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Spanish Language Videos

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1. 100 años de cine en Uruguay, Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette (90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
   Abstract: Using material from Cinemateca Uruguaya's Archivo de la Imagen and elsewhere, the film traces the development of Uruguayan cinema from the 1890s to the 1990s.

2. 1919, Antonio José Betancor et al., 1 videocassette (82 min.), Madrid?, 198?
   Notes: Performer Note: Miguel Molina, Cristina Marsillach, Walter Vidarte, Jose Antonio Correa, Emma Suarez, Saturno Cerra, Conchita Leza, and Marisa Leza. Added Title: Nineteen nineteen
   Abstract: In 1919, a time of anarchist agitation and police repression in Zaragoza, the adolescent son of a declining bourgeois family discovers society's falsehoods as well as life's pleasures.

3. 2010 the year we make contact, Peter Hyams and Arthur Charles Clarke, 1 videodisc (116 min.), Santa Monica, Calif, 1998.
   Notes: Performer Note: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea, Douglass Rain.
   Abstract: A science fiction thriller with human drama.

4. 40 años de novios, Enrique Carreras et al., 1 videocassette (93 min.), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
   Notes: Performer Note: Lolita Torres, Germán Cobos, Enzo Viena.
   Abstract: A woman who hasn't forgiven her husband's infidelities finally reconciles with him after 40 years.

5. 500 years of resistance Rigoberta Menchu : 1st hour of her speech at Casa Zapata, 11-22-91, Rigoberta Menchú, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, and Casa Zapata (Stanford University), 1 videocassette (46 min.), 1991.
   Notes: Performer Note: Rigoberta Menchu; transator, Rodolfo Stavenhagen
   Event Note: Recorded Nov. 22, 1991.
   Abstract: Quiché Indian exile Rigoberto Menchu talks about her experience and the history of the oppression of indigenous people by the Guatemalan government.

6. 68-98 México 68, Oscar Menéndez and Cooperativa de Producción Salvado Toscano S.C.L, 1 videocassette (55 min.), México, 1998.
   Abstract: Explores the Mexico City riots of 1968 and the student and popular movement of the time from the vantage point of 30 years later.

7. 800 leguas por el Amazonas, Jules Verne et al., 1 videocassette (104 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
   Notes: Performer Note: Carlos López Moctezuma, Rafael Bertrand, Elvira Quintana.
   Abstract: In the dense jungle of Brazil, Sr. Torres (Antonio) hikes many months through some of the most dangerous parts of the forest. He loses a friend to a snake-bite and eventually runs into a wealthy family with whom he begins a long journey by boat. They run into many problems, including Indians, lions, and alligators. Sr. Torres turns out to be an assassin. After the wealthy father is blamed for Sr. Torres' wrong-doings, the family begins a long search for the truth.

8. L.A. story, Steve Martin et al., 1 videodisc (98 min.), Van Nuys, CA, 1998.
   Notes: Performer Note: Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Richard E. Grant, Marilu Henner, Sarah Jessica Parker.
   Abstract: A wacky television weatherman thinks his life is perfect except for an erratic relationship with a style-conscious girlfriend. Then, one bright and smoggy L.A. day, an electronic freeway sign changes his life, when its advice leads him into a frivolous romance with a young and beautiful blond and, ultimately, to true love with the woman of his dreams.

9. Abierto de 18 a 24, Eduardo F Chapa et al., 1 videocassette (82 min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 1987.
   Notes: Performer Note: Gerardo Romano, Silvia Peyrou, Horacio Peña, Jorge Luz.
   Abstract: A lonely and melancholy man has come from the interior to the city in order to verify the death of his cousin.His search leads him to a dance hall where he becomes involved with a variety of people including an uninhibited and diverting girl, Dorys, who is an excellent tango dancer. He also cannot help looking with interest at Carla, who was the object of his cousin's desire and who is now attracted to him.

10. Abismos de pasion, Oscar Dancigers et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Chico, Calif, 198?
    Notes: Performer Note: Irasema Dilian, Jorge Mistral, Lilia Prado, Ernesto Alonso, Francisco Reguera.
    Abstract: A bitter, cold-hearted former servant, newly rich, returns to disrupt the life of his true love, now married to another.

11. Abre los ojos, Alejandro Amenábar et al., 1 videocassette (117 min.), Madrid, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera, Fele Martínez, Najwa Nimri.
    Abstract: An imprisoned man who hides his face behind a mask is telling his story, as a flashback, to a psychiatrist: His name is César, he is an orphan but he had inherited a fortune from his parents and used to live in a luxurious house of his own. He was also very handsome and a renowned womanizer. But then he fell in love with his best friend's girlfriend, Sofía. Ce sar's ex-girlfriend, Nuria, was insanely jealous, and drove her car--with both of them in it--into a tree, killing herself and horribly disfiguring César. The doctors said they couldn't help him. Then his luck seemed to change when Sofía said she was still in love with him and the doctors called him and told him that, with a revolutionary new technique, they could rebuild his face. César was happier than ever; but strange and scary things started to happen, and he found out that the real nightmare had only just began for him.

12. Abuso de confianza, Mario C Lugones et al., 1 videocassette (77 min.), Argentina, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Olga Zubarry, Manuel Collado, María Armand, Carlos Thompson, Renée Dumas, Adolfo Linvel, Margarita Corona, Carlos Belluci, Iris Alonso, José Nájera, Arnoldo Chamot, Juan Pecci, María Elena Sagrera, José Arias Callicó.
    Abstract: In order to gain the protection of a lawyer, a student pretends to be the daughter of an actress that the lawyer had once known in his childhood. This is a remake of the French film, "Abus de confiance.".

13. Aca las tortas! o Los hijos, Juan Bustillo Oro et al., 1 videocassette (109 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
    Notes: Performer Note: Sara Garcia, Meche Barba, Carlos Orellana.
    Abstract: An older couple have a popular torta-selling business. They have several children, including one son whom the father doesn't like because he's a drunk. Another son and daughter were sent to the U.S. to study, and after 5 years, return home. The daughter left behind a boyfriend and the son, a girlfriend and his own son; the parents know nothing about any of them.

14. La Academia de San Carlos, Aurelio de los Reyes et al., 1 videocassette (23 min.), México, D.F, Redlands, Calif, 1994.
    Abstract: This video shows the role of the Academy in Mexican art from the late 18th century to the early years of the 20th century.

15. Accion chicano, Med/Tech Productions et al., 1 videocassette (30 min.), Pasadena, Calif, 199-.
    Notes: Event Note: Recorded May 16, 1973; aired May 17, 1973
    Performer Note: Performed by Los Mascarones
    Contents: Tlaloc -- América is one -- Freedom -- The birth of capitalism.
    Abstract: Chicano theater troupe Los Mascareones performs several of its works dealing with the history and current plight of Mexicans and Mexican Americans and their exploitation by the United States.

16. Acción mutante, Alejandro De la Iglesia et al., 1 videocassette (090 min.), Barcelona, 1993.
    Notes: Performer Note: Antonio Resines, Alex Angulo, Frederique Feder, Fernando Guillén, Enrique San Francisco, Juan Viadas, Karra Elejalde, Saturnino Garcia, Jaime Blanch.
    Abstract: Dystopic science fiction film set in the year 2012 in a world ruled by bodybuilders, designers and the ultra-chic. Accion Mutante, an underground group of mentally and physically disabled are the sole resistance to the cult of beauty and wealth. Ramon, the leader of the group devises plots to kidnap Patricia, daughter of a wealthy industrialist, but the plot does not work out as planned.

17. Actas de Marusia un film, Gian Maria Volontè et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Wilmington? Calif., 1985.
    Notes: Performer Note: Gian Maria Volonte, Diana Bracho, Claudio Obregon, Eduardo Lopez Rojas, Patricia Reyes Spindola, Jose Carlos Ruiz
    Added Title: Letters from Marusia.
    Abstract: "The chronicle of the repression exercised by an English Company over a small Chilean town whose inhabitants are determined to win the minimal human rights due to them as workers and citizens."--External container.

18. Actualización política y doctrinaria para la toma del poder, Fernando E Solanas et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 100 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
    Abstract: Documentaries about Perón and his effects on Argentina in the present and for the future.

19. Adam's rib, Katharine Hepburn et al., 1 videodisc (101 min.), New York, N.Y, 1997.
    Notes: Performer Note: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Tom Ewell, Judy Holliday, David Wayne, Jean Hagen.
    Abstract: A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse. The lawyer-husband is the prosecutor.

20. Adan, Eva y el diablo, Roberto Soto et al., 1 videocassette (83 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
    Notes: Performer Note: Roberto Soto, Gloria Aguíar, Tito Renaldo; Carlos Riquelme.
    Abstract: Justino, a young man in a rural community, flirts with Eva constantly, and she returns the attention. When he learns of her intentions to marry the middle-aged, corpulent mayor, he becomes furious and chases the mayor out a window of Eva's home. Justino is jailed while the mayor tries to impress a government visitor without letting the scandal surface.

21. Adios Buenos Aires, Leopoldo Torres Ríos and Arte Video (Firm), 1 videocassette, Argentina, 1938.

22. Adios mi chaparrita, René Cardona et al., 1 videocassette (77 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
    Notes: Performer Note: Rafael Falcón, Josefina Escobedo, Alfredo del Diestro.
    Abstract: Chavalo is a proud and protective young rancher in love with Chavela. The two plan to marry, but Chavalo must first make some money. After traveling a long distance with a herd, he sells his horse for a ring and begins to walk back. On the way, he joins a group of laborers seeking work, only to find they would be forced to work and whipped by cruel bosses. While Chavalo is gone, Chavela is subject to the flirtation of a callous young man seeking her hand in marriage. She interprets Chavalo's long absence as an indication of his lack of interest in her.

23. Adios pampa mia, Manuel Romero et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Argentina, 19??
    Notes: Performer Note: Alberto Castillo, Alberto Vila, Perla Mux.
    Abstract: The story of a tango singer's rise to fame. This film marks Alberto Castillo's film debut.

24. Adiós Pepe, Adolfo Aristarain, Eusebio Poncela, and Network (Firm), 1 videocassette, Uruguay, 19??
    Notes: Performer Note: Eusebio Poncela.

25. Adios pequena, Imanol Uribe et al., 1 videocassette (86 min.), Spain?, 1987.
    Notes: Performer Note: Ana Belen, Fabio Testi, Marcel Bozzuffi.
    Abstract: A story of intrigue, romance and violence. Lucas, a young drug dealier who has always had a hard struggle to come out on top, is defended by the young and rich lawyer Beatriz. The lies, agression and desperation surrounding the case will convert Beatriz into a cold and implacable avenger.

26. Adíos, Roberto, Enrique Dawi et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
    Notes: Performer Note: Victor Laplace, Carlos Andrés Calvo, Ana María Picchio.
    Abstract: Roberto leaves his wife and cannot afford to rent an apartment, so he goes to live with Marcelo, a friend of his cousin's, who openly lives with his homosexuality. They soon develop alove relationship which causes a lot of conflicts for Roberto.

27. Adios to the past?, Michael Whiteley, Phil Grabsky, and Films for the Humanities (Firm), 1 videocassette (52 min.), Princeton, NJ, 1991.
    Abstract: In a small village in Estremadura, 17-year-old Alicia is trying to decide whether to stay or leave. Are marriage and staying in the village the best she can hope for? Villages are struggling to survive; and the Socialist mayor, a progressive priest, and liberal professional parents all provide differing points of view.

28. The adventures of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam, 1 videodisc (126 min.), Culver City, Calif, 1998.
    Notes: Performer Note: John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, Jonathan Pryce.
    Abstract: The amazing journeys of Baron von Munchausen, who sets sail in a hot air balloon in search of his old comrades-at-arms with the object of saving a European city from the superior forces of a Turkish sultan.

29. Africa rie, Carlos Rinaldi et al., 1 videocassette (60 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
    Notes: Performer Note: Rafael "El Pato" Carret, Jorge Luz, Guillermo Rico.
    Abstract: Four men are known for their foolish actions and one night after ruining a dinner, they get arrested. They are soon released and then go visit their uncle who is sick but he is actually just sick of the four of them. Thus, the four men decide to go to Africa to try to find a cure for their uncle but instead get caught up in the middle of a big scheme.

30. L'Age d'or La edad de oro, Luis Buñuel et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Barcelona, Spain.
    Notes: Performer Note: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst, Pierre Prévert, Jacques Brunius
    Added Title: Age of gold
    Added Title: Golden age.
    Abstract: Two lovers declare war on a bourgeois society intent on thwarting the fulfillment of their desire. The film is a statement on the nature of the Church, the Establishment, and middle-class morality.

31. La agonía de ser madre, Rogelio A Gonzalez et al., 1 videocassette (94 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
    Notes: Performer Note: Marga Lopez, Arturo de Cordova, Karla José Alonso.
    Abstract: A middle-aged wife and mother named Ana learns from the doctor that she has three months to live. She returns home to a son that has begun to steal from pharmacies, a husband that drinks excessively, and a teenage daughter that wants to break away from the control of her father. She chooses not to inform the family of her condition, and instead handles the situation herself. When the daughter runs away from home after a fight with her father, Ana's health turns even worse.

32. Aguila o sol, Arcady Boytler et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.), México, 1992.
    Notes: Performer Note: Mario Moreno "Cantinflas", Manuel Medel, Margarita More, Marina Tamayo.
    Abstract: Cantinflas, as a child, escapes from an orphanage with two friends and makes his way to the stage as part of a comic duet. Meanwhile, a man is desperately searching for the son he left at an orphanage many years ago when he was poor.

33. Agustín Codazzi epopeya geografica, Mady Samper et al., 1 videorecording (49 min.), Bogota, Colombia, 1999.
    Notes: Performer Note: Carlos Eduardo Santa, Jorge Espinoza.
    Abstract: Pictures and words from the works of explorer and geographer Agustín Codazzi.

34. Ahi está el detalle! una pelicula, Humberto Gómez Landero et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Wilmington, CA, 1985?
    Notes: Performer Note: Mario Moreno "Cantinflas," Joaquin Pardavé, Sara García, Sofía Alvarez, Dolores Camarillo
    Added Title: That's the point.
    Abstract: When Cantinflas goes to visit his girlfriend, a maid, he is called into service to pretend he is a long-lost brother of the mistress of the house so she can claim a great inheritance.

35. AIDS in the barrio Eso no me pasa a mi, Peter Biella, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, and Alba Martinez, 1 videocassette (30 min.), New York?, 1988.
    Notes: Added Title: Eso no me pasa a mi
    Added Title: AIDS in the barrio (English version).
    Abstract: Discusses the causes and effects of AIDS in the Hispanic community through interviews with AIDS sufferers, their families, and members of the community at large. Drug abuse, cultural attitudes toward condom use and toward homosexuality, and the economic causes of drug abuse in the barrio are covered, as well as the role of family and friends in comforting and helping AIDS victims. Measures to prevent the spread of AIDS to wives and women friends of drug users and bi-sexual men are also discussed.

36. Air Force One, Harrison Ford et al., 1 videodisc (125 min.), Culver City, CA, 1998.
    Notes: Performer Note: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson, Paul Guilfoyle, William H. Macy, Liesel Matthews, Dean Stockwell.
    Abstract: An uncompromising U.S. President has just told the world he will not negotiate with terrorists. But when Russian terrorists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision-- give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.

37. Al caer la tarde, Muñoz et al., 1 videocassette (69 min.), Stanford, CA, 1995.
    Notes: Performer Note: José Muñoz, Guillermo Calles, Humberto Almazàn.
    Abstract: A woman struggles to remain in control of a hacienda after the death of her father. The competition from a nearby patrón only makes matters worse.

38. Al compás de tu mentira, Beverly Hills Video Home Producciones et al., 1 videocassette (86 min.), Lavelle, Argentina, 1995.
    Notes: Performer Note: Francisco Alvarez, Pedrito Quartucci, Delfy de Ortega.
    Abstract: A musical comedy in which a man invents a brother who loves tangos. He helps a friend who is in love with his goddaughter, but everything goes awry.

39. Al corazón, Mario Sábato et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 98 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Presentors, Ernesto Sábato, Enrique Cadícamo, Sergio Renán, Adriana Varela.
    Abstract: A "family album" of singers in an homage to tango and Argentinean films. Mario Sábato gathers together together film clips of the greats: Carlos Gardel, Hugo del Carrill, Libertad Lamarque, Alberto Castillo, Luis Sandrini, Simone, Charlo, Azucena Maizena, Angel Vargas, and Sabina Olmos. They illustrate its thematic message that the tango is the most important musical expression of the nation.

40. Al diablo con esta cura...!!!, Carlos Rinaldi et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
    Notes: Performer Note: Luis Sandrini, Ubaldo Martínez, Elizabeth Killian.

41. Al filo de la ley, Juan Carlos Desanzo et al., 1 videocassette, San Luis, Argentina, 19??
    Notes: Performer Note: Rodolfo Ranni, Gerardo Romano, Katja Alemann.

42. Al fin a solas, Rogelio A Gonzalez et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
    Notes: Performer Note: César Costa, Rosa María Vázquez, Regina Torné.
    Abstract: After receiving his degree, a young engineer is married the next day and the newlyweds move into a new apartment. Nervous and anxious for their long-awaited wedding night, the two are about to retire when the young man's sister appears, complaining about her husband and speaking of divorce. Minutes later another of his sisters appears and does the same. Forced to spend the night on the couch, the young couple nervously calls each of his remaining siblings, asking whether they are happy in their respective marriages. None are, which doesn't help the confidence of the newlyweds. No matter how hard they try, they are unable to find a place where they can be alone.

43. Al ritmo del Pacifico Sur, Instituto Oaxaqueño de las Culturas, 1 videocassette (22 min.), Oaxaca, Mexico, 1996.
    Abstract: This video includes the history of the fiesta with danzas and bailes from the state of Oaxaca in the South Pacific Coast.

44. Al son de la marimba, Juan Bustillo Oro et al., 1 videocassette (132 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
    Notes: Performer Note: Fernando Soler, Marina Tamayo, Emilio Tuero.
    Abstract: A rich young man from the provinces throws a party in Mexico City, inviting the cream of society. He meets a young woman at the party; her parents encourage them. To entertain them, he shares his marimba playing--a popular tradition in his home state of Chiapas.

45. Al toque de clarín, Orestes Caviglia et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 67 min.), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 19??
    Notes: Performer Note: Buono Strano, Pepita Mu unoz, Mary Parets.

46. Alarma, René Cardona et al., 1 videocassette (63 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
    Notes: Performer Note: Jorge Velez, Yolanda Prida, Alfredo del Diestro, Angel T. Sala.
    Abstract: Two firemen are killed after saving a mother and her two children from a burning building. Another fireman, Ricardo, is left injured and his girlfriend, the daughter of a millionaire, visits him in the hospital. She doesn't tell her father that Ricardo is her boyfriend because her father wants her to marry one of his associates.

47. Alas de mariposa = Butterfly wings, Silvia Munt et al., 1 videocassette (105 min.), Chicago, IL, 1994.
    Notes: Performer Note: Silvia Munt, Fernando Valverde, Susana Garcia, Laura Vaquero
    Added Title: Butterfly wings.
    Abstract: Ami is a sensitive 7 year old, whose mother Carmen is obsessed with giving her husband Gabriel a son. When Carmen becomes pregnant, her relationship with her daughter begins to deteriorate. When the new son is born, events turn into a nightmare.

48. Alas de mi patria, Carlos Borcosque et al., 1 videocassette (88 min.), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 19??
    Notes: Performer Note: Enrique Muiño, Ada Cornaro, Daniel Belluscio.
    Abstract: Dramatized story of the development of Argentine aviation.

49. Albéniz, Luis César Amadori et al., 1 videocassette (125 min.), Buenos Aires, 19??
    Notes: Performer Note: Pedro López Lagar, Sabina Olmos, Marisa Regules, Andrés Mejuto.
    Abstract: In Spain, the story of the life of a very talented musician unfolds revealing both his successes and downfalls. He is now an older gentleman and the story is revealed as a flashback, up until the present day where everyone is honoring his life accomplishments.

50. Albur de amor, Alfonso Patiño Gomez et al., 1 videocassette (87 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
    Notes: Performer Note: Pedro Armendariz, Ana Bronte, Susana Cora.
    Abstract: In a small house in a small town in the Mexican countryside, a young woman named Aurelia and her mother are frightened by mysterious sounds outside their house at night. Efren, one of the farm hands, spends the night outside the house to guard Aurelia while her mother is away. Efren lives with a woman named Gloria who becomes jealous of Aurelia. Juan de Dios is looking for Efren because he wants to kill him; Gloria, in her jealousy, tells him where to find Efren.

51. Alegre, ma non troppo, Fernando Colomo et al., 1 videocassette (104 min.), Madrid, 1994.
    Notes: Performer Note: Penélope Cruz, Pere Ponce, Oscar Ladoire, Rosa Ma Sarda.
    Abstract: Pablo knows already, in his twenties, what he wants from life: to become a musician, be likeable to his mother, and find a lovely, faithful and nice boy to share the rest of his life with. Pablo suffers a difficult emotional crisis when his boyfriend leaves him, bored of his tenderness and so a demanding behaviour, that it's near jealousy. Driven by a high insecurity, he applies to an exam to become horn player in the Youth Spain National Orchestra. But the one who auditions him is his father, who has lived for years apart from his wife and voluntarily forgotten by his son, whose sexual behaviour he doesn't find exactly marvelous. Pablo's exam does not go brilliantly, and that depresses him yet more. Anyway, a horn player from Valencia which has made the exam with Pablo hasn't a place to sleep. Pablo takes this colleague home to spend the night. But, next morning, Salome appears. And she appears in of Pablo's bed.

52. Aleurope A medio y de los trabajadores : Las chicas del can : El beisbol : Santa Teresa : El hombre invisible : Pedregal, Alfredo Anzola, 1 videocassette (68 min.), Caracas, 199-.
    Notes: Added Title: A medio y de los trabajadores
    Added Title: Chicas del can
    Added Title: Beisbol
    Added Title: Santa Teresa
    Added Title: Hombre invisble
    Added Title: Pedregal.
    Abstract: A series of short films directed by Anzola (from 1969-1988) on a variety of themes using different methods, from a short documentary in color of the progress of aluminum from raw ore to products (Aleurope), to a ribbing of machismo (Las chicas del can) baseball as a national mania (El beisbol) social commentary (El hombre invisible) workers' efforts to form a cooperative (Pedregal) and a protest film on surviving in the world of man (Santa Teresa).

53. Alfonsina, Kurt Land et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1986.
    Notes: Performer Note: Amelia Bence, Guillermo Murray, José de Angelis, Dora Ferreiro.
    Abstract: A drama based on the life of poet Alfonsina Storni.

54. La Alhambra legacy of Moorish Spain, Marjorie H Russell et al., 1 videocassette (21 min.), Huntsville, Tex, 1993.
    Notes: Performer Note: Thomas F. Soare
    Added Title: Legacy of Moorish Spain.
    Abstract: An artistic and historic walk through the gardens and buildings of the Moorish castle called the alhambra in Grenada, Spain.

55. Alias Flequillo, Julio Saraceni et al., 1 videocassette (75 min.), Argentina, 19??
    Notes: Performer Note: Jose Marrone, Floren Delbene, Perla Alvarado.
    Abstract: Sr. Goodday only wished to marry, until the police brought him in thinking he was a infamous mafia boss named Flaquillo. However, realizing that he was not and the boss was still in jail, they decided to use Mr. Goodday as a spy to learn all the secrets of the mob, by staging a false escape. Everything was going well until the real mafia boss escaped and suddenly Mr. Goodday's life was in danger, but the police still needed his help. In the end, both were caught, but suddenly now there was a large mix-up to sort out.

56. Alias, La Gringa una pelicula, Alberto Durant et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Chicago, Ill, 1994.
    Notes: Performer Note: Germán Gonzalez, Lesa Olivero, Orlando Sacha.
    Abstract: This political drama from Peru follows the adventures and escapades of La Gringa, a likeable criminal capable of escaping from any jail.

57. All of me, Steve Martin et al., 1 videodisc (91 min.), S.l., 1998.
    Notes: Performer Note: Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant, Richard Libertini, Jason Bernard, Madolyn Smith.
    Abstract: Roger is called in to change the will of an aging millionairess. She has made arrangements for her soul to be 'captured' and transferred into the body of a younger girl. After an argument about the will, the millionairess dies, but her spirit somehow lands in Rogers body.

58. All quiet on the western front, Erich Maria Remarque et al., 1 videodisc (132 min.), Universal City, CA, 1999.
    Notes: Performer Note: Louis Wolheim, Lewis Ayres, John Wray, Slim Summerville, William Bakewell, Arnold Lucy, Ben Alexander, Scott Kolk, Owen Davis, Jr., Walter Browne Rogers.
    Abstract: A group of young World War I German recruits pass from idealism to disillusionment with war.

59. All the president's men, William Goldman et al., 1 videodisc (139 min.), Burbank, CA, 1997.
    Notes: Performer Note: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, Jason Robards, Jane Alexander
    Added Title: Pressure and the press.
    Abstract: The true story of how Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered the White House involvement in the Watergate break in.

60. Alla en el norte, Julio Saraceni et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Argentina, 19??
    Notes: Performer Note: Lolita Torres, Carlos Estrada, Jorge Barreiro.
    Abstract: María Gracia, a foreign teacher from Italy, comes to Argentina in search of a job. She is sent to a little town where life is simple and uneventful. She initially dislikes the way of life in this town and makes plans to return home. After the death of a good friend, María decides to stay in the town to help the children, despite her commitment to return home.

61. Allá lejos y hace tiempo Far away and long ago, W. H Hudson et al., 1 videocassette (VHS) (91 min.), Los Angeles, 1988.
    Notes: Performer Note: Dora Baret, Juan Jose Camero, Susu Pecoraaro, Walter Santa Ana, Luis Della-Nogare
    Added Title: Far away and long ago.
    Abstract: Story about growing up in the pampas. Through his friendship with an old gaucho, a boy on the threshold of life becomes fascinated with nature and the mysteries of the human soul.

62. Aller simple trois histories du Rio de la Plata = Pasaje de ida : tres historias de Rio de la Plata, Noël Burch et al., 1 videocassette (83 min.), Argentina, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Narrators: Jean-Marie Bory, Luca Nicolaj, Ima de Ranedo, Jacques Bidou.
    Abstract: The film evokes the history of the 6 million men and women who, between 1830 and 1930, abandoned Europe to settle in Latin America. Through their letters, narratives, writings and documents, the filmmakers have created three purely fictional characters, the Frenchman, Ulysses; the Italian, Petro; and the Spaniard, Pilar. To illustrate their respective histories, the filmmakers use documents of diverse origins, recordings, photographs, archival film, together with fragments of feature films set in the different eras.

63. Alma de Bohemia, Julio Saraceni et al., 1 videocassette (88 min.), Argentina, 19??
    Notes: Performer Note: Alberto Castillo, Fidel Pintos, Lalo Malcom, Vivian Valmarr.

64. Alma grande en el desierto, Rogelio A Gonzalez et al., 1 videocassette (88 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
    Notes: Performer Note: Manuel López Ochoa, José Elias Moreno, Jorge Russek.
    Abstract: When a man the Indians call Alma Grande finds an Indian dead in the desert with his son nearby, he sets about to determine the cause, and with the help of the boy, learns that the man was murdered by white gold hunters. Back in the Indian village, the boy is placed in the care of a white woman whom the Indians respect, and Alma Grande tries to learn more about the identity of the killers. The two men soon reappear and kidnap the boy in order to force him to tell the location of the gold his father had found, and Alma Grande pursues their trail.

65. Alma jarocha estudiantina, Antonio Helu et al., 1 videocassette (67 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
    Notes: Performer Note: Julian Soler, Marina Tamayo, Leopoldo Ortiz.
    Abstract: A group of college students are traveling by train to Veracruz on holiday and while they travel, the men flirt with young women on the train. When they arrive at Orizaba, Veracruz, the men are still thinking about the women, though they don't want to fall in love with them because the men must eventually return to their studies in Mexico City.

66. Alma norteña, Roberto Guzman et al., 1 videocassette (94 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1998.
    Notes: Performer Note: Víctor Manuel Mendoza, Anita Capillo.
    Abstract: A ranchero melodrama which lauds the honest working people of the north in contrast to the slick and lazy people of Mexico City.

67. Alma pérdida, Pete Resto et al., 1 videocassette (37 min.), New York, NY, 1992.
    Notes: Performer Note: Agustin Rodriguez, Robert Maisonett, Robert F. Amico, John Ortiz, Nelson Nazario.
    Abstract: Dramatization of drug use by a hispanic teenager from the barrio of New York City. Despite support from a happy but poor family and attempts to intervene by his parents and siblings, he becomes increasingly addicted to drugs with tragic but realistic consequences.

68. Alpaqueros de chimboya Alpaca breeders of Chimboya, Marianne Eyde, Kusi Films, and First Run/Icarus Films, 1 videocassette (30 min.), New York, 1984.
    Notes: Added Title: Alpaca breeders of Chimboya.
    Abstract: Documents peasant families living in the Peruvian highlands whose livelihood depends on selling alpaca fleece.

69. Alto Paraná, Catrano Catrani et al., 1 videocassette (81 min.), Argentina, 19??
    Notes: Performer Note: Ubaldo Martínez, Nelly Cuggan, Jorge Hiltón.

70. Ama a tu projimo, Tulio Demicheli et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
    Notes: Performer Note: Arturo de Cordova, Rosita Quintana, Elsa Aguirre.
    Abstract: Night. A Red Cross emergency room. All is calm. Open on a desk is a book with an entry recording the death of a Mexican boxer, Rodolfo Ramos. In a flashback, the disintegration of Ramos' life unfolds, beginning with his girlfriend, a screen star, leaving him without saying goodbye after he loses a fight.

71. Amada, Humberto Solás et al., 1 videocassette (105 min.), New York, N.Y., 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Eslinada Runez, Cesar Erora, Silvia Planas, Andrés Hernández, Oneida Hernández.
    Abstract: A young woman from a wealthy family in Havana, Cuba of 1914, is faced with great sexual and social inequality. Her struggles to achieve identity and dignity are played out in a tragic romance in which she is torn between her established and respected marriage and the forbidden love of a young rebel.

72. Amalia García, la perseverancia, Amalia García, Denise Maerker, and Once TV (Mexico City, Mexico), 1 videocassette (54 min.), México, D.F, 1999.
    Notes: Performer Note: Guest, Amalia Garcia; interviewer, Denise Maerker.
    Abstract: An interview with Mexican politician Amalia Garcia, who discusses her life and work and the position of women in politics in Mexico today.

73. Amantes, Vicente Aranda et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Madrid, 1992.
    Notes: Performer Note: Victoria Abril, Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdú.
    Abstract: After finishing military service, Paco sets off to find work in Madrid, leaving behind his girlfriend Trini in his hometown. In Madrid he embarks on an affair with his landlady and becomes embroiled in the low-life of the district, but the virtuous Trini tries to re-enter his life, with tragic results.

74. Amapola del camino, Juan Bustillo Oro et al., 1 videocassette (?? min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
    Notes: Performer Note: Tito Guizar, Andrea Palma, Leopoldo "Chato" Ortin.

75. America de los Indios, Jesús Salvador Treviño et al., 1 videocasette (27 min.), Pasadena, CA, 1993.

76. America tropical, David Alfaro Siqueiros et al., 1 videocassette (33 min.), Pasadena, CA, 1993.
    Notes: Performer Note: Víctor Millán.

77. America, unknown land, Latin American Video Archives, 1 videocassette, New York : Latin American Video Archives.

78. American graffiti, Richard Dreyfuss et al., 1 videodisc (112 min.), Universal City, CA, 1998.
    Notes: Performer Note: Richard Dreyfuss, Ronny Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charlie Martin Smith, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Harrison Ford, Cindy Williams, Wolfman Jack
    Added Title: Making of American graffiti.
    Abstract: Four teenagers come of age on their last summer night before college in 1962.

79. Americas, Judith Vecchione et al., 10 videocassettes (60 min. each), South Burlington, VT, 1993.
    Notes: Performer Note: Raul Julia.
    Abstract: This intimate look at contemporary Latin America examines issues confronting the entire region by focusing on individual communities.

80. La Amiga, Liv Ullmann et al., 1 videocassette (115 min.), San Luis, 1992?
    Notes: Performer Note: Liv Ullmann, Cipe Lincovsky, Victor Laplace.
    Abstract: During the military dictatorship (1976-83), two women--one an actress and the other the mother of an activist who "disappears"--adapt in different ways.

81. Amok, Stella Inda et al., 1 videocassette (101 min.), Stanford, CA, 1995.
    Notes: Performer Note: Maria Felix, Julian Soler, Estela Inda.
    Abstract: A doctor embezzles the proceeds of his Parisian clinic in order to better support the manipulative woman with whom he is having an affair. After losing all the money while gambling, he is forced to flee to an undeveloped region of India. There, he tries to mitigate the onslaught of a disease the natives term "Amok," while his past mistakes still plague him.

82. Amor a primera vista, Leo Fleider et al., 1 videocassette (85 min.), Argentina, 19??
    Notes: Performer Note: Lolita Torres, Osvaldo Miranda, Ramón Garay.
    Abstract: A woman marries a bolero singer, but he believes her to be someone other than who she is.

83. Amor a ritmo de go-go, Miguel M Delgado et al., 1 videocassette (65 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
    Notes: Performer Note: Javier Solis, Rosa María Vázquez, Leonorilda Ochoa.
    Abstract: Lupe is a dancer in a club that attracts a young crowd. But she is continuously pursued by an older man who is very wealthy. He offers her a car, but she refuses to accept it unless he allows her to give something in return: dancing lessons. Lupe doesn't know how to drive, though, so she enrolls in driving lessons, and becomes rather close to her instructor, with whom she is very comfortable. He, however, is not extremely wealthy, offering little more than his company. She must decide which she sees as the more worthy.

84. Amor de lejos, Fernando Fernández et al., 1 videocassette (100), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
    Notes: Performer Note: Fernando Fernandez, Evangelina Elimondo, Andres Soler.
    Abstract: Don Lorenzo and his sister take in boarders at their house and he is having trouble collecting rent. His niece, Luisa, is returning to Mexico from the U.S. and he wants her to marry a bumbling man named Inocencio, who is supposed to be worth a million dollars. Don Lorenzo's right-hand man, Alberto, is love with Luisa, but Don Lorenzo told him to forget her because the future of the house depends on Luisa's marriage to Inocencio.

85. Amor de lis amores, René Cardona et al., 1 videocassette (78 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
    Notes: Performer Note: Rafael Falcón, Josefina Escobedo, Julieta Palavicini.
    Abstract: Leonor lives happily with her husband and young daughter, until he becomes involved with his boss's daughter and requests a divorce. Unwilling to give up her daughter, Leonor refuses to grant the divorce. The husband, in desperation, uses actors and photographers to frame Leonor of having an affair, then takes the case the court in order to force the divorce and gain custody of his daughter. Leonor, unfortunately stuck with a lazy lawyer, is unable to convince the judge of her innocence and custody is awarded to her husband, devastating her.

86. Amor de mis amores, Rene Cardona, 1 videocassette, Mexico, 1940.

87. Amor de una Vida, Mapy Cortés et al., 1 videocassette (92 min.), Stanford, CA, 1995.
    Notes: Performer Note: Mapy Cortés, Tomás Perrín.
    Abstract: A woman left in poverty after the death of her father is forced to work as a housekeeper and also as a farmworker, a job normally reserved for men. She is ostracized by the community for living in the home of the army captain for whom she works.

88. Amor en el aire, Luis Cesar Amadori et al., 1 videocassette (96 min.), Argentina, 19??
    Notes: Performer Note: Rocío Durcal, Palito Orgeta, Amalia de Isaura.

89. Amor perdido, L. Miguel Morayta et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Stanford, CA, 1995.
    Notes: Performer Note: Victor Junco, Amalia Aguilar, Yadira Jimenez.
    Abstract: A young and successful composer falls in love with a woman who has just lost her job. He pays her rent, finds a new job for her, and unwittingly involves her with a manipulative crime boss who owns the nightclub in which she works.

90. Amor y pecado, Ninón Sevilla et al., 1 videocassette (88 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
    Notes: Performer Note: Ninón Sevilla, Ramón Gay, Rosa Elena Durgel.
    Abstract: Raúl and Miguel, as young boys, find a baby girl in a garbage can. The two brothers persuade their mother to keep her, despite their poverty, and they name her Teresa. The three children must work in the street to scrape up what the family needs to survive. Years later, Teresa is successful dancer, Miguel owns an night club, and Raúl is studying engineering. Both brothers fall in love with Teresa, but she loves only Raúl.

91. Amores, Ana Caridad Sánchez et al., 1 videocassette (107 min.), S.l, 1994?
    Notes: Performer Note: Jorge Cao, Doriam Alonso, Laura de la Uz, Luisa Perez Nieto.
    Abstract: Sopa de cucarachas: a man looks for female companionship in all the wrong places and one day while fishing, a basket floats towards him on the water and in it is a baby girl whom he raises tenderly as his own daughter. Silencios: a girl tries to understand why her parents separated and why her father has retreated further and further into himself and his sorrow. El Jefe: a young woman sleeps with the officer she holds responsible for her father's assassination in order to get close enough to finally take revenge. Piscis: a beautiful young nun is so concerned about the hunger in her coastal village that she gives birth to fish.

92. Ana Mendieta fuego de tierra, Nereyda Garcia-Ferraz et al., 1 videocassette (52 min.), New York, NY, 1987.
    Abstract: Chronicles the life and work of Cuban artist Ana Mendieta. Includes an interview with the artist by Tony Martinez. Also includes interviews with her family, friends and colleagues.

93. Ancleto se divorcia, Joselito Rodríguez et al., 1 videocassette (101 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1998.
    Notes: Performer Note: Carlos Orellana, Rosita Arenas, Rita Montaner.

94. --and the earth did not swallow him, Lindsay Law et al., 1 videocassette (99 min.), New York, N.Y., 1997.
    Notes: Performer Note: Jose Alcala, Rose Portillo, Marco Rodriquez, Daniel Valdez.
    Abstract: A haunting and powerful film about a young Mexican-American boy's coming of age amid the poverty and adversity he and his family face as migrant farm workers in the 1950's.

95. Anda, corre, vuela, Augusto Tamayo San Román et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Chorrillos, Perú, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Marino León, Rosa Isabel Morffino, Lucho Ramirez, Bruno Odar.
    Abstract: Anda, corre, vuela is the story of a pair of young people who come of age and find love in a time of civil war between the government forces and the terrorist organization Sendero Luminoso.

