move on to public television. Ultimately, of course, they want to show it in libraries (they have also received strong interest from library schools).

In addition, they are working to set up an advisory board of library leaders in order to ensure the broadest possible perspective. The fact that support for libraries has always crossed political lines and boundaries is significant, they emphasized, especially given the country's current political climate.

"What drew us to this story is the way it resonates for everybody," Logsdon told LJ. "Ronald Reagan talks about how he would have never become president if it hadn't been for the public library.... The Occupy kids all set up model libraries in their Occupy camps on the far left extreme, and on the right we're learning more and more about how many Christian right families rely on libraries to homeschool their kids...they feel safe and that the library experience speaks to them and their families." She recalled visiting a painting class for seniors at a library in a conservative part of Louisiana, where one woman stepped up and told her, "If the government tries to mess with our library, they're going to have a riot on their hands."

"What would our country look like without its libraries?" asks the Free for All website, "What would be lost?" In addition to collecting enthusiastic stories, the team will be traveling to places where libraries are threatened or have closed branches, such as Detroit and Stockton, CA. "The way we're going to address that question," said Logsdon, "is by showing how integral they are to a functioning democracy right now."

Case Study No. 2077: Jennifer Griggs

Cockeyed Miracle, The - (Original Trailer)
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Trailer
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From wikipedia.org:

The Cockeyed Miracle is a 1946 fantasy film about a ghost who, with the help of his father (also a ghost), stops his best friend from leaving his family penniless. The ghosts are played by Frank Morgan and Keenan Wynn, the villain by Cecil Kellaway. The film was based on the play But Not Goodbye by George Seaton.

Plot summary
Aging shipbuilder Sam Griggs (Frank Morgan) is near the end of his career due to health problems. With the help of his friend Tom Carter (Cecil Kellaway) he has invested all of his family's money in a shaky real estate venture which he hopes will provide a large return. The rest of his family is happily unaware of the deal, preoccupied with their own future prospects.

Sam's health soon fails fatally and he is met by the youthful ghost of his father Ben Griggs (Keenan Wynn), eager to shepherd his son into the afterlife. Sam insists on lingering to help his family as best he can, first persuading Ben to use his supernatural power to cause storms to help a romance between his daughter (Audrey Totter) and an oblivious lodger (Richard Quine), and then to aid the success of his investment by impressing the potential buyer.

Having discovered his death and their own financial situation (but not the nature of his venture), Sam's wife Amy (Gladys Cooper) encourages her children to remember their father fondly. Tom arrives at their home prepared to give the grieving family Sam's share, but succumbs to greed after writing the check and attempts to leave without informing them of their new inheritance.

Though Sam invisibly berates his former friend he and his father seem helpless to prevent the betrayal. However, one last storm cast by Ben leads to Tom himself dying from a lightning strike. Knowing that the authorities will find the check on his body, Sam and Ben finally leave for the afterlife with Tom in tow.

Cast
* Frank Morgan as Sam Griggs
* Keenan Wynn as Ben Griggs
* Cecil Kellaway as Tom Carter
* Audrey Totter as Jennifer Griggs
* Richard Quine as Howard Bankson
* Gladys Cooper as Amy Griggs
* Marshall Thompson as Jim Griggs
* Leon Ames as Ralph Humphrey
* Jane Green as Mrs. Lynne
* Morris Ankrum as Dr. Wilson
* Arthur Space as Amos Spellman

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From imdb.com:

[After Jennifer Griggs and her boyfriend are soaked by rain, Jennifer quickly exchanges her wet dress for a provocative blanket]
Ben Griggs: What does she do?
Sam Griggs: She's a librarian.
Ben Griggs: Must read a lot.

Case Study No. 2064: The Librarian (Devil's Carnival: Alleluia!)

The Devil's Carnival 2: The Librarian - Official Teaser
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In 2012, Director Darren Lynn Bousman (SAW II-IV) and writer/actor Terrance Zdunich of REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA unleashed Episode One of their musical film series, THE DEVIL'S CARNIVAL. Hailed as "One of the single greatest devil-centric stories ever told" (Ain't It Cool News), Episode One led audiences on a journey through the underworld. It's 2013, and the boys are back with EPISODE TWO... And this time, they're sending you to Heaven!

Starring Tech N9ne as The Librarian, this nine-minute teaser is chock-full of visual and musical hints of the heavenly delight that awaits audiences in THE DEVIL'S CARNIVAL: EPISODE TWO.