96. Andalusia cradle of stereotypes, Michael Whiteley, Phil Grabsky, and Films for the Humanities (Firm), 1 videocassette (52 min.), Princeton, NJ, 1991.
    Abstract: Looks at the changes wrought during and since Franco's time on a fighting bull ranch and its employees.

97. Andrés Medina and Fernando Camara, Andrés Medina et al., 1 videocassette (60 min.), Washington, D.C., 1992.
    Notes: Event Note: Recorded May 19, 1989 in Mexico City.
    Abstract: Andrés Medina talks about his ideas and perspectives in anthropology.

98. Angel heart, Mickey Rourke et al., 1 videodisc (112 min.), United States?, United States, 1998.
    Notes: Performer Note: Mickey Rourke, Robert DeNiro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling.
    Abstract: A journey of violence and murder that canvasses the streets of Harlem, the jazz clubs of New Orleans, and voodoo rituals in the swamps of Louisiana.

99. Angeles, Raúl Perrone et al., 1 videocassette (39 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Raúl Perrone, Carlos Brioletti, Horacio Graniero.

100. Angeles de la calle, Agustín P Delgado et al., 1 videocassette (117 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Gustavo Rojo, Emilia Guiú, Andrea Palma.
     Abstract: Magnito is a boy who lives in a beautiful home with plenty of toys, yet he is very lonely. His wealthy mother is annoyed by him, and when the governess suggests she pay more attention to Magnito, she fires her. After seeing how much the house servants love their children and befriending one, Magnito decides his only recourse is to run away. He does so, and joins a group of orphans who sell newspapers and are supported by a few generous adults. Despite the hardships of the street, Magnito finally finds the camaraderie his former life was missing.

101. Angelica, Irasema Dilian et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Irasema Dilian, Carlos Navarro, Ramón Gay.
     Abstract: Angelica works for a nightclub and escort service run by Armando, who is continually questioned by an inspector about the death of Angelica's uncle, her only living relative. Angelica, always tacit, refuses to say anything to the inspector. When she meets a half-blind airline co-pilot, she explains to him that years before she witnessed the murder of her uncle by Armando, who subsequently threated to accuse her of the murder if she refused to work for him.

102. Angina de pecho el motor de la vida, Angina de pecho el motor de la vida, 1 videocassette (53 min.), 198?
     Notes: Added Title: Motor de la vida.
     Abstract: A description of the way the heart functions and what an "angina pectoris" is.

103. Angola and Eastern Europe on El Escudo (Cuban television?), December 7, 1990 videorecording, Fidel Castro, 1 videocassette (VHS), Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba, 1990.
     Notes: Added Title: Persian Gulf crisis.

104. Anillo de compromiso, Emilio Gómez Muriel et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: David Silva, Martha Roth, Carmen Montejo.
     Abstract: A bank worker buys an engagement ring for his fiancee, but the couple doesn't have enough money for the wedding. His mother asks his boss for a loan and they are able to get married, but they soon find themselves in further financial trouble when the man's supervisor blocks his attempts to move up in the bank; eventually, the woman is forced to pawn her ring so they can pay the bills.

105. Anne Waldman and Cecilia Vicuña, Anne Waldman et al., 1 videocassette (57 min.), New York, NY, 1995?
     Notes: Event Note: Taped between May 1988 and May 1995.
     Abstract: Anne Waldman reads The Cure, The Curse, The Stick, A Lullabye, For Robert Creeley, Ballad after Christine di Pisan, First person (for Bernadette), Eyes in all heads to be looked out of, taped in May, 1988. Cecilia Vicuña reads The Word is time and sound breathing, Not yet poem (Lola Que Pia), Mother and daughter, Oro, taped in May, 1995. Anne Waldman reads (Iovis:) Cosmology within the mind of the sleeping God, Pieces of an hour (for John Cage), taped in May, 1995.

106. Annie Hall, Woody Allen et al., 1 videodisc (93 min.), Culver City, CA, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon, Janet Margolin, Shelley Duvall, Christopher Walken, Colleen Dewhurst.
     Abstract: A romantic and sensitive comedy revolving around the diverse and diverting relationships of two nervous New Yorkers, Alvy Singer and Annie Hall.

107. Ano Nuevo, Burt Corona, Todd Darling, and Cinema Guild, 1 videocassette (55 min.), New York, N.Y., 1982.
     Notes: Performer Note: Burt Corona.
     Abstract: Combines the struggle waged by 22 undocumented workers against their employer with a careful analysis of the conditions faced by the United States' clandestine work force. Shot on location in Northern California, along the U.S.-Mexican border and in Oaxaca, Mexico.

108. Another day in paradise, Larry Clark et al., 1 videodisc (101 min.), United States, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Vincent Kartheiser, Natasha Gregson Wagner
     Contents: Special features include director's commentary, filmographies, trailer and music video.
     Abstract: A makeshift family of professional thieves go on a cross-country crime spree.

109. Antologia del cine Mexicano, Manuel Gonzalez Casanova, 1 videocassette (113 min.), Mexico.

110. Approach of dawn portraits of Maya women forging peace in Guatemala, Gayla Jamison, Lightfoot Films, and Maryknoll World Productions, 1 videocassette (52 min.), S.l., Maryknoll, N.Y, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Narrator: Liliana del Rio.
     Abstract: Documents the story of Maya women of Guatemala and their role in the human rights struggle. Focuses on three women whose lives have been shattered by Guatemala's genocidal civil war.

111. Aquel de cine argentino 30 años sonoros, 1933-1963, Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette (115 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Narrator: Enrique Conlazo.
     Abstract: A survey of the history of sound film in Argentina between 1933 and 1963, with clips from many important films.

112. Aquí están los Villalobos, Enrique Zambrano et al., 1 videocassette (?? min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ramón Gay, Rosa de Castilla, Raúl Martínez.
     Abstract: A group of masked bandits led by a man called "The White Terror" burns the homes of settlers and farmers that begin to fence in grazing ground for ranchers. Three men that call themselves Los Villalobos take it upon themselves to uncover the identity of this White Terror. With the help of María, a beautiful woman who is courted by an older, callous man, they begin to investigate the crimes already committed and track his movements. Their actions place them in considerable danger, as the White Terror begins to panic.

113. Ardiente paciencia Mit brennender Geduld, Antonio Skármeta et al., 1 videocassette, Mainz, 1983.
     Notes: Performer Note: Oscar Castro, Roberto Parada, Marcela Osorio, Naldy Hernández
     Added Title: Mit brennender Geduld
     Added Title: Burning patience.
     Abstract: A teenager is in love with the local bar-owner's daughter in a Chilean village. In this village lives the Latin American poet, Pablo Neruda. The teenager enlists Neruda's help to win the girl.

114. La ardilla roja, Julio Medem et al., 1 videocassette (105 min.), Madrid, 1994.
     Notes: Performer Note: Emma Suárez, Nancho Novo, Maria Barranco, Karra Elejalde, Carmelo Gómez.
     Abstract: Jota is a young man whose fortunes are down. His rocker girlfriend has left him and he is considering jumping off of a jetty late one summer night in San Sebastian. Before he can jump, a motorcyclist crashes through the barrier and Jota runs to assist. The woman has amnesia and Jota takes her to the hospital where he registers her as Lisa, his fiance. When "Lisa" has recovered physically, Jota takes her from the hospital and they go on a vacation to a campground called "The Red Squirrel".

115. Argentina the broken silence, Victor Fridman, 1 videocassette (ca. 57 min.), San Anselmo, Calif, 1986.
     Notes: Performer Note: Juan Peron, Isabella Peron, Raul Alfonsin
     Added Title: The broken silence.
     Abstract: Victor Fridman recaps the history of Argentina from the days Evita and Juan Peron reigned supreme to the events leading to the election of President Raul Alfonsin and the present.

116. An Argentinian journey, Jana Bokava et al., 3 videocassettes (187 min.), Princeton, N.J, 1998.
     Notes: Contents: pt. 1. Songs of the gauchos (64 min.) -- pt. 2. Songs of the Argentine provinces (62 min.) -- pt. 3. Songs of the poor (61 min.)
     Added Title: Songs of the Gauchos
     Added Title: Songs of the Argentine provinces
     Added Title: Songs of the poor.
     Abstract: Presents the "rich and diverse musical heritage of Argentina".

117. Argentinísima, Fernando Ayala et al., 1 videocassette (110 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Abstract: Through song after song, the beauty of Argentina is narrated in this film. Occasional acting as well as dance contribute to the music that defines the greatness and pride of a uniquely beautiful country.

118. Ariella Ariela, John Herbert et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Christiane Torloni, John Herbert, Laura Cardoso.

119. Armiño negro, Carlos Hugo Christensen et al., 1 videocassette (104 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Laura Hidalgo, Roberto Escalada, Néstor Zavarce, Nicolás Fregues, Bemardo Penrone, Ricardo Galache, Enrique Abeledo, Gloria Ferrandiz, Federico Mansilla, Aurelia Ferrer.
     Abstract: A woman intends to tell her adolescent son about her mysterious past (and her present), but fails and unleashes a tragedy.

120. Army of darkness, Sam Raimi et al., 1 videodisc (87 min.), Universal City, Calif, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz.
     Abstract: Back to do battle with the hideous "Deadites", Bruce Campbell reprises his role from the Evil Dead series. Demonic forces time-warp him into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of undead beasts.

121. Arthur, Robert Greenhut et al., 1 videodisc (97 min.), Burbank, Calif, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud.
     Abstract: Arthur Bach is very, very rich, and he's next in line for a 750 million dollar inheritance. He stands to lose his inheritance--and a life in the lush style to which he is accustomed--if he doesn't marry the most boring blonde on Long Island within thirty days. Unfortunately, Arthur has just discovered the girl of his dreams.

122. Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego a talk on "Cadena Perpetua", November 13, 1995, Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego, 1 videocassette (65 min.), 1995.

123. Asalto a la ciudad, Carlos Cores et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Carlos Cores, Juan José Miguez, Luis Tasca, Ignacio Quirós, Sergio Renán, Olga Zubarry, Aída Luz, Elizabeth Killian, Santiago Gómez Cou, Guillermo Battaglia, Thelma del Río, Nathán Pinzón, Juan Carlos Palma, Susana Mayo, José Comellas, Sergio Malbrán, Saál Jarlip, Pedro Buchardo, Silvia del Río, Mario Aguiar, Elsa Guido.
     Abstract: Five men rob a bank. Each one eventually receives a punishment.

124. Asesinato a distancia, Santiago Carlos Oves et al., 1 videocassette (103 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Hector Alterio, Patricio Contreras, Laura Novoa, Martín Adjemian, Fabián Vena, Carlos Weber, Miguel Dedovich, Guillermo Hermida, Gerardo Pheyrano, Horacio Marassi, Elvia Andreoli.
     Abstract: Can there be a perfect crime? Detective Daniel Hernández says no, his new case causes him to doubt deeply held beliefs. A boy throws himself into the sea during a storm, in front of a crowd of witnesses. An obvious suicide, but Hernández says no, although it will be difficult to deny what the witnesses saw.

125. Así es el tango, Eduardo Morera et al., 1 videocassette (91 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Tito Lusiardo, Olinda Bozán, Lusita Vehil.

126. Así es la vida, Francisco Múgica et al., 1 videocassette (92 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Enrique Serrano, Sabina Olmos, Arturo García Bhur.
     Abstract: A wealthy family of six with three daughters and a son grow together learning from and experiencing all the lessons of life. With firm and loving parents all four children find love and although not all marry right away, they are happy. Even when on parent dies, the household carries on as strong as ever. This is a story of family strength and close personal relationships.

127. Así es mi tierra, Arcady Boytler et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 79 min.), México, 1992.
     Notes: Performer Note: Cantinflas (Mario Moreno), Manuel Medel, Antonio R. Frausto, Mercedes Soler.
     Abstract: Two friends are entangled in the intrigue of a revolutionary general. Acompañado de otro gran comediante y envuelto en la intriga de un general revolucionario, de rienda suelta a su gran imaginación para provocarnos una bandanada de risas.

128. Atame! Tie me up, tie me down, Victoria Abril et al., 1 videocassette (105 min.), Burbank, CA, 1990.
     Notes: Performer Note: Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas, Loles Leon, Francisco Rabal.
     Abstract: Comedy in which an orphaned mental patient kidnaps a porn star in an irrationally inspired bid for love.

129. Atracción peculiar, Enrique Carreras et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Alberto Olmedo, Jorge Porcel, Silvia Pérez.
     Abstract: A series of aggressive acts against transvestites who act in Mar del Plata leads a magazine to send out a journalist, Sr. Trolombati, and a photographer, Sr. Amatista, who is evidently gay. Both must pretend they are gay and get into the underword to carry on their inquest. This is the starting point for a series of intricate situations in which even the wives of the magazine executives are involved.

130. Atrapadas, Aníbal di Salvo et al., 1 videocassette, Buenos Aires, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Leonor Benedetto, Betiana Blum, Camila Perissé.

131. Atrax, Diego Lascano et al., 1 videocassette (? min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Dario Moscaetlli, Debora Perez Volpin, Hernan Pererz Aguirre, Javier Lareo
     Added Title: Ultimios vermicellis
     Added Title: Martini en las dunas.
     Abstract: It is the year 2062 on Atrax. The station managers of a TV channel which dominates the minds of all the inhabitants of this country discover by accident the instruments of power in which they are being held. Eating, making love, working and thinking have been converted into mechanical acts simply destined to keep the species alive. Is rebellion possible against this order? The country is a veiled portrayal of Argentina. Preceded by a very short film which makes satiric use of the theme of alternate reality: Un martini en las dunas.

132. Augusto Cabada, Augusto Cabada et al., 1 videocassette (20 min.), Lima, 19??
     Abstract: Two short films by Augusto Cabada. The first, El final, depicts a couple finishing a television screenplay; their difference of opinion on the resolution mirror their relationship to each other. In the second, La consulta, a man suicidal man visits a psychologist and confesses to a murder, but the crime may be a delusion.

133. Augusto Roa Bastos conversacion con Fernando Alegria, Augusto Antonio Roa Bastos et al., 1 videocassette (25 min.), McLean, Va, 1982.
     Notes: Added Title: Diálogo entre Augusto Roa Bastos y Fernando Alegriá.
     Abstract: Fernando Alegriá engages Paraguayan author, Augusto Roa Bastos in a dialogue dealing with his work, background and literary philosophy. They also discuss the literature, culture, history and politics of Latin America in general and of Paraguay in particular.

134. La ausente, Julio Bracho et al., 1 videocassette (118 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Arturo de Cordova, Rosita Quintana, Andrea Palma.
     Abstract: Isabel runs away from her house and drives off a cliff. Her husband, Jorge, is distraught, and all the more so when his sister, Cecilia, doesn't attend the funeral; according to Isabel's sister, Magdalena, Cecilia never liked Isabel. Magdalena takes care of Isabel's daughter and tries to find out exactly what happened to Isabel. Cecilia asks Magdalena why Isabel was carrying 100,000 pesos with her when she died.

135. Ave de paso, Celestino Gorostiza et al., 1 videocassette (75 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Emilio Tuero, Amanda Ledesma, Carlos López Moctezuma.
     Abstract: A doctor is reading a medical book while traveling on the train to Mexico City. A beautiful woman, the famous Argentine singer Olga Rassini, who is in Mexico for the first time, tries to catch the doctor's eye. He ignores her, not knowing who she is and having a family with 3 children to consider. Some friends invite him to the opening of Rassini's show, but when he realizes she was the woman on the train, he refuses to go.

136. Ave sin rumbo, Andrea Palma et al., 1 videocassette (86 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Andrea Palma, Arturo de Cordova, Carlos Villarias.
     Abstract: Ana is assaulted by a man on a boat but is saved by the captain. She is ill and the caption is concerned for her; she thanks him for his attention and for taking her on the boat without charge. Because of her condition, the captain puts her ashore at their next port, Magdalena. She cannot afford to stay at the hotel she visits, but faints on the way out and is taken to one of the rooms. A man named Melchor, who has helped transport her, finds his doctor friend, Juan, who is on the run from the police. Juan discovers that her appendix is in very bad shape.

137. Aventuras de Juan Quin Quin, Julio Martinez et al., 1 videocassette (110 min.), La Habana?, 1967.
     Notes: Performer Note: Julio Martínez, Erdwin Fernández, Adelaida Raymat.
     Abstract: A farmer, fearing nothing in his struggle to make his way, clashes with his environment, and is thus forced into various other occupations.

138. Avivato El rey de los vivos, Enrique Cahen Salaberry et al., 1 videocassette (82 min.), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Pepe Iglesias, Lilian Valmar.

139. Ay calypso no te rajes, Antonio Badu et al., 1 videocassette (?? min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Antonio Badu, Fernando Casanova, Paquita de Ronda.

140. Ay, Carmela!, Carlos Saura et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Madrid, 1991.
     Notes: Performer Note: Carmen Maura, Andres Pajares, Gabino Diego.
     Abstract: Aragón, Spain, 1938. Carmela and her two companions quit their posts as entertainers for the Republican troops in search for a better fortune. By mistake, they cross over to the Nationalist zone, get arrested and are given the chance to perform for their freedom.

141. Ay Jalisco, no te rajes, Joselito Rodríguez et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), México, 1992.
     Notes: Performer Note: Jorge Negrete, Gloria Marín, Carlos López "Chaflan", Victor Manuel Mendoza, Angel Garasa, Antonio Bravo, Evita Munoz, Antonio Badu, Miguel Inclan.
     Abstract: A young man, being pursued by the son of a general whom he killed along with the general's five gunmen because the general did not want him courting his daughter, goes off on a murder spree.

142. Ayúdeme a vivir, José Agustín Ferreyra et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 72 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Libertad Lamarque, Floren Delbene, Perla Mary.

143. Azul, Roland Legiardi-Laura and Azul Productions, 1 videocassette (107 min.), New York, N.Y, 1988.
     Abstract: A portrait of Nicaraguan life as revealed through the diverse voices of the country's poets. Interviews and debate are interwoven with the recitation of 24 poems by both professional and amateur writers.

144. Bailando cha cha cha Cien mujeres, Jaime Salvador et al., 1 videocassette (62 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Christiane Martel, Tony Aguilar, Sergio Corona.
     Abstract: Don Manuel designs bathing suits and owns the company that manufactures and distributes them. He has 3 nieces who are always asking him for money. After 25 yrs. in the business, he retires to travel around the world, turning the company over to the workers with the stipulation that they can keep the company if the make a bigger profit in the following year; otherwise the company will go to his nieces. The nieces conspire to make the company do poorly so they can get their hands on it.

145. Bailando en las nubes, Canta Maya et al., 1 videocassette (89 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Canta Maya, Jorge "Che" Reyes, Andres Soler.
     Abstract: Lucien is a secretary in New York whose father, now dead, was from Mexico. Through correspondence with an associate office in Mexico City, she becomes friends with an elderly office worker in that city, who pretends to be his own boss in his letters. When Lucien's sister is unable to join her dance team on their tour of Latin America, Lucien replaces her. The show eventually travels to Mexico City, where she decides to visit her pen friend. The impostor, in order to cover his tracks, involves Orlando Mendoza, the boss's nephew, who is immediately attracted to Lucien.

146. Baile de graduación, Carlos Toussaint et al., 1 videocassette (83 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: David Lichine, Sergio Unger, Alicia Pineda, Diana Alanis.
     Abstract: Performed entirely in dance, the film shows a troop of young military cadets visiting a girls' school of ballet. While the general and the school's headmistress flirt lightheartedly, the cadets and ballerinas compete for each other's favors.

147. Bajo el cielo de México, Vilma Vidal et al., 1 videocassette (76 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Vilma Vidal, Rafael Falcón.
     Abstract: On a Mexican hacienda, the patrón's top man is enchanted by a wealthy woman visiting the patrón's family. While her pursues the woman, he loses interest in the woman who has loved him for many years. Unfortunately for him, the wealthy woman is engaged to be married to someone else very soon.

148. Bajo el signo de la patria, René Mugica et al., 1 videocassette (110 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Ignacio Quiros, Héctor Pellegrini, Ricardo Passano.

149. Bajo otro sol, Francisco D'Intino et al., 1 videocassette (88 min.), Uruguay, 198-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Jorge González, Virginia Lago, Miguel Angel Solá.
     Abstract: After having worked for ten years as a teacher at a rural school in the Argentinian Patagonia, labour lawyer Manuel Ojeda returns to Córdoba, his province. He is moved by the wish to avenge a former political Fellow at the Peronist Youth, missing during the Military Dictatorship after Alfredo Barrantes denounced him. Barrantes is Personnel Manager at the factory where Ojeda used to work. Manuel meets old friends and workmates who make him see the mistake he is about to make.

150. Bajó un angel del cielo, Luis Cesar Amadori et al., 1 videocassette (78 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Franciso Alvarez, Zully Moreno, Pedrito Quartucci.
     Abstract: Fontana is a senile, old man in charge of a successful business. He wishes to retire and sell the business. His family attempts to help him, but instead make the whole situation much more complicated.

151. Bala de plata, Miguel M Delgado et al., 1 videocassette (65 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Julio Aldama, Irma Dorantes, Angel Infante.
     Abstract: Carlos, away from home in the army, is notified that his father has been killed. When he returns home, he learns that a silver bullet was used. He dismisses suicide or accidental death as the cause, and determines that his father was murdered. Although his father's friends offer their sympathy, he is slow to trust any of them. He thus trains himself in gun-fighting as preparation for an expected confrontation with his father's killer. He then subtly tests the friendship of those who profess to be loyal to him and his father in an effort to expose the guilty man.

152. Balada para un mochilero, Carlos Rinaldi et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: José Marrone, Arnaldo André, Mariángeles, Aldo Barbero Cacho Espindola, Néstor Fabián, Nelly Tesolin, Marcelo Chimento, Graciela Pal, Graciela Ibaneta, Mario Fortuna (h), Estela Vidal, Rodolfo Brindisi, Délfor Medina, Martha Diez, Coqui Marrone, Los Iracundos, Juan y Juan, Los Arribeños, Néstor Fabián.
     Abstract: A newspaper vendor who lives in Mar del Plata leaves to backpack and travel the country. In this event, he meets other similar travelers.

153. Ballad of an unsung hero, Paul Espinosa et al., 1 videocassette (28 min.), San Diego, Calif, 1983.
     Abstract: Portrait of 88-year-old Pedro J. González, his early years as a telegraph operator with Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution, his pioneering career as a radio and recording star in Los Angeles, and finally his 6-year imprisonment in San Quentin following a controversial court case. Includes rare historical footage and photographs, vintage music from the 1920's, as well as interviews with Pedro and his wife Maria.

154. The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, Edward James Olmos et al., 1 videocassette (105 min.), Los Angeles, Calif, 1984?
     Notes: Performer Note: Edward James Olmos, James Gammon, Tom Bower, Bruce McGill.
     Abstract: "True story, told from several points of view, of 1901 incident in which a young Mexican killed an American sheriff, then managed to elude a 600-man posse for nearly two weeks."--Leonard Maltin's TV, movies and video guide, 1987 ed.

155. Ballet Folclórico Nacional de México, Ballet Folclórico Nacional de México et al., 1 videocassette (1 hr., 50 min.), New York, N.Y, 1987.
     Notes: Performer Note: Vocalist, Estela González ; venado = deer dancer, Ignacio Domínguez ; floreador = lariat virtuoso, Fidel Cadrera.
     Abstract: A live show of Mexican pre-hispanic and mestiso dances, myths and music, including the Mariachi, the Marimba and Sones Jarochos.

156. Ballet Folclórico Nacional de México, Ballet Folclórico Nacional de México et al., 1 videocassette (108 min.), New York, NY, 1988.
     Abstract: Director, May Herz ; producer, Alfonso Olvero. A live show of Mexican pre-hispanic and mestiso dances, myths and music, including the Mariachi, the Marimba and Sones Jarochos.

157. Bananeras Banana Campany, Lilia Alfaro P. et al., 1 videocassette (15 min.), New York, NY, 1982?
     Notes: Performer Note: William Agudelo
     Added Title: Banana company.
     Abstract: Depicts the exploitation of banana plantation workers in Nicaragua by large American companies working there. Interviews workers on the plantations and in the shipping warehouses where the bananas are cleaned and packaged. Commentary is provided by Ernesto Cardenal's poem to the workers.

158. Baraguá, José Massip et al., 1 videocassette (VHS) (ca. 111 min.), Cuba, Cuba?, 1986.
     Notes: Performer Note: Mario Balmaseda, José Antonio Rodríguez, Nelson Villagra, Sergio Corrieri.

159. La barraca, Roberto Gavaldón et al., 1 videocassette (108 min.), Harlingen, TX, New York, NY, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Domingo Soler, Anita Blanch, Amparo Morillo.
     Abstract: The story of violence and subsistence among peasants as they try to prevent the loss of a house they found after years of moving from place to place.

160. Barrio de pasiones, Adolfo Fernández Bustamante et al., 1 videocassette (87 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Alfredo Gomez de la Vega, Gustavo Rojo Pinto, Maria Teresa Esquilla.
     Abstract: An attractive young woman attempts to make a living as a pianist after her father passes away. Beset by money problems, she is forced to pawn her most precious belongings, including her beloved piano. Several men woo her and promise to help her, including a scorned local businessman, detested by the community, and a middle-aged grocer.

161. Barrio Gris, Mario Soffici et al., 1 videocassette (107 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Alberto de Mendoza, Mirta Torres, Ubaldo Martínez.
     Abstract: A poor man named Federico has an affluent friend named Claudio, who teaches him how to make fast money and enter high society. His selfishness leads him to a life of crime. He loses his family and friends in his quest to advance his own social position. It is not until the death of his beloved mother that he realizes his faults. By this time, her death is too great to bear and he kills Claudio, is sent to prison, and leaves behind his new love, Zulema.

162. Barroco, Paul Leduc et al., 1 videocassette (107 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Francisco Rabal, Angela Molinna, Ernesto Gómez Cruz.
     Abstract: A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly round the question 'Where are the singers from?' (De donde son los cantantes? in Spanish: the title of a popular Cuban song).

163. The basketball diaries, Leonardo DiCaprio et al., 1 videodisc (102 min.), S.l., 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruno Kirby, Lorraine Bracco, Ernie Hudson, Patrick McGaw, James Madio, Mark Wahlberg.
     Abstract: Teamed with his friends Mickey, Neutron and Pedro, high school student Jim Carroll seems headed for a bright basketball career. But when pressures from his coach, his mom, and school seem to mount, Jim finds solace in all the wrong places, and the dark streets of New York begin to tear him apart.

164. La Batalla de Chile la lucha de un Pueblo sin armas, Patricio Guzmán et al., 3 videocassettes (263 min.), Madrid, 1993.
     Notes: Performer Note: Abilio Fernandez
     Contents: pt. 1 La insurrección de la burguesia (1:36) -- pt. 2. El golpe de estado (1:28) -- pt. 3. El poder popular (1:19)
     Added Title: Battle of Chile.
     Abstract: Documentary on the fate of Allende's Popular Unity government filmed throughout Chile from February to September 1973. Shows the campaign strategies of the two groups fighting for control of Congress and reactions of voters before and after the election. Also shows effects on society after the election--strikes, riots, etc.

165. Batallón Olimpia documento abierto, Canal 6 de Julio (Firm : Mexico), 1 videocassette (35 min.), México, D.F, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Narrator: Mario Díaz Mercando.
     Abstract: What do the unpublished images from October 2nd, 1968, released in the past few years, show? The film presents an exhaustive analysis of the new cinematic evidence, particularly in the role of the Batallón Olimpia, an Army unit which inflitrated the student protests in Tlatelolco, Mexico. The testimony of different actors on the facts and a meticulous investigation leads to some hard questions: Did certain members of the Army intentionally provoke the slaughter? What has become of the infiltrators? The film gives a version very different from the official one promulgated by the government over the past 30 years.

166. Batman, Jack Nicholson et al., 1 videodisc (126 min.), Burbank, Calif, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger.

167. Batman forever, Val Kilmer et al., 1 videodisc (122 min.), Burbank, Calif, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Chris O'Donnell, Michael Gough, Pat Hingle.
     Abstract: Batman and Robin, the caped crusaders, battle Two Face and the Ridddler.

168. The Bay of Pigs, David Davis et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 57 min.), S.l., 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Narrator, Will Lyman.
     Abstract: Using documentary footage and eyewitness interviews, this film creates a moving drama of the Bay of Pigs invasion, arguably one of the United States' most embarrassing international spectacles.

169. Beatriz Flores Silva en Stanford, May 4, 1994, Beatriz Flores Silva, Jorge Ruffinelli, and Jack Genero, 1 videocassette (60 min.), Stanford, Calif, 1994.
     Notes: Performer Note: Interviewer: Jorge Rufinelli.

170. Beatriz Paredes el poder no lo puede todo, Beatriz Paredes, Denise Maerker, and Once TV (Mexico City, Mexico), 1 videocassette (57 min.), México, D.F, 1999.
     Notes: Performer Note: Guest, Beatriz Paredes; interviewer, Denise Maerker.
     Abstract: An interview with Mexican politician Beatriz Paredes who discusses her life and work and the position of women in politics in Mexico today.

171. Beethoven, Charles Grodin et al., 1 videodisc (87 min.), Universal City, Calif, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones, Oliver Platt, Stanley Tucci.
     Abstract: The Newton family is unprepared for the chaos that enters their lives when the cute, frisky St. Bernard puppy they adopt grows into an enormous, drooling disaster-prone pooch named Beethoven!

172. Beijo na boca Kiss my mouth, Jaciro Melo, Lilith Video, and Women Make Movies (Firm), 1 videocassette (30 min.), S.l., New York, NY, 1987.
     Notes: Added Title: A kiss on the mouth
     Added Title: Kiss my mouth.
     Abstract: Interviews with street prostitutes in urban Brazil.

173. La Bella del Alhambra The Belle of the "Alhambra", Mario Romeu et al., 1 videocassette (108 min.), New York, NY, 1990?
     Notes: Performer Note: Beatriz Valdés, César Evora, Omar Valdés, Carlos Cruz, Verónica Lynn
     Added Title: The Belle of the "Alhambra".
     Abstract: Rachel works as a chorus girl in a carnival atmosphere where dancers are expected to be prostitutes. She aspires to perform in the Alhambra, a theater for fine talent. The film recreates the atmosphere of Havana theater life in the 1920s and 1930s.

174. Belle époque, Fernando Trueba et al., 1 videocassette (114 min.), Madrid, Barcelona, Lisboa, Paris, Madrid, 1992.
     Notes: Performer Note: Penélope Cruz, Miriam Díaz-Aroca, Gabino Diego, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Michel Galabru, Ariadna Gil, Agustín Gonzáles, Chus Lampreave, Mary Carmen Ramírez, Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdú.
     Abstract: During the uprising against the monarchy in Spain, in 1930-1931, Fernando, a deserter from the army, takes refuge with Don Manolo, a republican partisan, who has a large farmhouse. Fernando becomes his cook. Don Manolo has four daughters, who all fall in love with Fernando. He tries his best in managing all four. The local priest hangs himself the day of Fernando's wedding with the youngest daughter. They go ahead with a 'secular wedding', according to the ideas of the new Republic.

175. Bello amanecer, Tony Martinez et al., 1 videocassette (89 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Braulio Castillo, Ofelia Montesco, Miguel Ángel Álvarez.
     Abstract: The beautiful Maria is the proprietor of a general store on the beach. However, she is in serious condition at the hospital and keeps whispering the name "Jorge." When Jorge arrives at the hospital, he tells the doctor of how he met Maria while fixing his yacht, and although he was involved with a wealthy woman, he fell in love with Maria. Somewhat wealthy, Jorge financially supports his cousin Roberto, a greedy and unprincipled man who takes advantage of Maria. After Jorge and Maria decide to marry, Roberto lies to Jorge, telling him that Maria is promiscuous, and thus changing Jorge's opinion of her.

176. The Bells of St. Mary's, Bing Crosby et al., 1 videodisc (126 min.), Los Angeles, CA, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, Joan Carroll.
     Abstract: Easy-going Father O'Malley and iron-willed Sister Benedict find themselves in a subtle battle of wits over how the children should be educated at St. Mary's parochial school. Meanwhile, the entire school may be razed to make way for a parking lot.

177. Belmonte, Juan Sebastian Bollain et al., 1 videocassette (101 min.), Madrid, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Achero Mañas, Jesús Bonilla, Lautaro Murua, Mónica Molina.
     Abstract: Juan Belmonte, the most famous Spanish bullfighter, is a hero. The film describes his legendary story from a timid boy craving for the bullring to a genius of bullfighting.

178. Beltenebros, Andrés Vincente Goméz et al., 1 videocassette (110 min.), Madrid?, Murcia, 1992.
     Notes: Performer Note: Terence Stamp, Patsy Kensit, José Luis Gómez.
     Abstract: One night in the winter of 1962, Captain Darman remembers recent events. Days before in England he had been charged with a secret mission, to fly to Madrid and execute a traitor who had infiltrated the party's clandestine apparatus. Darman remembers a similiar order 16 years before.

179. Benedita Seas, Luis Mottura et al., 1 videocassette (81 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Mecha Ortíz, Enrique Serrano, Domingo Alzugaray.

180. Bergantiños, Miguel Vazquez et al., 1 videocassette (52 min.), Princeton, NJ, 1993.
     Notes: Added Title: Bergantiños (Galicia).
     Abstract: "Bergantiños is both the end of the world--the sea, the Coast of Death, the rocks of Caión, Malpica and Corme--and, by the sharpest of contrasts, the archaic, rural Galicia of small farms, fields of corn and potatoes, granaries, and the castle ruins that inspired Valle Inclán and Otero Pedrayo"--Container.

181. Besamé mortalmente, Guillermo Ferrandino et al., 1 videocassette, Buenos Aires, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Arturo Bonin, Daniel Fanego, Noelle Balfour.

182. Besos perdidos, Mario Soffici et al., 1 videocassette (65 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: María Duval, Miguel Faust Rocha, Alita Román.
     Abstract: Estéban is a bitter old man who cares only for his work. His daughter, Henrietta, is tired of his selfish ways and runs away to her Godfather, Enrique's, house. While she resides there, she turns his life upside down and convinces herself that he is her real father. When Enrique confronts Estéban, he discovers that Henrietta is right.

183. La bestia debe morir, Román Viñoly Barreto et al., 1 videocassette (99 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Narciso Ibáñez Menta, Guillermo Battaglia, Milagros de la Vega.
     Abstract: A strict, ruthless man dies of an unknown cause and his family members are accused. His young son must face his relatives, each of whom is a suspect. Each has a possible motive and circumstantial evidence could point to each.

184. La bestia humana, Daniel Tinayre et al., 1 videocassette 110 min.), Montevideo, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Ana María Lynch, Massimo Girotti, Eduardo Cuitiño.
     Abstract: Pedro is a train conductor who leads a rather normal life except for the fact that he is afraid of women, or rather they make him turn crazy. After the death of a rich gentleman, Pedro falls in love with Laura, the lover of the gentleman and together the two of them plot to kill her husband. Meanwhile, money and love letters are hidden in an effort to avoid police detection. Unfortunately, there is much more death before anything can be solved by the police. Even when cautioned, Pedro takes matters into his own hands.

185. La bestia negra, Fernando Soler et al., 1 videocassette (98 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Fernando Soler, Mary Lopez, Arturo de Cordova.
     Abstract: A train engineer named Don Rodolfo and his fireman, Toño are on their way to their train, which Too refers to as his "negra" ("black one"), when they encounter another trainman, a passenger line conductor, who informs Don Rodolfo that there is trouble in preparations for the national convention of railwaymen.

186. Bibliotecas populares argentinas, Ricardo Wulicher, Gustavo Wagner, and Comisión Nacional Protectora de Bibliotecas Populares, 1 videocassette (26 min.), Argentina, 1996.
     Notes: Added Title: Informatizacion de las bibliotecas populares
     Added Title: Bibliomovil.
     Abstract: A look at public libraries in Argentina, including the bookmobile program; followed by two short promotional films by CONABIP.

187. La bien pagada, Maria A Pons et al., 1 videocassette (97 min.), Stanford, CA, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Maria A. Pons, Victor Junco.
     Abstract: Realizing that his wife is unfaithful, a man confronts her and her lover, forcing them to sign an acknowledgement of the affair. He leaves, traveling through Europe, and a few years later, finds that she is a dancer in a night club. In a series of flashbacks, the man relives their relationship.

188. Bienaventurados los que creen, Adriana Lamar et al., 1 videocassette (73 min.), Stanford, CA, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Adriana Lamar, Miguel Arenas, Jose Baviera.
     Abstract: A respected doctor's grandson becomes very sick during his grandfather's birthday party and the doctor is unable to save him in time. The doctor's daughter, the boy's mother, cannot cope with the loss and has a mental breakdown. Soon she is in the same state as her father's mental patients.

189. Bienvenido Mister Marshall, Luis García Berlanga et al., 1 videocassette (75 min.), Madrid, 1990.
     Notes: Performer Note: Lolita Sevilla, Manolo Morán, José Isbert, Alberto Romea
     Added Title: Bienvenido Mr. Marshall.
     Abstract: The inhabitants of tiny Villar del Rio hear that they have been selected for aid under the Marshall Plan. The promise of great wealth transforms the village overnight.

190. The big easy, Dennis Quaid et al., 1 videodisc (100 min.), S.l., 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, Ned Beatty.
     Abstract: A criminal's murder triggers a bloody gangland drug war. A saucy blend of New Orleans nightlife, romance and suspense.

191. Bilbao, Juan José Bigas Luna et al., 1 videocassette (86 min.), Barcelona, 1993.
     Notes: Performer Note: Angel Jové, Maria Martin, Isabel Pisano.
     Abstract: Leo, an introverted misfit becomes obsessed with Bilbao, a Barcelona prostitute. He stalks her and keeps a secret scrapbook about her. Leo kills her and she is turned into sausage at his uncle's pork factory.

192. Billetes, billetes, Martín Schor et al., 1 videocassette, Uruguay, 198-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Julio de Grazia, Ulises Dumont, Haydée Padilla.

193. Biografias Antonio Machado, Biografias Antonio Machado, 1 videocassette (20 min.), 1988?
     Abstract: A biography of the famous Spanish poet and author, Antonio Machado. Discusses the environment from which he came and his experiences. Also chronicles his contributions to the literary world. Ends with his tragic death and the world's response to such a loss.

194. The birdcage, Mike Nichols et al., 1 videodisc (119 min.), Santa Monica, CA, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest, Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart, Hank Azaria, Christine Baranski.
     Abstract: The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family: Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down.

195. Bitter sugar Azucar amarga, Leon Ichaso et al., 1 videocassette (102 min.), S.l., 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Rene Lavan, Mayte Vilan, Miguel Gutierrez, Larry Villanueva.
     Abstract: A love story set against the political and economic tensions of contemporary Havana.

196. Blade runner, Ridley Scott et al., 1 videodisc (117 min.), Burbank, Calif.?, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos.
     Abstract: Los Angeles, 2019: Deckard, an expert "blade runner," must identify and execute four replicants, genetically engineered beings virtually identical to humans, which have illegally returned to earth from their off-world slave duty.

197. Blauaugig, Reinhard Hauff et al., 1 videocassette (88 min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 1992?
     Notes: Performer Note: Julio de Grazia, Emilia Mazer, Alberto Segado.
     Abstract: Film about an Argentinian based German businessman who is a respected figure in the Argentine business community and who knows how to move in political circles. His daughter rebels against his conservativism and leaves home. Eventually she is murdered but not before giving birth to a son. The business man makes it his mission to find his grandson who he knows has blue eyes just like his.

198. Blazing saddles, Mel Brooks et al., 1 videodisc (148 min.), Burbank, Calif, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Mel Brooks, Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston, Claude Ennis Starrett Jr., Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman.
     Abstract: The new sheriff and his sidekick, retired gunfighter Waco Kid, protect the town of Rock Ridge from the men who want to run the railroad through the town.

199. Blood wedding, Carlos Saura et al., 1 videocassette (71 min.), Los Angeles, California, 1986.
     Notes: Event Note: Made in Spain in 1981.
     Abstract: "A young bride (the explosive Cristina Hoyos) runs off from her wedding with a married lover (Gades). Her jilted husband tracks them down and fights a knife duel to the death." -- Container.

200. La boca del lobo, Francisco J Lombardi et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Lima, Perú, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Gustavo Bueno, Toño Vega, José Tejada, Gilberto Torres, Antero Sanchez.
     Abstract: Inspired by the events of 1980-1984 in the internal war in Peru between the state and the Sendaro Lumino, a Maoist terrorist organzation. A contingent of soldiers arrive to take control over a remote village. A young soldier sees the brutality of the terrorists against the people, but he also becomes caught in the web of confusion, injustices and impotence of the army. He decides to desert.

201. La Boca del lobo The Lion's den, Francisco J Lombardi et al., 1 videocassette (VHS) (122 min.), New York, N.Y, 1990.
     Notes: Added Title: Lion's den.
     Abstract: The Peruvian army takes control of Chuspi, a small village isolated in the Andes by the revolutionary group "Sendero Luminoso"--the Shining Path. Vitin Luna and the other young soldiers must face an invisible, perhaps superior, force. Their unit is commanded by a brutal lieutenant who decalres the entire village guilty of treason. In the face of this crisi, Vitin must choose between blind obedience and his own consciousness.

202. La boda, Lucas Demare et al., 1 videocassette (88 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: José Suárez, Graciela Borges, Susana Campos, Néstor Deval, Hugo Pimentel, José Rubio, José Guardiola, Marta Padován, Luis Vilar, Juan Cortés.
     Abstract: A man whose wife was murdered returns to his town to marry another woman, against the resistance of the people.

203. Bodas de fuego, Pedro Armendáriz et al., 1 videocassette (87 min.), Stanford, CA, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pedro Armendariz, Alicia Caro, Ramón Gay.
     Abstract: The inhabitants of a remote group of ranches are terrorized by what they believe to be a werewolf, which seems to be stalking a young woman. She is easily charmed by the werewolf when he assumes his human form.

204. Bodas de sangre, Edmundo Guibourg et al., 1 videocassette (125 min.), Argentina, 199u.
     Notes: Performer Note: Margarita Xirgu, Pedro López Lagar, Eduardo Alvarez Diosdado.

205. Body heat, Richard Crenna et al., 1 videodisc (113 min.), Burbank, CA, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, Mickey Rourke.
     Abstract: A likable, unambitious lawyer and his siren-like lover plot to kill her wealthy husband.

206. Bolivia, la coca, alimento de los pobres, Carmen Sarmiento et al., 1 videocassette (60 min.), Princeton, N.J, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Host: Carmen Sarmiento.
     Abstract: Looks at women in Bolivia.

207. Border brujo, Guillermo Gómez-Peña et al., 1 videocassette (52 min.), San Diego, Calif, 1990.
     Notes: Added Title: The Shaman.
     Abstract: By means of magical incantations performed at an altar, shows that language, in English or Spanish, is the border.

208. Borges para millones, Jorge Luis Borges et al., 1 videocassette (73 min.), Argentina.
     Abstract: Jorge Luis Borges discusses his life and literary works; includes staged reenactments of some of his works.

209. Break of dawn a true story, Isaac Artenstein et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), San Diego, Calif., 1988.
     Notes: Performer Note: Oscar Chavez, Maria Rojo, Tony Plana, Pepe Serna.
     Abstract: Based on the life story of Pedro J. Gonzalez who championed the cause of Mexican-Americans in California during the Depression years and who worked for the reform of the California penal system.

210. The bridges of Madison County, Clint Eastwood et al., 1 videodisc (135 min.), Burbank, CA, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep.
     Abstract: World-traveling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid and Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson aren't looking to turn their lives upside down. Each is at a point in life where expectations are behind them. Yet four days after meeting, they won't want to lose the love they've found.

211. Brincando el charco portrait of a Puerto Rican, Frances Negrón-Muntaner and Women Make Movies (Firm), 1 videocassette (55 min.), New York, NY, 1994.
     Abstract: Brincando el charco contemplates the notion of "identity" through the experiences of a Puerto Rican woman living in the U.S. In a mix of fiction, archival footage, processed interviews and soap opera drama, this film tells the story of Claudia Marin, a middle-class, light-skinned Puerto Rican, lesbian, photographer/videographer who is attempting to construct a sense of community in the U.S.

212. Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia, Sam Peckinpah et al., 1 videocassette (113 min.), Culver City, CA, 1988.
     Notes: Performer Note: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young, Kris Kristofferson
     Added Title: Alfredo Garcia.
     Abstract: A violent story of a down-and-out piano player in search of the severed head of a gigolo for which there is a million dollar bounty.

213. La buena estrella, Ricardo Franco et al., 1 videocassette (102 min.), Spain, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Antonio Resines, Maribel Verdú, Jordi Molla.
     Abstract: Marina, a woman with a glass eye, has the bad luck to be the victim of an sexual assault witnessed by Rafael, a goodhearted butcher, who rescues her from her attacker, a man named Daniel. Rafael has physical problems of his own, but the two stay together as a couple. Marina gives birth to a baby who is not Rafael's, for he lost his testicles in an accident. Nonetheless, Rafael looks forward to raising the child as his own if Marina will consent.

214. La buena vida, René Mugica et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Fernanda Mistral, Zulma Faiad, José M. Langlais.
     Abstract: A young man buys an apartment as part of a money-making deal with his boss and his girlfriend's gypsy family move in. The manager is appalled at the noisy family of around 8 people with kids, dogs, and birds. However, this young man quickly falls for a woman named Laura who lives in the same building. When the family is kicked out and the money given back, the young man must figure out how to lose his girlfriend and spend more time with Laura.

215. Buenos Aires, Rock IV. Festival B.A., Rock, Héctor Olivera and Video Films S.R.L, 1 videocassette (90 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Abstract: Documents performances at the 4th Festival of Buenos Aires, Rock by: Spinta Jade, Raúl Porchetto, Litto Nebia, Pedro yh Pablo, Cantilo yh Punch, Rubén Rada, Los Abuelos de la Nada, León Gieco, Peiro con Prema, Alejandro Lerner, Orions, La Torre, and V-8. The filmmakers interview musicians about their music, and explore how it is received by their audiences.

216. Buenos días, Buenos Aires, Buenos días, Buenos Aires, 1 videocassette (XX min.), Argentina.

217. Burlada, Jorge Mistral et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Jorge Mistral, Guillermina Grin, Lilia del Valle.
     Abstract: Un intenso drama romántico sobre la desesperada pasión de dos mujeres por un canalla atractivo, sin sospechar que ambas están unidas por la misma sangre como madre e hija. Two women share a desparate passion of two women for an attractive scoundral, without suspecting that they also share the same blood as mother and daughter.

218. Bwana, Imanol Uribe et al., 1 videocassette (82 min.), Madrid, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Andres Pajares, Maria Barranco, Emilio Buale, Alejandro Martinez, Andrea Granero, Miguel del Arco.
     Abstract: A taxi driver and his family picnic on a lonely beach where they meet Ombasi, an African newly arrived in Spain in search of his fortune. They spend a pleasant night talking but the morning brings a terrible surprise: the arrival of a group of neonazis.

219. Caballos salvajes, Marcelo Piäneyro et al., 1 videocassette (125 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Héctor Alterio, Leonardo Sbaraglio, Cecilia Dopazo.
     Abstract: Two men: Jose, 70 years old, and Pedro, who is 23, who connect at the precise moment at which the former intends to end his life and the latter intends to begin it. Jose robs the bank where Pedro works and takes him hostage, but Pedro takes charge and he drives both of them out to the countryside. So begins their adventure.

220. Cabaret, Jay Presson Allen et al., 1 videodisc (124 min.), Burbank, CA, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey.
     Abstract: An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate Berlin cabaret.

221. Cabeza de Vaca, Nicolás Echevarria et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 110 min.), Los Angeles, Calif.?, 1993.
     Notes: Performer Note: Juan Diego, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Roberto Sosa.
     Abstract: Account of the Spanish explorer's capture, escape, and journey from Texas to Mexico City (1527-1537). Includes tales of El Dorado.

222. The cable guy, Ben Stiller et al., 1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.), Culver City, CA, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Mann, George Segal.
     Abstract: A cable installer, raised on television sitcoms, wants life to look like "My three sons." And when he meets a single-guy, he sees his chance for some serious male bonding.

223. Cabra marcado para morir Hombre marcado par morir, Eduardo Coutinho et al., 1 videocassette (XX min.), Uruguay, 1993.
     Notes: Contents: Brasil: el Nordeste (35 min.) -- Cabra marcado para morir (114 min.)
     Added Title: Brasil: el Nordeste
     Added Title: Cangaceiro
     Added Title: Vidas secas
     Added Title: Deus e o diabo na terra do sol
     Added Title: Pais de Sao Sarué.
     Abstract: Twenty years after the Brazilian military coup interrupted work on the film biography of the peasant leader, João Pedro Teixeira (assassinated on the orders of a landowner in 1962), director Eduardo Coutinho managed to complete his work, however with a totally different significance. Returning to the Northeast with what he could rescue from his original work, he begins by assembling the peasants who participated in his original project (or at least those who survived), showing them images of the past, and recording the declarations reactions and testimonies of a sector of society reduced to silence by 20 years of dictatorship. Preceded by Las 100 películas (referenced by "El nordeste en el cine Brasileño" on container), which consists of segments of O Cangeceiro (Brazil, 1953; director: Lima Barreto), Vidas secas (Brasil, 1963; director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos); Deus e o diabo na terra do sol (Brazil, 1964; director: Glauber Rocha); and O pais de Sao Sarué (Brazil, 1971; director: Vladimir Carvalho).

224. Cachao, como su ritmo no hay dos a film by Andy Garcia; Crescent Moon Records, Andy Garcia et al., 1 videocassette (112 min.), New York, NY, 1993.

225. Cada hogar, un mundo, Carlos Borcosque et al., 1 videocassette (82 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: María Duval, Oscar Valicelli, María Santos, Rufino Córdoba, Felisa Mary, Carlos Cores, Silvina Roth, Tito Gómez, Ana Arneodo, Homero Cárpena, Alba Castellanos, Carlos Lagrota, Eric Serrador, Semillita, Enrique Chaico.
     Abstract: The two sons of a marriage compete for the love of an adolescent adopted by the family.

226. Cada quién su música, Mauricio de la Serna et al., 1 videocassette (94 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: María Victoria, Rosa de Castilla, Pedro Vargas, José Alfredo Jiménez.
     Abstract: Four men--all unsuccessful musicians--share a small apartment and are forced to work as waiters and salesmen in order to survive, When the oldest of the four, Pedro, receives word that a young distant relative is to come live with him, the four men prepare the apartment for a small girl, hiring a nanny for help. To their surprise, both the relative and the nanny turn out to be attractive young women with beautiful voices. They soon split into two trios and become rivals as the two groups gain fame in the musical world.

227. Cadena perpetua, Pedro Armendáriz et al., 1 videocassette (94 min.), United States?, Madera, CA, 1987.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., Narciso Busquets, Ana Martin.
     Abstract: Pedro Armendariz stars in this portrayal of a reformed extortionist who is pressured by the police to return to intimidating women to pay protection money. Dedicado a trabajar honestmente un ex-delincuente apodado "El Tarzan" quien ya ha pagado su deuda con la sociedad, es reencontrado por el policio que originalmente lo aprehendio y extorsionado por este, es obligado a delinquir de nuevo para pagar la cuota exigida por el funcionario.

228. Cadetes de San Martín, Mario Soffici and Arte Video (Firm), 1 videocassette, Argentina, 19??

229. Cafe con leche, Joe Cardona, Mario de Varona, and Globe Link Productions, 1 videocassette (90 min.), United States, 1997.
     Abstract: An introspective look at the lives of 17 young Cuban-Americans; the now adult children of the first wave of Cuban exiles that came to the United States. They comment on their experiences growing up bi-culturally; functionally American, spiritually Cuban, and on the challenges faced in the fusion of traditional old world values with modern American culture.

230. Café Norte y Sur, Maria Victoria Maldonado and Doron Tadmor, 1 videocassette (28 min.), United States, 1989.
     Abstract: Portrays the life of a group of Latin American artists living in a large U.S. urban center. Shows the link between cultural identity, manifested in music and language, and the awareness and self esteem of individuals.

231. Caín y Abel, René Cardona et al., 1 videocassette (87 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Antonio Badu, Fernando Fernandez, Andres Soler.
     Abstract: Doña Luz and Don Francisco get a divorce after Doña Luz accuses her husband of infidelity. Caín, one of their sons, decides to go with his father, while his brother Abel remains with his mother. 20 years later, Abel is ready to get married and living with his mother in a comfortable house, while his father and brother find themselves in jail after having been caught cheating at gambling. When they get out, they have no money, so Don Francisco decides they should return to their old home. Doña Luz is very unhappy when she discovers them in her house.

232. La caja de Pandora, Imagenes (Firm) and Garabato (Firm), 1 videocassette (40 min.).
     Abstract: Through interviews with children and educators, explores how cultural values are absorbed by children.

233. La caja embrujada, Fernando A Rivero et al., 1 videocassette (61 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: David T. "Fu Man Chu" Bamberg, Mary Clark, Freddy Romero, Carlos M. Baena.
     Abstract: A famous Chinese magician, Fu Manchu, is on a train headed for Mexico City to a movie, but his assistant gambled away most of their money. Fu Manchu attempts to win back the money while another passenger, a Miss Adams, watches him play. Unfortunately, she is an accomplice of Fu Manchu's opponent and causes Fu Manchu to lose the rest of his money. To make matters worse, his wallet and train ticket are stolen, which results in his assistant and him being thrown off the train. He vows to track down the thief and take revenge.

234. La calandria, Carmen Guerrero et al., 1 videocassette (?? min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Carmen Guerrero, Paco Berrondo, Adrea Delhort.

235. Califas Chicano art and culture in California, Philip Brookman et al., 171 videocassettes (66 hrs., 20 min.), 1989.
     Abstract: Contains the taped Califas Conference (held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1982) as well as presentation of musical and theatrical works, interviews with performers, artists, and authors, and exhibitions of art. A comprehensive presentation of Chicano culture and society in California.

236. La calle de los amores, Armando Calvo et al., 1 videocassette (104 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Armando Calvo, Esther Fernandez, Carlos Orellana.
     Abstract: Arcadio, a married man, is in love with his neighbor from across the street, Martha, and she has also fallen in love with her; her boyfriend, Miguel, has been away in the mines of Pachuca for some time. Arcadio's wife, Luisa, plans a party for her Tío Alejo, in order to set him up with another neighbor who is a widow and invites the entire neighborhood, including Martha, despite her suspicions about Arcadio and Martha. Arcadio doesn't think Martha was invited and is excited when she arrives, which helps confirm Luisa's worries.

237. Calle Mayor, Carlos Arniches y Barrera et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.), Madrid, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Betsy Blair, José Suarez, Luis Peña.
     Abstract: For 18 years, since she left the convent, Isabel has passed her empty hours walking up and down the main street of her provincial town. Some bored young men decide that one of their number should pretend to court the spinster.

238. La calle sin sol, Rafael Gil et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Amparo Rivelles, Antonio Vilar, Manola Morán.

239. Calumnia, Francisco Elias et al., 1 videocassette (74 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Susana Guizar, Sara García, Ramón Vallarino.
     Abstract: Arturo, an engineer from Mexico City, is called to the ranch of Don Pietro to work on a dam on his property. Don Pietro's daughter Carmela is a very buoyant, fun-loving person, often misperceived to be a bit crazy. When an older man form town takes an interest in Carmela, she realizes that she is actually in love with Arturo. Rather than being forthright, both Arturo and Carmela play games with each other b2 ss emotions, almost preventing their ever getting together.

240. Camada negra, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), S.l., 1984.
     Notes: Performer Note: Angela Molina, Maria Luisa Ponte, Joaquin Hinojosa, José Luis Alonso.
     Abstract: Tatin is a 14 year old boy who admires his brothers and wants to be like them, a member of an ultra-Right group. But they all laugh at him and consider him too young. He meets a girl who is a little older than he called Rosa who notices him and gives him some affection. But Tatin believes in complying with three conditions that he had one day heard a fanatic tell his mother and the third condition is directed against Rosa.

241. Cambio, Alejandra Lajous and Flor de María Hurtado, 6 videocassettes (ca. 25 min. each), México, D.F, 1990.
     Notes: Contents: 1. Deuda externa -- 2. Privatización -- 3. Apertura comercial --4. Inversión extranjera -- 5. Desregulación -- 6. La reforma del estado.
     Abstract: Explores the economic policy and development of Mexico, describing what has been done and what is being done to assure progress.

242. Cambio de sexo, Vicente Aranda et al., 1 videocassette (104 min.), Madrid, 1997?
     Notes: Performer Note: Victoria Abril, Lou Castel, Fernando Sancho, Bibi Andersen.
     Abstract: José María is a 16 year-old adolescent boy who lives with his parents and goes to school, where his classmates make fun of him for his effeminate nature. When the director of the school suggests that José María is more like a woman than a man, José María's father flies off the handle and eventually the boy is on his way to Barcelona to be sexually initiated by an old friend who works in a cabaret. Seeing Bibi, female impersonator, gives him other ideas.

243. Camelia, Alexandre Dumas et al., 1 videocassette (108 min.), U.S.?, Fresno, CA, 1987.
     Notes: Performer Note: María Felix, Jorge Mistral, Renee Dumas, Carlos Navarro
     Added Title: La dame aux camélias.
     Abstract: La historia del amor desesperado entre un torero y una actriz de teatro. Ella, bella y seductora, tiene un pasado que le impide amar. Al conocer al apasionado Rafael, confía nuevamente en el amor--sin embargo ni aún este gran amor logra vencer al destino--un destino que los controla hasta la última función. A story of desperate love between a bullfighter, Rafael, and the stage actress, Camelia. She is beatuiful and seductive, but her past has left her heart cold. When she meets the passionate and handsome Rafael, she learns to trust love once more. Yet even their great love is unable to fight against the destiny that controls them until the final curtain falls.

244. Camila, Maria Luisa Bemberg et al., 1 videocassette (105 min.), Los Angeles, Calif, 1985?
     Notes: Performer Note: Susú Pecoraro, Imanol Arias, Hector Alterio, Mona Maris.
     Abstract: "Recounts the true story of a young Catholic socialite from Buenos Aires, Camila O'Gorman, who falls in love and runs away with a young Jesuit priest, Ladislao Gutierrez. The two find temporary happiness in a small provincial village ... but their peace is ephemeral, and eventually they are recognized and ultimately condemned to death without a trial."--External container.

245. Camino del infierno, Luis Saslavsky et al., 1 videocassette (96 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Mecha Ortiz, Pedro López Lagar, Amelia Bence, Elsa O'Connor, Alberto Bello, Alita Román, Rafael Frontaura, Ofelia Cortesina, Alberto Vila, Herminia Mas, Guillermo Battaglia, Iris Portillo, Aída Villadeamigo, Pedro Fiorito, Pura Díaz.
     Abstract: A thriller-melodrama, in which a woman, filled with jealousy, stalks a man.

246. Canas al Aire, Emilio Tuero and C Granados, 1 videocassette (90 min.).

247. Canasta de cuentos mexicanos, Julio Bracho et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Arturo de Cordova, Pedro Armendariz, Maria Felix.
     Abstract: A set of three stories written by Traven. The first is set in Taxco and starts with the wedding of a French couple. After a year of marriage, they are constantly fighting, but they make up after having a child. The second is about an American couple vacationing in Mexico City. The 3rd is set in Cuernaraca and involves a tough but beautiful woman who likes to break horses on her rancho and whom men cannot break.

248. Canción de Cuna, José Luis Garci et al., 1 videocassette (93 min.), Madrid, 1994.
     Notes: Performer Note: Fiorella Faltoyano, Amparo Larrañaga, Maria Massip, Virginia Mataia, Diana Peñalver, Maria Luisa Ponte, Maribel Verdú.
     Abstract: A group of Spanish nuns find a baby girl abandoned in a basket. The foundling arouses the maternal instincts of the cloistered nuns who take the baby in and raise her. Eighteen years later she marries and leaves for Cuba. Set in Castille in the 19th century.

249. Cancion del alma, Libertad Lamarque et al., 1 videocassette (111 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Libertad Lamarque, Patricia Conde, Lola Beltran.
     Abstract: Alejandro wants a divorce from his wife, María Maragón, a famous singer. He came from an aristocratic family and tells María that he will take their daughter because he doesn't want her to grow up to be like María, but she bribes him into leaving their daughter with her by giving him all her money and jewels. He makes her promise that she will raise their daughter to be a respectable woman and she agrees.

250. La canción del huerfano, Carlos E Amador et al., 1 videocassette (65 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ernesto Velazquez, Lucha Avila, Leopoldo Ortin, Jr., Polo Ortin, Eduardo Vivas.
     Abstract: A boy working at a construction site quits his job after a near accident, leaving his grandmother without money for rent. The boy and his friends devise a plan, with the help of a sympathetic policeman, to trick the greedy landlord into paying the children for a musical performance in the street. They succeed; however the boy's association with the daughter of a powerful man causes him to be kidnapped along with her, to be used as bargaining leverage.

251. La canción del plateado, Francisco Elias et al., 1 videocassette (83 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Juan José Martinez Casado, Irma Rosado, José Macip.
     Abstract: In a Mexican village of the 1860's, Susana and Sebastian are in love. As the daughter of the local wealthy landowner, Susana is respected by the townspeople and sought after by the men. When her father leaves town one day on business, a group of wandering cowboys visit the home and ask to be accommodated. Their leader takes an interest in Susana, who alone is charged with addressing the bawdy group of men. She resists his advances, and soon Sebastian enters town, finding the man singing to Susana. They engage in a display of machismo in proving their worth, only worrying Susana, until her father returns and ends the contest.

252. Candida, la mujer de año, Enrique Santos Discépolo et al., 1 videocassette (67 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Niní Marshall, Augusto Codecá, Carlo Morganti.
     Abstract: Candida Loureiro Ramallada and her husband, Jesús are cheated by unscrupulous land salesmen and she establishes herself as the leader of an organization people who have been swindled. For this, she is named "woman of the year.".

253. Cándida millonaria, Luis Bayón Herrera et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Niní Marshall, Alberto Bello, Alejandro Maximino.

254. The candidate, Robert Redford et al., 1 videodisc (110 min.), Burbank, CA, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvin Douglas.
     Abstract: While Richard Nixon is on his way to re-election by a landslide, a young, honest, idealistic lawyer begins to learn the truth about running for office.

255. Cantaclaro, Julio Bracho et al., 1 videocassette (104 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Esther Fernandez, Antonio Badú, Alberto Galan.
     Abstract: A family is about to lose their land because they mortgaged it to a rich man and they have only until the shadow of a tree hits the fence before they must pay. At the last minute, Cantaclaro (one of the sons), saves them by bringing a payment of horses. After the land is saved, Cantaclaro says he must leave the family and find his destiny before he can settle down as a farmer.

256. Cantata de Chile, Humberto Solás et al., 1 videocassette (115 min.), Cuba?, 1994?
     Notes: Performer Note: Nelson Villagra, Shenda Román, Eric Heresmann, Alfredo Tornquist, Roberto Contreras, Leonardo Perucci, Alejandro Pérez, Peggy Cordero, Pedro Chaskel, Flavia Ugalde.
     Abstract: A presentation through an interweaving of music, pageantry and drama, of the struggle and martyrdom of the Chilean workers.

257. Canto a la vida a song of life, Lucia Briones Salinas et al., 1 videocassette (48 min.), New York, N.Y, 1990.
     Abstract: Personal narratives by Hortensia B. de Allende, Isabel Allende, Juanita Farias, Francisca Fernandez, and other Chilean women on what it meant to them to live in exile during the Pinochet regime. They also express their thoughts on returning to Chile when democracy was restored.

258. Capitán de rurales, Alejandro Galindo et al., 1 videocassette (104 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Aguilar, Alicia Caro, Agustín Isunza.

259. Caprichosa y millonaria, Enrique Santos Discépolo et al., 1 videocassette (75 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Paulina Singerman, Tania, Augusto Codecá.

260. Carita de cielo, Maria Elena Marqués et al., 1 videocassette (70 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Maria Elena Marques, Antonio Badú; Fernando Soto.
     Abstract: Lupita, caught stealing by the police, is taken to trial an made to be a subject in a class taught by a doctor at the university. He suggests that her facial features are those of a criminal. His sister, a student in the class, knows Lupita and takes her home to work a maid, unbeknownst to her brother. While the doctor and Lupita continually antagonize each other, they gradually become more and more attracted to each other as they are forced to live in the same house.

261. Carlos cine-retrato de un caminante en Montevideo, Mario Handler and Universidad de la República (Uruguay), 1 videocassette (31 min.), Uruguay, 1965.

262. Carlos Fuentes, Carlos Fuentes et al., 1 videocassette (66 min.), Los Angeles, Calif, 1989.
     Abstract: Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's leading novelist and critic, reads from his novels The death of Artemio Cruz and Christopher unborn, as well as unpublished works in English and Spanish. He is interviewed in Los Angeles by Lewis MacAdams.

263. Carlota Joaquína princesa do Brazil, André Abujamra et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Brazil, 1994.
     Notes: Performer Note: Marieta Severo, Marco Nanini.
     Abstract: Spain, 1785: Carlota Joaquina, a child who has been promised to Dom João IV of Portugal. She must go to Portugal, where she discovers the truth of the royal life--the deceptions, the infidelities and the mistresses. Following the death of Dom José and declaration of his wifes' insanity, João and Carlota ascend to the throne, but in the turmoil of French Revolution spilling into the Iberian peninsula, she flees to the colony of Brazil.

264. Carmelita Tropicana Your Kunst is your Waffen, Ela Troyano et al., 1 videocassette (29 min.), New York, NY, 1994.
     Notes: Performer Note: Carmelita Tropicana, Annie Iobst, Sophia Ramos, Livia Daza Paris.
     Abstract: Through a series of skits and musical numbers filmed on the streets and in the buildings of Manhattan, the dangerous conditions faced by contemporary women are examined.

265. Carmen la de ronda, Tulio Demicheli et al., 1 videocassette (112 min.), México, 1992.
     Notes: Performer Note: Sara Montiel, Jorge Mistral, Maurice Ronet, Germán Cobos, Amadeo Nazzari.
     Abstract: The story of a man's burning love, which alone can inspire him to seek a woman who is love, hate, passion, treachery and surrender: Carmen. La historia de un amor ardiente, como solo puede inspirarlo una mujer que es amor, odio, pasion, traicion y entrega: Carmen.

266. Carnaval en Veracruz, Carlos Villatoro et al., 1 videocassette (63 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Manuel Medel, Agustín Isunza.

267. Carne de cabaret, Alfonso Patiño Gómez et al., 1 videocassette (85 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Sofia Alvarez, Miguel Arenas, Julio Villarreal.
     Abstract: A young woman is being tried for killing her husband. Through flashbacks, we see how hard her life has been and why she commmitted the crime.

268. Carne de presidio, Emilio Gómez Muriel et al., 1 videocassette (87 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pedro Armendariz, Martha Roth, Carlos López Moctezuma, José M. Linares R.
     Abstract: A young woman's husband beats her and she takes refuge with a couple who are friends of hers. Her husband comes over drunk, fights with her friend's husband and dies after hitting his head on a curb. The friend's husband is sent to jail for 5 years for homicide. While he is in jail, thugs try to steal his meager possessions, but he refuses to get into further trouble by fighting. Meanwhile his wife is evicted from their house and he must find a way to make money for his family.

269. La carne manda, Chano Urueta et al., 1 videocassette (108 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: David Silva, Esther Fernández, Emma Roldán.
     Abstract: A young, poor and homeless boy named Santiago is taken into the home of an older gentleman and raised there. He falls in love with a young lady named Fernanda whose mother runs a small store. The two of them marry and eventually Santiago moves the store into the building of the man that took care of him, and from there a strong business is formed that makes a lot of money. However, Santiago loses himself in the wealth and has an affair with a beautiful lady named Linda Palma. Still, this does not last and even after the birth of a baby by his wife, Santiago cannot pull himself together and meets an unfortunate death.

270. Carne trémula Live flesh, Pedro Almodóvar et al., 1 videocassette (101 min.), Culver City, Calif, Santa Monica, Calif, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal, Ángela Molina, Jóse Sancho, Penélope Cruz, Pilar Bardem, Alex Angulo.
     Abstract: The lives of five people are intertwined by romance, friendship and rivalry. Victor has fallen for a woman, Elena. Elena, wants nothing to do with Victor and she calls the cops when he shows up at her apartment. The two cops that show up are David and Sancho. Sancho is a chronic, abusive drunk and believes his wife, Clara may be having an affair with his partner, David.

271. La carpa the tent theatre, Carlos Avila et al., 1 videocassette (58 min.), Los Angeles, 1992.
     Notes: Performer Note: Jaime Gomez, Karla Montana, Richard Cosa, John Verea, Lupe Ontiveros
     Performer Note: Music performed by: Germaine Franco, marimba and percussion; Luis Perez Ixoneztli, guitar, violin, and percussion; Paul Lopez, trumpet; Alfredo Rolando Ortiz, harp solo; Frederico Ramos, guitar; Jimmy Rodriguez, bajo sexto; Baldemar Salazar, accordion; Ralph Williams, clarinet and bass clarinet; Hecho en Mexico
     Added Title: The tent theatre
     Added Title: The tent theater.
     Abstract: A young Mexican American, migrant farmworker crosses paths with the people of the traveling tent theater "La Carpa" in Florencia, California, in the late 1930's. Another masterpiece in miniature by filmmaker Carlos Avila.

272. Carta brava, Agustín P Delgado et al., 1 videocassette (93 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Emilia Guiu, Carmen Molina, Carlos L. Moctezuma.
     Abstract: Roberto is born to a drunken father and a mother who dies shortly thereafter. He becomes a successful gambler, yet he remains generous to others after the hardship of his childhood, which sometimes causes him problems. When a man named Iberto, unversed in the nuances of illicit gambling, finds himself in a dangerous situation, Roberto steps in and fights a reputed gambler in Iberto's defense. The man is naturally angered, and later Roberto finds himself evading mobsters while pursuing Iberto's sister Nora.

273. La casa colorada, Rita Macedo et al., 1 videocassette (??? min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pedro Armendariz, Amanada del Llano, Rita Macedo.

274. La Casa de Hemingway, Mady Samper et al., 1 videocassette, Bogotá, Colombia, 1999.
     Abstract: A tour of Ernest Hemingway's home in Cuba.

275. La casa de la Troya, Armando Calvo et al., 1 videocassette (115 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Armando Calvo, Charito Granados, Angel Garasa.
     Abstract: Gerardo, a rich young man who loves to party and lives in Madrid is sent by his father to a boarding school in another city. There he makes a large group of friends and attempts to charm a young woman who is not receptive to his advances. Using his money and his friends to contrive excuses to see and woo her, her resistance gradually wanes.

276. La casa de la zorra, Ricardo Montalbán et al., 1 videocassette (85 min.), Stanford, CA, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ricardo Montalban, Isabela Corona, Alberto Galan.
     Abstract: A widowed mother welcomes her son's return from college, only to find that he has become an unmotivated, unprincipled and manipulative man. He takes adantage of her money to court women and gamble at the casino she owns.

277. La casa de los espantos, Alfredo B Crevenna et al., 1 videocassette (83 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: María Eugenia San Martin; Carlos Riquelme, Hector Godoy.
     Abstract: A group of people, barely acquaintences, are all summoned to an isolated home for a reception. When the host appears, a man previously presumed to be dead, he tells the guests that they can't leave the property. Just then, the lights go out and when they come on again, the host is dead in his chair--stabbed to death. When the body disappears, the party splits up to search for the body.

278. La casa de los millones, Luis Bayón Herrera et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Sandrini, Olinda Bozán, Héctor Quintanilla.

279. Casa de mujeres, Gabriel Soria et al., 1 videocassette (117 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Anita Blanch, Elena D'Orgaz, Isabelita Blanch.

280. Casa de muñecas, Ernesto Arancibia et al., 1 videocassette, Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Delia Garcés, Jorge Rigaud.

281. La casa del ogro, Alfredo del Diestro et al., 1 videocassette (54 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Fernando Soler, Arturo de Cordova, Gloria Marin, Alfredo del Diestro.
     Abstract: A diverse group of people live in a middle-class apartment house. They affect each others' lives in ways they don't even realize.

282. La casa grande, Leo Fleider, 1 videocassette, S.l, 1952.

283. Casamiento en Buenos Aires, Niní Marshall et al., 1 videocassette (87 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1995?
     Notes: Performer Note: Niní Marshall, Enrique Serrano, Sabina Olmos.
     Abstract: A series of complicated misunderstandings occur when a man, the evening before he is to be married, takes an American singer to dinner and dancing.

284. Casate y veras, Luis Aldas et al., 1 videocassette (96 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Aldas, Rosario Granados, Angel Garasa.
     Abstract: While Emilio and Mercedes are on their honeymoon in Acapulco, Emilio is preoccupied by the coincidental appearance of an old girlfriend and the two end up fighting until Mercedes returns home, disgusted with the whole affair. Meanwhile, Aurora and Julian, also recently married, return early from their own honeymoon due to problems they were having. Despite the petty reasons for the young couples' arguments, their parents are unable to patch things up, and decide to leave the matters in the hands of their children.

285. Casi no nos dimos cuenta, Antonio Ottone et al., 1 videocassette (82 min.), San Luis, Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ingrid Pelicori, Daniel Fanego, Arturo Bonín.
     Abstract: This is the story of Graciela and Alberto, a middle-class couple, from their first days to their separation, told through flashbacks during Graciela's psychoanalysis sessions. Their breakup is traumatic for Graciela, but less so for Abel, who has developed an interest in Susy.

286. Casino, Martin Scorsese et al., 1 videodisc (2 hr., 59 min.), Universal City, CA, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci.
     Abstract: In an era of over-the-top glitz, Sam "Ace" Rothstein is riding high as front man for the Mob's multi-billion-dollar Las Vegas operation. To protect their "investment," the bosses send in Ace's boyhood pal, hot-headed enforcer Nicky Santoro. It's a winning hand: Ace's brain and Nicky's muscle--until sexy wild card Ginger McKenna turns up the heat.

287. La casta Susana, Benito Perojo, 1 videocassette, S.l, 1944.

288. La Catedral de México, Aurora Torres et al., 1 videocassette (27 min), México, D.F, 1992.
     Abstract: Examines the construction of Mexico City's cathedral, taking place over a period of more than 300 years; its importance as a monument; its artistic treasures; and its deterioration.

289. Caudillo the history of the Spanish Civil War, Basilio Martín Patino, RETASA (Firm), and Films for the Humanities (Firm), 1 videocassette (VHS) (111 min.), Princeton, NJ, 1980.
     Abstract: Tells the story of General Franco's revolt and the ensuing Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 from both the Republican and Falangist points of view. Includes documentary film footage, narrative excerpts from various well-known writers who reported on the war at first hand, and contemporary visits with surviving participants.

290. Causachun Curso, Causachun Curso, 1 videocassette (VHS), s.l.

291. La caza The hunt, Elías Querejeta et al., 1 videocassette (87 min.), Santa Monica, Calif, 1994.
     Notes: Performer Note: Cast: Ismael Merlo, Alfredo Mayo, José Maria Prada.
     Abstract: Edgy thriller follow several veterans of Franco's Republican forces out for an afternoon of rabbit hunting. A heavily symbolic study of hatred and rivalry, the hunt becomes an allegory of war.

292. Cecilia, Daisy Granados et al., 3 videocassettes (290 min.), Cuba?
     Notes: Performer Note: Daisy Granados, Imanol Arías, Raquel Revuelta, Gerardo Riverón.
     Abstract: A beautiful and mysterious mulatto woman moves between Black and White worlds in an age when slavery is still practiced and the rights of negros is an issue of debate.

293. Celos, Arcady Boytler et al., 1 videocassette (82 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Abstract: An esteemed doctor falls in love with one of his young, female patients and marries her. Having been deceived by women in previous relationships, the doctor constantly questions the fidelity of his new wife. His suspicions threaten to ruin the marriage and they are made worse when he turns to alcohol. His uncontrollable fits of rage begin to destroy his professional life as well.

294. Cenizas del paraiso, Marcelo Piäneyro et al., 1 videocassette (135 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Héctor Alterio, Cecilia Roth, Leonardo Sbaraglia.
     Abstract: A judge falls from the roof of the Federal Courthouse. A woman is murdered. Between them and the three sons of the judge there is a connection that will be investigated by a woman judge who is determined to discover the truth.