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[scene opens in a "heavenly" library, as the camera focuses on a desk with a nameplate reading "The Librarian"]
[camera pans up to show the young male librarian (African American, bald, goatee, glasses, tuxedo, bow tie) sitting at the desk, as he pours himself a cup of tea (which bubbles with "other-worldy" steam)]
[the librarian brings the cup up to his lips and blows on it, causing a soul (?) to drift off the surface, then takes a sip and nods]
[he slowly rolls his chair over to a nearby radio and turns it on (at low volume), then returns to his desk]
RADIO ANNOUNCER: You are listening to Halo Radio, brought to you by Heavenly Productions Incorporated. Music that transfigures!
[a ringing sound effect can be heard]
RADIO ANNOUNCER: Now you're on the trolley!
[it plays some soft music, then the librarian looks over a book on his desk with a magnifying glass (causing the runes "tattooed" across the back of his head to glow)]
[he wipes away a smudge in the book with his finger (causing a puff of black smoke to rise in the air), then he takes a light bulb attached to a long stick and brings it up to the book (glowing with a bright light) and shakes his head]
[he puts the light bulb down, picks up a bell on his desk and rings it, then goes back to sipping his tea (as the camera pans out to show a large "Banned Reading" sign behind him]
[after a few moments, he picks up the bell and gets up from his desk (as the camera pans out more to show piles of books around his desk and a shelf with a "Silence is Golden" poster), checking the pocket watch hanging from his lapel]
[he impatiently looks at the upper level of the library, then rings his bell again]
[three angels appears and signal him, then walk down the stairs (passing a pipe shooting out fire with the label "For Restoration") and sit down at various tables]
[the librarian returns to his desk, as two of the angels start using the typewriters sitting in front of them, while the third sheepishly walks up to the main desk (so the librarian angrily hands him a book)]
[the angel (who has a pair of giant uncooked chicken wings sticking out of his back) brings the book over to the pipe labelled "For Restoration" and throws it in, causing a burst of flame to jump out]
ANGEL: Oh!
[he steps back (as another pipe, with a blue light emanating from within, can be seen with the label "For Circulation") then returns to his table ... the other angel at the table looks at him (as a "Ribbit" sound effect can be heard) and giggles]
[the camera pans back to the librarian, as he stares angrily at the angels, then cracks his neck]
[he then cracks his knuckles, puts a finger to his lips, and shushes them]
LIBRARIAN: Shh!
[he points at the "Silence is Golden" poster, then sits back down]
[a bookend shaped like a horse's head sitting on a nearby table "neighs" quietly, followed by a bookend shaped like a dog's head "barking"]
[the librarian takes a scroll on his desk and rolls it out (as it lightly glows), then takes his "light bulb on a stick" to examine it more closely]
[nodding to himself, he puts the light bulb down and rolls the scroll back up, then rings his bell again]
[the camera pans over to the angel with the chicken wings, as he heads for the librarian's desk and takes the scroll (as the librarian again points to the "Silence is Golden" sign)]
[while the angel takes the scroll, one of the other angels typing has the words he's transcribing appear over his head ("by and by the seeds grew into linen yarn, and of the yarn, nets were made")]
[the camera then follows the angel as he brings the scroll over to the "For Circulation" pipe and drops it in (giving out a puff of blue smoke)]
[the angel returns to his table, then the camera pans back to the libarian, who picks up a pile of books underneath his desk and brings them over to the two pipes himself ... he briefly looks at the "For Restoration" pipe before shaking his head and walking up the stairs]
[the camera follows the librarian to the upper level, as he starts placing the books on top of seemingly random piles (but doing so with an air of authority that suggests everything is in perfect order)]
ANGELS: [from off camera] All children of heaven sing Alleluia ...
[the librarian nearly knocks over one of the piles at the unexpected noise, then the camera pans down to reveal the angel with chicken wings leading the other two in song]
[the camera pans back up to the librarian, who violently rings his bell (but the angels continue singing)]
[the librarian hurries back down the stairs, then stands with his hands on his hips and shakes his head (as the angel with chicken wings signals for the other two to stop singing)]
[the angels sheepishly return to their typewriters, as the librarian gives the angel with chicken wings a particularly dirty look]
[the librarian walks back to his desk, then leans on it and folds his arms over his chest, shaking his head and again pointing at the "Silence is Golden" poster]
[he sits back down, still staring at the angels as he adjust the lapels on his jacket and goes back to sipping his tea]
[the camera pans over to a poster on another bookshelf ("Don't be a crumb! Earn your wings"), then to the angel with chicken wings as he gets up to reshelve a book]
[as the angel places the book on the shelf, he starts to absentmindedly sing under his breath, then the camera pans back to the librarian, who nearly chokes on his tea at the noise]
[he gets up, then grabs a letter opener and a pair of tongs off his desk]
[cut to the angel with chicken wings pulling another book off the shelf, as he looks down at it while trying to walk back to his table ... never seeing the librarian as he bumps into him]
ANGEL: Oh!
[he drops the book, and the librarian drops the letter opener (which the angel "nonchalantly" kicks out of the way so the librarian can't pick it back up), then picks up the book and tries to hand it back to the librarian]
[the librarian shakes his head (as the other two angels get up and back away in fright), then grabs the angel and holds the tongs menacingly over him]
[cut to the other two angels cowering in fright, then back to the librarian as he rips the angel's tongue out (with blood flying everywhere)]
[cut back to the other two angels reacting in shock, then back to the librarian as he lets go of the angel (who falls to the floor) and holds the severed tongue up high in the air]
[he walks over to the "For Restoration" pipe and drops the tongue in, then calmly wipes down his jacket as the other two angels quickly return to their typewriters ... and the angel with chicken wings (his face covered in blood) manages to drag himself up off the ground before returning to his seat]
[the librarian looks at all three angels, then puts a finger to his lips and shushes them]
LIBRARIAN: Shh!
[the angel with chicken wings (gurgling and spitting up blood) slowly nods, as the other two murmur in suppressed terror]
[cut to a shot of the angels suddenly being bathed in a bright light, then to the librarian (who has now sprouted a pair of giant feathered wings and is glowing) as he smiles and shushes the camera]
LIBRARIAN: Shh ...
["Heavenly Productions Incorporated" appears on screen]
RADIO ANNOUNCER: The Devil's Carnival, Episode Two! Coming to picture houses in Two Thousand and Thirteen! Hell hasn't got a prayer!
["www dot DevilsCarnival dot com" appears on screen]

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From wikipedia.org:

The Devil's Carnival: Alleluia! is an upcoming musical horror film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. It is a sequel to the 2012 short film The Devil's Carnival. Unlike the previous film, Alleluia is a feature-length project. Production started in August 2014.

Plot
Whereas The Devil's Carnival took place in Hell, Alleluia focuses on Heaven. In describing it, writer Terrance Zdunich stated that "Heaven in particular is a very different aesthetic than hell...think Golden Age of Hollywood. You have fancy suits and everything is tailored, an air that everything is perfect and glamorous, but meanwhile in the backdrop of that era you also have the Great Depression." Zdunich went on to say that the style would be "Clark Gable on acid."

Darren Bousman described the film as "[pulling] back the curtain on Heaven... and in 'The Devil's Carnival,' God and his angels are a whole lot darker than Lucifer and his carnies."

Production
Most of the original cast from the first film are returning, with Terrance Zdunich and Paul Sorvino reprising their roles of Lucifer and God. New cast members include Barry Bostwick, Ted Neeley, Adam Pascal, Tech N9ne and David Hasselhoff. A fifteen day shoot was planned, but due to financial constraints this was reduced to fourteen days, concluding on 2 September 2014. The official teaser trailer for Alleluia! came out on November 6, 2014, with the film due for a 2015 release.

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From wikia.com:

The Librarian is the strict and ruthless librarian of Heaven's library. Played by Tech N9ne, he will appear in The Devil's Carnival: Episode 2. Not much is known about the Librarian yet, but he appears to be an upper level angel.

Personality
He is shown to be cruel to those who do not follow his rules (he rips out the toungue of an angel that wasn't silent in the library and burns it).

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From wegotthiscovered.com:

If you were as big a fan of Darren Lynn Bousman and Terrance Zdunich's musical horror spectacle The Devil's Carnival as I, you can officially start rejoicing now that production has begun on The Devil's Carnival 2. If you can remember, a teaser trailer was released way back in 2012 that suggested the hellish carnival inhabitants would be traded for – or joined by – an equally colorful cast of heavenly bodies, and this was confirmed by TechN9ne's angelic Librarian. Since then, there hasn't been much movement, but if you've been checking up on the project's social media channels, you'd know that Bousman's production has officially been given the green light! Alleluia!