295. Centinelas del silencio, Ricardo Montalbán et al., 1 videocassette (VHS) (18 min.), La Jolla, CA, 1990.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ricardo Montalban
     Added Title: Las Ruinas del México prehispánico.
     Abstract: Presents spectacular views filmed almost entirely from a helicopter of seven important archaeological sites in Mexico. Conveys a spiritual and aesthetic impression of the lost civilizations of ancient Mexico.

296. Central America on the horns of a dilemma : deforestation in Central America, University of Kentucky and Office of Instructional Resources, 1 videocassette (30 min.), Lexington, Ky., 1988?
     Notes: Added Title: Central America on the horns of a dilemma.
     Abstract: Examines the social and political problems in dealing with deforestation in Central America.

297. Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Alfonso Ungria et al., 3 videocassettes (460 min.), Madrid, 198?
     Notes: Performer Note: Julian Mateos, Carmen Maura, Carlos Lucena, Francisco Rabal
     Contents: tape 1. Capitulos I-III -- tape 2. Capitulos IV-VI -- tape 3. Capitulos VII-IX
     Added Title: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
     Abstract: Friends and enemies of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra share their memories of episodes in the life of the author.

298. Cet obscur objet du désir Ese oscuro objeto del deseo, Luis Buñuel et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 103 min.), Spain, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Fernando Rey, Angela Molina, Carole Bouquet.
     Abstract: A middle-aged Spaniard ardently pursues an elusive young woman through Paris and Seville, against a background of unexplained acts of street violence. The young woman is played by two similar-looking actresses: one plays her innocent side, and the other plays the worldly side.

299. Chapala en lucha contra la extinción, Leticia Villavicencio G. et al., 1 videocassette (77 min.), México, D.F, 199-.
     Notes: Added Title: Producción ganadera y el cacao en Tabasco
     Added Title: Desierto que camina.
     Abstract: Chapala (1987, 27 min.) describes the ecological reserve at Lake Chapala and the dangers that face it. La producción ganadery y el cacao en Tabasco (1990, 26 min.) describes the production of chocolate and cattle for meat and milk. El desierto que camina (1988, 23 min.) describe the threats to the environment of Mexico's deserts.

300. Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie El discreto encanto de la burguesía, Luis Buñuel et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 106 min.), Spain, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Fernando Rey, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Bulle Ogier, Stephane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Julien Bertheau.
     Abstract: Every time a group of upper middle class friends sits down to dine, odd things happen, giving film director Luis Buñuel the opportunity to satirize such targets as diplomats, socialites, and even radical terrorists.

301. La charreada! rodeo a la mexicana, Olga Najéra-Ramírez et al., 1 videocassette (27 min.), San Jose, Calif., 1997.
     Abstract: Video reveals the traditions, customs and values of a centuries-old pasttime: La charreada. The program also illustrates how La charreada links mejicanos living on both sides of the border as "one people" across time and across space.

302. Charro a la fuerza, Miguel Morayta, Latin Nostalgia (Firm), and Movie-Mex International, 1 videocassette (??? min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Aguilar, Florencio Becquer, Delia Magaña.

303. Chavela Vargas historias de amor, TV UNAM (Mexico City, Mexico) and Ex Nihilo (Firm), 1 videocassette (28 min.), Mexico, 1997.
     Abstract: Documentary on the famous Mexican ranchera singer, with clips of interviews with the artist and her colleagues, and musical excerpts.

304. Che!, Richard Fleischer et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 96 min.), United States, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Omar Sharif, Jack Palance, Cesare Danova.
     Abstract: Comic book treatment of the life of Latin American revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

305. Che que loco, Ramón Torrado et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: José Iglesias, Emma Penella, Fernando Fernández de Córdoba.

306. Chechechela una chica de barrio, Bebe Kamin et al., 1 videocassette, Buenos Aires, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Ana María Picchio, Víctor Laplace, Tina Serrano.

307. Chiapas, Harry Möller et al., 1 videocassette (54 min.), México, 199-.
     Abstract: Shows some of the natural beauty and cultural attractions of Chiapas; followed by several short features.

308. Chiapas historia inconclusa, Cristián Calónico and Producciones Marca Diablo, 1 videocassette (90 min.), México, 1995.
     Abstract: This videocassette records the filming of the armed uprising that took place in Chiapas between 1994 and 1995.

309. Chiapas la historia continua, Cristián Calónico and Producciones Marca Diablo, 1 videocassette (58 min.), México, 1997.
     Abstract: This video continues the story begun in "Chiapas: Historia Inconclusa," and covers the events from Sept. 1995 to Sept. 1997. It covers the breakdown of talks between the government and the Zapatistas, the march to Mexico City, interviews with rebel leaders, and emphasizes the Zapatista goal of bringing recognition and dignity to the indigenous population of Mexico.

310. Chiapas, la otra guerra, Esperanza Escamilla et al., 1 videocassette (43 min.), México, D.F, 1994.
     Abstract: A report on the Zapatista National Liberation Army and their goals as they fought the Mexican government in Chiapas, México. Included are interviews with several Zapatistas, and film footage of various news releases. Footage is also shown of the release and interview of the former Chiapas governor, Absalón Castellanos Domínguez, who was taken prisoner and later released unharmed by the Zapatistas.

311. Chicano art video series selected works, Issac Artenstein et al., 1 videocassette (61 min.), San Francisco, Calif, 199-.
     Notes: Contents: Son of border crisis / Issac Artenstein -- Work in progress / Luis Valddovino -- Anima / Frances Salome -- Replies of the night / Sandra P. Hahn -- L.A. merge / Harry Gamboa Jr.
     Abstract: Overview organized by Chon Noriega, examines the Chicano culture and relevent social issues through the mode of experimental video art. Selected works are from a two-day seminar in San Francisco on Aug. 3-4, 1991 where Chicano videographers and film makers presented selections that echo the Chicano Civil Rights movement from the late 1960's to the present.

312. Chicano literature in the seventies a round table discussion, University of California, Santa Barbara et al., 1 videocassette (31 min.), Santa Barbara, Calif, 1980.
     Notes: Added Title: Chicano literature in the 70's.
     Abstract: Chicano critics Juan Rodriguez, Eliud Martinez and Roberto Sifuentes discuss with Luis Leal the history and development of creative writing by Mexican Americans. The relationship between Chicano authors and the university as a base for Chicano authors is explored as well as the topic of Chicano literature's experimentation and recognition as a body of writing outside the United States.

313. Chicano the history of the Mexican American civil rights movement, Hector Galan et al., 4 videocassettes (57 min. each), Los Angeles, CA, 1996.
     Notes: Contents: Quest for a homeland / produced by Hector Galan and Mylène Moreno -- episode 2. The struggle in the fields / produced by Sylvia Morales -- episode 3. Taking back the schools / produced by Susan Racho -- episode 4. Fighting for political power / produced by Robert S. Cozens
     Performer Note: Narrator, Henry Cisneros
     Added Title: Quest for a homeland
     Added Title: Struggle in the fields
     Added Title: Taking back the schools
     Added Title: Fighting for political power.
     Abstract: Episode 1 begins with events at Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, that sparked a national movement for social justice, from the pivotal 1967 struggle by Mexican Americans to regain ownership of land grants, to the 1970 Chicano Moratorium in East Los Angeles. Episode 2 chronicles the efforts of farm workers to form a national labor union under the nonviolent leadership of Cesar Chavez. Episode 3 paints a picture of the struggle to reform an educational system that failed to properly educate Mexican American students. Episode 4 focuses on the emergence of Mexican American political activism and the creation of a third political party, La Raza Unida.

314. La chicha bebida ancestral, Mady Samper and Gloria Stella Pinilla, 1 videorecording (59 min.), Bogota, Colombia, 1999.
     Abstract: History and culture surrounding an indigenous beverage called chicha, made from corn by the Cuna Indians.

315. Chile, obstinate memory, Patricio Guzmán et al., 1 videocassette (58 min.), New York, NY, 1997.
     Abstract: Patricio Guzman, who was Salvador Allende's bodyguard in 1973 when he was overthrown, returns to Chile 23 years later and shows his film The Battle of Chile to his old friends and to a student group.

316. Chorros, Jorge Coscia et al., 1 videocassette, Argentina, 198-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Víctor Laplace, Javier Portales, Norberto Díaz.

317. Cielito Lindo, Victor Herrera et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Los Angeles, Calif.
     Notes: Performer Note: Arturo de Cordoba, Lupita Gallardo, Pepe Ortiz, Rosita Quintana, Luis Aguilar, Carlos López Moctezuma, Pedro Galindo.
     Abstract: A musical romance that takes place in the foreground of the Mexican Revolution.

318. Cien gritos de terror, Ramón Obón Arellano et al., 1 videocassette (97 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Joaquin Cordero, Adriadne Welter, Ofelia Montesco.
     Abstract: Julio and his wife are moving into an old house, separated from the nearest small town by miles. He tells her of a legend involving an insane woman that once lived in the home. When the wife begins to complain of heart pain, Julio leaves to get a doctor. Alone in the house, the wife begins to hear strange wailing noises and is confronted by a grotesque woman in chains. The wife collapses, apparently dead from fear, and the woman reveals herself as Julio's disguised lover, in league with him to kill his wife, who wouldn't allow a divorce. The woman leaves to get Julio (who never went to the doctor), but when they return, the body is missing.

319. Cien niños esperando un tren, Ignacio Agüero et al., 1 videocassette (57 min.), New York, 1988.
     Notes: Event Note: Filmed in Santiago, Chile, between May and October, 1987
     Added Title: One hundred children waiting for a train.
     Abstract: In Chile, a group of elementary students learn about film making and film history.

320. Cien veces no debo, Alejandro Doria et al., 1 videocassette (92 min.), San Luis, Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Norma Aleandro, Luis Brandoni, Andrea del Boca.
     Abstract: An average middle-class family. Lidia Beatriz is the apple of her parent's eyes...until they discover she is pregnant, and not by her offical fiancé, either. Suddenly their love is in question as they worry about what the neighbors will say.

321. La cigarra no es un bicho, Daniel Tinayre et al., 1 videocassette (107 min.), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Narciso Ibañez Menta, Mirtha Legrand, Angel Magaña.
     Abstract: A case of bubonic plague is discovered in a fancy hotel. The couples who are staying there are forced to keep quarantine.

322. Cinco rostros de mujer, Arturo de Cordova et al., 1 videocassette (72 min.), Stanford, CA, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Arturo de Cordova, Tita Merello.
     Abstract: A man remembers the women he has loved: how he was dropped by his first love and had trouble forgetting her, how he fell in love with a concert pianist, and how he was later faced with a choice between the two.

323. Cipayos la tercera invasion, Jorge Coscia et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Guillermo Gramuglia, Virginia innocenti, Ines Estevez.
     Abstract: In the near future, Buenos Aires is occupied by the British Army. The British haven't come alone. In their multi-national army are Scots, Irish, Gurkas, Hindus and Africans. But the occupation isn't as peaceful as the invaders had hoped. From a poor neighborhood comes Angel with a gang of young people. They discover they have a powerful and effective weapon at their disposal: the tango.

324. Cita en las estrellas, Carlos Schlieper et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: María Duval, Juan Carlos Thorry, Alberto de Mendoza.

325. Ciudad de México un mirada capital. Ciudad de México : ciudad de contrastes, TV UNAM (Mexico City, Mexico), 1 videocassette (54 min.), México, D.F, 1996.
     Abstract: Two films about Mexico City, the largest city in the world, its problems and its contrasts.

326. La Ciudad Oculta, Osvaldo Andéchago et al., 1 videocassette (87 min.), Buenos Aires, Arg.
     Notes: Performer Note: Edgardo Suárez, Leandro Regúnago, María Vener.
     Abstract: Roberto is released from reform school and returns to his "La Ciuidad Oculta" shantytown home, but when he discovers his parents no longer live there, he goes to live with his godfather. It's 1978, the 1978 World Cup Soccer Championships are approaching, and the military dictatorship begins clearing out his and other shanty towns. Roberto meets a woman, Teresa, who transforms him into a political activist. When he is arrested, the lives of the people of the neighborhood are plunged into turmoil.

327. La Ciudad y los perros The City and the dogs, José Watanabe et al., 1 videocassette (135 min.), United States, 1987.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pablo Serra, Gustavo Bueno, Luis Alvarez, Juan Manuel Ochoa, Eduardo Adrianzen
     Added Title: City and the dogs.
     Abstract: "Four angry cadets [in a Peruvian military academy] ... set off a chain of events that starts with a theft and leads to murder and suicide" --External container.

328. Clandestinos, Edesio Alejandro et al., 1 videocassette of 1 (VHS) (ca. 88 min.), Cuba, Cuba?, 1987.
     Notes: LC Control Number: 92508175 /MP
     Performer Note: Luis Alberto García, Isabel Santos, Susana Pérez, Rene Losada
     Added Title: Living dangerously
     Added Title: Underground.

329. Clima y salud la salud del mundo, Clima y salud la salud del mundo, 1 videocassette (53 min.), 198?
     Abstract: Describes the present state of health conditions, mortality rates and disease prevention in the world. Also presents explanations of how various climates affect health.

330. Clockers, Delroy Lindo et al., 1 videodisc (129 min.), Universal City, Calif, 1999.
     Notes: Performer Note: Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo, Mekhi Phifer, Isaiah Washington, Keith David, Pee Wee Love.
     Abstract: Two brothers grow up together in the same Brooklyn housing projects, but they are as opposite as good and evil. Victor Dunham has a family, works two jobs and leads a respectable life. His 19-year-old brother, Strike, hangs out with his friends on a bench and sells crack cocaine. Strike agrees to kill a rival dealer as a favor to Rodney, the neighborhood drug kingpin, but when the man is murdered, it is Victor who confesses. Detective Rocco Kleine won't buy Victor's confession, and begins to attempt to break down the stories of both brothers in order to save Victor.

331. Cocolos y rockeros, Ana María García, Pandora Films, and Duart Film and Video, 1 videocassette (46 min.), New York, N.Y, 1992.
     Abstract: Explores the polarized world of adolescents in Puerto Rico who prefer salsa music, "cocolos," and the world of those who prefer rock music and rockers. Shows the participation of Dr. Angel Quintero Rivera, sociologist, who actually studies the sociology of popular music in Puerto Rico.

332. Coctel de camarones, Alfredo Anzola et al., 1 videocassette (88 min.), Caracas, 1985.
     Notes: Performer Note: Alejo Felipe, Luis Rivas, Victor Cuica.
     Abstract: A chef is shot and killed in the kitchen of a restaurant. They put his body in the walk-in freezer and it is life and business as usual.

333. La Colmena, Mario Camus et al., 1 videocassette (111 min.), Barcelona, 1990.
     Notes: Performer Note: Victoria Abril, Francisco Algora, Rafael Alonso, Ana Belén, José Bodalo, Camilo José Cela.
     Abstract: Neorealist motion picture of everyday life of everyday people gathering at the coffee-house "La Delicia", in Madrid, winter of 1943.

334. Colon señaló el camino, Apolonio Torres, Federico Volpini, and Rafael Anos, 1 videocassette (54 min.), 1986?
     Notes: Performer Note: Federico Volpini
     Performer Note: Rafael Anos, Lina Canalejas, Enrique Cerro, Pepe Riesgo, Alfredo Calles.
     Abstract: Part of a documentary series examining and dramatizing Spain's role in the development of the United States. Covers Columbus' and other early voyages of discovery, emphasizing those involving the Spanish empire.

335. The Color purple, Steven Spielberg et al., 1 videodisc (154 min.), Burbank, CA, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Oprah Winfrey.
     Abstract: An uneducated woman living in the rural American south who was raped by her father, deprived of the children she bore him and forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive.

336. Columbus didn't discover us, Wil Echevarria et al., 1 videocassette (24 min.), Wendell, MA, 1992.
     Notes: Event Note: Filmed at the First Continental Conference of Indigenous Peoples held in Ecuador in July, 1990
     Added Title: Criostobal Colon 500 anos despues.
     Abstract: Indians from North, Central, and South America speak of the impact the Columbus legacy has had on the lives of indigenous people.

337. Comandos Azules in acción, Emilio Vieyra et al., 1 videocassette (79 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Jorge Martínez, Germán Kraus, Romualdo Quiroga
     Added Title: Comandos Azules.
     Abstract: In this sequel to Comandos Azules (1979), the Commandos must spring into action once more to foil a group of criminals who hide in the world of high society.

338. Comedia rota, Oscar Barney Finn et al., 1 videocassette (110 min.), Uruguay, Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Julia von Grolman, Ignacio Quirós, Gianni Lunadei, Elsa Daniel, Arturo García Buhr, Thelma Stefani, Elena Tasisto, Nelly Prono, Darwin Sánchez, Ricardo Fasán, Jimeno del San Cuilco, Luis Cordara.
     Abstract: A writer helps a divorced woman escape her usual routine and isolated world.

339. Como prepararse para un terremoto lo que toda encargada de una guarderia infantil debe saber, David L Brown et al., 1 videocassette (23 min.), Oakland, Calif., 1992.
     Notes: Added Title: What every childcare provider should know.

340. Como ser mujer y no morir en el intento, Carmen Maura et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Madrid, 1992.
     Notes: Performer Note: Carmen Maura, Antonio Resines.
     Abstract: Carmen's life is complicated. At 42 she is married to her third husband, Antonio, and has two children from previous marriages. She tries to carry on her professional career, without neglecting her relationship with Antonio, the house, her friends, or the emotional needs of the children.

341. Como un relamago, Miguel Hermoso et al., 1 videocassette (103 min.), Spain, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Santiago Rámos, Assumpta Serna, Eloy Azorín.
     Abstract: Sonia, who lives in Madrid with her 17-year-old son Pablo, is a successful lawyer and a radical feminist. She also has a secret: she has always refused to speak to Pablo about his father.

342. Como yo te quería, Sara García et al., 1 videocassette (83 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Sara García, Abel Salazar, Esther Luquin.
     Abstract: A Spanish woman, Doña Remedios, who lives in Mexico and receives a small monthly stipend. Her son, Rafael, is about to graduate from college. He is in love with Margarita, but her father won't let her see him because he is so poor. Rafael asks his mother to ask Margarita's father for permission to see her. Doña Remedios refuses at first, but eventually gives in.

343. Comodines, Jorge Nisco et al., 1 videocassette (105 min.), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Carlos Calvo, Adrian Suar, Rodolfo Ranni.
     Abstract: Norberto Lorenzi is a police officer fighting against the drug traffickers while during a mission, one of his best friends is shot and killed. Norberto is assigned to work with Guillermo Parodi and together they try to avenge Norberto's friend's death.

344. Comos nosotros, Elva Abad et al., 1 videocassette (47 min.), Lima, Peru, 1992.

345. Compañero de clase, Juan C Rodríguez Castro et al., 1 videocassette (47 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Julio Calcagno, Bimbo Depauli, Enrique Martínez Pazos.
     Abstract: This short film is about a group of affluent men invite a blue collar worker named Raul to play poker with them. They try to win his paycheck but end up losing their own money, houses, and titles. In retaliation, they accuse him of stealing their money and end up killing him.

346. Companñero de viaje, Clemente de la Cerda et al., 1 videocassette (116 min.), Venezuela, Chorilllos, Peru, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Toco Gómez, Julio Mota, María Escalona ; Eduardo Calvo, Esperanza Roy.
     Abstract: This film brings to life the dramatic account of the boyhood of the famed Venezualan writer, Orlando Araujo, as related in his book of the same name. Beneath the apparent calm of a village in the Andes are hidden the quarrelsome and the evil-doers. A change of authorities unchains the passions and furies formerly contained by the old government.

347. Con la musica en el alma, Luis Bayón Herrera et al., 1 videocassette (91 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Francisco Canaro, Andres "Toscanito" Poggio, Tito Lusiardo.

348. Con licencia para matar, Rafael Baledón et al., 1 videocassette (83 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Fernando Casanova, Emily Cranz, Maura Monti.
     Abstract: The elaborate robbery of an armored vehicle is carried out by an infamous crime lord using his invincible robot thieves. World financial markets are disrupted and the authorities call upon the "Tigresses," a trio of crime-fighting women. In their quest to uncover the tracks of the crime lord, the Tigresses must work through a web of narcotics circles and are attacked themselves by the robots, until they isolate the location from which the crime lord operates: a night club that they frequent.

349. Con los dorados de Villa, Raúl de Anda et al., 1 videocassette (79 min.), México, 1991.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pedro Armendariz, Emilio "Indio" Fernandez, Domingo Soler, Lucha Reyes, Susana Cora, Salvador Quiroz, Pedro Galindo.
     Abstract: Villa's "Golden Ones" have a mission: to get a container full of munitions to its destination. But one of them is a traitor, and his betrayal unleashes all of the action, violence and death typical of the Mexican Revolution.

350. Confesión, Luis J Moglia Barth et al., 1 videocassette (92 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Hugo del Carril, Alberto Vila, M. Gómez Bao.
     Abstract: The plot is slight, dealing with the comings and goings of the singing groups who visit the small villages far from the bright lights of Buenos Aires. Los Zorzales are one such group, who take with them a girl who dreams of leaving her little town. When they return much later, she is now changed and worldly.

351. Confesión a Laura Confessing to Laura, Jaime Osorio Gómez et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Chicago, IL, 1994.
     Notes: Performer Note: Vicky Hernández, Gustavo Londono, Maria Cristina Gálvez.
     Abstract: Set during the civil war in Colombia which was precipitated by the assassination of liberal leader Jorge Elieser Gaitán, the film presents a drama in the lives of two people who, because of the riots, are trapped for a night in Laura's house, a night with transforms their existence.

352. Conozco a los dos, Gilberto S Martinez et al., 1 videocassette (72 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Amalia Aguilar, Jorge "Che" Ruiz, Dorian Iris.
     Abstract: Juan José, a poor guitar player from Alvarado, in the state of Veracuz goes to the state of México to be with his newly found love. Upon arriving in a small Mexican town, he is mistaken for a well-known con-man who is wanted for sleeping with a married woman.

353. La Consitución de 1978, La Consitución de 1978, 1 videocassette (42 min.), 198?
     Abstract: Discusses the democratic constitution of 1978; explains some of its articles and includes interviews with the makers.

354. Contigo y aquí, Fernando Siro et al., 1 videocassette (64 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Elio Roca, Mercedes Harris, Leonora Benedetto.
     Abstract: A jewel heist doesn't go exactly as planned. One of the thieves is wounded by a policeman. He must see a doctor, but that makes the doctor an accomplice. The doctor escapes to the countryside where he leads an exemplary life.

355. Contra la ley de dios, Adolfo Fernandez Bustamante, Latin Nostalgia (Firm), and Movie-Mex International, 1 videocassette (?? min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.

356. Convención de Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Agosto, 1994, José Manuel Pintado and Canal 6 de Julio (Mexico), 1 videocassette (43 min.), México, D.F, 1994.

357. Conversaciones con escritores y criticos chicanos, University of California, Santa Barbara et al., 1 videocassette (30 min.), Santa Barbara, 1977.
     Abstract: Miguel Mendez, Chicano author and poet, talks about his early writing efforts and his later experimental style. He discusses his interest in using different levels of language in creative writing and describes himself as an "ironist." Stating that Chicano writers are equal in talent to writers anywhere else in the world, Mendez expresses his desire to advance Chicano literature because of its neglect by publishers and universities.

358. Convivencia, Carlos Galettini et al., 1 videocassette (96 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: José Sacristán, Luis Brandoni, Cecilia Dopazo.
     Abstract: Two single men in their late forties spend regular weekends in a semi-derelict house on the Paraná river delta near Buenos Aires. However, when a girl asks for shelter from a storm, both men are forced to re-evaluate their lives and their friendship.

359. Cookie's fortune, Glenn Close et al., 1 videodisc (118 min.), New York, 1999.
     Notes: Performer Note: Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, Chris O'Donnell, Charles S. Dutton, Patricia Neal, Ned Beatty, Courtney B. Vance, Donald Moffat, Lyle Lovett.

360. Cool hand Luke, Donn Pearce et al., 1 videodisc (127 min.), Burbank, CA, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Robert Drivas, Lou Antonio, Strother Martin, Jo Van Fleet.
     Abstract: Set in the southern United States, Luke is caught cutting off parking meters and is sentenced to the "chain gang". Includes original theatrical trailer.

361. Corazón de papel, Roberto Bodegas et al., 1 videocassette (106 min.), Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Antonio Ferrandis, Patxi Andión, Ana Obregón, Héctor Alterio.
     Abstract: Borja, a journalist of the old school, funs a news agency, Agepress, which is under threat of being closed down because it hasn't been successful enough. He works with three others, Tomás, Nico and Julia. One ordinary day, Tomás is witness to a robbery and photographs everything, not knowing that his actions will endanger his life and that of Agepress.

362. Corazón de Turco, Lucas Demare et al., 1 videocassette (68 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Alí Salem de Baraja, Malisa Zini, Roberto García Rámos.

363. Corazones de México, Roberto Gavaldón et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Domingo Soler, Lilia Michel, Gustavo Rojo Pinto.
     Abstract: The son of an aristocratic Mexican family is conscripted into the Mexican army along with every other 18 yr. old in the country. The parents make every attempt to release their son from his military obligation. Finding no sympathy from their powerful friends, the parents bribe a doctor to write a medical excuse for their son. The son, however, is convinced that he should serve and fight for his country.

364. Corpo em dileto, Nuno Cesar Abreu et al., 1 videocassette (88 min.), Rio de Janeiro, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Lima Duarte, Regina Dourado, Dedina Bernadelli, Álvaro Freire.
     Abstract: A doctor withdraws from his wife as he becomes obsessed with the activities in the house next door. He suspects criminal activity and sees the same group of men all over the city; they let him know that they know he's watching them.

365. Corps perdus Cuerpos perdidos, Eduardo de Gregorio et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Laura Morante, Tchéky Karyo, Gerardo Romano, Georges Claisse.

366. Corpus a home movie for Selena, Lourdes Portillo and Xochitl Films (Firm), 1 videocassette (47 min.), San Francisco, 1998.
     Abstract: Corpus is inspired by the short life and tragic death of Tejana singing star, Selena. The film focuses on the singer's fans, the people on both sides of the border who saw Selena as a symbol of hope and cultural pride. Structured around interviews with personal friends and family, recollections are intercut with archival footage of Selena's performances and appearances. Corpus investigates the deeper meaning of Selena's presence in American popular culture, illuminating the hopes, fantasies, and fears of Latino youth. Corpus reveals the deep cultural yearning that transformed Selena, into one of their own Tejana icon.

367. Correcional de mujeres, Emilio Vieyra et al., 1 videocassette 90 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Julio de Grazia, Edda Bustamante, Tony Vilas.
     Abstract: A bunch of women are detained for various crimes and transported to a correctional facility, where they will meet a terrible fate in this jail, subjected to the cruelty of some of the wards and the tyranny of on of the oldest "guests.". While there, a plan of escape is hatched and carried out which then leads to the escape of about 8 women. Laura does not safely make it and is left behind to die. Fortunately, she survives and then attempts to help the women who are not doing well and are now part of a prostitution ring.

368. Corridos sin rostro Ballads without a face, Othelo Khanh, 1 videocassette, Mexico City, 1994.

369. Cortazar, Tristán Bauer et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Argentina, México, DF, 199-.
     Abstract: At 80 years after his birth, and 10 years after his death, Argentine writer Julio Cortázar narrates the story of his life. His words, spoken by Cortázar and by actor Alfredo Alcón, reveal a portrait of a man who gave us a literature that portrays impressions of the world by one who lived life fully. He worked with images the way Bach and Mozart worked with music, interweaving them into jazz. His presence in images and in recordings help illuminate a life that had a stormy beginning in Brussels in 1914 and ended in the cemetary of Montparnasse, where the body of the writer was laid to rest next to that of his wife, Carol Dunlop.

370. Crazy from the heart = Loca del corazón, Linda Voorhees et al., 1 videocassette (94 min.), s.l., 1991.
     Notes: Performer Note: Christine Lahti, Ruben Blades ; William Russ ; Louise Latham ; Tommy Muniz ; Mary Kay Place
     Added Title: Loca del corazón.
     Abstract: The single, quiet, strict, strait-laced female high school principal in a small town in Texas is secretly dating the coach. Then she goes on a date with the new janitor, and the two are so happy that they go on a wild ride across the Mexican border and get married. Can the town and the school board accept this? Why does the janitor's father set fire to billboards?

371. Crepúsculo, Arturo de Cordova et al., l videocassette (108 min.), Fresno, Calif., 1987.
     Notes: Performer Note: Arturo de Cordova, Gloria Marin, Lilia Michel, Julio Villarreal, Manuel Arvide.
     Abstract: The story of the obsessive passion of a man in love with his best friend's wife, a man tortured by adultery, the shadow of crime, and his moral and ethical values.

372. Cría The Secret of Anna, Carlos Saura et al., 1 videocassette (110 min.), United States?, 1985?
     Notes: Performer Note: Geraldine Chaplin, Ana Torrent, Conchi Perez, Maite Sanchez
     Added Title: Secret of Ana
     Added Title: Raise ravens.
     Abstract: "Drama about a sensitive girl's secret about her father's death."--External container.

373. Crimen y castigo, Fernando de Fuentes et al., 1 videocassette (110 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Roberto Cañedo, Lilia Prado, Carlos López Moctezuma.
     Abstract: Tormented by an critical voice, a desolate man is tempted to murder an old woman for her money. He attempts to resist the voice, but is eventually driven to devise a plan to murder her. He wavers when he tries to carry out his plan, but the voice keeps urging him on.

374. Crisol de hombres, Arturo Gemmiti et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Pedro Maratea, Roberto Duran, Eduardo Otero.
     Abstract: Epic comedy about how military service shapes the characters and lives of a group of young enlistees.

375. Cristina, Francisco Mugica et al., 1 videocassette (70 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Zully Moreno, Esteban Serrador, Alberto Closas.
     Abstract: Cristina is about to marry and settle down when her mother dies and she realizes that she doesn't really know who she is. She moves to Buenos Aires where she quickly finds a job and after not too long, falls in love as well. Unfortunately, the man that she falls for is not very honest and even after giving him a second chance, Cristina soon realizes she has made a mistake.

376. Cristo te ama jóvenes drogadictos, José María Fernández Unsain et al., 1 videocassette (77 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Milton Rodriguez, Jacqueline Andere, Pancho Córdova.
     Abstract: A young woman becomes involved with a group of actors who use drugs regularly. She loses her job as her addiction becomes stronger and soon she is regularly visiting a drug dealer who buys from a graveyard caretaker. Unable to support her habit financially, she turns to prostituting herself for the requisite drug money. A friend decides that he will end the addiction, and he isolates her in a stable for several days while she undergoes withdrawal, barely alive.

377. Cristobal colon de oficio ... descubridor, Mariano Ozores, 1 videocassette (VHS), Madrid, Spain, 1991.

378. Crónica de un niño solo chronicle of a lone boy, Leonardo Favio et al., 1 videocassette (86 min.), Los Angeles, Calif, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Leonardo Favio, Tino Pascali, Beto Gianola.
     Abstract: Banned by the Argentinian government for nearly thirty years, this film is a searing indictment of a fascist regime running roughshod over its most vulnerable citizens--its children. Focusing on the bleak life of Polin, a boy abandoned by his family and sent to live in a state run orphanage, tt is also a moving portrait of the human spirit imprisoned by the chains of well intentioned fools.

379. Cruel destino o Alla en la frontera, Juan Orol et al., 1 videocassette (106 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Maria Antonieta Pons, Juan José Martínez Casado, J. Eduardo Pérez.
     Abstract: As children, Armando and Alicia talked together about their plans for the future: Armando wanted to become a cowboy and Alicia dreamed of becoming an artist. Years later, as adults, Armando upsets Alicia when he suggests she is not fulfilling her potential by dancing in a club. Alicia accepts another man's marriage proposal, and Armando, regretful of his advice, tries to win her back.

380. La Cruz del Sur, Patricio Guzmán et al., 3 videocassettes (55 min. each), Madrid, 1992.
     Notes: Added Title: Southern Cross.

381. La cruz Gil, Cine Testimonio (Firm) and Yesterday Video Cine (Firm), 1 videocassette (20 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Abstract: This documentary explores the annual cultural celebration of the death of Antonio Gil, a former leader of a group of peasants in Mercedes, province of Corrientes, Argentina. He was killed on January 8th during the fights between the unitarios and federales in the middle of the 19th century, much to the dismay of the people. Through interview excerpts and scenes of the Antonio Gil Day, the loyalty and compassion of the town is revealed. For them, it is an expression of faith for what Gil represented.

382. La Cruz invertida The shattered cross, Mario David et al., 1 videocassette (103 min.), United States, 1988.
     Notes: Performer Note: Oscar Martínez, Ana Maria Picchío, Arturo Maly
     Added Title: The shattered cross.
     Abstract: Carlos Samuel Torres, a young priest, is determined to defend his ideals even against the Church or the Army, and brings together three young people who also are fighting injustice.

383. A Cry for freedom and democracy Chiapas, Jan. 7-15 '94, C. h. é. Che and Viewing Habits (Firm), 1 videocassette (30 min.), San Diego, CA, 1994.
     Abstract: Discusses the revolt in Chiapas by the poor people struggling for social justice and equality.

384. Cualquier cosa, Douglas Sanchez et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Mexico, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Jaime Garza, Cecilia Toussaint, Dorotea Guerra, Salvador Garcini.
     Abstract: A young actor from Yucatán comes to the capital with the idea of revolutionizing the "fotonovela".

385. Cuando besa mi marido, Carlos Schlieper et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Malisa Zini, Angel Magaña, Juan Carlos Thorry.

386. Cuando canta el corazón, Richard Harlan et al., 1 videocassette (102 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Hugo del Carril, Aída Luz, José Ciarra.

387. Cuando en el cielo pasan lista, Carlos Borcosque et al., 1 videocassette XX min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Narciso Ibáñez Menta, Ilde Pirovano, Ricardo Passano.

388. Cuando leventa la niebla, Arturo de Cordova et al., 1 videocassette (98 min.), Stanford, CA, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Arturo de Cordova, Maria Elena Marques, Columba Dominguez.
     Abstract: A patient in a mental hospital learns much about his roommate's family through conversation. He decides to murder the man, his best friend, and make it look like an accident. After leaving the hospital, he further researches the dead man's family and assumes his identity.

389. Cuando los hijos pecan, Joselito Rodríguez et al., 1 videocassette (108 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Meche Barba, Fernando Fernández, Carlos Orellana.
     Abstract: Aurora sings in a cabaret and is courted by several men, rich and poor. From a modest background herself, she is most comfortable with Fidel, a mechanic, but she dates men that promise her cars and houses. When Fidel chooses to propose to her rather than her crippled but beautiful sister Checha, Aurora turns him down, saying that she favors richer men. After she is thrown out of the house by her father, the broken family tries to determine what causes Aurora's strange behavior, and make amends before she commits to the wrong man.

390. Cuando viajan las estrellas, Alberto Gout et al., 1 videocassette (108 min.), United States?, 1987?
     Notes: Performer Note: Jorge Negrete, Raquel Rojas, Joaquin Pardave.
     Abstract: A Hollywood star comes to Mexico to learn flamenco, but rather learns the ways of the genteel 'charro' when she falls in love with one."--External container.

391. Cuando vuelvas a mi, José Baviera et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ramón Armengod, Lilia del Valle, José Baviera.
     Abstract: Pedro and Dolores are a young couple in love, with plans to marry soon. Don Cosme is an older man in the community, rich and married, but disinterested in his wife. He is instead infatuated with Dolores, and sends Pedro out of town on an errand for several days. During this time Don Cosme slips a drug into Dolores' drink, and when she begins to feel sick, he takes her to her home and forces himself on her. Despite her anger and confusion, Dolores decides to continue with the wedding and tell Pedro a different story of what happened when he was away.

392. Cuarteles de invierno Winter retreat, Lautaro Murúa et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 116 min.), S.l., s.l., 1988.
     Notes: Performer Note: Oscar Ferrigno, Eduardo Pavlovsky, Ulises Dumont, Arturo Maly, Enrique Almada
     Added Title: Winter retreat
     Added Title: Winter barracks.
     Abstract: A tango singer arrives in a village for a temporary engagement. While he is there, he experiences the brutal repression the people live with under the military rule.

393. Cuatro copas, Tulio Demicheli et al., 1 videocassette (97 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Libertad Lamarque, Miguel Aceves Mejia.
     Abstract: A famous singer is suffering from stress-related hallucinations. A plumber, who is an amateur singer, comes to fix her pipes, but only causes her more stress. She later runs into him at a radio contest for amateur singers. He sings for her; she is impressed and begins to fall in love with him.

394. Cuba, George Pitt et al., 1 videocassette of 1 (ca. 23 min.), Cuba?, 1988.
     Notes: LC Control Number: 92509665 /MP.
     Abstract: This documentary features the island's music and people, showing Old Havana, Varadero Beach, Trinidad, Santiago de Cuba and other places of particular interest to visitors.

395. Cuba 111, Dirk Vandersypen et al., 1 videocassette (52 min.), S.l, 1995?
     Abstract: Interviews the residents of a Havana building during an election, letting them describe their economic hardships.

396. Cuba at a crossroads, Glenn Gebhard et al., set of 3 videocassette, New York, NY, 1999.
     Abstract: An examination of the city and people of Havana, Cuba through interviews by an American filmmaker with residents of the city.

397. Cuba las hijas de Fidel, Carmen Sarmiento et al., 1 videocassette (60 min.), Princeton, N.J, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Host: Carmen Sarmiento.
     Abstract: One in a series that looks at Latin America through its women with interviews and on-sight visits. This fourth program examines the lives of women in Cuba who come from all walks of life including women active in dance, music, sports, and politics concerning their experiences of living in Castro's Cuba.

398. Cuba va the challenge of the next generation, Gail Dolgin et al., 1 videocassette (57 min.), San Francisco, CA, 1993.
     Abstract: Considers Cuba's future from the perspective of Cuban youth. Young people born after the 1959 Revolution discuss the challenge of Cuba's economic crisis in the nineties. Socialists and dissidents debate the merits of socialism vs. captialism, the need for change, internal difficulties, and international politics. Documentary style interweaves interviews and spontaneous debates with rarely seen views of Cuban youth culture.

399. The Cuban excludables, Prodoc and Richter Productions, 1 videocassette (57 min.), New York, NY, 1994?
     Abstract: Depicts the plight of the detainees and the human rights abuses they suffered after the 1980 Mariel Boatlift. Includes criticism by U.S. officials of U.S. policies.

400. La Cucaracha, Ismael Rodriguez Ruelas et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), México, 1994.
     Notes: Performer Note: María Félix, Dolores del Río, "Indio" Fernández, Antonio Aguilar, Pedro Armendariz, Ignacio Lopez Tarso.
     Abstract: A love story taking place during the Mexican Revolution.

401. Cucharita Margo la del circo ; Sobrevivente de oficio ; El taller mas grande del mundo ; Crisanto el Haitiano ; Encuentro de hombrecitos, Grupo Chaski and Garabato (Firm), 1 videocassette (50 min.), Lima, Peru, 19??
     Notes: Added Title: Margo la del circo
     Added Title: Sobrevivente de oficio
     Added Title: Taller mas grande del mundo
     Added Title: Crisanto el Haitiano
     Added Title: Encuentro de hombrecitos.
     Abstract: Series of short film portraits of persons working in the informal sector of the Peruvian economy and their struggles to make a living.

402. Cuchillos de fuego, Román Chalbaud et al., 1 videocassette (101 min.), Venezuela, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Miguelangel Landa, Gabriel Fernández, Javier Zapata.
     Abstract: The father of a young boy, David, abandons his family. David's mother takes him in her search for work. They take refuge with a troupe of traveling street performers, but while they sleep, a man rapes and murders his mother. Years later, having grown up with the troupe, he searches for the murderer and dreams of revenge. After getting caught for petty theft, David is thrown into prison. He is taken under the protection of the leader of a prison gang who might be David's mother's murderer.

403. Cuentos inmorales, Francisco José Lombardi et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Lima, Perú, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Hugo Soriano, Jorge Rodríguez Paz, Jorge García Bustamante.
     Abstract: These four "immoral tales" take place in Lima, Peru; their personages and settings could be those of any capital city in Latin America. They feature comedy combined with drama. Their principal conflicts are moral questions, greatly complicated by a culture in the constant process of change, resulting in elegant anecdotes of civility, sex, machismo, intolerance, agressiveness, marginal youth, conservativism, and hypocrisy. One of these stories is based on the tale, "El Principe" of the the Peruvian writer, Oswaldo Reynoso; "Mescadeotecnica" is based on on an original story by Jorge García Bustamante ; the other two are original creations of the individual filmmakers.

404. La culpa, la tuvo, el otro, Lucas Demare, 1 videocassette, S.l, 1949.

405. Culpable, Hugo Del Carril, 1 videocassette, s.l, 1959.

406. La culpable, Isabela Corona et al., 1 videocassette (81 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Isabella Corona, Manolita Saval, Manolo Fabregas.
     Abstract: Margarita is born to a widowed woman who dies during childbirth. A middle-aged woman who assisted in the birth takes her to the home where the woman works as a maid, and places the baby on the doorstep. A young boy of the house, Carlos, finds her and the family takes her in. Twenty years later, she is working as a maid for the family, and she and Carlos are in love. However, Carlos' real mother has died and his young stepmother feels threatened by Margarita, so she wishes to send her to work as a maid at a distant rancho.

407. La culta dama, Rogelio A Gonzalez et al., 1 videocassette (91 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Gloria Lozano, Elsa Cárdenas, Marilú Elízaga.
     Abstract: Eugenia, a poor, pregnant woman, is fired from her job as a seamstress. She finds refuge in the home of an affluent humanitarian named Antonia. It is later discovered that Antonia's son, Ernesto, is the father of Eugenia's baby. He decides to leave his aristrocratic family and marry Eugenia, despite opposition from the upper class.

408. Cumbite, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea et al., 1 videocassette (82 min.), United States, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Teo Vergara, Laurencio Louis, Marta Evans.
     Abstract: A Haitian who has been living in Cuba returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is shocked by the effects of poverty and underdevelopment.

409. La cumparsita, Antonio Momplet et al., 1 videocassette (XX min.), Argentina, 19??

410. La Cuna vacía, Carlos Rinaldi and Solo Para Coleccionistas (Firm), 1 videocassette, Argentina, 19??

411. Curvas peligrosas, Leonora Amar et al., 1 videocassette (97 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Leonora Amar, Carlos Cores, Fanny Schiller.
     Abstract: A popular nightclub dancer, Corita, is followed by many men, yet she refuses to become a headliner in any of the shows. She goes out with an older man, Don Tele, who buys her a pearl necklace and tells her he wants to marry her, but she refuses. Don Tele is not so easily dissuaded, but Corita and her manager count the money they have made and realize they have saved enough money to buy the farm they have dreamed of owning.

412. Dablito de barrio, Antonio Cunill et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Juan Carlos Calabro, Lorena Paola, Dalma Millavos.
     Abstract: Rita lives in a small town with her uncle. She is a very personable girl and can get along with most anybody. One day while out selling pens with her friend they find a wallet that belongs to a rich gentleman. Rita decides to return it and soon finds herself a part of a new family bringing love and happiness to everyone.

413. La dama del velo, Libertad Lamarque et al., 1 videocassette (101 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Libertad Lamarque, Armando Calvo, Miguel Córcega, Ernesto Alonso.
     Abstract: Andrea, a theatrical singer and performer, becomes involved with Esteban, the company clown, and a rather charismatic charmer. The two are about to be secretly married when it appears that Esteban already has a wilfe whom he kills when she tries to speak with Andrea. Shocked, Andrea denies that the two were ever involved when questioned by Esteban's attractive young lawyer, but attends the trial and tries to help him anyway.

414. Dance of hope, Deborah Shaffer et al., 1 videocassette (75 min.), New York, NY, 1991.
     Abstract: Interviews the women and children of Chilean political prisoners. Discusses the problems of attaining justice for the abduction, torture and death of the prisoners.

415. Dancing at Lughnasa, Meryl Streep et al., 1 videodisc (94 min.), Culver City, CA, 1999.
     Notes: Performer Note: Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Catherine McCormack, Kathy Burke, Brid Brennan, Sophie Thompson, Rhys Ifans.

416. Dangerous liaisons, Glenn Close et al., 1 videodisc (120 min.), Burbank, Calif, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Cast: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Keanu Reeves, Mildred Natwick, Uma Thurman.
     Abstract: Set in 18th century France, this is the story of two bored aristocrats and the havoc they wreak when they play dangerous games with people's lives. The beautiful widow Merteuil challenges rakish Valmont to seduce a virtuous young married woman, never suspecting that he would violate his personal credo and fall in love.

417. Danny Gavidia, Danny Gavidia et al., 1 videocassette (40 min.), Lima, 19??
     Abstract: A collection of 4 short films by Danny Gavidia.

418. Danza del fuego, Daniel Tinayre and Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.

419. Danza Flamenca de Hoy Flamenco dance today, Rafael Fajardo et al., 1 videocassette (60 min.), Madrid, España, 1991.
     Notes: Performer Note: Cantaores: Rafael Fajardo, Pedro Montoya ; Cantaora: La Tobala ; Guitarristas: Pedro Sierra, Juan Machón ; Bailaoras: Beatriz Martin, Esther Ponce ; Bailaor: Adrián.
     Abstract: Demonstrations of modern flamenco dancing in Spain.

420. Danzón, Jorge Sánchez et al., 1 videocassette (103 min.), Burbank, California, 1993.
     Notes: Performer Note: Maria Rojo, Blanca Guerra, Tito Vasconcelos, Carmen Salinas.
     Abstract: A love story about a woman who finally discovers the passion that has been missing from her life.

421. Dark victory, George Brewer et al., 1 videodisc (106 min.), Santa Monica, CA, S.l., 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers, Cora Witherspoon.
     Abstract: A beautiful and headstrong heiress suddenly learns that she has only six months to live. Defiant and rebellious at first, she conquers this stroke of fate by the power of great love and ultimately finds peace and happiness in the brief span of life allotted to her.

422. Dársena Sur, Lita Stantic, Pablo Reyero, and Video Zoom (Firm), 1 videocassette (77 min.), Argentina, 1997.
     Abstract: Documentary on the marginal Argentinian people who live near the river (Dock Sur).

423. Dawn of the people Nicaragua's literacy crusade, Jay Craven et al., 1 videocassette (26 min.), New York, 1983.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ossie Davis.
     Abstract: This film, sponsored by the Sandinista Front for National Liberation, describes the literacy crusade launched by the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. Almost 70,000 volunteers went into the villages of Nicaragua to teach both children and adults to read and write.

424. De cierta manera, Sara Gómez Yera et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 73 min.), Havana, Cuba?, 1974.
     Notes: Performer Note: Mario Balmaseda, Yolanda Cuéllar, Mario Limonta, Isaura Mendoza, Bobby Carcases, Sarita Reyes.
     Abstract: As two young lovers become acquainted with each other's habits and personalities, they also struggle to reshape their outmoded, middle-class values to conform with the belief system engendered by the Revolution. Set in a new housing project replacing a slum area just outside of Havana.

425. De como Anita Camacho quiso levantarse a Marino Mendez, Alfredo Anzola et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Caracas, 1986.
     Notes: Performer Note: Elba Escobar, Hilda Blanco, Alejo Felipe.
     Abstract: A young and pretty woman who works as a maid in a wealthy household manages to attract several successful men when she borrows her mistress's clothes, meanwhile rejecting the love of the one man who knows her real situation.

426. De hombre a hombre, Hugo Fregonese et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Erique Muiño, Tito Alonso, Norma Giméniz.

427. De la guaracha al beat rompiendo un poco conesa solemnidad, Luis Rafael Sánchez and Gregory Rabassa, 1 videocassette (54 min.), Hanover, NH, 1983.
     Abstract: Luis Rafael Sánchez, the author of La guaracha del Macho Camacho and his translator, Gregory Rabassa (who, also, translated Cien años de soledad), talk about Puerto Rican literature, various influences on it and barriers to its development. They also discuss the Puerto Rico of yesterday and today, as well as the problems of the Puerto Rican community in the U.S. Sánchez describes the conflict between artistic creation and political obligation and analyzes the characters and language of La guaracha from which he reads excerpts.

428. De la hacienda al cabaret, Alejandro Pelayo Rangel and Unidad de Televisión Educativa y Cultural, 1 videocassette (108 min.), México, D.F., 197?
     Notes: Performer Note: Narrator, Alejandro Aura
     Added Title: Aventurera
     Added Title: Mundo insolito de Juan Orol
     Added Title: Una familia de tantas.
     Abstract: representations of the dramatization by the Mexican cinema of prostitution, gangsters and life outside the law.

429. De la misteriosa Buenos Aires, Fischerman Alberto et al., 1 videocassette (93 min.), Buenos Aires, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: José María Gutiérrez, Graciela Dufau, Patricio Contreras
     Contents: 1. El hambre (dir. Alberto Fischerman) -- 2. La pulsera de cascabeles (dir. Ricardo Wulicher) -- 3. El salón dorado (dir. Oscar Barney Finn)
     Added Title: Hambre
     Added Title: Pulsera de cascabeles
     Added Title: Salón dorado.
     Abstract: Three episodes, each directed by a different director, take place in three distinct eras in Buenos Aire: the early city, hounded by hunger; the slave trade, and the middle class of 1900.

430. De mi barrio con amor, José Santiso et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 105 min.), Colonia, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Brandoni, Alicia Bruzzo, Roberto Carnaghi, Fabian Vena, Ana María Giunta.
     Abstract: Margarita is a somewhat plump widow who publishes an ad in a newspaper in search of someone who will console and understand her. She thus contacts Pirucho, a neighborhood produce salesman, lady's man and would-be tango teacher. As they are about to meet, she gets mixed up and involved with Julian, a rather good-looking chap who is on a lucky streak.

431. De pecado en pecado, Chano Urueta et al., 1 videorecording (108 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Esther Fernandez, David Silva, Beatriz Ramos.
     Abstract: A woman abandons her child, an envelope with 2000 pesos and a note on a poor couple's doorstep while the couple argues over the husband's drinking. Years later, the child is living with her "uncle," who continues to drink. The young lady sews piecework for to help the family survive. One day an apparently wealthy man sees her delivering a finished dress and follows her home.

432. De regreso el país dormido, Gustavo Postiglione, 1 videocassette, Argentina.

433. De tequila, su mezcal, Carlos Toussaint et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Tito Guízar, María Luisa Zea, Bárbara Gil.
     Abstract: The daughter of a tequila maker, in trying to increase her father's wealth, works alongside the men in the tequila factory. The charismatic son of a rival tequila maker pursues her more attractive sister, though both women struggle to secure the future of their business.

434. De turno con la muerte, Julio Porter, 1 videocassette, S.l, 1951.

435. Dead men don't wear plaid, Carl Reiner et al., 1 videodisc (89 min.), Universal City, CA, 1999.
     Notes: Performer Note: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Reni Santoni, Carl Reiner.
     Abstract: Private eye Rigby Reardon investigates the death of a wealthy scientist with a little help from his "friends." A new technique, recycling films of the '40s with a new story line.

436. Deadly embrace Nicaragua, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Elizabeth Canner et al., 1 videocassette (30 min.), Wentworth, NH, 1996.
     Abstract: Traces the history of U.S. involvement in the region, focusing on the current economic situation/crisis and the involvement of the IMF, the World Bank and U.S. agencies in the Nicaraguan economy. The documentary suggests that the economic policy of the government of Nicaragua is being "dictated" by the World Bank and the IMF and that they are to blame for the current crisis.

437. Debajo del mundo, Beda Docampo Feijóo et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), San José, Uruguay, 198-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Sergio Renán, Bárbara Mujica, Víctor Laplace.

438. Del "kitsch" a Lacan, Manuel Puig and Reina Roffé, 1 videocassette (50 min.), Hanover, NH, 1983.
     Abstract: Manuel Puig in an interview with Reina Roffé discusses each of his novels, giving clues to the understanding of his characters. The description of his personal experiences creates a portrait of a whole sector of Argentine society. He also reads from his novels.

439. Del mero corazon = Straight from the heart : love songs of the Southwest, Brazos Films, 1 videocassette (28 min.), El Cerrito, Calif, 1976.
     Notes: LC Control Number: 79707621 /F.
     Abstract: A lyrical journey through the musings of the heart in the Mexican-American Norteña music tradition. Various performers are shown in dancehalls and cantinas, presenting songs of passion and death, hurt and humor, and the pleasures and torn dreams of love.

440. La delatoría, Kurt Land et al., 1 videocassette (85 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Jorge Riviero, Fada Santoro, Diana Maggi.
     Abstract: Geraldo, a man who has his way with women, fences stolen vehicles. He steals a car owned by a former lover, Margada. Later, the car is found to contain parts made of pure gold. Then Geraldo's plans begin to go wrong as various people work to turn him into the police. They die mysterious deaths and Geraldo is caught. He is sent to prison. Margada waits for him on the outside.

441. Delirio, Arturo García Buhr et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Arturo García Buhr, Irma Córdoba, Rosa Rosen.

442. Demonios en el jardin, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, Angela Molina, and Coleccionistas, S.A, 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.), Madrid, 1984.
     Notes: Performer Note: Angela Molina, Ana Belen, Encarna Paso, Imanol Arias.
     Abstract: A view of everyday life and childhood in a small provincial Spanish city.

443. Deprisa, deprisa, Carlos Saura, Jose Antonio Valdelomar, and Coleccionistas, S.A, 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.), Madrid, 1981.
     Notes: Performer Note: Jose Antonio Valdelomar, Jose Ma Hervas, Jesus Arias, Berta Socuellamos.
     Abstract: Action drama which focuses on the lives of troubled youth who want money and love in a hurry.

444. Derecho viejo, Manuel Romero et al., 1 videocassette (85 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Juan José Miguez, Laura Hidalgo, Nélida, Bilbao ; Narciso Ibáñez Menta.
     Abstract: The film tells the story of the pioneers of tango. Just as tango becomes triumphant, the composer Eduardo Arolas loses the affection of his girlfriend due to the plotting of another woman interested in him.

445. Dernier domicile connu Ultimo domicilo conocido, José Giovanni et al., 1 videocassette (105 min.), Buenos Aires, 199?
     Notes: Performer Note: Lino Ventura, Marlene Jobert, Michel Constantin.
     Abstract: A successful, hard-boiled detective is decorated for his work and then disgraced when he arrests a man with connections in high places. Assigned to menial tasks, he sets a higher goal in keeping with his urge to succeed and sense of duty: find the secret witness to an asssassination committed by a powerful mafioso. His only clue, a five year old address. But he unravels the mystery and without the support of his superiors, brings about justice.

446. Descubra españa, British Broadcasting Corporation and Films Incorporated Video, 2 videodiscs (ca. 76 min.), Chicago, Ill, 1981.
     Notes: Contents: prog. 1. Pueblo y capital (16:28) -- prog. 2. Vistas de Provincia (15:12) -- prog. 3. Las comunicaciones (14:40) -- prog. 4. Ensenañza, trabajo y familia (14:58) -- prog. 5. Unos ratos libres (14:50).
     Abstract: Describes everyday experiences of Spanish teenagers and adults, and includes conversational and social exchanges in natural Spanish along with interviews and commentary.

447. Deseada, Carlos Savage et al., 1 videocassette (94 min.), Stanford, CA, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Dolores Del Rio, Jorge Mistral, Jose Baviera.
     Abstract: Deseada, a woman living in the modern city of Chichen Itza, tries to assuage her sister's dread of her betrothal to a Spaniard she doesn't really know. However, when the man arrives in the city, he and Deseada fall in love before he has a chance to meet his bride-to-be.

448. Despabílate amor, Eliseo Subiela et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Dario Grandineti, Juan Leyrado, Soledad Silveyra.
     Abstract: Ernesto and Ana were young lovers who never got married because Ana's parents did not think Ernesto was ambitious enough. Now, 25 years later Ana and Ernesto meet again and although Ana is married (to one of their old friends) and has a child, there is still a connection between the two. Through getting to know each other better, they both learn more about love.

449. Después de ayer, Hebert Posse Amorin et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Enrique Liporace, María José Demare, Oscar Ferreiro.

450. Destinos an introduction to Spanish, Destinos an introduction to Spanish, 52 pts. on 26 videocasettes (30 min. each), S. Burlington, VT, 1992.
     Notes: Contents: Pt. 1/2. Introduction -- pt. 3/4-5/6. Un viaje a Sevilla, España -- pt. 7/8-9/10. Un viaje a Madrid, España -- pt. 11/12. Un viaje a Madrid, España/Un viaje a la Argentina -- pt. 13/14-17/18. Un viaje a la Argentina -- 19/20-25/26. Un viaje a Puerto Rico
     Contents: Pt. 27/28-35/36. Un viaje a México, el pueblo, la capital -- pt. 37/38-51/52. Un viaje a México, la capital.

451. Detective a contramano, Jorge Costa Fynn et al., 1 videocassette (32 min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Juan Carlos Mareco (Pinocho), Mirta Torres, Roberto Fontana, Didio Pastorino.
     Abstract: The adventures of a young mystery story fan who becomes embroiled in a situation requiring real detective work.

452. La deuda interna Veronico Cruz, Miguel Pereira et al., 1 videocassette (106 min.), New York, 1990.
     Notes: Performer Note: Juan Jose Camero, Gonzalo Morales
     Added Title: Veronico Cruz.
     Abstract: The story of an Indian boy, Veronico Cruz, from his birth in one of the most remote regions of Argentina to his death in the South Atlantic during the Falklands/Malvinas war.

453. Deus e o diabo na terra do sol Dios y el Diablo en la tierra del sol, Glauber Rocha et al., 1 videocassette (115 min.), Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Mauricio do Valle, Geraldo del Rey, Othon Bastos.
     Abstract: An account of the adventures of fictional hired gunman Antonio das Mortes, set against the real life last days of rural banditism. The movie follows Antonio as he witnesses the descent of common rural worker Manuel into a life of crime, joining the gang of Antonio's sworn enemy, Corisco the Blond Devil, and the Pedra Bonita Massacre.

454. The devil never sleeps El diablo nunca duerme, Lourdes Portillo and Xochitl Films (Firm), 1 videocassette (82 min.), San Francisco, Calif., 1994.
     Notes: Added Title: Diablo nunca duerme.
     Abstract: Lourdes Portillo examines her uncle Oscar Ruiz's life and events surrounding his death through interviews with his relatives and friends.

455. Dia de los Muertos, noche de muertos, Silvia Ledezma, 1 videocassette (7 min.), San Francisco, Calif, 1990.
     Abstract: The first consists of impressions of he Noche de Muertos celebration. The second film is made from clips of an old b&w film concerning Quetzalcoatl, Aztec rituals, and an anthropology museum.

456. Dialogo con Jorge Luis Borges, Jorge Luis Borges et al., 2 videocassettes (ca. 25 min. each), McLean, Virginia, 1983.
     Notes: Contents: Pt. 1. Borges talks about his childhood, youth, cultural background, literary tastes and influences. He also expands on the meaning of recurrent motifs in his literary production such as the labyrinth, time, immortality. -- Pt. 2. Several more key Borgian concepts are discussed, among them death, an after-life, god, love and solitude. Borges also talks about his present literary production and his view of the Nobel Prize
     Added Title: Entrevista a Jorge Luis Borges.

457. Dialogo con Juan Rulfo, Juan Rulfo et al., 1 videocassette (25 min.), McLean, Va., 1983.
     Notes: Added Title: Entrevista a Juan Rulfo.
     Abstract: In an interview by Fernando Alegria and of the Brazilian journalist and literary critic, Eric Nepomuceno, Juan Rulfo talks about influences on his work, writing as an act of creation and his view of literature. The gestation and creation of El Llano en llamas and Pedro Páramo are discussed in detail. Several national and foreign literary works dealing with Mexico and the Mexican revolution are also discussed.

458. Días contados, Imanol Uribe et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Madrid, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Carmelo Gómez, Ruth Gabriel, Candela Peña, Karra Elejalde, Elvira Mínguez, Javier Bardem.
     Abstract: Antonio, a member of an ETA terrorist cell that is hatching a plot against Madrid, challenges his priorities when he falls in love with Charo, a beautiful drug addict 12 years younger than he.

459. Días de odio Emma Zanz, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson et al., 1 videocassette (60 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Elisa Christián Galvé, Nicolás Fregues, Virginia Romay.

460. Die hard 2, Renny Harlin et al., 1 videodisc (123 min.), Beverly Hills, Calif, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton, Reginald Veljohnson.
     Abstract: An all-out war between terrorists and John McClane breaks out at a major international airport in this heart-stopping, jet-propelled journey through excitement and terror.

461. Die hard with a vengeance, Bruce Willis et al., 1 video disc (ca. 131 min.), Beverly Hills, Calif, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, Graham Greene.
     Abstract: New York cop John McClane is the personal target of the mysterious Simon, a terrorist determined to blow up the entire city if he doesn't get what he wants. Accompanied by an unwilling civilian partner, McClane careens wildly from one end of New York to the other as he struggles to keep up with Simon's deadly game. It's a battle of wits between a psychopathic genius and a heroic cop who once again finds himself having a really bad day.

462. Dieciseís años, Carlos Hugo Christensen et al., 1 videocassette, Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: María Duval, George Rigaud, Alicia Barrié.

463. Dieste la conciencía de la forma, Mariano Arana, Eladio Dieste, and Imágenes (Firm), 1 videocassette (49 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Interviewer: Mariano Arana.
     Abstract: Interview with Uruguayan architect Eladio Dieste which originally took place on Oct. 8, 1990. Noted Uruguayan architect Mariano Arana makes an inquiry into the life and work of Dieste. Dieste, trained as a engineer, has dedicated himself to humanizing architecture and creating a body of architectronic thought in which originality and beauty--the plasticity of form and the ordering of space cease being a purely aesthetic expression in order to fill human necessities.

464. La difunta Correa, Hugo Mattar et al., 1 videocassette, Buenos Aires, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Lucy Campbell, Ignacio Quirós, Luis Medina Castro.

465. Dios no lo quiera, Silvia Pinal et al., 1 videocassette (107 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Silvia Pinal, Jorge Martinez de Hoyos.
     Abstract: Two friends working in a slaughterhouse fight for the love of a woman who works in the dining hall. One of the men takes advantage of the woman when she is drunk. He is forced to marry her, but then she must sing at a nightclub while he gambles and drinks. He beats her and she leaves, though she is pregnant. She takes refuge with the other man who loved her.

466. La Diosa arrodillada, José Revueltas et al., 1 videocassette (98 min.), Madera, Calif, 1984.
     Notes: Performer Note: Maria Felix, Arturo de Cordova, Charito Granados.
     Abstract: A prominent chemist, unhappily married, finds passion and tragedy with another woman.

467. Dirty business food exports to the United States, Jon Silver et al., 1 videocassette (15 min.), Watsonville, Calif., 1990.
     Abstract: Documents the relocation from Watsonville, California to Mexico of about four hundred food-processing jobs by Pillsbury-Green Giant and explores many impacts of agribusiness in Mexico, including environmental damage, child labor, and health problems.

468. Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood et al., 1 videodisc (103 min.), New York, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santori, Andy Robinson.
     Abstract: In San Francisco a rooftop killer has already murdered two people, and now he's kidnapped a girl. He threatens to let her suffocate unless the city pays his ransom demand. Harry's out to get him.

469. Disparen a matar Shoot to kill, Carlos Azpúrua et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Chicago, IL, 1994.
     Notes: Performer Note: Amalia Pérez Díaz, Jean Carlo Simancas, Daniel Alvarado
     Added Title: Shoot to kill.
     Abstract: An innocent man is murdered during a police round-up while his mother watches. Refusing to accept the official version of the story, she launches a campaign for justice.

470. Distant water, Carlos Avila et al., 1 videocassette (28 min.), Los Angeles, Calif., 1991.
     Notes: Performer Note: Leonard Camarillo, B.J. Castillo, Bel Sandre, Jolene Rae.
     Abstract: The story of a Mexican-American schoolboy growing up in Los Angeles at the time of the 1943 riot. He learns about prejudice and violence and about honor, and when personally affected by racial bias he affirms his dignity in an amusing and gentle manner.

471. Divinas palabras, Ramón del Valle-Inclán et al., 1 videocassette (106 min.), Madrid, 1987.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ana Belén, Francisco Rabal, Imanol Arias, Esperanza Roy, Aurora Batista, Juan Echanove.
     Abstract: In 1920, in the village of San Clemente, in Galicia, a cruel and shameless story unfolds with the exploitation of a hydrocephalic put on display in fair after fair by the wife of the sacristan, the ecclesiastical authority in the village.

472. Divorcio en Montevideo, Manuel Romero et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Nini Marshall, Enrique Serrano, Sabina Olmos.

473. DNI, Luis Brunati et al., 1 videocassette (91 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Paulino Andrada, Carlos Carella, Alberto Fernández de Rosa.
     Abstract: Congressman for the Partido Justicialista and filmmaker Luis Brunati's film performs a structural analysis of two centuries of Argentine history from a federal and provincial standpoint, and also takes into consideration the viewpoints of other political sectors. This analysis alternates with the fictional history of a worker, of his family and their everyday problems. "DNI" is the abbreviation of the national ID, the Documento Nacional de Indentidad.

474. Do the right thing, Spike Lee et al., 1 videodisc (120 min.), Universal City, CA, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Danny Aiello (Sal), Ossie Davis (Da Mayor), Ruby Dee (Mother Sister), Richard Edson (Vito), Giancarlo Esposito (Buggin Out), Spike Lee (Mookie), Bull Nunn (Radio Raheem), John Turturro (Pino).
     Abstract: Traces the course of a single day on a block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. It's the hottest day of the year, a scorching 24-hour period that will change the lives of its residents forever.

475. Dock sud, Tulio Demicheli et al., 1 videocassette (88 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Mario Fortuna, Ana Lassalle, Pepita Muñoz.
     Abstract: "Inspired by real events which took place in Riachuelo, July 12, 1930.".

476. Documental Goya en su tiempo, Jesús Fernández Santos, 1 videocassette (44 min.), 198?
     Notes: Added Title: Goya en su tiempo.
     Abstract: Chronicles Goya's life and times through his art. Focuses on such works as the Caprices, the Disasters of War, the Tauromaquia and the Proverbs, and the Dos de Mayo.

477. Don Segundo Sombra, Ricardo Güiraldes et al., 1 videocassette (110 min.), Fresno, CA, 1987.
     Notes: Performer Note: With Juan Carballido, Juan Carlos Gené, Soledad Silveyra and Alejandra Boero.
     Abstract: A young man learns from his mentor, Don Segundo Sombra, the morals and values of the gaucho through the mentor's behavior, stories and advice.

478. Don't tell anyone, Francisco J Lombardi, 1 videocassette (111 min.), S.l., 1998.
     Abstract: A young man tries to be true to himself and his sexual identity in the oppressive atmosphere of modern Catholic Peru in this vivid and touching drama with a comic edge. A memorable coming-out story that illuminates the climate of machismo discrimination in the country it is set in. In Spanish with English subtitles.

479. Doña Barbara, Rómulo Gallegos et al., 1 videocassette (138 min.), S.l., 1987.
     Notes: Performer Note: Maria Félix, Julián Soler, María Elena Marqués, Andrés Soler, Charles Rooner.
     Abstract: Doña Bárbara, feared for her witchcraft, becomes involved in a land dispute with Santos Luzardo, a lawyer who has come to take charge of his property. Both she and her daughter, fall in love with the lawyer in this film reflecting the conflict between civilization and primitivism.

480. Doña Francisquita, Ladislaus Vajda et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Mirtha Legrand, Armando Calvo, Antonio Casal.
     Abstract: The Lambertini studio is mounting a performance of the zarzuela "Doña Francisquito" for a benefit function. It appears that Fernando will be the male half of the love duet in the musical work. The excellent singing and enthusiasm of Lambertini make real the love that the dreamy Francisquita feels for Fernando. Unfortunately, he is in love with Aurora.

481. Doña Macabra, Hugo Argüelles et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 113 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Marga Lopez, Hector Suarez, Carmen Montejo.
     Abstract: A greedy, scheming husband wants to swindle his wife's crazy aunt out of her supposed wealth. Aware that the couple is only interested in stealing from her, the aunt conspires with her maid to scare the couple out of her house by playing a series of gory pranks.

482. Doña Perfecta, Francisco de P Cabrera et al., 1 videocassette (116 min.), S.l., 1985.
     Notes: Performer Note: Dolores Del Rio, Esther Fernandez, Carlos Navarro, Julio Villareal.
     Abstract: In this drama, set in Santa Fe, New Mexico in the late 19th century, a matriarch causes the death of a once-beloved nephew and alienates her only daughter through her dogmatism and backward opposition to progressivism and industrial development.

483. Donde estás corazón?, Rogelio A Gonzalez et al., 1 videocassette (97 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Rosita Quintana, Lola Beltran, Amalia Mendoza.
     Abstract: Now in her old age in a home for the elderly, the once famous Rosa recalls her days in a popular female trio, and how she fell in love with a composer named Raúl. Courted by an army general, Rosa was forced to miss her first date with Raúl, and their friendship was plagued thereafter by the general and his sidekicks. They do, however, manage to stay together, and the trio's popularity grows, until things begin to fall apart for its members.

484. Donde nacen, los pobres, Agustín P Delgado et al., 1 videocassette (91 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Abel Salazer, Gloria Lozano, Amanda del Llano.
     Abstract: Jesus is a plumber and metalworker in the poor section of the city; Blanca is the rich and slightly spiteful daughter of a wealthy woman. When Jesus visits Blanca's home to fix some plumbing, Blanca enters the room with a man who won't stop fondling her. Jesus steps in on her behalf, impressing her deeply. The next day she visits his shop and they agree to see each other, to the dismay of Carmelita, a blind woman in love with Jesus. As Jesus and Blanca grow closer, Jesus gradually loses touch with his more humble peers.

485. Donnie Brasco, Mike Newell et al., 1 videodisc (127 min.), Culver City, CA, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Al Pacino, Johnny Depp.
     Abstract: This true story follows FBI agent Joe Pistone as he infiltrates the mafia of New York.

486. Dos almas en el mundo, Emilia Guiu et al., 1 videocassette (68 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Emilia Guiu, Fernando Fernandez, Esperanza Issa.
     Abstract: A child looses his mother and is left homeless. He must fend for himself to survive and, with other homeless children, he lives in abandoned trains until he is caught. He is put into an orphanage until he is grown. When he leaves, he has trouble finding work and becomes involved with several women.

487. Dos amigos y un amor, Lucas Demare et al., 1 videocassette (82 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Pepe Iglesias "El Zorro", Juan Carlos Thorry, Norma Castillo.

488. Dos cadetes, René Cardona et al., 1 videocassette (66 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Fernando Soler, Julian Soler, Sala Garcia, Maria Fernanda Ibanez.
     Abstract: Tía Dolores rules her brother, Federico, with an iron fist. He had been spending money and womanizing in Paris until his sister stopped sending him money. A strict religious woman, Tía Dolores wants her nephew, Carlos, to go to seminary; her brother remembers that when the boy was young, he wanted to join the military, so when he ostensibly takes the boy off to seminary, he actually takes him to the Colegio Military without Tía Dolores knowing.

489. Dos caras tiene el destino, Agustín P Delgado et al., 1 videocassette (98 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Miroslava, Eduardo Noriega, Carlos L. Moctezuma.
     Abstract: After escaping a tropical work camp and stowing away on a boat, a man is immediately witness to a murder on the beach. Upon inspecting the victim, the man realizes that they look identical. After taking the man's car and clothes, he returns to the man's home and finds that the dead man, Pedro de Vega, was rather rich and had a beautiful wife and daughter to whom he was rather callous. Determined to redeem "himself", he becomes a more caring Pedro, to the surprise of his wife and the household servants. He soon also learns that the dead man was a drug trafficker with a mistress, both of which he determines to change without getting killed again.

490. Dos corazones y un tango, Andres Falgas et al., 1 videocassette (73 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Andrés Falgás, Carmen Conde, Andres Soler.
     Abstract: Andres is a talented tango singer from Argentino who wins a singing contest and begins to tour Latin America, performing his act. In Mexico, he meets a young and her family in a club, but when he refuses to accept money from her father, she is upset and refuses to speak with him. He is finally able to hold her attention by unexpectedly jumping into her car with her in place of the man she was with; the two begin to grow closer.

491. Dos monjes, Juan Bustillo Oro et al., 1 videocassette (75 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Magda Haller, Victor Urruchua, Carlos Villatoro.
     Abstract: A monk is delirious and apparantly possessed by Satan. A new monk is asked to perform an exorcism. The possessed monk then begins to tell an older monk that he and the new monk were once best friends until his friend committed a terrible crime.

492. Dos pasiones, Fernando A Palacios et al., 1 videocassette (92 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ricardo Montalban, Abel Salazar, Susana Cora.
     Abstract: Ricardo and Christobal are friends and naval cadets together, sharing responsibility and rising together through the ranks. Both gain the respect and confidence of their superiors while in the academy, though each is at times more reliable than the other. When a war situation arises and they are to report to a departing ship, Christobal is late, and Ricardo finally finds him drunk in a hotel with a woman. Both are blamed for a gross violation of regulations and are dismissed from the navy dishonorably. Together, they try to start over as civilians.

493. Dos pesos dejada, Joaquin Pardave et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Joaquin Pardave, Sara Garcia, Abel Salazar.
     Abstract: Don Gabino (also known as Don Gabi) is released from jail early, but he doesn't want to go. He tries futilely to convince the warden to keep him because in jail he has food and shelter. A young friend named Fermin waits for him outside and feeds him while listening to Don Gabino complains about the hard life out of jail.

494. Dos puertos y un cerro, Mario Handler and Instituto Nacional de Cultura y Bellas Artes, 1 videocassette (10 min.), Caracas, Venezuela, 1975.

495. Dos Quijotes sobre ruedas, Emilio Vieyra et al., 1 videocassette (85 min.), Argentina.
     Notes: Performer Note: Julio Aldama, Jorge Sobral, Susy Leiva.
     Abstract: A pair of truck drivers are hired to haul the body of a gangland hit, but they have second thoughts once they are on the road.

496. Dos tenorios de barrio, Carlos Véjar et al., 1 videocassette (86 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: A. Soto La Marina "Chicote", Agustín Isunza, Delia Magaña.

497. Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, and Peter George, 1 videodisc (93 min.), Culver City, Calif, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens.
     Abstract: Black comedy about a group of war-hungry military men who plan a nuclear apocalypse. Through a series of accidents, two psychotic generals trigger an irrevocable scheme to attack Russian strategic targets. The brains behind the scheme belong to Dr. Strangelove, a wheel-chair bound nuclear scientist who harbors bizarre notions of man's future.

498. Dracula, Carl Laemmle et al., 1 videocassette (1 hr., 44 min.), Universal City, CA, 1992.
     Notes: Performer Note: Carlos Villarías Villar, Lupita Tovar, Barry Norton, Pablo Alvarez Rubio, Eduardo Arozamena, José Soriano Viosca, Carmen Guerrero, Amelia Senisterra, Manuel Arbó
     Added Title: Special Spanish version of Dracula
     Added Title: Spanish version of Dracula.
     Abstract: Timeless tale of the infamous count and the lovely Eva. Filmed simultaneously with the English version and with the same sets and script, but with a different focus and atmosphere.

499. Dreamlife of angels, Elodie Bouchez et al., 1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.), Culver City, Calif, 1999.
     Notes: Performer Note: Elodie Bouchez, Natacha Régnier, Grégoire Colin.
     Abstract: Optimistic hobo Isa, with her life in her backpack, has a gritty existence on the road, going from one town to another through northern France, working factory jobs and selling cards. After she loses a garment-factory job, her coworker Marie lets Isa share space in her Lille living quarters, an apartment belonging to a hospitalized mother and daughter. Isa goes through two tempestous relationships, while becoming fascinated with the girl who lived in the apartment but now lies in a coma at the hospital.

500. Driving Miss Daisy, Bruce Beresford et al., 1 videodisc (99 min.), Burbank, CA, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd.
     Abstract: A joyous comedy about a head-strong southern lady and her ever-patient chauffeur.

501. Dulce María Sauri el poder de lo suave, Dulce María Sauri, Denise Maerker, and Once TV (Mexico City, Mexico), 1 videocassette (55 min.), México, D.F, 1999.
     Notes: Performer Note: Guest, Dulce María Sauri ; interviewer, Denise Maerker.
     Abstract: An interview with Mexican politician Dulce María Sauri who discusses her life and work and the position of women in politics in Mexico today.

502. Dumb and dumber, Jim Carrey et al., 1 videodisc (106 min.), S.l.
     Notes: Performer Note: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels.
     Abstract: Comedy about a pair of dim-witted friends on a cross-country trip to return a case full of money.