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From bloody-disgusting.com:

A nine-minute teaser entitled The Devil's Carnival 2: The Librarian, has been released. Meant as a hint of what's to come, the teaser is "...chock-full of visual and musical hints of the heavenly delight that awaits audiences in The Devil's Carnival: Episode 2".

The teaser shows horror rapper Tech N9ne as the librarian of a twisted, nightmarish library, one that is full of magic and sounds. However, N9ne isn't exactly a fan of noises that he isn't in control of. So let's just say that things would've gone better had someone bitten their tongue.

Case Study No. 2049: Jim Van Buskirk and Nancy Silverod

Reversing Vandalism
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Reversing Vandalism chronicles the library's search for the book vandal, and the librarians' decision to offer the damaged books to artists as materials for creative expression and community healing. Learn more and get involved: http://www.niot.org
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["San Francisco, California. For months the main branch of the public library has been repeatedly vandalized." appears on screen, then cut to a male librarian ("Jim Van Buskirk, Librarian") speaking directly to the camera]
JIM: It seemed like this was a very angry person with a very sharp object.
[cut to a female librarian ("Nancy Silverod, Librarian") speaking directly to the camera]
NANCY: His face is always gonna be in my mind ...
[cut to a female police officer ("Milanda Moore, Police Inspector") speaking directly to the camera]
MILANDA: When you start to see that type of hostility, you have to check it.
[cut to the male librarian walking through the stacks of the San Francisco Public Library]
JIM: [in voice over] At first, it was one or two, and then it was two or three more. These were books about gay and lesbian issues, about womens' health, about HIV and AIDs.
[cut to some shots of the mutilated books]
JIM: [in voice over] And these were not neatly sliced pages. These were deep cuts in the body of a text block of a book. Strange almond shaped or eye shapes cut out of words or body parts. Lots of them were books for teenagers.
[cut to another shot of the male librarian walking through the stacks]
JIM: We were terrified, and no one said anything ...
[cut back to the male librarian speaking directly to the camera]
JIM: But to me, it seemed like not a gigantic leap between carving up books and carving up people.
[cut to a shot of several police officers walking through the library]
NANCY: [in voice over] We were really just clueless and very frustrated.
["One Sunday, librarian Nancy Silverod decided to come in on her day off" appears on screen, then cut to the female librarian speaking directly to the camera]
NANCY: I had a couple of hours on a Sunday afternoon, and so I came in and I sat and I pretended to read a book.
[cut to a shot of the librarian sitting in the library reading a book]
[cut to a closeup of the librarian's eyes (as she looks around suspiciously), then back to the male librarian speaking directly to the camera]
JIM: And sure enough, she spotted this guy slipping a pink ... bright pink book under the shelves.
[cut to the female librarian speaking directly to the camera]
NANCY: But the book really sort of clashed with his very sort of quiet ... uh, appearance and demeanor.
[cut to a shot of the library floor, as the shadow of a man looms into view]
NANCY: [in voice over] And I watched, and sure enough, he went over to the same area and hid the book.
[cut to a San Francisco Police mugshot of a man, as "John Perkyns was convicted of felony vandalism with a hate crime enhancement" appears on screen]
[cut to another shot of mutilated books, as "By the time of the arrest, over 600 books had been destroyed" appears on screen]
MILANDA: [in voice over] You come to the main library, and all you do is focus on gay and lesbian books, it's clear as a bell. It's a hate crime.
[cut to the police officer speaking directly to the camera]
MILANDA: It would be the same as if somebody came to the public library and just vandalized books on being Jewish.
[cut to an interior shot of the library, as "After the arrest, the library faced the issue of what to do with the vandalized books" appears on screen]
[cut to the male librarian speaking directly to the camera]
JIM: So the books were returned from the police, and we were faced with all of these boxes full of six hundred books. They had already been withdrawn from the collection, and the next thing was to throw them away ... and we just couldn't do it.
[cut to the male librarian and some volunteers looking over the piles of mutilated books]
JIM: [in voice over] We had to do one more thing.
[cut back to the male librarian speaking directly to the camera]
JIM: What the plan was is to offer these destroyed books to visual artists and let them do whatever they wanted with them.
[cut to another shot of the volunteers sorting the books]
JIM: [in voice over] So we had people calling, emailing, sending back the forms from ...
[cut back to the male librarian speaking directly to the camera]
JIM: New York, from Florida, from Portland Oregon, from France, from Japan. Everywhere.
[cut to various shots of the "Reversing Vandalism" display in the library, as "The library decide to display the transformed books in an exhibit called 'Reversing Vandalism'" appears on screen]
JIM: [in voice over] We had artwork in every format possible. Sculpture, painting, absolutely every conceivable ... we had a working clock! Unimaginable responses to an ordinary book.
[cut to a female artist ("Thea Hillman") speaking directly to the camera]
THEA: I got a book by Leslie Feinberg, who is an amazing transgender activist.
[cut to a shot of her display piece]
THEA: [in voice over] The thing that grabbed my eye was this line "The terms they used to describe us cut and sear" ... and that very sentence had been cut.
[cut back to the artist speaking directly to the camera]
THEA: And there was the ... the art, right there.
[cut to a wooden display piece, with pieces of paper draped on tiny "hangers"]
LYALL: [in voice over] I made a little closet using the title of the book, which was "Outing Yourself."
[cut to another female artist ("Lyall Harris") speaking directly to the camera]
LYALL: To say something hopeful, um, in all of this mix of ... despair and, sort of, tragedy around these books.
[cut to more shots of the "Reversing Vandalism" display]
JIM: [in voice over] We could've been victims, but I think what it did was united the community. This was about everybody saying ...
[cut back to the male librarian speaking directly to the camera]
JIM: "This is wrong. We are not going to accept this, not in our community."
[cut to more shots of the "Reversing Vandalism" display]
JIM: [in voice over] The safety is in numbers. The solution is in the community involvement.

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From niot.org:

60 minutes

"Not In Our Town Northern California: When Hate Happens Here" takes a regional look at five Northern California communities dealing with deadly hate violence over a five-year period. Together, the stories reveal that whether the motivation is racism, anti-Semitism, or crimes motivated by gender or sexual orientation, hate is the same. But Californians are finding innovative ways to respond when hate happens here.

A co-production with KQED-TV.

This program includes the "Staging a Response to Hate," "Summer of Hate/Season of Healing," "Reversing Vandalism" and "Welcome Signs" stories.