503. The Eagle's children, Bruce Lane and Ethnoscope (Firm), 1 videocassette (ca. 39 min.), Rochester, NY, 1992.
     Abstract: This videotape is about the spread of a Mexican Indian spiritual tradition "La Danza de la Conquista" to Mexican-American seekers in California, Texas, New Mexico, and elsewhere.

504. La edad del amor, Julio Saraceni et al., 1 videocassette (105 min.), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Lolita Torres, Alberto Dalbes, Ramón Garay.
     Abstract: The frustrated love of a famous artist and an upper class man are repeated years later between their children.

505. La edad peligrosa, Mauricio de la Serna et al., 1 videocassette (87 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Maria Elena Marqués, AndreaPalma, Carlos Navarro.
     Abstract: A greedy businessman, upon finding that he owns the building that houses a group of nuns, lays claim to it and everything in it. During the frenzied confiscation, one of the young women is hurt. She and her sister, María, and her mother go to live with a family while trying to earn enough money to carry on. In order to pay for her sister's medical bills, María sings in a theater. While her fame and repute grow, she becomes increasingly disgusted with the world of greed and debauchery in which she operates.

506. Eduardo the healer, Douglas G Sharon et al., 1 videocassette (54 min.), University Park, PA, 1978.
     Notes: Performer Note: Vic Perrin, Roberto Tafur and Roberto Cruzalegui.
     Abstract: Describes the work of Eduardo, a folk healer in Las Delicias, Peru.

507. Eduardo, Uruguayo Eduardo, Uruguayan, Gabriel Auer, 1 videocassette (45 min.), New York, NY, 1984.

508. Educando a papa, Fernando Soler et al., 1 videocassette (85 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Fernando Soler, Evangelina Elizondo, Beatriz Aguirre.
     Abstract: A man named Ramiro returns to Spain from Mexico after a long absence. Ramiro's sister and two children are happy to see him, but his brother-in-law doesn't want him around, saying that Ramiro's father sent him to Mexico because he was always a good-for-nothing. Ramiro confides to his niece that the real reason was that his parents did everything they could to separate him from his true love, Soledad.

509. El abuelo, Román Viñoly Barreto et al., 1 videocassette (94 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Enrique Muiño, Mecha Ortiz, Elsa Daniel, Pedro Pompillo, Enrique Fava, Erika Mandel, José Ruzzo, Amalia Bernabé, Lina Bardo, Alberto Barcel, Carlos Lagrotta.
     Abstract: An old man returns to his town after many years of absence. Instead of the tranquility and rest he expects to find, he comes home to many family problems.

510. El acompañamiento, Carlos Orgambide et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Carlos Carella, Franklin Caicedo, María Rosa Gallo, Haydée Padilla.
     Abstract: Tuco, a man on the verge of retirement, is an amateur singer, who, as many others like him, considers himself the mythical successor of Carlos Gardel. Someone has played a bad prank on him, promising him a television debut, and, risking everything, he breaks ties with everyone around him, shuts himself up in his attic to practice singing and waits impaitiently for the arrival of the guitarists, his accompaniment.

511. El alma del bandoleón, Mario Soffici et al., 1 videocassette (72 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Libertad Lamarque, Santiago Arrieta, Domingo Sapelli.
     Abstract: Elda and Fabián are actors hoping for a big break. Their two-year old daughter dies, throwing their lives into tragic disarray. If that weren't enough, Elda's ex-lover comes back into their lives to stir them up further.

512. El amante bilingüe, Vicente Aranda et al., 1 videocassette (099 min.), Madrid, Roma, 1992.
     Notes: Performer Note: Imanol Arias, Ornella Muti (her voice dubbed by Victoría Peña), Loles León, Javier Bardem, Joan Lluis Bozzo.
     Abstract: A rich girl marries below her status because of sexual attraction. After five years, she finds outside marriage the satisfaction she wants. She divorces her husband and he becomes a beggar. In a riot incident he is hit by a bomb and his face remains disfigured. With the help of a mask he is able to sexually attract his ex-wife again as a completely new person.

513. El Amor brujo Love, the magician, Carlos Saura et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Beverly Hills, CA, 1987.
     Notes: Performer Note: Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos, Laura Del Sol, Juan Antonio Jimenez, Emma Penella
     Added Title: Love, the magician.
     Abstract: Set in Spain, a sizzling tale of young lovers separated by fate, but whose hearts still burn with a passion only for each other.

514. El amor de los amores, Antonio Mediz Bolio et al., 1 videocassette (117 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Miguel Arenas, Milisa Sierra, Juan José Martínez Casado.
     Abstract: A vagrant forest wanderer named Felipe enters a small settlement one day and discovers that a woman there is the sister he hasn't seen since childhood. He decides to stay, and is taken in as a protégé to a blind community leader named Don Fernando, who changes Felipe's decorum and refines his manners. Despite the improvement Felipe retains ill-repute among the community because of his vague past, and Don Fernando's daughter Juana is no exception. Felipe remains extremely polite to her, though, and one day defends her in the forest from some violent men. She gradually loses her skepticism and falls in love.

515. El amor es una mujer gorda, Alejandro Agresti et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 75 min.), Tucumán, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Elio Marchi, Sergio Poves Campos, Carlos Roffé.
     Abstract: José is a journalist in Buenos Aires shortly after the fall of the military dictatorship. He cannot accept that his wife is one of the "disappeared" and he gets in trouble with his newspaper when he writes and article criticizing an American film crew working in Argentina.

516. El amor las vuelve locas, Mapy Cortés et al., 1 videocassette (89 min.), Stanford, CA, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Mapy Cortés, Rafael Baledón.
     Abstract: The narrator, an elderly Cupid, causes the daughters of a rich opera singer to repeatedly and inexplicably fall in love with their chauffer, despite a makrked lack of interest on his part. When under Cupid's spell, they can't avoid acting rather strangely.

517. El amor nunca muere, Luis Cesar Amadori et al., 1 videocassette (117 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Zully Moreno ; Mirtha Legrand, Tita Merello.

518. El amor perjudica seriamente la salud, César Benítez et al., 1 videocassette (116 min.), Madrid, 1997?
     Notes: Performer Note: Ana Belén, Juanjo Puigcorbé, Gabino Diego, Penélope Cruz.
     Abstract: This romantic comedy charts the course of a long-time on-again-off-again love affair between Diana Balaguer and Santi Garcia.

519. El Angel exterminador The Exterminating angel, Gustavo Alatriste et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Chico, Calif, 198-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Jacqueline Andere, Jose Baviera
     Added Title: Exterminating angel.
     Abstract: Guests at an elegant dinner party find themselves unable to leave the room for several days; they begin to starve and die. Finally the spell is lifted and they go to church to give thanks but find they cannot leave the church!

520. El apando, Felipe Cazals et al., 1 videocassette (85 min.), México D.F, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Salvador Sánchez, José Carlos Ruíz, Manuel Ojeda.
     Abstract: Three drug-addicts, Albino, Polonio and El Carajo, are imprisoned in "el Apando," a restricted cell within the capital city's jail. El Carajo routinely cuts his veins to inject the drugs that Polonio sells to him. The other two feel only revulsion for El Carajo, there is a struggle, and he is beaten. La Chata and Mercedes, girlfriends of Polonio and Albino, are the ones who usually deliver the drugs to the jail. But, because of the close examinations they are subjected to by the jailers, they decide that next time, El Carajo's mother should be the messenger. The day of the next scheduled visit arrives, and they plan a huge disturbance that will allow the men in "el Apando" to get out.

521. El arreglo, Fernando Ayala et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Federico Luppi, Julio de Grazia, Rodolfo Ranni, Haydee Padilla.
     Abstract: In a suburb of Buenos Aires, construction is underway to pipe in water. Unfortunately, only some of the inhabitants will benefit; the rest will be forced to continue relying on their worn-out pumps that constantly break down. The neighbors decide they will bribe the overseerer of the project; only housepainter Luis Bellamo refuses to go along with the plan, arguing that honesty is the greater good.

522. El arte del tabaco, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográfica, 1 videocassette (7 min.), New York, 199-.
     Abstract: Short documentary on Cuban cigars, showing many cigar labels and a cigar maker at work.

523. El asesino de Pedralbas, Gonzalo Herralde et al., 1 videocassette (1 hr. 25 min.), Barcelona, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Interviewers: Gonzalo Herralde, Juano Merlo, José Martí Gómez.
     Abstract: A film portrait of José Luis Cerveto who was convicted of murder in 1974, including a series of interviews.

524. El ausente, Rafael Filippelli et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Omar Rezk, Roberto Suter, Ana María Mazzaza.
     Abstract: Raúl Salas is the general secretary of a major union in Córdoba, Argentina who is trying to fight the union politics as best he can despite continual defeat. It is a time of unrest, around 1975, and Salas watches and hopes that what he builds will last. However, even the greatest of leaders can only do so much.

525. El baul macabro, Miguel Zacariás et al., 1 videocassette (81 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ramón Pereda, Rene Cardona, Manuel Noriega.
     Abstract: A mysterious man clad in black sneaks into a hospital, knocks out a nurse, and kidnaps an unconscious patient. He takes her to his house, and, with the help of his deranged assistant, prepares to operate on her. She dies before they begin, so the man must return for another patient. Detectives have already begun their investigation at the hospital, with little success. The man in black is unsuccessful, and visits his sick wife--whose illness is the reason for his diabolical experiments. They recall how they met and became involved with one another.

526. El billetero, Raphael J Sevilla et al., 1 videocassette (148 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: David Silva, Esther Fernandez, Rodolfo Acosta.
     Abstract: A boy and his stepmother search for his long-lost father. The father vanished in pursuit of the traitorous friend who set fire to their house on their wedding night.

527. El Bosque animado, Alfredo Landa et al., 1 videocassette (109 min.), Madrid, 1990.
     Notes: Performer Note: Alfredo Landa, Encarna Paso, Fernando Rey, Fernando Valverde, Alejandra Grepi, Miguel Rellan, Alicia Hermida, Amparo Baro.
     Abstract: A bandit, a well digger, a working girl, a boy who doesn't want to work, a girl who is emigrating, a ghost who is looking for company ... and a matriarch who exploits the working children are all intertwined in this story.

528. El brazo fuerte, Giovanni Korporaal et al., 1 videocassette (84 min.), Mexico, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Leandro Morett, Hermelinda Guerrero, Jorge González.
     Abstract: The unscrupulous ascent of a road worker to town leader.

529. El bronco reynosa, Miguel M Delgado et al., 1 videocassette (73 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Antonio Badú, Mauricio Garces, Silvia Fournier.
     Abstract: When "Bronco" (the star of Western films in which he plays tough, manly characters) visits the rural town where his brother lives, the people of the town expect him to be as tough as the characters he plays. The local gang of outlaws sees him as a threat to their hold on the community, and resolve to force him to leave. Despite his image-conscious and urban manners, he is able to avoid the local "tough guys" and maintain the image that the people hold, with the help of a plan that his brother devises.

530. El Bruto The Brute, Luis Buñuel et al., 1 videocassette (81 min.), Los Angeles, CA, 1987.
     Notes: Performer Note: Katy Jurado, Pedro Armendariz, Andres Soler, Rosita Arenas, Roberto Meyer, Beatriz Ramos, Paco Martinez, Gloria Mestre.
     Abstract: "Pedro Armendariz plays a powerfully strong but slow-witted slaughter-house worker who is hired by a slumlord to break a tenant strike. He accidentally kills one of the strikers and is drawn into a doomed affair with the slumlord's wife." -- External container.

531. El buen mozo, Mario Gonzales et al., 1 videocassette (98 min.), Stanford, CA, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Armando Calvo, Glória Marin.
     Abstract: A debonaire but poor man deceives and uses a rich woman in order to gain money and influence in 19th-century Paris.

532. El bulín, Angel Acciaresi et al., 1 videocassette (87 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Norman Briski, Beatriz Bonnet, Susana Campos, Juan Ramón, Jorge Porcel, Fidel Pintos, Nelly Láinez, Horacio Bruno, Eddie Pequenino, Javier Portales, Linda Peretz, Rosángela Balbo, Mimí Pons, Norma Pons, Nancy Lopresti, Vicente Rubino, Vicente Quintana "Charola", Amaiia Bernabé, Luisina Brando, Mary Pelliza, Daniel Razeni, Estela Vidal, Teresa Wallon.
     Abstract: From time immemorial, the "bulín" has been a "porteño" institution, coveted by all male natives of the city, regardless of their age. These are the adventures of five employees of the same office who acquire a a small apartment which they can use to make romantic rendezvous.

533. El bulto, Gabriel Retes et al., 1 videocassette (114 min.), Mexico,D.F, 1993.
     Notes: Performer Note: Hector Bonilla, Jose Alonso, Lourdes Elizarraras, Juan Claudio Retes, Lucila Balzaretti, Gabriela Retes.
     Abstract: A young photographer, covering an uprising in 1971 is himself injured and left in a coma from which he doesn't recover for twenty years. When at last he wakes up, he opens his eyes on a completely different world--computers, new diseases, the disappearance of communism, his wife's new husband, his adult children. Little by little he ajusts.

534. El Burlador de Sevilla, Gustavo Pérez Puig et al., 1 videocassette (120 min.), Princeton, N.J, 1988.
     Notes: Performer Note: Javier Escriva, Pedro Osinaga, Jaime Blanch, Maria Luisa Merlo.
     Abstract: Dramatizes the legend of Don Juan who at the height of his licentious career, seduces the daughter of a noble family and kills her father.

535. El callejon de los milagros, Jorge Fons et al., 2 videocassettes (160 min.), Mexico, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ernesto Gomez Cruz, Salma Hayek, Bruno Bichir, Margarita Sanz.
     Abstract: The story, which takes place in a typical barrio of the Centro Historico in Mexico City, is divided into four parts: the first three tell the same story from the points of view of the three main protagonists: Rutilio, the stereotypical macho owner of a cantina, who surprises everyone when he changes his customary habits; Alma, the ambitious beauty of the barrio, who is in love with Abel the barber (who leaves for the United States to make his fortune); and Susan, la spinster landlady in the neighborhood, whose only dream is to get married. The fourth part gathers together the three stories two years later.

536. El cambio, Alfredo Joskowicz et al., 1 videocassette (86 min.), Mexico, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Héctor Bonilla, Sergio Jiménez, Ofelia Medina, Sofia Joskowicz, Héctor Andremar.
     Abstract: Two young middle class professionals, a photographer and a painter, fed up with their work and the daily grind, move to the coast where they set up a cabaña and reunite with their girl friends. However, even here they are unable to escape injustice, oppression and industrial pollution. A portrait of the Post '68 generation and its idealism and disenchantment.

537. El camino de los sueños, Javier Torre et al., 1 videocassette (88 min.), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1993.
     Notes: Performer Note: Victor Lapaple, Sandra Bellesteros, Lito Cruz.
     Abstract: Ignacio Silva is a mediocre Argentine professor living in the United States and Verónica is wanderer who plays with the hearts of all the men who love her. Together they find a sensual relationship and together they find a single right path ... the path of dreams.

538. El camino hacia la muerte del viejo reales, Gerardo Vallejos, 1 videocassette (66 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Abstract: Documentary about the exploitation of workers in sugar cane plantations of Tucumán, Argentina.

539. El Campeon ciclista, Fernando Cortés et al., 1 videocassette (87 min.), Mexico City, 1994.
     Notes: Performer Note: German Valdés "Tin Tan", Marcelo Chávez, Sonia Furió.
     Abstract: "To want is to be able" - so goes an old saying. "Tin Tan" shows it to be true in this role as a brilliant inventor and champion cyclist.

540. El canillita y la dama, Luis Cesar Amadori et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Sandrini, Rosita Moreno, Lalo Bouhier.

541. El cañonero de Giles, Manuel Romero et al., 1 videocassette, Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Sandrini, Luisa Vehil, Marcos Caplan.

542. El Cantar de mío Cid, Cid, Televisión Española, and Films for the Humanities (Firm), 1 videocassette (Victor VHS) (60 min.), Princeton, N.J, 1980.
     Notes: Performer Note: German Cobus (El Cid), Elisa Ramirez (Doña Jimena), Juan Sala (Rey Alfonso VI).

543. El cantor del pueblo, Antonio Ber Ciani et al., 1 videocassette (78 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Roberto Quiroga, Tito Lusiardo, Mario Fortuna.
     Abstract: Three young men leave their neighborhood to seek their fame as tango singers.

544. El cantor enamorada, Juan Antonio Serna et al., 1 videocassette (88) min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Hernán Figueroa Reyes, Enrique Coria, Sergio Capote Piñero.
     Abstract: Musical comedy about a singer traveling from town to town with his bandmates.

545. El capitán Pérez, Enrique Cahen Salaberry et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Olinda Bozán, José Olarra, Alberto Bello.

546. El capitán veneno, Enrique Martinent et al., 1 videocassette (73 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Sandrini, Rosa Rosen, J. García León.

547. El casamiento de Laucha, Enrique Dawi et al., 1 videocassette (99 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Landriscina, Malvina Pastorino, Mario Sánchez.
     Abstract: Laucha is a wanderer who lands in a small town, hired to tend bar. Laucha helps his boss, Carolina, increase her profits and wins her love. They get married before she discovers his gambling problems. He loses all her money and leaves her. On the road again, he has ample time to examine his faults and realize what he has thrown away.

548. El caserío, Juan de Orduna et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Madrid, 1988.
     Notes: Performer Note: Mari Frances, José Moreno, Armando Calvo.
     Abstract: Film version of a play about Basque life in which a sensual and amorous drama develops during a family gathering at a country house. Popular songs, typical Basque dances and instruments, together with characteristic Basque speech, are all artfully utilized in this tale of life in a Basque village.

549. El caso de una adolescente, Carlos López Moctezuma et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Martha Mijares, Lucy Gallardo, Andrea Palma.
     Abstract: Inexperience, excessive liberties and the lack of warmth in a family turn the happiness and well-being of an a young woman into a torrent of tears.

550. El caso María Soledad, Hector Olivera et al., 1 videocassette (125 min.), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1993.
     Notes: Performer Note: Carolina Fal, Valentina Bassi, Belen Blanco.
     Abstract: Based on real events, the film tells the story of a brutal crime from the viewpoint of the victim's best friend. María Soledad Morales was raped and murdered near her college. Mava, her friend, seeks to find out the truth about the crime.

551. El Castillo de la pureza, Arturo Ripstein et al., 1 videocassette (109 min.), Mexico, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Claudio Brook, Rita Macedo, Diana Bracho, Arturo Beristain.
     Abstract: Gabriel has kept his wife and three children in seclusion for 18 years. He believes he needs to protect them against the corruption of the outside world, but in his paranoia, he cannot see the prison he has created.

552. El cementario de las Aguilas, Luis Lezama et al., 1 videocassette (96 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Jorge Negrete, Margarita Mora, José Macip.
     Abstract: In 1847, Miguel is a young man admired by his peers and sought after by women. His friend Agustín, a soldier, is in love with Mercedes. Mercedes' sister, Ana Maria, is in love with Miguel. The four spend time together before the pressures of war break them up. The girls' father refuses to allow Mercedes to marry Agustín, and instead favors the more devious Raphael. Miguel decides to join the military and must also leave. For the young women left at home with the men they do not love, times become difficult.

553. El censor, Eduardo Calcagno et al., 1 videocassette (107 min.), Lavelle, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ulises Dumont, Lorenzo Quinteros, Alberto Segado.
     Abstract: The action begins in 1977, during the time of the final military government. Raúl Veirabés is the head of the film censorship office. He is a man of average taste, frank, discerning and honest--one whose taste in films conflict with his duties. he lives with his adolescent daughter in an unremarkable life, other than his secret collection of the most beautiful parts of the films he has censored. 8 years later, democracy reigns and he has difficulty in reconciling his former life with the present reality.

554. El Centerfielder, Robert Young et al., 1 videocassette (18 min.), New York City, New York, 1985.
     Notes: Performer Note: Reynaldo Coca, Oscar H. Enriquez.
     Abstract: Set in a prison during the time of the Somoza dictatorship, a prisoner who plays baseball is interrograted by a prison official.

555. El centroforward murio al amanecer, René Mugica et al., 1 videocassette, Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Medina Castro, Raúl Rossi, Pierina Dealessi.

556. El charro y la dama, Pedro Armendáriz et al., 1 videocassette (88 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pedro Armendariz, Rosita Quintana, Fernando "Mantequilla" Soto.
     Abstract: Patricia, a young woman from the city, is engaged to be married to a man she doesn't love, so she stubbornly causes trouble for her father. He decides to take her to a small country town and introduces her to some of his friends. While at first she reacts conceited and snobbish about the country life, she is forced to adapt when she ends up with a cowboy named Pedro for an entire night.

557. El Che, Aníbal di Salvo et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 82 min.), Argentina, 199u.
     Notes: Performer Note: Hugo Arana, Ulises Dumont, Alejo García Pintos.
     Abstract: Dramatized story of Ernesto "Che" Guevara's pursuit by the Bolivian Army and his death at their hands.

558. El ciclon del Caribe, Maria Antonieta Pons et al., 1 videocassette (91 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: María Antonieta Pons, Carlos Cores, Prudencia Grifell.
     Abstract: José Luis, a ship captain in the Caribbean, is engaged to marry María Elena. Unfortunately, he is caught unknowingly transporting illegal cargo for a group of Mexican mobsters. Before he can identify the criminals to the police, they kidnap him and he is assumed dead. María Elena escapes the grasps of chief mobster; without financial support, María Elena looks for work as a Caribbean dancer.

559. El cine soy yo, Luis Armando Roche et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Venezuela, Chorilllos, Peru, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Juliet Berto, Asdrubal Melendez, Alvaro Roche.
     Abstract: After being a peddler, street photographer, radio announcer, policeman, mecanic and many other things, Jacinto becomes a traveling film projectionist, taking movies to tiny, remote villages all over Venezuela. An intrepid 11-year old boy offers to accompany him, and a beautiful and mysterious French tourist incorporates herself in the group in search of new experiences. The three odd characters face many unlikely, picturesque, wonderful and difficult adventures as they make their way through the countryside with their traveling cinema.

560. El Cobarde, René Cardona et al., 1 videocassette (67 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Julian Soler, Adria Delhort, Josefina Escobedo, Antonio R. Frausto.
     Abstract: Captain Anzurez, who comes from a distinguished military family, is killed in a decisive battle against the enemy while his pregnant wife, Doña Amalia, is at home. The family doctor warns the messenger not to tell the bad news to Doña Amalia because of her state, but she overhears. The servants wait anxiously to see if child will be born "asutade" (scared). She gives birth to a son, Alberto, who appears to be a coward as he grows up; his mother, however, is determined to make him the military man his father would have wanted.

561. El cochecito The little coach, Marco Ferreri et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), New York, 1987.
     Notes: Performer Note: Jose Isbert, Jose A. Bepe, Maria Luise Ponte
     Added Title: The little coach.
     Abstract: Black comedy about an old man who wants a motorized wheelchair so he can ride through town with his crippled friends.

562. El color de las nubes, Mario Camus et al., 1 videocassette (111 min.), Madrid, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Julia Gutíerrez Caba, Antonio Valero, Ana Duato, José María Domenech.
     Abstract: In an old big rambling house of a coastal town of Cantabria lives and conflicts come together, loves and hatreds. A rich man, who has inherited the house from his father, wants to throw out the woman who inhabits it, an old lover of the deceased man. A Bosnian fishing friend and his niece try to help her. They inadverdantly come across a cache of cocaine. Things heat up even further with the addition of Madrilenian boyanother Bosnian, the well-intentioned lawyer contracted by the heir, an ex-policeman "narcotics detective," ... and a dead man.

563. El compadre Mendoza, Fernando de Fuentes et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Chicago, Ill, 1993.
     Notes: Performer Note: Alfredo de Diestro, Carmen Guerrero, Antonio R. Frausto.
     Abstract: Don Rosalio Mendoza is the patrón of a Hacienda near Mexico City during the time of Zapata. He is an opportunist who plays both sides, depending on who comes to visit his hacienda. His brothers are Mexico City financiers who play the same game, financing both sides. All seems to be going well; Don Rosalio offers to marry the daughter of one of his brothers' debtors in exchange for forgiving the debt, but both sides begin to doubt his loyalties.

564. El conde de Montecristo, León Klimovsky et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Argentina, 1992.
     Notes: Performer Note: Jorge Mistral, Elina Colomer, Nelly Meden.
     Abstract: Edmond Dantes is imprisoned in the Chateau d'If without trial, for carrying a message from Napoleon in exile on Elba. After being told that he died in prison, his fiancée Mercedes is forced to marry his rival De Villefort. Twenty years later, Dantes escapes with the help of the Abbe Faria, who leaves him the treasure of Monte Cristo. Dantes, now called the Count of Monte Cristo, plans his revenge on the three who framed him.

565. El Corazón sobre la tierra, Constante Diego et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), New York, NY, 1989?
     Notes: Performer Note: Rienaldo Miravalles, Nelson Villagra, Annia Linares, René de la Cruz.
     Abstract: Based on the true story of a father's battle to organize an agricultural cooperative in memory of his son who was killed fighting in Africa.

566. El corazón y la espada, Carlos Véjar et al., 1 videocassette (81 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Katy Jurado, César Romero, Rebeca Iturbide.
     Abstract: Set in medieval times, two Spanish men sneak past guards and through tunnels into a Moorish castle, in search of legendary jewels hidden there. Immediately inside, they encounter a priest and a woman - dressed like a man - who is skilled in sword-fighting. After a brief confrontation, the four decide their interests coincide and join forces in their quest. The priest is close to the Moorish princess who lives in the castle, and he uses his status to help them locate a secret passageway in her bedroom. But while the Spaniards are sneaking through her quarters, she awakens; they are captured, but not before the princess finds herself sympathizing with the intruders.

567. El cordon de la vereda, Jorge Barreiro et al., 1 videocassette (52 min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 199-.
     Abstract: On an October day in 1986, Jorge Barreiro interviews a great variety of people on different subjects, maintaining a light touch even though the topics are serious. He asks old men and women, children, teenagers, mothers, fathers, etc. what they think about human rights, politics, the visit of the Pope, the military, etc.

568. El Corsario negro, Pedro Armendáriz et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 84 min.), Fresno, Calif.?, 1987?
     Notes: Performer Note: Pedro Armendáriz, June Marlow, Maria Luisa Zea, Tony Diaz
     Added Title: Il corsaro nero.
     Abstract: An action and adventure film of pirates, treachery, double identity, vengeance, and love.

569. El Crack, José Luis Garci et al., 1 videocasette (120 min.), Madrid, 198-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Alfredo Landa, María Casanova, Manuel Tejada, José Bódaldo.
     Abstract: Germán, a detective, receives a very special assignment: to find the daughter of a León landowner who mysteriously disappeared three years ago. His inquiry comes at the price of the life of an innocent, Maite, the daughter of Germán's more or less platonic lover. Germán is faced with the need for vengeance.

570. El crimen de Cuenca, Pilar Miró et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.), Spain, Suero de Quiñones, 1982.
     Notes: Performer Note: Amparo Soler Leal, Hector Alterio, Daniel Dicenta, Jose Manuel Cervino.
     Abstract: The story of two friends wrongly imprisoned for a crime they did not commit and what happens to them.

571. El crimen de la hacienda, Mary Esquivel et al., 1 videocassette (69 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Mary Esquivel, Arturo Correa, Lilian Hurst, Mona Marti.
     Abstract: Rosita is a young Puerto Rican woman, beautiful but for her scarred face, which she views as a curse. She ignores the men who serenade her nightly for a manipulative man who pursues her for her money. When she discovers his true intentions, she kicks him out and decides to have cosmetic surgery.

572. El Cristo de mi cabecera, Roberto Cañeda et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Roberto Cañeda, Lilia del Valle, Evita Muñoz.
     Abstract: Jacinto is a peasant during the time of the French occupation who prays to the god by his bedside that a woman named Linda will love him. She has come to the country just to see him; he refuses to come to town--not because he doesn't love her, but because the townspeople dislike him. She tells him that he must come to town during the patron saint's festival or she won't let him see her again.

573. El cristo negro, Carlos Véjar et al., 1 videocassette (75 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Rosa Carmina, Raúl Martinez, José Baviera.
     Abstract: Enriqueta lives in a small village and is pursued by several men there, but she is most interested in Arturo, a man who visits sometimes but lives in the city and works for a powerful politician there. Unbeknownst to Enriqueta, Arturo uses his boss' daughter to gain influence with him. When the politician has health problems, he retreats to the village where Enriqueta lives and the two women meet. As Enriqueta is engaged against her will to another man, Arturo decides that they should both leave together. Enriqueta agrees, and soon learns that Arturo isn't quite as noble as she'd hoped.

574. El cura gaucho, Lucas Demare et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Enrique Muiño, Aída Alberti, Eloy Alverez.

575. El cura Lorenzo, Augusto César Vatteone et al., 1 videocassette (78 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Angel Magaña, Nelly Meden, Tito Alonso.
     Abstract: Fictionalized story of Father Lorenzo Massa, who came to Buenos Aires in 1907, and who took a street soccer team under his wings at the Oratorio de San Antonio. The Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro became famous in Argentina and its members were lionized as true heroes of the motherland.

576. El dedo en la llaga, Alberto Lecchi et al., 1 videocassette (110 min.), IArgentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Dario Graninetti, Juanjo Puigcorbé, Karra Elejalde.
     Abstract: Angel and Eduardo are two good friends that travel around together acting. As they head to another destination their car breaks down and they are forced to stay in a small pueblo for awhile. While there, Eduardo runs into an old friend, now a professor in the town, and together the three of them try to open the town's theater up again. However, the police do not approve and try multiple times to break up the acting group.

577. El derecho de nacer, Tito Davison et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 93 min.), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Aurora Bautista, Julio Aleman, Maricruz Olivier.
     Abstract: A young woman in Cuba in the early part of the 20th century gives birth to an illegitimate son. The child is taken away to be raised by the family's maid. Years later, he has grown into a handsome young man and she has become a nun, having been shunned by her family. When her father is on his deathbed, she comes to to him in an attempt to reconcile.

578. El derecho y el deber, Consuelo Moreno et al., 1 videocassette (84 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Consuelo Moreno, Juan José Martinez Casado, Leopoldo "Chato" Ortin.
     Abstract: An army colonel, thought to be dead, returns to his hacienda after five years of absence. Before seeing his wife or son, he speaks with the his manager, Poncho, who tells him the hacienda has been taken over by a group of men. With Poncho's help, he attempts to reclaim his hacienda and his family.

579. El deseo, Emilio Villalba Wells et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Roberto Airaldi, Santiago Gomez Cou, Aida Luz, Elsa O'Connor.
     Abstract: A young woman is accused of murder.

580. El día de la bestia, Andrés Vicente Gómez et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 100 min.), Madrid, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Alex Angulo, Armando de Razza, Santiago Segura.
     Abstract: The priest Angel Berriatua, professor of Theology at the university of Deusto, has spent the last twenty five years of his life studying the Apocalypse according to Saint John, deciphering the message which lies hidden behind the sacred text. At last, he has reached a conclusion: the Antichrist will be born in Madrid on the 25th of December 1995, before daybreak. The problem is that the priest does not know the exact place where the birth will take place. In order to enter into contact with evil, he arms himself to the teeth and sets off to the Spanish capital. There he attempts to earn brownie points with the Master of Darkness, robbing a blind man of his begging bowl, pushing a mime artist down a metro shaft and blessing a dying man with the hope that he goes to hell. Just not bad enough. As his stubble and frustration grows, Father Angel stumbles into a heavy metal music store run by death metal freak José Maria and establishes a base at the dismal pension presided over by José Maria's termagent mother.

581. El Diablo andaba en los Choclos, Manuel Romero et al., 1 videocassette, Argentina, 1946.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Sandrini, Silvana Roth, Alita Roman.

582. El Dialecto ; Languages of Southern Texas ; El Teatro de pueblo, Joseph Tovares et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.), San Antonio, Tex, 1991.
     Notes: Performer Note: Host, Marina Astudillo Pincus
     Performer Note: Celso Martinez, Linda Cuellar
     Added Title: Dialecto
     Added Title: Languages of Southern Texas
     Added Title: Teatro de pueblo.
     Abstract: A look at Spanish as it is spoken by different Latino groups in the United States today and an update on bilingualism, its roots and its role in the theater productions.

583. El Diputado Confessions of a congressman, Carlos Orengo et al., 1 videocassette (110 min.), Hollywood, CA, 1983.
     Notes: Performer Note: Jose Sacristan, Angel Pardo, Jose Alonso, Juan Antonio Bardem
     Added Title: Confessions of a congressman
     Added Title: Deputy.
     Abstract: "The story of a [gay] member of Spain's Socialist Party .... Robert Orbea ... is married and does love his wife and does have a moral sense rare in politics. ... He falls in love with a young hustler who is in the employ of political rivals.... Orbea is set up for blackmail and/or public discreditation."--External container.

584. El dirigible un film uruguayo, Pablo Dotta et al., 1 videocassette (87 min.), Montevideo, Urugay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Laura Schneider, Marcelo Buquet, Eduardo Miglionico, Gonazlo Cardozo, Ricardo Espalter.
     Abstract: At the turn of the century, Baltasar Brum, ex-president of Uruguay, commited suicide in front of numerous photographers. Yet nowhere are the pictures which had captured the exact moment of his death. A young women, who claims be French, met with the famous Uruguay writer, Juan Carlos Onetti. She confirms that the interview had taken place in Montevideo, with the writer ingognito, immediately following many years of voluntary exile. Yet photos from this meeting have likewise disappeared. What is the meaning of the pictures in a place without memory?

585. El Disputado voto del Sr. Cayo, Miguel Delibes et al., 1 videocassette (98 min.), Madrid, 1986?
     Notes: Performer Note: Francisco Rabal, Juan Luis Galiardo, Iñaki Miramón, Lydia Bosch
     Added Title: El Disputado voto del Señor Cayo.
     Abstract: A group of young politicians come to Cureña, a town in northern Castile, to campaign for votes. There they meet two neighbors who hate each other and never speak. One of these is Cayo, a soft-spoken older man full of ancestral wisdom. The encounter between the world of the young city politicians and that of Sr. Cayo is the necessary counterpoint to contrast two cultures ignorant of each other.

586. El Dorado, Carlos Saura et al., 1 videocassette (118 min.), Madrid, 1989.
     Notes: Performer Note: Omero Antonutti, Eusebio Poncela, Gabriela Roel, Lambert Wilson.
     Abstract: Film about the explorer, Lope de Aguirre and his search for the mythical El Dorado.

587. El efecto tequila the tequila effect, El efecto tequila the tequila effect, 1 videocassette, Mexico City.

588. El embajador, Tito Davision et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Argentina, 19??

589. El encanto de la luna llena, Benito Zambrano et al., 1 videocassette (29 min.), San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba.
     Notes: Performer Note: Assenneh Rodriguez, Veronica Lynn, Alden Knight
     Performer Note: Cinematography, Adriano Moreno ; editor, Nelson Rodriguez ; music, Juan A. Leyva, Magda R. Galvan.
     Abstract: Mourning the loss of his son, the owner of a bar mixes dreams with reality as he interact with his patrons during an evening of drunkeness.

590. El entorno urbano en la ciudad de México, Berta E Tello Peón et al., 1 videocassette (23 min.), México, D.F, 1994.
     Abstract: Describing the transformation of urban furnishings into modern and functional surroundings in Mexico City and its relation to the past.

591. El Espiritu de la Colmena, Víctor Erice et al., 1 videocassette (120 min.), Madrid, 1984.
     Notes: Performer Note: Fernando Fernan Gomez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Telleria.
     Abstract: The year is 1940, the weekly movie comes to an isolated Spanish village. The video presents the reactions of two little girls to "El Doctor Frankenstein".

592. El extrano caso de la mujer asesinada, Boris Hardy et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: María Duval, George Rigaud, Francisco Martínez Allende.

593. El fabricante de estrellas, Manuel Romero and Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.

594. El familiar, Octavio Getino et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Carlos Lagos, Noemi Manzano, Hugo Alvarez.
     Abstract: Inspired by legend from northern Argentina, the Getino presents an allegory about the people of Latin America.

595. El fantasma se enamora, Gloria Marín et al., 1 videocassette (79 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Gloria Marín, Abel Salazar, Ramón Gay.
     Abstract: Laura, a woman whose parents died when she was young, and her two aunts rent a country home from a family with a son her age named Armando who is abroad. The family stipulates that Armando's room in the home shouldn't be used, but Laura enters it and looks around anyway, learning about Armando through his books. When news of Armando's death in Brazil reaches his family, and his ghost, unseen and unheard by the tenants, appears in the house, Laura begins to feel a special bond with Armando, even though they cannot communicate.

596. El farol en la ventana, Mary Esquivel et al., 1 videocassette (91 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Mary Esquivel, Nestor de Barbosa, Fedora Capdevila.
     Abstract: Marena, a young woman who mends fishing nets, lives with her blind mother in a small village by the ocean. The mother lives in continual hope that her husband and son, drowned years before, will one day return. When a young ship captain stops at the house to ask directions, Marena's mother mistakes him for her lost son, embracing him in happiness. Rather than disappoint her, Marena and the captain continue the charade, but begin to take interest in each other.

597. El gallo colorado, Rosita Arenas et al., 1 videocassette (97 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Rosita Arenas, Miguel Aceves Mejia, Hugo Avendaño.
     Abstract: At a cockfight, a man named Teofilo is cheated in a fight. He tries to enter his best rooster in the next fight, but a friend, Pancho, convinces him not to fight the bird until it is fully trained. Teofilo owes a lot a money and tells his creditors that he will pay as soon as he has some cash. While Pancho and Teofilo are drinking, Teofilo's daughter warns him that their patrón, Roberto, is due to arrive in town the next day.

598. El Gallo de oro The golden cockerel, Roberto Gavaldón et al., 1 videocassette (104 min.), U.S., 1987.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ignacio López Tarso ; Lucha Villa ; Narcisco Busquets
     Added Title: Golden cockerel.
     Abstract: "A poor man, the town crier, is given a near-dead fighting cock by a sore loser. Lovingly nursed back to health, the champion bird returns the man fame, wealth and romance ... The poor man forgets his roots, luck runs out and in a vicious circle the film returns to its origins, leaving him, and us, back where we started ... in the hands of fate"--External container.

599. El gato, Miguel M Delgado et al., 1 videocassette (73 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Joaquin Cordero, Andres Soler, Angel Infante.

600. El gendarme de la esquina, Ruben Rojo et al., 1 videocassette (??? min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Joaquin Pardave, Ruben Rojo, Miguel Angel Ferriz, Emma Roldán.

601. El gordo catástrofe, Hugo Moser et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Jorge Porcel, Moria Casán, Graciela Alfano.
     Abstract: Catrasca is a big man who is very accident prone. He is a chef for a nice restaurant and also cooks during the day for a boys home. One day, he gets hit by the car of a beautiful lady who then takes him to her home where her father, a doctor, takes care of him. Catrasca then ends up working for their family and manages to get caught up in the revealing of a secret potion that the doctor has created.

602. El Gordo Villanueva, Julio Saraceni et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Jorge Porcel, Julia Sandoval, Juan Carlos Altavista.
     Abstract: Gordo (the big one) Villanueva is put on trial for having cheated people out of things. As the case unfolds, many people that Gordo knows, (including family, friends, and acquaintances) speak up. Most do not say much nice, but Gordo has this way of making light of any situation. In the end, he manages to pull off another of his unexpected performances.

603. El gran amor de Becquer, Alberto de Zavalía et al., 1 videocassette, Buenos Aires, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Delia Gracés, Esteban Serrador, Susana Freyre.

604. El Gran calavera, Luis Buñuel and Epoca Video Ediciones (Firm), 1 videocassette (90 min), Buenos Aires Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Event Note: Videocassette release of the 1949 motion picture
     Added Title: The Great madcap.
     Abstract: Satirical film exploring the themes of transexual humor, sexuality in advertising, the working class' comical exploitation of the ruling classes, and the link between Christian evangelism and hard-sell advertising.

605. El grito de carne, Fernando Soler et al., 1 videocassette (85 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Fernando Soler, Charito Granados, Gustavo Rojo.
     Abstract: Guillermo de la Mora, an old actor, is retiring from the stage. He tells the audience on his last performance that he loved theater more than anything and laments he gave up everything for the stage; no woman loved him for who he really is, only for the roles he played, and now he is a lonely old man. Guillermo, however, has had a long affair with Beatriz, an actress, who loves him but is now moving to Spain because he would never marry her.

606. El Grito ojos de perro, Alberto Durant et al., 1 videocassette (84 min.), United States, Fresno, CA, 1987.
     Notes: Performer Note: Jorge Guerra, Jose Maria Salcedo, Maria Antonieta Perez
     Added Title: Weep for freedom
     Added Title: Ojos de perro.
     Abstract: Coerced into rebellion against the tyrannical regime of a ruthless landowner, the laborers of a sugar plantation form the first union in the country. The whole town faces the brutal repression of the ruling power headed by a young lawyer, who sacrifices his lover, his life, and that of those who surround him in his struggle for justice.

607. El hacha diabolica, Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Santo, Lorena Velazquez, Fernando Oses.
     Abstract: A successful wrestler is engaged in an important match when a mysterious man with an ax appears in the middle of the ring and assaults him, then disappears as inexplicably as he came. The spirit apparently seeks vengeance for a crime committed against him in a former life. The wrestler becomes frightened when the spirit reappears and tries to kill him. He consults a scientist who uses an apparatus to send the wrestler's spirit back in time, to 1603, in an attempt to rectify the original tragedy.

608. El hermano José, Antonio Momplet et al., 1 videocassette (93 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Pepe Arias, Ernesto Raquén, Raimundo Pastore.
     Abstract: A comedy featuring healers, magicians and the appearance of spirits in an abandoned house.

609. El hermoso Brummel, Julio Saraceni et al., 1 videocassette (89 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Fidel Pintos, Delfi Ortega, Carlos Enriquez.
     Abstract: His name was George Bryan Brummell, but he was known as Beau Brummell as a popular tribute to his almost diabolical fame as a dandy. He leaves the Army after insulting the Prince of Wales, regent of the king. He plots his revenge and puts himself at the center of palace intrigue and scandals.

610. El heroico Bonifacio, Enrique Cahen Salaberry et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pepe Iglesias, Nélida Romero, Andrés Mejuto.

611. El hijo de Cruz Diablo, Vicente Oroná Brillas et al., 1 videocassette (98 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Tomás Perrín, Lupita Ballardo, Antonio Bravo.
     Abstract: After the death of his father in 1642, the son of the infamous "Cruz Diablo" sets about to redeem his name and reclaim property taken unjustly by the Spanish monarch. He and two compadres combat the king's bumbling police force with the help of the returned spirit of Cruz Diablo. Meanwhile, Cruz Diablo's son and the king's daughter fall in love.

612. El hijo del crack, Leopoldo Torres Ríos, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, and Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.

613. El Hombre, cuando es hombre A man, when he's a man, Valeria Sarmiento and Women Make Movies (Firm), 1 videocassette, New York, N.Y, 1982.
     Notes: Added Title: A man, when he's a man.
     Abstract: A documentary illuminating the social climate and cultural conditions which nurture "michismo" and allow the domination of women by men to flourish in Latin America.

614. El hombre de la furia, Javier Solís et al., 1 videocassette (96 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Javier Solis, Dacia Gonzalez, Fernando "Mantequilla" Soto.
     Abstract: When young Alberto's parents and friends are killed by a tyrannical patrón named Ramón del Conde, he narrowly escapes and is taken in by three men who teach him to read and write, play guitar, and shoot a gun. Years later, when two of the men have been forced into servitude by Ramón del Conde, Alberto and his last surrogate father hear of a reception for the patron and decide to meet the other two to challenge Ramón del Conde's stranglehold on the farmers and workers in the area.

615. El Hombre de Maisinicú, Santiago Llapur, Manuel Pérez, and Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográfica, 1 videocassette (124 min.), S.l, 1987?
     Abstract: A documentary-like spy film portraying the struggle between CIA-sponsored counter-revolutionaries and peasants in Cuba during the late 1960's and early 1970's.

616. El hombre de Walter, Carlos Ameglio et al., 1 videocassette (54 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Gustavo Escanlar, Ileana Burnet, Ricardo Couto, Adriana Figueroa, Rosario González, Daniela Luna, Roberto Fontana, Omar Bouhid, Gabriela Martínez, Ana Inés Rodríguez Larreta.
     Abstract: In this surrealistic film, a little man travels through an enormous and rambling house full of traps that invariably lead to women (most of them naked), until ending at a fatuous presidential reception. And always there lurks a giant turtle, waiting to attack.

617. El hombre del sábado, Leopoldo Torres Ríos et al., 1 videocassette (70 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Pedro Quartucci, Virginia Luque, Pedro Maratea.
     Abstract: A working class man named Antonio Pérez is in love with an actress named Nora. After a series of love letters, he finally gets the opportunity to meet her. He buys a lottery ticket and ends up winning a lot of money. Along with this new fortune, he acquires new acquaintances and finds himself on unexpected adventures, all in the hope of winning Nora's heart.

618. El hombre del subsuelo un film, Nicolás Sarquís et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Buenos Aires, 1994?
     Notes: Performer Note: Alberto de Mendoza, Miguel Ligero, Regina Duarte.

619. El hombre propone-- 3 cuentos escritos por Jacha, Juan Alfonso Chavira et al., 1 videocassette (125 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Roberto Cañedo, Isabela Corona, Columba Domingez
     Contents: Venganza!! -- La Amenaza -- Carnaval
     Added Title: Verganza!!
     Added Title: Ameraza
     Added Title: Carnaval.
     Abstract: Three different stories of men reveal each one as the protagonist caught in a unique situation. In the first one, a gentleman in the symphony has a joke played on him where he is told that he will be the new conductor. He then plays as even better joke back as revenge. In the second part, a man is framed for robbing a jewelry store but manages to escape without being caught. In the final part, as a man hides, he borrows the outfit of a priest and is soon begged to watch over a sick man by a desperate wife that he encounters on the street.

620. El hombre que amé, Alberto de Zavalía et al., 1 videocassette, Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pedro López Lagar, Delia Garcés, Jorge Salcedo.

621. El Hotel de los chiflados, Antonio Helú et al., 1 videocassette (78 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Carlos Orellana, Rafael Falcón, Anita Campillo.
     Abstract: Several men with the same name, Juan Perez, check into a hotel--all at different times. This causes confusion when a woman whose husband is also named Juan Perez checks into a hotel room. More Juan Perezes check in, driving the clerk crazy.

622. El Huacán, Mady Samper and Gustavo Umaña V., 1 videocassette (19 min.), Bogotá, 1999.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ivan Alvarez, Juan Sebastian Aragon, Jaime Ceballos, Federico Umaña, Paula Umaña, Lina Uribe.
     Abstract: Two children enlist a street performer to help them search for a companion who was kidnapped.

623. El ídolo del tango, Héctor A Canziani et al., 1 videocassette (81 min.), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Julio Martel, Graciela Lecube, Héctor Ferraro
     Contents: El ídolo del tango (b&w; 64 min.) -- Documentary footage (col., ca. 17 min.).
     Abstract: A young saleswoman in a music shop becomes enamoured with a popular singer. Feature is followed by short documentary showing a celebration in honor of Julio Martel which took place in Buenos Aires on Apr. 15, 1992. Includes clips from Julio Martel's films.

624. El imperio de la fortuna The realm of fortune, Arturo Ripstein et al., 1 videocassette (131 min.), Mexico, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Blanca Guerra, Alejandro Parodi, Zaïde Silvia Gutíerrez.
     Abstract: A very poor, crippled man lives in a small town in Mexico with his mother. He works as a town crier and is very interested in the cock fights. One day a man gives him a losing cock for the soup pot, but he instead takes care of the animal and it becomes a winning fighter. He begins to win some money. "La Caponera", a very good looking singer, once avoided him but now she uses her coquetry to win his attention. They marry, but she misses the glamor of show business life and becomes unhappy.

625. El impostor, Emilio Fernández et al., 1 videocassette (?? min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pedro Armendariz, Silvia Derbez, Amanda del Llano.

626. El indio, Armando Vargas de la Maza et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Consuelo Frank, Pedro Armendáriz, Eduardo Vivas.
     Abstract: Antonio, the father of María, has arranged her marriage to Julian, but Maria loves Felipe. They all work for an overbearing boss who not only makes the Indians overwork, but also at times pay unfair taxes. One day a man visits the village asking to see some medicinal herbs in the mountains, and Julian is ordered to guide this man and the boss. The trip ends up being a fight for Julian's life; although he survives, upon return to the village he must still battle for the love of María.

627. El inglés de los huesos, Carlos Hugo Christiansen et al., 1 videocassette, Buenos Aires, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Arturo García Buhr, Anita Jordán, Elisardo Santalla.

628. El Inquisidor de Lima el fuego del pecado, Bernardo Arias et al., 1 videocassette, La Paz, Uruguay, 198-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Duilo Marzio, María Aurelia Bisutti, Elena Sedova.

629. El jinete fantasma, Jorge Mondragon et al., 1 videocassette (86 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Esther Luquin, Gilberto Gonzalez, Jorge Mondragon.
     Abstract: An infamous band of thieves continues to succeed in robbing private caravans and government carriages as they pass through the countryside, puzzling the authorities. Soon , though, a mysterious masked man begins to upstage the gang of thieves by robbing the cargoes before the thieves can, and then returning the stolen money after the robbers find the travelers empty-handed. Soon, both the government and the band of highwaymen are trying to discover the identity of the "Jinete Fantasma.".

630. El juego de la guitarra, José María Fernández Unsain et al., 1 videocassette (78 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Jacqualine Andere, Milton Rodriguez, Feliz González.
     Abstract: Maria is a grown woman with the mental development of a young girl. She is found in her home, her mother dead at the foot of the steps. A psychologist named Juan spends a day with her during which she recalls to him her life with a frustrated mother who tried to keep her inside at all times. She also tells of three men who lured her outside the house at night with guitar music, only to take advantage of her while restraining her mother. Now pregnant, Juan takes her to an institution, where she is frightened by the other patients and escapes, finding her way back to Juan's apartment.

631. El jugador el rey de espadas, Vicente Orona Brillas et al., 1 videocassette (68 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: David Silva, Carmelita Gonzalez, Aurora Segura.
     Abstract: Alberto escaped from jail with the help of a former inmate named Rosalio who now gives him a new identity as Manuel Romero. Alberto's case is about to be reviewed but he took the chance of escaping anyway because he must seek his revenge against a man who betrayed him. Alberto tells Rosalio the story of his life and how he was a crack gambler who never lost at dice.

632. El juguete rabioso, Javier Torres et al., 1 videocassette (93 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Thelma Biral, Lito Cruz, Mariano Torre, Onofre Lovero, María Vaner, Jorge Luz, Juan Acosta, Jean Pierre Regueraz, Lara Ebekián, Federico Mini, Nazareno Alvarez, Horacio Rocca, Augusto Britez, Horacio Marassi, Enrique Otranto.
     Abstract: A young man has ambitions to become an inventor, but he is only employed at a book store. In 1984, the director Jose Maria Paoloantonio made another film based on the famous novel by Robert Arlt.

633. El lado oscuro del corazón, Eliseo Subiela et al., 1 videocassette (127 min.), San Luis, Argentina, 1992.
     Notes: Performer Note: Dario Grandinetti, Sandra Ballesteros, Nacha Guevara.
     Abstract: The story of Oliverio, a poet who searches for a woman who knows how to fly, while Death, which constantly stalks him tries to convince him that for her flying would be quotidian. Ana, a prostitute, will be Oliverio's "discovery", will incarnate the sought love, at times happy, at others, melancholy but always surprising.

634. El látigo, José Bohr et al., 1 videocassette (77 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: José Bohr, Domingo Soler, Julian Soler, Elena D'Orgaz.
     Abstract: In a small Mexican town, there is a bandit called El Látigo, whose real name is Rafael. His father is the head of the police and abandoned his mother when she was pregnant. Rafael is taken care of by his uncle Antonio, and throughout his life shares his experiences with his friend Andrés. When Rafael falls in love with Carmenita, he knows that, in order to marry her, he must break up and abandon the group of "El Látigo" so that he can set everything straight with his father. This proves to be difficult, as there is a reward for his capture.

635. El Libro de buen amor, Juan Ruiz, 1 videocassette (60 min.), Princeton, N.J, 1980.
     Notes: Performer Note: D. Luis Rosales
     Performer Note: Juan José Otegue ... [et al.].
     Abstract: Dramatization of the fourteenth-century poem El libro de buen amor by Juan Ruiz. With commentary by Rosales.

636. El lugar sin limites, Arturo Ripstein et al., 1 videocassette (112 min.), Mexico, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Lucha Villa, Carmen Salinas, Ana Martin, Julian Pastor, Don Fernando Soler.
     Abstract: The "Japanese Girl" and her father, a homosexual nicknamed "Manuela" run a house of prostitution in a small Mexican town. They are both very attracted to Pancho, the prototypical machismo man. Their passions set them on a course for a brutal conclusion.

637. El Lute camina o revienta, Imanol Arias et al., 1 videocassette (120 min.), Madrid, 1988.
     Notes: Performer Note: Imanol Arias, Victoria Abril, Antonio Valero, Carlos Tristancho.
     Abstract: Based on the true story of a gypsy forced into a life of crime. His circumstances make him him the hero of this film.

638. El Lute II mañana sere libre, Imanol Arias et al., 1 videocassette (129 min.), Madrid, 1988.
     Notes: Performer Note: Imanol Arias, Jorge Sanz, Pastora Vega, Angel Pardo.
     Abstract: Based on the true story of a gypsy, imprisoned for his crimes. Presents his life in prison and after. He educates himself and becomes a lawyer.
639. El macho, Marcello Andrei et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Carlos Monzón, Malisa Longo, Susana Giménez.
     Abstract: A shipment of gold destined for the Bank of Abilene is robbed by bandits. When the Sheriff arrives, he notices that one of the dead bandits looks like the Kid, an adventurer whom the Sheriff has met recently. The Sheriff persuades the Kid to infiltrate the bandit. The Kid discovers that the gold is a fake and the whole thing is an insurance swindle cooked up by Banker Ross, in collaboration with the Sheriff and a mysterious figure called Soledad.

640. El mar y el tiempo, Fernando Fernán Gómez et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Madrid, 1990.
     Notes: Performer Note: Rafael Aparício, José Soriano, Fernádo Fernan-Gómez.
     Abstract: Madrid, 1968. The film tells the story of a small family--amother who has given up on life, a son, Eusobio, maitre-d' at a slightly pretenious restaurant, and his two daughters, ona a progressive-pragmatist, and the other, a teremendous idealist. They were the losers in the Civil War. Eusobio waits for a brotherwho was a political prisoner in Argentina. When hereturns, he encounters the new ideas which have forged the current era in Spain.

641. El Mariachi Desperado, Robert Rodriguez et al., 1 videodisc (ca. 81 min., 103 min.), Culver City, Calif, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: In Mariachi: Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gómez, Peter Marquardt ; In Desperado: Antonio Banderas, Joaquim De Almeida, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Cheech Marin, Quentin Tarantino
     Added Title: Desperado.
     Abstract: In "El mariachi", a would-be musician is mistaken for a criminal and must fight for his life. "Desperado" tells the story of a guitar player out for vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend. In "Bedhead", a young girl must use telekinetic powers to battle her brother.

642. El Mariachi [videorecording], Robert Rodriguez et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 81 min.), Burbank, Calif, 1993.
     Notes: Performer Note: Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gómez, Reinol Martinez, Peter Marquandt.
     Abstract: All he wants is to be a mariachi, like his father, his grandfather and his great grandfather before him. But the town he thinks will bring him luck brings only a curse--of deadly mistaken identity. Forced to trade his guitar for a gun, the mariachi is playing for his life.

643. El más infeliz del pueblo, Luis Bayón Herrera et al., 1 videocassette (70 min.), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Sandrini, Héctor Qintanilla, Iris Martorelli.
     Abstract: Panteleón Cordero is about to be married. However, his wife-to-be is worried that she will be embarrassed by this man who always gets nervous and mumbles. Still, they marry and yet manage to argue, even on their wedding day. Panteleón must iron out the rumors and gain back the respect from his wife. Thus, as he develops and time goes on, Panteleón pulls through with confidence despite his wife's doubts.

644. El memorioso, Jorge Luis Borges and Reina Roffé, 1 videocassette (54 min.), Hanover, NH, 1983.
     Abstract: Jorge Luis Borges, controversial author of "Fictions," speaks of his work with Argentine writer Reina Roffé; of the esthetic basis on which his stories are structured, and of the philosophical and metaphysical ideas which give substance to his poetry. He recalls the great writers of literature and describes his ethical, esthetic and ideological position vis à vis the world of letters. He recalls Buenos Aires at the turn of the century and confesses his unease with current political happenings in his country. He also recites five of his most famous poems.

645. El milagro de Ceferino Namuncirá, Máximo Berrondo et al., 1 videocassette (70 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Nelly Ortiz, Lucerito, Adelio Marzerati.
     Abstract: Wealthy landowner and widow Señora Catalina plans to marry her homebound son Raphael to one of her servants, Irene. To her surprise, Raphael brings home a wife who is of pure indigenous Argentinean blood, much to Señora Catalina's disliking. Meanwhile Irene schemes on how she can steal Señora Ctlalina's land holding by any means necessary.

646. El milagro del Cristo, Francisco Elias et al., 1 videocassette (105 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Arturo de Cordova, Ma. [María] Luisa Zea; Aurora Walker.
     Abstract: A celebrity sculptor named Miguel and his girlfriend are in a car accident in the countryside. She walks away unhurt; he is seriously injured. Leonora, a woman who lives nearby, and her father talk Miguel into staying with them until he is somewhat recuperated, although he has lost his sight. During his stay, letters arrive from his girlfriend saying that she is engaged to someone else, but Leonora pretends that they are love letters, making up flowery language to make him feel better. What he doesn't realize is that she really is in love with him, and he doesn't understand this until he has already left the house.

647. El misterio de los ojos escarlata, Alfredo Anzola, Biblioteca Nacional (Venezuela), and Cine Seis Ocho, 1 videocassette (80 min.), Caracas, 198-.
     Abstract: A mixture of stills, early film footage and new film which shows how Anzola's father was interested in film and in the entertainment world. It gives a picture of Venezuelan social life and customs in the early part of the 20th century. It the center of the story is the filming of a radio production, complete with methods of making sound effects, of a mystery called "El misterio de los ojos escarlata".

648. El misterio del cuarto amarillo, Julio Saraceni et al., 1 videocassette (78 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Santiago Gómez Cou, Tito Alonso, Herminia Franco.
     Abstract: Matilde lives with her father and one night is assaulted by an intruder in her yellow room. The intruder escapes and soon detectives and reporters are at the house trying to figure out the mystery. Everyone is in eager anticipation of the intruders return, when one night, shots are fired and someone dies. However, the truth is not divulged until a dramatic court seen where Matilde's secrets are revealed.

649. El misterioso Tio Sylas, Máximo Berrondo and Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 19??
     Abstract: Muet (Elsa O'Connor), daughter of wealthy businessman (Ricardo Galache) is left with the responsibility of rehabilitating her mysterious uncle Sylas, after her father's death.

650. El mojado, Danny Lyon, J. J Meeker, and Bleak Beauty Video, 1 videocassette (14 min.), Clintondale, N.Y, 1974.
     Abstract: Follows a Mexican alien who goes to Albuquerque, New Mexico in his search for work to provide for his family. Includes interviews with other undocumented workers and members of the United States Border Patrol.

651. El monje blanco, Jesús Bracho et al., 1 videocassette (112 min.), Stanford, CA, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Maria Felix, Ernesto Alonso, Maria Douglas.

652. El morocho del abasto, Julio Rossi et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Rolando Chaves, Tito Lusiardo, Pierina Dealessi.

653. El muerto falto a la cita, Pierre Chenal, 1 videocassette, S.l, 1944.

654. El Muerto The Dead man, Fernando Ayala et al., 1 videocassette (103 min.), United States, Fresno, CA, 1987?
     Notes: Performer Note: Francisco Rabal, Thelma Biral, Juan Jose Camero
     Added Title: Dead man.
     Abstract: "Traces the life of Benjamin Otálora. In nineteenth century South America, Otálora must flee Buenos Aires for killing a man. On his arrival in Montevideo, he meets the leader of a smuggling ring who takes him under his wings. As the aging gang leader takes sick however, Otálora covertly attempts to claim power within the ring."--External container.

655. El mundo contra mi, Beda Docampo Feijóo et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 88 min.), San Luis, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pauline Rachid, Mirta Bunelli, Daniel Fanego, Jorge Marrale, Carolino Papaleo.
     Abstract: An exploration of growing up in modern Argentina. Florencia is the daughter of a filmmaker and nothing is going right in her life. She records her thoughts on a video diary and day by day, the world seems to be falling apart around her--her mother may be having an affair, she doesn't fit in with her peers, she doesn't feel attractive. Soon, something must change.

656. El mundo loco de los jóvenes, José María Fernández Unsain et al., 1 videocassette (88 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: César Costa, Julissa de Llano, Julián Pastor.
     Abstract: A psychedelic comedy about four young men and their quest for a beautiful and unreachable woman. Four friends from the same neighborhood are smitten by a voluptuous woman, new in the area. They all attempt to attract her attention in their own way, and each is rejected. The four friends enlist the reluctant help of another companion from their neighborhood, now a wildly popular rock star living in a completely automated mansion. When his initial efforts of seduction get only resistance from her, his desire mushrooms, and he is soon devoting all his time to winning her affection.

657. El mundonovismo, Fernando Alegría, Jaime Barrios, and World News for Latin America (Firm), 1 videocassette (25 min.), McLean, Va, 1983?
     Abstract: Fernando Alegria discusses the importance of various works of Spanish literature written within the last forty years as well as present concepts in literary criticism.

658. El museo del crimen, David Bamberg et al., 1 videocassette (85 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: David T. "Fu Manchu" Bamberg, Pituka de Foronda, Ricardo Mondragon.
     Abstract: A wealthy woman and her nurse fall sick after eating from a box of chocolates given anonymously to the woman as a Christmas gift. Suspicion falls on her children and several hospital personnel when Fu Manchu begins to investigate the case.

659. El negro que tenía el alma blanca, Hugo del Carril et al., 1 videocassette (87 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Hugo del Carril, María Rosa Salgado, Antonio Casal.

660. El niño perdido, Germán Valdés et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 93 min.), México, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Germán Valdéz [sic] (Tin Tan), Marcelo Chávez, Emilia Guiu, Miguel Arenas.
     Abstract: Tin Tan presenta una comedia urbana en esta farsa un hombre de 25 años que ha sido aislado de la sociedad por dos tías codiciosas que planean robarle la herencia de un abuelo que nunca lo ha conocido. Tin Tan presents an urbane comedy in this farce about a 25 year old man who has isolated been from society by two scheming old women who plan to steal his inheritance from his grandfather whom he never met.

661. El Nino y la niebla, Roberto Gavaldón, Latin Nostalgia (Firm), and Movie-Mex International, 1 videocassette (?? min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.

662. El Norte, Anna Thomas et al., 1 videocassette (141 min.), Farmington Hills, Mich, 1984.
     Notes: Performer Note: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz
     Added Title: North.
     Abstract: Beginning in the remote jungles of Guatemala, the film chronicles the lives of a brother and sister who, after their father is killed by government soldiers, strike out on a perilous journey to reach the "promised land" in the north, America. Once there, their troubles do not end, for they are "illegals" in an alien culture.

663. El Nuevo cine latinoamericano New cinema of Latin America, Michael Chanan et al., 2 videocassettes (168 min.), New York, N.Y., 1983.
     Notes: Contents: I. Cine humilde = Cinema of the humble -- II. El largo camino = The long road
     Added Title: New Cinema of Latin America
     Added Title: Cine humilde
     Added Title: Cinema of the humble
     Added Title: Largo camino
     Added Title: Long road.
     Abstract: Part I traces the origins and development of the new cinema movement in the countries of Latin American from the early 1950s to the present and examines its political and social themes. In part II the political and cultural dimensions of the new cinema since the 1960s are explored in greater detail. Examines the new cinema's political concerns, its desire to give expression to the traditional cultures, national identities, and everyday experiences of Latin Americans, and the growing prominence of feminist cinema. Both parts include commentary by directors and others active in the new cinema movement and excerpts from numerous films.

664. El organillero, Antonio Espino et al., 1 videocassette (96 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Antonio Espino "Clavillazo," Veronica Loyo, Armando Arriola.
     Abstract: Rebecca, a beautiful singer, goes out with the producer of her shows, but she is actually in love with another man in the show and tells him so. While Rebecca, the producer, her sweetheart and another cast member are at the show, a young woman, Rosia, comes to the table to collect money for the organist, Clavillaso. Rebecca complains and Rosia is thrown out. Clavillaso and Rosia are in love with each other, though Clavillaso won't tell her. He takes in a old man who turns out to be a music teacher; the teacher claims he can make Rosia a great singer.

665. El otro Cristóbal, Armand Gatti et al., 1 videocassette (105 min.), Paris, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Jean Bouise, Alden Knight, Bertina Acevedo, Eduardo Manet, Agustín Campos, Eslinda Nuñez.
     Abstract: A fable based in Latin American and Cuban traditions, as well as Gulliver's travels, full of fantastic characters and situations. There is a god, Olofi, a dictator, Anastasio, and Cristobal. The dictator seizes the heavens and brings down Olofi. Cristobal and his people strive the dictator and release the heavens.

666. El Otro Francisco The other Francisco, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), New York, 1990.
     Notes: Performer Note: Miguel Benavides, Ramoncito Veloz, Alina Sánchez, Adolfo Llaurado, Héctor Quintero (as narrator)
     Added Title: The other Francisco.
     Abstract: A socio-economic analysis of slavery and class struggle through the retelling of the original novel.

667. El Otro lado The other side, Danny Lyon and Bleak Beauty Video (Firm), 1 videocassette (60 min.), Clintondale, N.Y, 1979.
     Notes: Added Title: The Other side.
     Abstract: Deep in Mexico, two brothers, a father and friends leave for work. They ride a bus 1300 miles north and cross into the United States by walking through the desert. They call the U.S. el otro lado, or, the other side.

668. El Pájaro de la felicidad, Pilar Miró et al., 1 videocassette (122 min.), Madrid, 1994.
     Notes: Performer Note: Mercedes Sampietro, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, José Sacristán.
     Abstract: Carmen is a strong and beautiful woman approaching fifty. At a dinner at her son's house, Carmen's son reproaches her for the way she has leds her life. When she leaves the apartment, preparing to get into her car, Carmen is sexually assaulted by a group of hoodlums. Back at home, her significant other, Fernando, seems unable to help her make sense of what has happened. Humiliated and frightened, Carmen checks into a hotel to be alone, and writes a letter to Fernando, in which she explains that she must look back and search for her parents, her first husband, her past.

669. El palacio negro, Arturo Ripstein et al., 1 videocasssette (105 min.), Mexico, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Narrators, Margarita Suzan, Miguel Necoechea, Arturo Ripstein.
     Abstract: Director Arturo Ripstein takes the camera inside Mexico City's Lecumberri Prison, a prison built on Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon model. He chronicles the life of the prisoners, from induction to release.

670. El Páramo de Cumanday, Gabriela Samper, Ray Witlin, and Mady Samper, 1 videocassette (22 min.), Bogota, Colombia, 1999.
     Abstract: A legendary mule driver and a young apprentice are the central figures in this fantasy filmed in the mountains of the Páramo in Colombia, South America.

671. El Patrullero Highway patrolman, Alex Cox et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 104 min.), United States, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Roberto Sosa, Bruno Bichir, Vanessa Bauche, Zaide Silvia Gutierrez, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Ernesto Gomez Cruz, Jorge Russek, Karl Baraun.
     Abstract: A top graduate of Mexico's National Highway Patrol Academy, Pedro Rojas, is sent to patrol a desolate highway. He soon succumbs to bribe-taking and corruption, and his life spins dangerously out of control. When his fellow patrolman and friend Anibal is killed by drug smugglers, Pedro becomes hell-bent on revenge.

672. El pecado de quererte, Gloria Marín et al., 1 videocassette (88 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Gloria Marín, Luis Aldas, José María Linares Rivas.
     Abstract: A convict escapes prison and hides in the home of Graciela while her husband Armando is away. The convict reveals himself, seduces her, and disappears before Armando returns the next day. When the police search the house the next day and Graciela acts strangely around Armando, he convinces a friend to watch her actions while he tries to win back her affections. However, when the convict appears in Armando's office to discuss business and Armando invites him to dinner, tensions increase greatly.

673. El pecado de ser pobre, José Luis Calderón et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ramón Armengod, Guillermina Grin, Tito Junco, Virginia Serret.
     Abstract: Un ex-presidio trata de reconstruir su vida cantando en un club nocturno para mantener a su hija pero es incriminado por un crimen que no ha cometido por un malvado que pretende a la mujer que ama. An ex-con tries to rehabilitate his life singing at a nightclub to support his daughter, but he is framed by a mobster who wants the woman he loves.

674. El pendiente, León Klimovsky et al., 1 videocassette XX min.), Argentina, 1951.
     Notes: Performer Note: Mirtha Legrand, José Cibrián, Francisco de Paula.
     Abstract: The heroine falls in love with Luciano Varilla, only to later discover he is being unfaithful. She moves away from town to avoid Luciano because he starts stalking her. She later meets and falls in love with Roberto. Luciano tracks the her down and attempts to blackmail her by using letters that she had written to him while they were involved. Luciano changes the dates on the letters and accuses her of adultery.

675. El perro del hortelano, Pilar Miró et al., 1 videocassette (109 min.), Madrid?, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Emma Suárez, Carmelo Gómez, Ana Duato, Fernando Conde, Miguel Rellán, Angel de Andrés, Juan Gea, Maite Blasco, Rafael Alonso.
     Abstract: A 17th-century Spanish noblewoman romances her low-born personal secretary, who is in love with her maid.

676. El pez que fuma, Cesar Bolivar et al., 1 videocassette (121 min.), Venezuela, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Miguelangel Landa, Orlando Urdaneta, Hilda Vera.
     Abstract: A brothel owner's wife stays at home while her husband has a secret affair in the city. His life is in jeopardy because of a business deal gone bad.

677. El picnic de los Campanelli, Enrique Carreras et al., 1 videocassette (70 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Alberto Anchart, Dorita Burgos, Osvaldo Canonico.
     Abstract: A family picnic turns out to be more than just a day of relaxation. A group of four men end up chasing their stolen suitcase of money that the family has accidently taken on their picnic with them. The men go through many of the day's activities just to get what they want. Still, by the end, everyone ends up content with their day away from the city.

678. El pijama de Adán, Francisco Mugica, 1 videocassette XX min.), Argentina, 19??

679. El plagiario!, Zacarias Gomez Urquiza et al., 1 videocassette (91 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Tito Guizar, Carmen Montejo, Arturo Martinez.
     Abstract: A man called "El Ranchero" is working in league with an organized criminal, and both are attracted to a woman named Maria. One evening, El Ranchero's accomplice kidnaps Maria, takes her to his home, and rapes her. Nine months later, about to give birth, she becomes terribly ill. El Ranchero arrives to late with Maria's deaf servant, Conchita, and although the baby lives, Maria dies. El Ranchero takes the baby and Conchita into his care and raises the girl as if she were his hown, By her 20th birthday, however, he still has not allowed her to leave home and treats her rather protectively, fearing she will be exposed to the same evils that ruined her mother's life.

680. El plano, Julio García Espinosa et al., 1 videocassette (93 min.), S.l, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Miguel Coyula, Carmen Daysi, Basílio García.
     Abstract: The adventures and cinematic experiments of students and their professor at a film school.The episodic story seems to be an investigation of the relationship of film and reality.

681. El poeta del agua Jorge Rojas, Jorge Rojas et al., 1 videocassette (25 min.), Bogota, Colombia, 1999.
     Notes: Performer Note: Actor, Simon Santander.
     Abstract: Poet Jorge Rojas talks about his life and poetry.

682. El portón de los sueños vida y obra de Augusto Roa Bastos, Hugo Gamarra Etcheverry et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Narration: Augusto Roa Bastos.
     Abstract: Portrait of the writer Augusto Roa Bastos, considered Paraguay's greatest living writer. Roa Bastos narrates a reconstruction of his childhood, mixed in with dramatizations of writings.

683. El precio de la gloria, Jaime Salvador et al., 1 videocassette (107 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Alfonso Ramirez Calesero, Alicia Ravel, Isabela Corona.
     Abstract: A pair of boys, Alberto and José Luis, are being taught the art of bullfighting. Their mother doesn't want them to be bullfighters, but their grandfather is pushing them to follow the path because he was once a bullfighter. She is afraid they will suffer the same fate as their father who was badly injured and no longer remembered by anyone. They tell her bullfighting is the only way they will be rich and famous enough that she won't have to work so hard to support her family anymore.

684. El primo Basílio, Carlos de Naraja et al., 1 videocassette (89 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ramón Pereda, Andrea Palma, Joaquín Busquets.

685. El profesor punk, Enrique Carreras et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Jorge Porcel, Julio de Grazia, Beatríz Salomón.
     Abstract: Amadeo Pancurullo is the music teacher at a coeducational high school. He goes on a camping trip with his students and a few other teachers. Two prisoners who have escaped from jail end up in their midst when they hunt for loot buried just in the center of the camp.

686. El professor Cero, Luis César Amadori et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pepe Arias, Zully Moreno, Osvaldo Miranda.

687. El pueblo mexicano que camina, Juan Francisco Urrusti, Instituto Nacional Indigenista (Mexico), and Archivo Filmográfico Audiovisual, 1 videocassette (96 min.), México, D.F, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Fernando Benétez, Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, Miguel León Portilla, Alfredo López Austin.
     Abstract: The film explores the cult of Our Lady of Guadalupe or Tonantzin, in the Aztec language. Following the pilgrims, aboriginals, mestizos, criollos and all the others, it traces the historical itinerary--cultural and politicical--of the Mexican people. Through interviews with the worshippers and also with historians, priests, anthropologists and psychologists, the fabric of the religious syncretism in Mexican culture is analyzed, exploring the relationship between collective unconscious and the history of the country.

688. El Quijote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra et al., 2 videocassettes (267 min.), Madrid, 1991.
     Notes: Performer Note: Fernando Rey, Alfredo Landa, Francisco Merino, José Luis Pellicena.
     Abstract: The adventures of the legendary 'hidalgo' Don Quixote as written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

689. El rapido de las 9:15, Alejandro Galindo et al., 1 videocassette (?? min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Virginia Fabregas, Miguel Inclan, Alfredo del Diestro.
     Abstract: The lives of a number of people--newlyweds, businessmen and others--intersect when they board the 9:15 express train along with a group of criminals who are fleeing on the same train.

690. El rayo de Sinaloa Heraclio Bernal, Julián S González et al., 1 videocassette (66 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Antonio R. Fausto, Amparo Arozamena, Raúl de Anda.
     Abstract: The curious biography of Heraclio Bernal, generous bandit.

691. El rebelde, Jaime Salvador et al., 1 videocassette (114 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Jorge Negrete, Maria Elena Marques, Julio Villarreal.
     Abstract: It is the late 19th century after the overthrow of Emperor Maximilian. Don Pablo throws parties (tertulias) and plays practical jokes on his guest, who don't always appreciate them. Don Antonio is one who doesn't find them amusing and in retaliation, says that the saddle that Don Pablo claims belonged to Herman Cortes is not authentic. Don Pablo attacks Don Antonio, who merely says he should watch himself. Later, Don Pablo goes to make peace with Don Antonio, but someone shoots at him and a feud ensues.

692. El Rebozo de Soledad, Arturo de Cordova and P Armendariz, 1 videocassette (120 min.).

693. El reincidente soy un delincuente, parte 2, Clemente de la Cerda et al., 1 videocassette (96 min.), Venezuela, Chorilllos, Peru, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Manuel Ferreira, María Escalona, Haydee Balza.
     Abstract: A sequel to de la Cerda's dramatization of Ramón Antonio Brizuela's Soy un delincuente, a testimonial of his brutal life on the streets and in the jails of one of the most populous Latin American cities. In this film Brizula, instead of escaping the streets, returns to new romantic conquests, new assaults, new prosecutions, and new incarcerations. Everything goes wrong in his life and he seems destined to die young.

694. El rencor de la tierra, Rita Macedo et al., 1 videocassette (93 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Rita Macedo, Isabela Corona, Carlos L. Moctezuma.
     Abstract: Class tensions are inflamed in a dispute over rights to the water supply between a rich landowner and a poor farming community. When the patrón's workers desert him, his pampered daughter attempts to cultivate the land herself, with little success. She refuses to accept the help of a man from the farming community who takes and interest in her, making the situation more tense.