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From sfpl.org:

In early 2001, San Francisco Public Library staff began finding vandalized books shoved under shelves, hidden throughout the Main Library. Ultimately over 600 torn and sliced books, on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender topics, women's issues and HIV/AIDS, were deemed beyond repair and withdrawn from the Library's collection. Rather than discard the damaged books, the Library distributed them to interested community members in the hope of creating art. The wide variety of artistic responses to this hate crime resulted in "Reversing Vandalism," an exhibition of over 200 original works of art, displayed in the Main Library from January 31 through May 2, 2004.

Case Study No. 2042: Staff of Beckinsale Library

The Library - Official Teaser Trailer
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'The Library' is a riveting suspense thriller with intense shades of psychological horror. Despite being warned, Lucy Clarke starts work at the mysterious Beckinsale Library. She not only meets strange and colourful characters, but also finds herself confronted by the dark secrets that lay hidden behind the buildings walls. The Library doesn't want Lucy there and before long it unleashes a chain of terrifying events to drive her out for good.
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[scene opens with an exterior shot of Beckinsale Library, then cut to a young man talking to a young woman]
GREGROY: [whispers] If you're not careful, this place can get inside your head ...
[cut to a little girl staring at the camera, then back to the young man talking in the library]
GREGROY: [whispers] Y'know, I don't believe in ghosts or stuff like that ... but this place is ancient.
[cut to various scenes from the movie, which stop on an image of a newspaper with the headline "Was Claire's Murder an Occult Slaying? Police Probe Ritual Link to Library Killing"]
[cut to the young woman walking through the library at night, as she turns towards the sounds of whispers coming from off camera]
["The Library" appears on screen]
GREGORY: [in voice over] Who knows if half the things they say happened here ... actually happened?
["Coming soon" appears on screen]
GREGORY: [in voice over] If you think about it too much, it'll drive you mad ...

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From imdb.com:

The Library (2013)
90 min - Horror | Thriller - 3 May 2014 (UK)

After starting work at the mysterious Beckinsale Library, the brutal murder of young English student Claire draws Lucy into a dangerous battle to survive.

Director: Daljinder Singh
Writer: Daljinder Singh

Steven Bellamy ... English Lecturer
Sibylle Bernardin ... Lucy
Bradley Carpenter ... Gregory
Leann O'Kasi ... Claire

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From tumblr.com:

'The Library' has been an ambitious project from the start. The film has been made possible by the commitment and hard work by a number of local people from the Doncaster area. A very talented cast and crew were put together to make the film. Over a number of weeks we filmed at a number of locations across the locality and wrapped up the shoot in 3 weeks. After the shoot a whole new team of extremely talented individuals joined the team in order to see the film through Post Production.

'The Library' follows the story of Lucy who gets a job at the mysterious and creepy Beckinsale Library. Before long she finds herself confronted with its dark secrets and enters a desperate race to escape it's terrifying grasp. Will she survive or will she become another victim of 'The Library'?

The film will see a number of screenings as well as a generous online VOD release. Keep posted for information.

For those who wish to put to join us for the Grand Premiere in Doncaster - you can get your tickets via Visit Doncaster (TIC) either in person or on the phone 01302 734309. Tickets are only £12.

Join us on Twitter and Facebook over the coming weeks and learn more about the film as well as interesting exclusive offers.

'The Library' will premiere at Doncaster Minster on Saturday 26th October at 7pm.

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From blogspot.com:

The Library

Director: Daljinder Singh
Writer: Daljinder Singh
Producer: Daljinder Singh
Cast: Sibylle Bernardin, Bradley Carpenter, Kathryn Walker
Country: UK
Year: 2014
Reviewed from: Distrify

The Library is an admirable - and reasonably successful - attempt at a traditional British ghost story. Though it suffers from limited production values (of course) and a script that could have maybe borne one more trip through the rewrite mill, a combination of a good cast, some fine photography and a sincere, non-jokey approach creates a worthwhile movie and one that shows promise for the future work of Daljinder Singh.

The library in question is a small public library in a Victorian building, represented by the 1869 library at Hall Cross Academy in Doncaster. Scottish actor Sibylle Bernardin, affecting a somewhat transient transatlantic accent, is Lucy, a postgraduate fine arts student who takes a part-time job at the library to make ends meet. What she didn't realise, because she had been out of the country for several months, is that the library was the scene of a brutal murder and in fact she has taken on the job of the victim.

There are two other staff: stern Mary (Kathryn Walker) and slightly creepy Gregory (Bradley Carpenter). The former is an efficient schoolmarm with no time for shilly-shallying, the latter may just be socially awkward around women of his own age. Either or both may know more than they're saying.

Over the course of a (slightly too long) 90 minutes, Singh introduces a series of bizarre and disturbing events into Lucy's life but cleverly combines these with real life problems and stress (not least that she is this close to failing her degree). A sequence in the toilets of a deserted late-night bus station is particularly effective, with taps and hand-dryers all coming on and then, as Lucy exits the room, a simultaneous closing of all the stall doors. There is also a spooky scene later on when Lucy sees a mysterious and creepy small girl in the library (Madisson-Ann O'hara, presumably daughter, niece or sister of make-up/hair artist Julie Ann O'hara). This has both a rational explanation and a supernatural extension, simultaneously leaving us both sure that something unearthly is at play and certain that this is all happening in Lucy's head.

And there, I realised after musing over the film which at first pass I found a little dull, lies the strength of The Library. Many of the best ghost stories leave the viewer/reader in doubt as to whether the events therein are genuinely supernatural or have a psychological explanation (or both or neither…). It is possible to watch this film as a slice of fantastique, a genuine haunting. But it is equally possible to read the movie as the descent into madness of a disturbed young woman, her overactive imagination tripped over the edge by finding herself stepping into the professional shoes of a murder victim.

On the one hand, sure, those taps really came on, those toilet doors really closed (and Lucy wasn't even in the room then). That's solid evidence of a ghostly manifestation, right there. But if we approach the film narrative as an unreliable narrator, then perhaps those taps only turned on in Lucy's head, maybe she only imagined that the doors closed after she left the room. There are some definite clues in the later part of the film that Lucy is suffering from psychological issues which all point to a rational explanation for what she sees and experiences, without taking away from the supernatural possibility. Such ambiguity is the mark of a fine ghost story.

In particular (and this only occurred to me after the event), a scene towards the end implies that Lucy might be in the deserted, locked library when an intercut scene shows her working on a painting in the local art gallery. When she leaves the gallery (which has no other visitors) she simply leaves her easel and paints where they are, which seems odd. Perhaps she's in the library and only imagining that she's in the art gallery then running through the night to the library? (This would also provide a get-out for day-night continuity problems in this scene!)

Less successful than the visions and physical manifestations is the recurring use of 'something's watching' handheld POV shots of Lucy, tweaked into negative imagery and accompanied by indeterminate, breathy whispering. Lucy later confesses to feeling she's being watched but for the most part she shows no reaction to this and it doesn't really add anything to the film. Maybe one or two of these might add to the overall creepy frisson but the effect is overused.

Along the way there are all sorts of clues, red herrings, non sequiturs and distractions which add greatly to the overall sense of unease. Was the previous victim, Claire, actually found "disembowelled and drained of blood"? (Incidentally, I know it's a common phrase in vampire stories, but I'm not convinced it's actually possible to drain the blood from a body.) An old local newspaper headline questions whether Claire's death was some sort of ritual killing, but if she was found as described, then obviously it was. There are also passing mentions of cults, of ouija boards, of dark arts. But are these real, or just jokes, or even just things that Lucy thinks she hears people mention in her increasingly fractured reality?

There's also an antique charm which Claire found and fastened to her library keys, now in the possession of Lucy. Does this have significance, or even an occult power? Or does Lucy merely think it does? And - I really think this is significant - at one stage Gregory says that Claire "went mad" which Lucy picks him up on: "She didn't go mad, she was murdered."

The Library definitely improves as it goes along and could benefit from some tighter editing in the first act. For example, we don't need to watch Lucy pick out art materials, take them to the check-out and have her credit card declined in order to know she needs money. Just the credit card moment would suffice: two or three seconds instead of the best part of a minute that doesn't really progress the plot. There is also an introductory voice-over which is presumably supposed to be a local radio report on Claire's murder which should definitely be snipped. It's not written like a radio report (far too dry and descriptive), plus the actress reading it is completely wooden. First impressions count and this makes the film look like it will be both badly written and badly acted, neither of which is true. More saliently, we simply don't need to be told about the murder at this point. The story works much better if we find out later at the same time that Lucy does.

But by the second half of the film, things are progressing well with both plot and characters and indeed the final 10-15 minutes is genuinely scary and horrific, whether it's happening inside or outside Lucy's head. These scenes are helped greatly by the work of ace DP Matthew Thomas who uses a low blue light to achieve what many bigger productions singularly fail to do, which is show us clearly what is happening while convincing us that it's actually almost pitch black. The sound design is also commendable, with clear dialogue and effective use of Samuel Allen's music.

Truth be told, the film doesn't really have an ending. I was initially disappointed by the lack of resolution and the pat epilogue but on reassessment, like much else in the film, this non-ending raises questions which actually benefit the story as a horror tale, feeding the ambiguity about what precisely is going on and how real any of it is.

My other slight area of disappointment was that the building itself never comes across as anywhere near the level of spookiness which is ascribed to it. And this is a real shame because Hall Cross Academy Library is a fine piece of gothic revival architecture designed in 1869 by Sir Gilbert Scott, the man who also gave us the St Pancras Hotel and the Albert Memorial. It has wooden beams, stained glass windows and a good number of memorial plaques, making it more like a church than a library, not to mention the assorted old antique volumes on some shelves. But hardly any of this is seen except briefly in establishing shots. A few insert shots of some of the gothic detailings would have added greatly to the film's atmosphere.

The above notwithstanding, I enjoyed Daljinder Singh's debut feature and, crucially, have enjoyed it more the more I thought about it as I mulled this review over in my head (and indeed, sitting here typing the thing). The solid lead cast is ably supported by Leann O'Kasi (who was in an episode of Rab C Nesbit, credited here as Leann O Kasi) as Claire in flashbacks and a voice-over of a blog. Mention must also be made of Aimee-Louise McKee (credited as Aimee McKee) who makes a great role of Jenna, Lucy's bubbly, extrovert friend, a part which in other hands could simply have been incidental and forgettable.

Faridah Rimmer (Four Lions, episodes of Emmerdale) and Stephen Bellamy (who played Nick Clegg on stage!) are college lecturers. Jay Martin (episodes of Silent Witness and Corrie) gives a suitably cold, calculating performance as a reporter for the local paper, helped by a location shoot in the actual Doncaster Free Press offices. Louella Chesterman is an old lady who may have clues for Lucy or may just be senile, and Jade Hamilton is the student in the epilogue.

JennyAnn Spencer-Parry (possibly JennyAnne or Jenny-Anne) designed the hair and make-up including some particularly icky injuries in the final sequence. Jessica Reed handled the costumes; I'm assuming she's not the Philadelphia-based costume designer Jessica Reed only because The Library was entirely shot in Darlington. Phil Johnson and Joe Dawe are credited with VFX. Lincoln-based band The Lounge Crusade provide a song over the end credits. A company called Vista Films was involved with the post-production.

After a slightly shaky start, The Library proves to be a well-handled, eminently watchable, thought-provoking and spooky ghost story in the great English tradition. Worth seeking out – in fact, why not watch it here right now?

MJS rating: B

Case Study No. 2011: Xenia

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[scene is comprised of a woman (wearing leather and holding a riding crop) gyrating with a half-naked blindfolded man on stage, as Xenia watches from the audience]

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From imdb.com:

The Dangerous Sex Date (2001)
"Amorestremo" (original title)

96 min - Thriller - 23 November 2001 (Italy)

University librarian Xenia (Stefania Bonafede) schedules a S&M blind date with the masochist Ghost (Davide Devenuto) to satisfy her fantasies and sexual desires. They spend the night in his apartment having kinky sex and on the next morning Ghost is dead with slashed throat. Xenia cleans her evidences and leaves the place, but Ghost's friend Silver (Rocco Siffredi) investigates the murder of Ghost and finds her files in a CD. Later he discloses that sergeant Ghost was investigating the site SexServices. Silver contacts Xenia and they meet each other, when he finally discloses who the killer is.

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From wikipedia.org:

"Amorestremo" is a 2001 Italian film directed by Maria Martinelli, based on the novel "Schiavo e padrona" ("Slave and Mistress") by Claudia Salvatori. The film is considered to be a "Red Light" thriller, given the numerous scenes of nudity and sex, as well as the presence of the famous porn actor Rocco Siffredi as the protagonist.

Plot
Ghost, a masochistic policeman, and Xenia, a sadistic librarian, are enrolled in a dating web site. The two, eager to experience extreme sexual pleasures, go online and set a meeting during which they live out all their fantasies. Upon awakening from the night of passion, Xenia sees Ghost as she had left him (still naked and tied to a beam), except the man is now dead. Xenia, unable to remember what happened, tries to flee to avoid being blamed for the murder but was tracked down by Silver, the best friend of Ghost who wants to find the person responsible. The two, moving into the dark world of erotic perversions, agree to cooperate to bring to justice the murderess.

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From zavvi.com:

Starring Italian Porn sensation Rocco Siffredi as a man with a deadly attraction to a young beautiful librarian. When she answers to an S&M add in an illicit newspaper, her life changes forever. She soon assumes a new identity and her desire for new and exciting sex becomes more and more dangerous with each encounter.

Case Study No. 1992: Unnamed Male Librarian (Der Untergang)

Hitler's Library
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[scene opens with a male "Nazi librarian" speaking to Adolf Hitler]
LIBRARIAN: [translated] I'm afraid you're going to have to shut up. This is a library.
HITLER: [translated] What!? How dare you tell me to "shut up?" You shut up!
[the librarian stares at him blankly]
HITLER: [translated] Besides, this is my library! That's a fact! You stroll in here and tell me to shut up, right after I name you Librarian of the Year? Nonsense!
[Hitler points at the librarian]
HITLER: [translated] You stink as a librarian!
[he begins pounding his fist on the desk]
HITLER: [translated] You're fired! You're fired! You're fired!
[the librarian speaks to him calmly]
LIBRARIAN: [translated] I was only following orders ... Your orders.
HITLER: [translated] And you think I didn't know that? I was just testing you! Good job!

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From knowyourmeme.com:

Downfall, also known as "Hitler Finds Out..." or "Hitler Reacts To..." is a series of parody-subtitled videos based on a pinnacle scene from Der Untergang (2004), a German WWII drama revisiting the last ten days of Adolf Hitler's life and eventual suicide in his Berlin underground bunker. Due to the film's international success and Bruno Ganz' haunting portrayal of the Nazi dictator, numerous segments from the movie soon fell fodder to hilarious parodies on YouTube, spawning hundreds of anachronistically subtitled videos of Hitler getting upset over topical events and trivial gossip.

Origin
Der Untergang is a 2004 German war epic film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel and based on the book "Inside Hitler's Bunker." In the climax scene, Hitler (played by Bruno Ganz) hears from his generals that the final counter-offensive against the Soviets never took place and Germany's defeat is imminent. Hitler then orders everyone to leave except the four highest-rank generals, who oblige and listen nervously to his breakdown.

Viral Instance
The earliest known subtitle spoof of Downfall was uploaded by YouTube user DReaperF4 on August 10th, 2006. Titled "Sim Heil: Der untersim" and subbed in Spanish, the video shows Hitler fuming over the lack of new features in the demo trial of Microsoft's Flight Simulator X, which was released in October 2006.

On August 30th, DReaperF4 uploaded the English sub version of "Sim Heil" after popular request in the comments, making the joke accessible to the rest of Flight Sim fans on YouTube. The original YouTube video was deleted upon copyright claim by the film studio on December 26, 2009, as documented by MIT's YouTomb project.

Spread
There are over a thousand estimated derivative videos with subtitles in English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and many many other languages, typically discussing topical events and trivial news or gossip.

In April 2009, YouTube channel HitlerRantsParodies was launched to serve as an archival platform and forum for the parody community at large. As of January 2012, the channel remains in active service with over 560 uploads and 29 million views, averaging 29,000 views a day. However, many of the videos on the channel lost their original view counts after a wave of takedowns in April 2011.

Director's Approval
On January 15th, 2010, New York Magazine's entertainment blog Vulture interviewed Hirschbiegel, asking his opinion of how the scene has been used online:

"Someone sends me the links every time there's a new one ... I think I've seen about 145 of them! Of course, I have to put the sound down when I watch. Many times the lines are so funny, I laugh out loud, and I'm laughing about the scene that I staged myself! You couldn't get a better compliment as a director."

Production Company's Disapproval
Despite the film's director seeing the remixes in a positive light, the production company did not approve of their footage being used in this manner. On April 19th, 2010, TechCrunch, BoingBoing and LaughingSquid reported that Constantin Films began sending DMCA takedown notices to YouTube. On April 21st, the AP reported that Martin Moszkowicz, head of film and TV at Constantin films in Munich, finds many of the parodies distasteful and trivial in light of the seriousness of the Holocaust and World War II.

Resurgence of Downfall Parodies
Shortly after the beginning of YouTube takedowns, Downfall parodies saw its greatest resurgence in number of uploads, possibly as a result of Streisand Effect. By mid-2010, thousands of such parodies still remained online, including many in which a self-aware Hitler, angry that people keep making or taking down Downfall parodies.

During this extensive period of censorship, many contributors began applying the "mirror effect" on their parody uploads, flipping the original clip before adding subtitles, in order to bypass YouTube's visual-based copyright detection software. In October 2010, the Downfall Parodies Forum users reported that Constantin Film Studio put an end to its YouTube blockade on Downfall-derived parody videos, even placing advertisements on some of them.

Case Study No. 1985: Charity Royall

Summer, By Edith Wharton
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"Summer", by Edith Wharton. Short trailer for feature in progress directed by Carl Sprague. Principal Imaging by Kevin Sprague. Featuring Ardis Barrow and Tom Frelinghuysen. (C)2009 Kevin Sprague
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Added: 5 years ago
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From summerthemovie.com:

Summer is a dark romance of sexual awakening and the journey from passion to love. Set in a remote New England hilltown just before the First World War, the novel is one of Edith Wharton's greatest and most original – the only one centered on an explicit physical relationship. She called it “the hot Ethan Frome”.

The action unfolds from the viewpoint of Charity Royall – just turned twenty and overflowing with rootless, unformed desires. Born into poverty in a mountain lumber camp, Charity is taken in as a child by the local lawyer, Mr. Royall. After Mrs. Royall's early death, Charity is left to grow up alone with Royall, who finds himself increasingly attracted to his home-grown beauty.

Then Lucius Harney, a city boy fresh from architecture school in Boston, walks into Charity's refuge in the dusty village library. Lucius is attractive, intelligent, and well-connected. He falls for Charity on sight.

The story spirals in ever-tighter circles – Charity's wary journey to adulthood, the bitter frustrations of her ambiguous relationship with Royall, and the lush, blossoming dream she shares with Lucius. The turning point comes among the crowds, fireworks and bunting of a feverish 4th of July celebration. Encompassing all is the cycling backdrop of New England seasons – spring into summer, fall into winter. Summer ends so that it will come again.

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From berkshireeagle.com:

Edith Wharton's 'Summer' comes home
By Sharon Smullen, Special to Berkshires Week
Posted: 08/26/2010 10:58:24 AM EDT

LENOX -- It's the summer of "Summer" at the Mount, and Wharton Salon theater director Catherine Taylor-Williams has brought Edith Wharton's steamy romantic novella to the stage at the author's storied Lenox estate.

Set in the Berkshires in 1890, Wharton wrote "Summer" (which she referred to as the "hot Ethan") in France in 1917 as a counterpart to the earlier, better known "Ethan Frome," once titled "Winter." It tells of the passionate affair of a young woman, Charity Royall, with a handsome young man above her class, over the course of a relentlessly hot summer.

Fending off unwelcome marriage intentions from her guardian, she finds herself competing for her lover with a more "suitable" match and embarks on a journey to come to terms with her new situation -- and herself.

On a steamy August afternoon under a welcoming shade tree by the Mount's Stables Auditorium theater, Taylor-Williams and actors Diane Prusha and Alyssa Hughlett took time from rehearsals to talk about the production, part of the Wharton Salon's second year.

"I was very attracted to the story," said Taylor-Williams. "It's about passion, about forgiveness and growing up. It's got beautiful exposition and poetic descriptions of the Berkshires."

"[Wharton] tells of the blossoming and coming of age, the opening of the sexuality and sensuality of a young woman through nature that is just exquisite," added Prusha. "It's like poetry, and it's so real."

The stage adaptation is one of many that Dennis Krausnick (husband of Shakespeare & Company founder Tina Packer) wrote for Shakespeare & Company while the troupe's tenure at The Mount.

"It's one of Dennis's best adaptations," Taylor-Williams said. "He was able to capture Edith's voice in a unique way."

While the Wharton Salon marks a new era of theatrical collaboration at the Mount, it brings back many longtime Shakespeare & Company members such as Taylor-Williams and Prusha, whose daughter Rory Hammond was raised at the site and now appears alongside her in "Summer."

Rory's father is fellow Shakespeare & Company actor Michael Hammond.

"For me, having been here the first time, I see it as a coming home," said Prusha, who plays several pivotal roles in the production. "I love doing Edith's work and keeping it alive.

"I feel like I grew up here. I first came here when I was 23 -- I've been here for most of my adult life."

In contrast, both the experience and Wharton's story are new to Alyssa Hughlett, who plays the principal character, Charity. Originally from Texas, Hughlett captures the rebellious, restless nature of a young Berkshire girl unhappy with her lot and locale.

"I feel I'm actually being given the chance to blossom into Wharton," she said. "It's a story that is very familiar of how I grew up and how many young women grew up."

Adam Gauger, Reilly Hadden, Miles Herter and Robert Serrell also appear, with live violin music composed and performed by Alexander Sovronsky. Carl Sprague, who is adapting "Summer" as a screenplay, designed the sets, and Arthur Oliver created the costumes.

Last year's inaugural Wharton Salon sold-out staging of "Xingu" in the Drawing Room of the main residence got the company, and Taylor-Williams' directing career, off to a rousing start -- much to the delight of The Mount's executive director, Susan Wissler.

"It was a step forward and a real addition to bring Wharton's work back in a theater piece to the Mount," said Wissler. "In Catherine and her group we have found the perfect collaborator.

"The public response to it has been very warm and very positive, and it's just one more way that we can honor Wharton that has life and breath to it."

Compared to last year's comedy, this year's selection offers a more thoughtful and intense look at both the joys and the social, economic and moral constraints affecting young love, combined with an unblinking look at the realities -- and consequences -- of unfettered passion.

"It was something that seemed in my mind to belong here at the Mount," said Taylor-Williams, "first and foremost as a way of introducing people who may not know Wharton's work to her stories so that it expands the meaning of what being here is all about."

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From wikipedia.org:

Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton published in 1917 by Charles Scribner's Sons. The story is one of only two novels to be set in New England by Wharton, who was best known for her portrayals of upper-class New York society. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity Royall, and her cruel treatment by the father of her child, and shares many plot similarities with Wharton's better-known novel, Ethan Frome. Only moderately well received when originally published, Summer has had a resurgence in critical popularity since the 1960s.

Plot summary
Eighteen-year–old Charity Royall is bored with life in the small town of North Dormer. She is the town librarian and ward of North Dormer’s premier citizen, Lawyer Royall. While working at the library, Charity meets visiting architect Lucius Harney.

When Harney’s cousin, Miss Hatchard, with whom he is boarding, leaves the village, Harney becomes Mr. Royall’s boarder, and Charity his companion while he explores buildings for a book on colonial houses he is preparing. Mr. Royall, who once tried to force his way into Charity's bedroom after his wife's death, and later asked her to marry him, notices their growing closeness. He tries to put a stop to it by telling Harney he can no longer accommodate him in his house. Harney makes it appear as though he has left town, but only moves to a nearby village and continues to communicate with Charity.

On a trip to Nettleton, Harney kisses Charity for the first time and buys her a present of a brooch. Afterwards they run into a drunken Mr. Royall, who is accompanied by prostitutes. Mr. Royall verbally abuses Charity, causing her to become overwhelmed with shame. After the trip, Charity and Harney begin a sexual relationship.

At a ceremony during North Dormer’s Old Home Week, Charity sees Harney with Annabel Balch, a society girl whom she envies. Afterwards, Charity goes to the abandoned house where she and Harney usually meet. Mr. Royall unexpectedly shows up and, when Harney arrives, Mr. Royall asks him sarcastically if that is where he intends to live after he marries Charity. After an angry Mr. Royall leaves, Harney promises Charity that he is going to marry her, but that he has to go away for a while first. After Harney has left the town, Charity’s friend Ally lets slip that she saw him leave with Annabel Balch, to whom he is engaged to be married. Charity writes a letter to Harney telling him to do the right thing and marry Annabel.

Charity has been feeling unwell, so she goes to Dr. Merkle ("a plump woman with small bright eyes, an immense mass of black hair coming down low on her forehead, and unnaturally white and even teeth"), who confirms her suspicion that she is pregnant. After the examination Dr. Merkle charges five dollars, and Charity, not having enough money to cover it, has to leave the brooch Harney gave her. When she gets home she reads a letter from Harney that makes her realize that, despite his promises, he is unlikely to break his engagement to Miss Balch.

Charity decides she cannot stay at home and so makes her way to the mountain, intending to look for her mother. On the way she sees the minister, Mr. Miles, and her friend Liff Hyatt. They are on their way to the mountain because Charity’s mother is dying. When they arrive, Charity’s mother is already dead, and the three of them bury her.

Charity stays on the mountain overnight, where she sees the abject poverty and resolves not to raise her child there. She decides that she is going to be a prostitute, and with the money she earns she will hire someone to take care of her child. On the way home she meets Mr. Royall, who has come to pick her up. He offers to marry her.

After Charity marries Mr. Royall in Nettleton, she realizes that he knows she is pregnant and has married her only to protect her. He gives her money to buy clothes, but instead she goes to Dr. Merkle to get her brooch back. Dr. Merkle has heard of her marriage to Mr. Royall and demands a large sum for returning the brooch. Rather than paying the money, Charity quickly grabs the brooch and rushes from the office (in a few editions of the novel, she leaves the money with Merkle).

Charity writes a last letter to Harney, telling him about her marriage, and finally returns to North Dormer to live with Mr. Royall.

Case Study No. 1970: Sylvia Van Buren

War of the worlds heat ray 1953
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The heat ray gun out of war of the worlds. Out of the 1953 War of the Worlds film. The film adaptation of the H.G.Wells story told on radio of the invasion of Earth by Martians.

Director: Byron Haskin
Writers: H.G. Wells (novel), Barre Lyndon (screenplay)
Stars: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson and Les Tremayne
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Added: 3 years ago
From: echostorm888
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From moviefone.com:

H.G. Wells' 1898 classic alien invasion novel, The War of the Worlds, has been adapted several times for the big screen, most recently by Steven Spielberg five years ago (my first "Scenes We Love" entry for Cinematical), two low-budget entries, one set in Victorian times and the other in the present released to coincide with Spielberg's adaptation, and most memorably, fifty-seven years ago by producer George Pal (The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, The Time Machine, Conquest of Space, When Worlds Collide, Destination Moon) for Paramount Pictures. Pal's adaptation, directed by Byron Haskin (The Power, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, From the Earth to the Moon, Conquest of Space) from a screenplay by Barré Lyndon, created the template for every alien invasion film that followed. The War of the Worlds won an Academy Award for its groundbreaking visual effects. It was nominated, but surprisingly didn't win, the Academy Award for the equally innovative sound design.

An unseen, unnamed, omniscient narrator (Sir Cedric Hardwicke, at his most stentorian) guides us through the prologue. He explains the Martians' decision to escape their dying world and conquer our relatively unspoiled one. Chesley Bonestell, an illustrator who specialized in science fiction, provided the full-color art for the prologue. When, finally, The War of the Worlds leaves the prologue behind, we're in the fictional town of Linda Rosa. A meteor falls from the sky. The local authorities turn to Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry), a celebrity astrophysics and nuclear science professor at the (fictional) Pacific Tech, and two fellow academics, Dr. Pryor (Robert Cornthwaite), and Dr. Bilderbeck (Sandro Giglio), vacationing in the nearby mountains, for help.

At the meteor site, Forrester meets a local "girl," Sylvia Van Buren (Ann Robinson), the obligatory romantic interest and, alas, a perfect representative of 50s'-era women on film (e.g., passive, submissive, retrograde). She's a late twenty-something librarian and science geek who fawns over the super-smart Forrester. Sylvia wrote her master's thesis on Forrester and follows his career with stalker-like intensity. She doesn't, however recognize the newly shaven Forrester. She fawns over Forrester one moment, serving coffee to military leaders another, and once the alien invasion gets underway, openly hysterical. Apparently she's a good cook, though.

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From blogspot.com:

When a spaceship from Mars lands on Earth a scientist Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry) goes to investigate. One of his fans-Sylvia Van Buren (Ann Robinson), an instructor of Library Science - also heads out to the site. Romance ensues.

When we first meet our librarian she appears sophisticated and poised. However she completly falls apart in the face of an alien invasion and a hunky scientist. Scientist saves the day, of course, while our librarian follows along, screaming (fortunately though her hair spray holds up throughout). We never see Sylvia working as an instructor or a librarian, in fact she never mentions it again after the first time. She is portrayed as a Red Cross volunteer who passes out coffee to the important men doing the real work, and she she does demonstrate some bravery by driving one of the evacuation school buses in hopes of taking some people to a safe area.

This movie was pure 1950s-era camp. We could only laugh at the "highlyscientific" terms like "extreme altitude" and "sonic radar" used by military men with important voices. We were surprised to see one woman scientist, who actually got to speak on a few occasions.

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From moviemorlocks.com:

Even science fiction in the form of War of the Worlds (1953), doesn't cut librarians much slack or endow them with too many smarts. Leading lady Ann Robinson, playing a library science teacher named Sylvia Van Buren (great librarian name!), spends most of the movie shrieking and losing her composure while Gene Barry, (looking very bright and fetching in his horn rims, as shown at left), keeps trying to figure out some way to put the kibosh on those pesky aliens, (that is, in between pitching woo Miss Robinson‘s way). I don't think the librarian in her ever voices any concern about trying to preserve thousands of years of human knowledge that is rapidly being incinerated by the invaders, (along with a billion or so earthlings).

Of course, Sylvia the Librarian does show some skill driving a truck in a pinch. I guess she must've had a few minutes to peruse the Truck Driver's Manual back when things were slow at Library School. This fast-paced, entertainingly scary 85 minute movie doesn't give her or the audience much time to reflect on what's being lost in this clash of species, though thank goodness, Sylvia Van Buren is one of the survivors who can start cataloging once again among the debris of civilization.

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From google.com:

Clayton and colleagues are on a fishing trip in the mountains of Riverside, California, when a meteor falls nearby. Clayton is asked to investigate. The next day at the meteor site Clayton meets Sylvia Van Buren and her uncle, Pastor Matthew Collins. Later that night, fantastic Martian spaceships arise out of the meteor. Pastor Collins extends the hand of human friendship but the invaders turn their heat ray on him. The military tries to stop the invaders, but their weapons have no effect. General Mann even orders a nuclear weapon to be used, but it too is useless. More meteors and more spaceships arrive on Earth, and it seems that nothing will stop the invaders from conquering the world. Inside a church Clayton and Sylvia hold each other for what appears to be the last moment of their lives when, unexpectedly, the spaceships begin to crash. The narrator explains that the Martians had no immunity to the bacteria that God, in his wisdom, created to defend humanity.

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From wordpress.com:

One of the best scenes in the 1953 version occurs when the army has the alien spacecraft surrounded. As the alien crafts appear (remember, this is 1953, so don't dwell on the wires that are visible holding up the spacecraft), a local pastor approaches them, hoping to keep the situation from escalating into violence. His niece (Ann Robinson) tries to go stop him, but is held back by the soldiers and her soon-to-be boyfriend (Gene Barry). As he walks closer to the alien craft, reciting scripture, we hear the niece's screams in the background. The aliens fire on the uncle — the niece screams – the army Colonel commands "Let 'em have it!" —- and the dogs of war are unleashed. Pure cinema!