695. El reñidero, René Mugica et al., 1 videocassette (65 min.), Montevideo, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Alfredo Alcón, Francisco Petrone, Jorge Salcedo.
     Abstract: Wealthy Argentine ranch owner, Don Pancho Morales, gets mysteriously murdered. His emotionally disturbed daughter, Elena, who was in love with him convinces her brother Orestes that her mother and the groundskeeper, Soriano, were responsible for the murder. Orestes is faced with the decision of avenging his father or believing the truth that his mother tells him.

696. El retrato, Carlos Schlieper et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Mirtha Legrand, Juan Carlos Thorry, Alberto Bello.

697. El rey de patagonia, Stephàne Kurc et al., 1 videocassette (118 min.), Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Omar Sharif, Carla Gravina, Frederic van den Driesseche.
     Abstract: Antoine de Tounens, also known as Orélie-Antoine (or Orllie-Antoine), a young French solicitor from Périgaux, embarked on an adventure in Patagonia in 1857. He saw a chance to fulfil his destiny by proclaiming himself king of Patagonia-Araucania, composing a constitution, and asserting independence from Chile. With the aid of Kipeyan, his native Minister of War, he found support in the Patagonian natives, who had suffered under successive invaders--the Incas in the 15th century, the Spaniards in the 16th-17th century, and then the Chileans. He exploited a legend which prophecied that a white man would join them in fighting off his brother invaders. When Chile moved against him and his subjects, he promised help from France--help which never materialized. Soon the Kingdom of Patagonia-Auracania collapsed, and with it, King Orélie-Antoine I.

698. El rey del barrio, Felipe Meir et al., 1 videocassette (99 min.), Madera, Calif, 1984.
     Notes: Performer Note: Germán Valdez, Silvia Pinal, Tongolele.
     Abstract: A poor railroad employee doubles as a modern Robin Hood on the street.

699. El Rey pasmado, Maria Barranco et al., 1 videocassette (105 min.), Madrid, 1992.
     Notes: Performer Note: Maria Barranco, Joaquim de Almeida, Laura del Sol.
     Abstract: It is the 17th century and the king of Spain is a young man, inexperienced in politics and love. Nevertheless, he soon discovers a world of new sensations in the arms of Marfisa, one of the most beautiful prostitutes of the court. The news runs from mouth to mouth, filtering through the walls of the palace.

700. El Romance del palmar, Ramón Peón et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 93 min.), Cuba, 1993?
     Notes: Performer Note: Rita Montaner, Alicia Rico, Margo Alvariño, Lolita Berrio.

701. El Salvador another Vietnam, Glenn Silber et al., 1 videocassette (53 min.), New York, 1981.
     Notes: Added Title: Salvador, another Vietnam.
     Abstract: Examining the parallels between U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia and present-day El Salvador, the film recounts the origins of the conflict in El Salvador and follows subsequent developments through May 1981.

702. El Santo Oficio Holy Office, Arturo Ripstein et al., 1 videocassette (131 min.), Mexico, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Jorge Luke, Diana Bracho, Claudio Brook, Ana Merida.
     Abstract: It is the late 16th century in Mexico and a time of plague. The Holy Office is rooting out heresy and particularly Jews, for the Jews are believed to be responsible for the plague. Friar Gaspár de Carvajal, a monk raised in a monestary since the age of 10, observes his family practicing Jewish burial rites at his father's funeral. He reports his family to the Inquisition and they are arrested. One brother escapes to Spain, but the rest are imprisoned until they recant. The other brother, Luis, recants because he has a vision that he should call himself José Lubroso and that he will father the Messiah. Although the family is free, suspicion is upon them and Luis's actions threaten to bring the Holy Office wrath.

703. El secreto de la monja, Lupita Gallardo et al., 1 videocassette (81 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Lupita Gallardo, José Crespo, René Cardona.
     Abstract: A swashbuckling adventure set in 17th century Mexico.

704. El Secreto De La Solterona, Jose Cibrian and Sara García, 1 videocassette (105 min.).

705. El Seminarista, Roberto Rodriguez et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 95 min.), México, 1992.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pedro Infante, Silvia Derbez, Fernándo Soto (Mantequilla), Katy Jurado, Arturo Soto Rangel.
     Abstract: Miguel (Infante) returns to his village from seminary school accompanied by Toño (Mantequilla), his worshipful friend from the seminary. He visits his womanizing and pandering uncle Pancho (Soto Rangel) who tells Miguel that he's not quite a man and gets Toño involved in his carousing. Miguel teaches in a girls' school. Many complications arise with jealous lovers, loose women, and various temptations.

706. El señor gobernador, Ernesto Cortazar et al., 1 videocassette (75 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Aguilar, Rita Maceo, Mauricio Garces.
     Abstract: Fortunato Pastrana, a state governor, tells his constituents he is just like them: he was once a poor man who fell in love with a hacienda patron's daughter, but to no avail. Now that he is governor, he is redistributing land to the poor and providing water, food and schools. His policies have earned him many enemies, including the Don Hermosillo, the hacienda owner, who sends his daughter to warn Pastrana to change his policies.

707. El sexto sol rebelión maya en Chiapas, Saul Landau, Meridian Productions, Inc, and Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1 videocassette (56 min.), S.l, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Eliana Loveluck, narrator ; Jorge Rivera, voice of the men.
     Abstract: An examination of the events during and following the peasant uprising in Chiapas in 1994.

708. El siglo del viento, Fernando Birri et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Uruguay, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Narrator: Eduardo Galeano.
     Abstract: Based on the third vol. of Eduardo Galeano's "Memorias del fuego," the film attempts to encompasses the entire experience of Latin America in the 20th century through archival films, animation, and interviews. Located somewhere between fact and fiction, the films explores such topics as urban violence, the conquest of the city by automobiles, the Brazilian farmers' movement Sin Terra, and the Zapatistas, the first postmodern Internet guerrillas.

709. El Signo de la muerte, Felipe Mier et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 100 min.), México, 1992.
     Notes: Performer Note: Cantinflas, Manuel Medel, Elena D'Orgaz, Carlos Orellana, Thomas Perrin, Jr.
     Abstract: A series of adventures in which Cantinflas finds himself unexpectedly immersed in a criminal ring which brutally murders innocent young ladies.

710. El silencio de Neto The silence of Neto, Luis Argueta et al., 1 videocassette (106 min.) : sd., col, New York, 1994.
     Notes: Performer Note: Oscar Javier Almengor, Eva Tamargo Lemus, Herbert Meneses, Julio Díaz.
     Abstract: A middle class boy's coming of age in Guatemala during the political turmoil of 1954. He feels a close connection with his uncle Ernesto, a dreamer and traveler who teaches him his insistence upon the danger of keeping silent and not speaking out against lies and injustice.

711. El sol sale para todos, Víctor Urruchúa et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Fermín Rivera, Gloria Márin, Alicia Neira, Katy Jurado.
     Abstract: Juan Mendoza, in his first bullfight, is gored by the bull and severely injured. Amparo visits him and recalls how they met in a cabaret. She recalls how they began meeting regularly, though she was a prostitute and he had little money. After Amparo convinced Juan to lend her some money, she told him she wished not to see him any more and they separated. Juan decided to try his hand at bullfighting in an attempt to earn a more substantial living, thus leading to his injury.

712. El soltero, Carlos F Borcosque et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Argentina, 198-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Claudio García Satur, Fernanda Mistral, Enrique Almada.
     Abstract: Raúl is a single man who has many problems. He likes women, but can not seem to settle down. His ex-girlfriend Marta was not enough for him and he could not commit to her. Meanwhile, his mother and friends keep trying to get him to move on in life. After many setbacks, including leaving his girlfriend, getting robbed, arguments with his family, and losing other women, Raul must really decide what is best for him.

713. El solterón, Fernando Mujica et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Enrique Serrano, Juan Carlos Thorry, Fanny Navarro.
     Abstract: Tomasito is a bachelor and a member of an old family who lives in the center of the city, uncontaminated by ideas about the night life. He travels to Europe and discovers a new world in the temptations of the Old World. Many years later, he discovers he has a 30 year-old son and decides to help him avoid the depths to which he, himself fell.

714. El sube y baja, Cantinflas and Posa Films, 1 videocassette (VHS).
     Notes: Performer Note: Mario Moreno Cantinflas.
     Abstract: A salesman in a sporting goods store moves from salesman to elevator operator thanks to his foulups, thus the title "He goes up and down.". Un empleado juguetón de un almacén de deportes es enviado a Acapulco donde se le confunde a él con un deportista famoso.

715. El Super, Leon Ichaso et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), New York, N.Y, 1989.
     Notes: Performer Note: Raymundo Hidalgo-Gato, Zully Montero, Reynaldo Medina, Elizabeth Peña.
     Abstract: A view of Cuban exiles living in a basement apartment during a snowy winter in New York. El Super is the story of Roberto, a superintendent, who dreams of his warm and friendly homeland, and stubbornly refuses to assimilate into the new culture.

716. El superflaco, Miguel M Delgado et al., 1 videocassette (77 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Evangelina Elizondo, Pompin Iglesias, Wolf Ruvinskis.
     Abstract: Pompís is an employee in a sporting goods store who, despite his efforts, is extremely weak, and his life suffers for it. He pines over beautiful women but is ignored by them, and his only admirer is his modest neighbor and coworker, whom he generally ignores. When one day he becomes inebriated as a way to forget his problems, a strange scientist injects him with a solution designed to bring strength. The next morning he is somehow inhumanly strong, breaking metallic objects on contact and fending off three professional fighters who insult him. He is an instant sensation, yet he forgets about his only real friend.

717. El superloco, Juan José Segura et al., 1 videocassette (65 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Leopoldo "Chato" Ortin, Carlos Villarías, Aurorita Campuzano.
     Abstract: A drunken and neurotic Doctor Sostenes has no trouble publicly humiliating himself: his friends regularly help him home drunk and he has no shame dressing like a woman at a public swimming pool. He is, however, the only person that is suspicious of the mysterious Dr. Dienys, who uses humans in his medical experiments. Set upon using the young Margarita, fiancee of his colleague Alberto, Dr. Dienys carries her favor and makes Alberto a bit nervous. Doctor Sostenes, without proof to accuse Doctor Dienys of anything, can only watch him closely.

718. El Tango es una historia, Gastón Martínez Matiella et al., 1 videocassette (55 min., 35 sec.), New York, 1983.
     Notes: Performer Note: Juan Rodríguez Yerena
     Added Title: Tango is also a history.
     Abstract: Examines the tango as an embodiment of the character of the Argentine people and as a reflection of Argentina's history. Traces the origin of the tango in the melding of indigenous gaucho music and the musics of Argentina's European and African immigrants in the 19th century and demonstrates how tango lyrics have always been used to express popular views on political and social issues. Includes interviews with and perfomances by noted tango musicians Astor Piazzola and Osvaldo Pugliese.

719. El tango vuelve a Paris, Manuel Romero et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Alberto Castillo, Aníbal Triolo, Severo Fernández.
     Abstract: In this sequel to Romero's Tres anclados en Paris, a singer goes to Paris to introduce the tango to the City of Light. While he is there, he falls in love.

720. El tesorio de Pancho Villa, Antonio Frausto et al., 1 videocassette (66 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Antonio Frausto, Raúl de Anda, Victoria Blanco.
     Abstract: While burying treasures plundered by Pancho Villa, a Mexican officer is shot and sent awy on his horse to the U.S. Recovering from his wounds on an American ranch, the officer falls in love with the owner's daughter, but must return to Mexico to reclaim the buried treasure.

721. El tigre de Jalisco, Beatriz Aguirre et al., 1 videocassette (93 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Beatriz Aguirre, Delia Magaña, Armando "El Chicote" Soto La Marina.
     Abstract: The son of a high government official in Jalisco, also an assistant to his father, fabricates rumors about a vicious bandit labeled "The Tiger of Jalicso" by the press. The rumors draw extra monetary support from the governor and tourists all the way from America, making the rumor profitable for everyone. The official's son must then find a way to expose the truth without ruining his father's career.

722. El tío disparaté, Palito Ortega et al., 1 videocassette (81 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Carlitos Bala, Las Trillizas de Oro, Javier Portales, Iris Laínez.

723. El tropero ; 21 días, Ildefonso Beceiro et al., 1 videocassette (21 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: 21 días: Martita Lujan, Carment Ferrod, Andrés Redondo
     Contents: El tropero (8 min. ; b&w) -- 21 días (13 min. ; col.).
     Abstract: Two short films by Urugayan filmmaker Ildefonso Beceiro. El tropero attempts to evoke the men whose work was a fundamental factor in the country's economic development. 21 días tells the story of a young girl who takes her beloved chicken to market.

724. El túnel, León Klimovsky et al., 1 videocassette (94 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Laura Hidalgo, Carlos Thompson, Santiago Gómez Cou, Bemardo Perrone, Maruja Gil Quesada, Pascual Pellicciotta, Ricardo Lavié. Enrique Fava, Margarita Burke, Fausto Padul, Alfredo Distasio, luan Ehlelt, Guillermo Witte, Inés dc Tolosa.
     Abstract: Adapted from the novel of the same title by Ernesto Sabato, about a painter who kills the woman he loves.

725. El ultimo cuplé, Saa Montiel et al., 1 videocassette (114 min.), México, 1992.
     Notes: Performer Note: Sarita Montiel, Armando Calvo.
     Abstract: A musical drama featuring a tragic love story. Relates a singer's rise to fame and her subsequent downfall because of the death of her lover. She manages to return to the stage only to die after her first public performance.

726. El último perro, Lucas Demare et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Hugo del Carril, Nelly Heden, Nelly Panizza.
     Abstract: When María Faviana was a little girl, Indians killed everyone in her family, but her father put her on a horse in hopes that she would be found. She ends up at a small community where they take her in. As she grows up, María is faced with the threat of Indians, the jealousy of other men in the village, and the loss of her family. When another family is attacked, a small girl is orphaned, and so María takes her in and together the two of them try to survive as best they can.

727. El último viaje de Robert Rylands, Gracia Querejeta et al., 1 videocassette (105 min.), Spain, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ben Cross, Cathy Underwood, Kenneth Colley.
     Abstract: Robert Rylands, professor and archaeologist, of whom no one at Oxford University has heard anything since his unusual disappearance ten years earlier, returns suddenly on the eve of his seventieth birthday. On his arrival Rylands makes a voluntary statement to the local police, detailing the truth of his disappearance and the complex mystery at its core. His narrative becomes the thread which links the past and the present, and its effect is to reverberate dramatically through his circle of friends and former lovers. Through Ryland's memory we get to know the red-haired Jill, her daughter Sue, the Indian house keeper Ahria, the black student Abraham Jones and the Spaniard Juan Noguera, recently arrived to teach literature. Above all Rylands' reminiscences lead us to his former friend Alfred Cromer-Blake, and reveals the close bond and secret that binds the two men - until their last journey.

728. El valor de vivir, Arturo Cordova et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Arturo de Cordova, Rosita Quintana, Maria Douglas.
     Abstract: A young dancer, Elia, is in love with a famous and handsome concert pianist, Fernando Aibaros, but he doesn't even know she exists. Sr. Aibara, whose wife Laura is German, is arrested and charged with espionage and Aibara's lawyer tells him that it was probably his wife's doing, since she selected his music and now doesn't hesitate to divorce him. Aibara is given 8 years in prison and while he is there, he recalls catching his wife with a list of names of people in 4 countries, but she made an excuse. The head guard believes him guilty and treats him harshly. Elia writes him anonymously to tell him she believes he's innocent.

729. El Verano de la Señora Forbes The Summer of Miss Forbes, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo et al., 1 videocassette (87 min.), New York, NY, 1991.
     Notes: Performer Note: Hanna Schygulla (Institutriz), Francisco Gattorno (Aquiles), Alexis Castañares (Sandro), Víctor Cesar Villalobos (Mauricio), Guadalupe Sandoval (La Madre), Fernando Balzaretti (Eduardo), Yuriria Munguia (Cocinera)
     Added Title: The Summer of Miss Forbes.
     Abstract: Miss Forbes is a governess hired to look after two boys whose parents have taken a six-week vacation. By day, she runs the household with oppressive discipline. By night, she gets drunk on tequila. The boys spy on her nighttime binges and fantasize about her brutal death. But their plans for her death are not as grim as her ultimate fate.

730. El verano del potro, Andre Melançon et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Héctor Alterio, Alexandra London-Thompson, Juan de Benedictis.
     Abstract: Daniel, Laura, and Felipe go to their grandparents' house every summer. This summer, Daniel (the oldest boy) really wants to break in a wild horse and learn to ride him. However, Martín, a close childhood friend that lives with his family on the same ranch, gets a little jealous because he wants the horse. Meanwhile, Laura tries to understand why her grandfather seems not to love her anymore. By the end of the summer, frienships are renewed and family ties are made stronger.

731. El verso, Santiago Carlos Oves et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Brandoni, Virginia Lago,Tincho Zabala.
     Abstract: Juan lives off the "hustle," that is, telling stories, his gift of gab, selling apples for oranges, knife sharpeners to bus riders. He is not worthy of admiration or pity. He is a human being whose life took a bad turn. His middle-class aspirations crushed by unemployment, he makes a living selling coffee in the streets. He has learned to live from the distinguished art of "hustling." Juan makes believe that he deceives everyone -- his "clients," his wife Rosa, his lover Myriam , even the "Rumanian" who refuses to extend him any more credit, but in reality Juan deceives no one. This Argentinean institution is a house of cards which crumbles on its own, and Juan, with his dream of becoming a radio commentator ("imagine, they pay you just for talking!"), must face reality.

732. El viaje, Francisco Mugica et al., 1 videocassette, Buenos Aires, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Mirtha Legrand, Roberto Airaldi, Aída Luz.

733. El Viaje The voyage, Fernando E Solanes et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 133 min.), United Kingdom, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Walter Quiroz, Soledad Alfaro, Ricardo Bartis.
     Abstract: In this companion piece to Solanas' films Tangos and Sur, 17 yr. old Martin sets out an odyssey through Latin America to find his father, last heard of working as an anthropologist in Brazil. He hopes his journey will serve as an important rite of passage to resolve his search for his identity. He sets out by bicycle, wending his way from Tierra del Fuego to Peru, the Andes highlands, and then on to the Amazon, finally reaching the Brazilian gold mine where his father now works as a prospector. Along the epic journey, Martin experiences Latin American reality and myth, and witness the absurdities and contradictions which the director, Fernando Solanas, believes represent modern-day Argentina.

734. El viejo doctor, Mario Soffici et al., 1 videocassette (76 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Enrique Muiño, Alicia Vignoli, Angel Magaña.
     Abstract: An old, traditional doctor comes into conflict with a young doctor with new medical ideas and practices.

735. El viejo Hucha, Lucas Demare et al., 1 videocassette (85 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Enrique Muiño, Francisco Petrone, Nuri Montse.
     Abstract: A wealthy Argentine businessman and father of six, shelters his children and is very strict with them. All that he wishes is for them to be successful and safe, but he alienates them in the process. Humberto, the eldest son leads a lifestyle of a gambling mobster just to spite his father.

736. El Willy y la Myriam, David Benavente et al., 1 videocassette (22 min.), New York, N.Y, 1984.
     Notes: Added Title: Willy and Miriam
     Added Title: Willy & Miriam.
     Abstract: A portrait, illustrating the social conditions among the urban poor in Latin America, of a young couple with two children living in Santiago, Chile. Poverty and frequent unemployment are among the conditions that eventually bring about the breakup of their family.

737. El Zorro pierde el pelo, Mario C Lugones et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pepe Iglesias, Fidel Pintos, María Esther Gamas.

738. Elba Esther Gordillo, la audacia, Elba Esther Gordillo, Denise Maerker, and Once TV (Mexico City, Mexico), 1 videocassette (56 min.), México, D.F, 1999.
     Notes: Performer Note: Guest, Elba Esther Gordillo; interviewer, Denise Maerker.
     Abstract: An interview with Mexican politician Elba Esther Gordillo, who discusses her life and work and the position of women in politics in Mexico today.

739. Elecciones a documentary, Mario Handler, 1 videocassette (36 min.), Urugay, 1967.

740. Elisa Benavides el imperativo moral, Elisa Benavides, Denise Maerker, and Once TV (Mexico City, Mexico), 1 videocassette (55 min.), México, D.F, 1999.
     Notes: Performer Note: Guest, Elisa Benevides; interviewer, Denise Maerker.
     Abstract: An interview with Elisa Benavides, who spent 15 years living clandestinely among the Indians of Chiapas.

741. Elisa, vida mia, Carlos Saura et al., 1 videocassette (125 min.), Santa Monica CA, 1994.
     Notes: Performer Note: Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Rey.
     Abstract: Elisa and her father, a famous novelist, are reunited after twenty years. In an isolated farmhouse in Segovia they discuss their problems. A psychological, introspective drama.

742. Elizabeth, Cate Blanchett et al., 1 videodisc (124 min.), New York, 1999.
     Notes: Performer Note: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, Richard Attenborough, John Gielgud.
     Abstract: Queen Elizabeth I must learn to weigh her counsel carefully and ignore her private yearnings if she is to keep her crown--and her head. A thriller of intrigue in the court of one of history's greatest monarchs.

743. Ella y yo, Miguel M Delgado et al., 1 videocassette (99 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pedro Armendáriz, Miroslava, Miguel Aceves Mejia.
     Abstract: On her way to Mexico City to marry her fiancé (a professional golfer), a beautiful young woman has car trouble and is forced to take a bus, on which she meets Don Pedro, a ranch owner from a small provincial town. Because of an accident on the road, the woman must stay in his town, in a seedy hotel full of animals. Although interested in Pedro, she soon learns that he is somewhat of a local playboy, and she treats him with disapproval despite his efforts to charm her. Pedro takes this in stride, and watches as she becomes used to small town life.

744. Ellos nos hicieron así, Mario Soffici et al., 1 videocassette (94 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Olga Zubarry, Alberto Mendoza, Golde Flami.
     Abstract: Manuel, a smart and handsome young man, is in love with Francisca. Unfortunately, Manuel's father bvegins to suffer from arthritis and Manuel must postpone school in order to run his father's business. Upon learning this, Francisca chooses another man and leaves Manuel in the past. A series of unhappy events convinces Francisca of her mistake, and she seeks out Manuel once more.

745. Elpidio Valdés contra dolar y cañón, Adalberto Hernández et al., 1 videocassette of 1 (VHS) (ca. 80 min.), Cuba, Cuba?, 1983.
     Notes: Performer Note: Voices: Frank González, Maria Eugenia García, Manuel Marín
     Added Title: Elpidio Valdés vs. guns and money.

746. Elvia the fight for land and liberty in Honduras, Elvia Alvarado et al., 1 videocassette (27 min.), San Francisco, CA, 1988.
     Abstract: Chronicles the work of Elvia Alvarado, a Honduran woman peasant activist, in getting the peasants, including the peasant women, of Honduras to, in light of the failure of the Honduran government to implement its own land-reform statute, take over the land themselves and set up a land-reform program of their own, in order to better their economic situation.

747. Emiliano Zapata, Antonio Aguilar et al., 1 videocassette (145 min.), Madera, Calif, 1985.
     Notes: Performer Note: Antonio Aguilar, Jaime Fernandez, Mario Almada, Patricia Aspillaga.
     Abstract: "The heroic and vilent [sic] drama of one of the greatest men in the history of the Mexican Revolution, Zapata."--External container.

748. The Empowerment Project presents the Panama deception, David Kasper et al., 1 videocassette (91 min.), Los Angeles, CA, 1993.
     Notes: Performer Note: Elizabeth Montgomery
     Added Title: The Panama deception.
     Abstract: This provocative, opinionated film about the U.S. invasion of Panama in December 1989 explores the political relationship between the two countries both before and after the military action. It criticizes the media for uncritically reporting the administration's version of the action. It claims that the American people were lied to about the action, the real purpose of which was to insure continued U.S. control of Panama and the canal.

749. En cada feria un amor, Rogelio A Gonzalez et al., 1 videocassette (72 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Julio Aldama, Alfredo Sadel, Olivia Michel.
     Abstract: Three charismatic gambling friends visit a Northern Mexican town to try their luck, and all three are immediately taken with the wealthy niece of a local entrepreneur. All take turns wooing this beautiful Lupana, yet she remains somewhat apathetic to their attempts. The whole affair grows into a feud between the friends, and they take pains to defame each other in any way possible. Unsure that the three men are not solely motivated by her money, Lupana devises a plan to determine which is actually in love with her.

750. En el aire On the air /c El Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos ; argumento, Aida Bahr ; dramaturgia, Ana Cecilia Fuentes ; guión, Aida Bahr, Pastor Vega ; dirección, Pastor Vega ; productor, José R. Perez, Aida Bähr et al., 1 videocassette (92 min.), New York, 1990.
     Notes: Performer Note: Susana Tejera, Omar Moyrello, Raul Pomares.
     Abstract: A small radio station in communist Cuba is looking for new and original programming. A young man, Daniel, begins a show which takes him all over Cuba for live interviews. Various tensions occur between the traditional broadcasters and the younger breed, and also between Daniel and his contemporary Ana who have differences over what constitutes good program content. Finally they become good friends and the radio show continues.

751. En el nombre del hijo, Jorge Polaco et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 88 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Margot Moreyra, Ariel Bonomi, Fernando Madanes.
     Abstract: "This is a family chonicle without any concessions, where everything happens like newspaper headlines. Its characters are purely Argentinean and they offer a range of perversions representative of our repressive society. Those characters get universialized in the great conflicts of Man: identiry, loneliness, sex, madness and death. A mother and her son and the different forms of overprotection: rejection, jealously, complicity and aversion. Two people who are seemingly adrift, with autonomous, but compromised identies." --Jorge Polaco.

752. En el país de los orichas, Elio Ruíz et al., 1 videocassette (58 min.), Cuba, s.l., 1993?
     Abstract: Documentary presents the viewer with several examples of Cuban folk dances. Includes interviews with experts in the field.

753. En el viejo Buenos Aires, Antonio Momplet et al., 1 videocassette (82 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Liberdad Lamarque, Luis Aldas, Orestes Caviglia, Elsa O'Connor.

754. En la B.C.G. no engorda, Jorge Esmoris et al., 1 videocassette (33 min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 198?
     Notes: Performer Note: Antimurga BCG.
     Abstract: Musical-theatrical production filled with black and irreverent humor. The background of the production is the Uruguayan carnival to which the comedic group is travelling on a bus. The comedy pokes fun at insanity in general and the Uruguayan national character in particular.

755. En la mitad del mundo, Ramón Pereda et al., 1 videocassette (82 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ernesto Alban, Andres Soler, Rita Macedo.
     Abstract: Don Mentura, an educated husband and father, is reduced to disguising himself as a blind beggar in order to support his family. Whatever he does and wherever he goes, bad luck is his curse: buildings burn, accidents occur , employees strike. He and his family move to a new city, try to escape his reputation, where Don Mentura meet a wealthy old friend. The bad luck, however, continues, making life difficult for everyone with whom he comes in contact.

756. En la palma de tu mano, Oscar J Brooks et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Madera, Calif, 1992.
     Notes: Performer Note: Arturo de Cordoba, Andrea Palma, Carmen Montejo.
     Abstract: Story of an ambitious fortune teller who tries to blackmail a beautiful murderess and her lover, becoming involved in a web of crime.

757. En los altos de Jalisco, Chano Urueta et al., 1 videocassette (87 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Tito Guizar, Blanca Estela Pavon, Tito Junco.
     Abstract: A leader of a revolutionary group named Juan Chavez takes care of his younger brother, Efren, who is only part of the group to have fun. Efren goes to a party in town and begins to be abusive with some women; when the brother of one of the women tries to defend his sister, Efren kills him. The murdered man's sister is now out for revenge and Juan doesn't know what happened. She finds out that Efren has a girlfriend in town and will wait to take revenge until he visits her.

758. En memoria de Paulina, Alejandro Areal Vélez et al., 1 videocassette (54 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Cecilia Biagni, Marcelo Silva, Luis Rubio, Leandro Bardach.
     Abstract: Carlo is in love with Paulina, but he takes up an offer to study abroad. At a party the last night before he leaves, Julio Montaro, an acquaintance, offers to accompany Paulina home. Carlo hears nothing from Paulina for two years, then when he returns to Argentina, she suddenly reappears and they have a passionate meeting. Just as suddenly, she is gone again. When he tells his friend, Morgan, about seeing Paulina, Morgan informs him that Montaro murdered her the night of the party and is in prison.

759. En Praga, Mario Handler and Universidad de la República (Uruguay), 1 videocassette (15 min.), Uruguay, 1964.

760. En un burro tres baturros, José Benavides et al., 1 videocassette (118 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Carlos Orellana, Sara García, Joaquin Pardave.
     Abstract: Three young Spanish men, frustrated with the lack of opportunity in the Spanish countryside, leave for Mexico around the turn of the century. Although one dies during the journey, the other two buy plots of land and gradually build their fortunes. Many years later, their children have not learned the value of hard work and commitment by which their immigrant parents live.

761. Enamorada, Emilio Fernández et al., 1 videocassette (99 min.), Madera, CA, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Maria Felix, Pedro Armendariz, Fernando Fernandez.
     Abstract: A rich man's daughter is sought after by a revolutionary general during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Based loosely on Shakespeare's "The taming of the shrew".

762. Encadenado, Enrique de Rosas et al., 1 videocassette, Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Enrique de Rosas, Alita Roman, E. Raquen.

763. Encrucijada, Esther Fernández et al., 1 videocassette (101 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Esther Fernandez, Fernando Fernandez, Victor Junco.
     Abstract: Two adventurers arrive in a small town in the Sierra Madre where they become involved with an unscrupulous mine owner. Both fall in love with a woman who is trying to bring justice against the mine owner.

764. Encuentros muy cercanos con señoras de cualquier tipo, Hugo Moser et al., 1 videocassette (84 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Alberto Olmedo, Jorge Porcel, Moria Casán.
     Abstract: A business man hires two comedians to close a deal with some clients in exchange for financing their own theater. The comedians convince two aspiring actresses to pose as their wives. The comedians at last gain their own theater but only after many adventures.

765. Enredando sombras Entangling shadows, Producciones Amaranta and Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, 1 videocassette (92 min.), Mexico, 1998.
     Abstract: A survey of Latin America cinema's first 100 years. Producciones Amaranta, together with the Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, gathered clips of films from all over Latin America, beginning with the earliest silent shorts through contemporary and experimental works. Contemporary directors speak on the history and current state of Latin America cinema.

766. Ensayo de un crimen The Criminal life of Archibaldo de la Cruz, Luis Buñuel et al., 1 videocassette (91 min.), New York, N.Y, 1993.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ernesto Alfonso, Miroslava Stern, Ariadna Welter, Rita Macedo
     Added Title: Criminal life of Archibaldo de la Cruz.
     Abstract: Archibaldo's criminal life began on the eve of the Mexican Revolution when he wished his nanny dead. A bullet blasted through the window and killed her. Thus begins his life of murder, alleged murder and insanity.

767. Enseñame a besar, Rosario Granados et al., 1 videocassette (92 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Rosario Granados, Carlos Navarro, Carlos Cores.
     Abstract: A young man named Fernando is headed for Madrid to marry Emilia, the daughter of his father's business partner, a woman whom he hasn't seen for 10 years. On the coach to Madrid, he meets and falls in love with a young woman, so the marriage doesn't come off. Fernando's father has another business associate whose daughter, Marina was supposed to marry a young man from Madrid, but she marries her father's lawyer instead. Fernando's and Marina's fathers plan to have their remaining children marry when they grow up and join the business. Time passes, wedding plans are made, but the daughter's secretary, Enrique, is in love with her, as is another man who constantly woos her.

768. Entelequia, Juan Albert Salazar, Ricardo Sánchez, and Chispa (Firm), 1 videocassette (17 min.), Salt Lake City, 1987.
     Notes: Performer Note: Poet: Ricardo Sánchez.
     Abstract: The purpose of the film is to explore the Chicano mentality. It begins with the shooting of Santos Rodríguez, an innocent child, and, by abstracting this scene, the emotional impact is lost to a more analytical examination of the whys and hows raised by such a situation.

769. Entre dos amores Porfiro Díaz, Raphael J Sevilla et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: José Luis Jimenez, David Silva, Virgina Serret.
     Abstract: A moving account of the heroic exploits of Profiro Díaz in the days before he become president of Mexico.

770. Entre el diable y los tigres Between the devil and the tigers, Patricia Leal et al., 1 videocassette (120 min.), San Francisco, CA, 1988.
     Notes: Performer Note: Patricia Leal, Louis Echegoyen, Mario Fernando, Manuel Obando
     Added Title: Between the devil and the tigers.
     Abstract: Depicts the peasant struggle to live in peace and to work the land, caught between the oppression of the government and the desperate behavior of the guerillas. A peasant's testimony of the years of "La Violencia" in Colombia 1946-1965.

771. Entre tinieblas Dark habits, Carmen Maura et al., 1 videocassette (116 min.), New York, N.Y, 1984.
     Notes: Performer Note: Carmen Maura, Cristina S. Pascual, Julieta Serrano, Marisa Paredes, Chus Lampreave.
     Abstract: Yolanda, a nightclub singer who goes on the 'lam' after her lover dies of a drug overdose, takes refuge in the Convent of the Humble Redeemers. The nuns have their own problems with the Church, with the law and with their benefactor.

772. Entre tu amor y el cielo, Roberto Cañedo et al., 1 videocassette (92 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Rosario Granados, Robert Cañedo, Rodolfo Acosta, Armando "Chicote" Soto La Marina, Doña Prudencia Grifell, Andres Soler.
     Abstract: A captivating and intense story of a woman obsessed by her love for a young priest who has left every human desire in order to serve God by helping his fellowmen. He must risk his reputation and his own life to save her from prostitution and crime.

773. Environment under fire ecology and politics in Central America, Mark Dworkin et al., 1 videocassette (27 min.), Oakland, CA, 1988.
     Notes: Performer Note: Jackie Rolland.
     Abstract: Examines the way export crops, pesticides and war contribute to mass poverty and ecological destruction in Central America. Discusses the role of U.S. policies in that destruction, and Nicaragua's attempts to preserve the natural environment.

774. Epopeya de la Revolución Mexicana, Gustavo Carrero et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), México, Madera, Calif, 1991.
     Abstract: Uses footage of contemporary Mexico and from the battlefields of the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1917, to relate the history of the revolution and its impact on Mexico.

775. Erendira, Alain Queffelean et al., 1 videocassette (103 min.), Los Angeles?, Calif., 198?
     Notes: Performer Note: Irene Papas, Claudia Ohana, Michael Lonsdale, Oliver Wehe.
     Abstract: "A teenage girl is exploited as a sexual slave by her greedy grandmother. But when this third world Cinderella finally meets her Prince Charming, their only escape is to murder grandma, whose lust for life makes her nearly indestructible"--External container.

776. Ernesto "Che" Guevara le journal de Bolivie = Das bolivianische Tagebuch, Richard Dindo et al., 1 videocassette (94 min.), Montevideo, Urugay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Narrators: Rodolfo de Souza, Anita Vallejo.
     Abstract: Documentary based on Guevera's diary of his futile 11-month attempt to spark a revolution in Bolivia in 1967.

777. Ernesto Sábato, Yesterday Video Cine (Firm), 1 videocassette (55 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Abstract: Interview with author Ernesto Sábatos, which took place in Santos Lugares, Argentina, in Jan. 1996.

778. Esa mujer es la mia, Joaquín Pardavé et al., 1 videocassette (85 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Joaquin Pardave, Manolita Saval, Julian Soler.
     Abstract: Isabel, a rather eccentric young woman, is interested in taking a non-traditional approach to marriage. When José Luís writes to her after seeing her in a restaurant, she writes back and expresses her own interest in him. Soon the two agree to marry without ever seeing each other in person (although José Luís has at least seen Isabel's face). In order to test Isabel's commitment to this "transcendental marriage," José Luís temporarily swaps identities with his unattractive friend, Timoteo, and Isabel meets her true new husband after the marriage has taken place.

779. Escape from L.A, John Carpenter et al., 1 videodisc (101 min.), Hollywood, CA, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Kurt Russell, Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda.
     Abstract: A chilling vision of the future, the film takes place in 2013, when Los Angeles has become a ruined landmark.

780. Escrito en el agua, Marcos Loayza et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Mariano Bertolini, Jorge Marrale , Noemi Frenkel, Marcos Woinsky , Francisco Cocuzza, Luciana González Costa, Alejandro Awada, Mara Florencia Pal, Julieta Novarro, Daniel di Giulio, José Antonio Ciangoglini.
     Abstract: An adolescent travels with his executive father to a town in the interior, to visit his grandfather and so that his father can resolve a conflict with his petroleum company. The young boy falls in love with a girl and finds out the lies that his father and grandfather have been telling him all of his life.

781. Escuela para casadas, Luis Aldas et al., 1 videocassette (109 min.), Stanford, CA, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Charito Granados, Luis Aldás, Rosario Granados.
     Abstract: In an attempt to salvage her marriage, a young wife attends the "Marriage School," a series of classes for disgruntled wives such as her. The outspoke teacher counsels he devise certain tricks to test and deceive the unfaithful husband and reunite the unhappy couple.

782. Esos de Pénjama, Juan Bustillo Oro et al., 1 videocassette (122 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1998.
     Notes: Performer Note: Joaquín Pardavé, Rasario Granados, Angel Infante.

783. Espaldas mojadas, Alejandro Galindo et al., 1 videocassette (116 min.), Mexico, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: David Silva, Victor Parra, Martha Valdés, Oscar Pulido, José Elias Moreno.
     Abstract: The story of a Mexican laborer who crosses the border into the United States illegally and suffers exploitation, injustice and discrimination at the hands of repressive employers and corrupt officials.

784. Espérame, Louis J Gasnier et al., 1 videocassette (61 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Carlos Gardel, Goyita Herrero, Lolita Benavente, Manuel Paris, Jaime Devesa, Manuel Bernardos, Matilde Artero, José Arg elles, Leon Lavalle.
     Abstract: One of the first films of the legendary singer of tango, Carlos Gardel. Filmed in Paris.

785. Espérame mucho, Victor Laplace et al., 1 videocassette (91 min.), Argentina, 1986.
     Notes: Performer Note: Victor Laplace, Alicia Bruzzo, Arturo Bonin.
     Abstract: Memories of a Jewish boy growing up in Buenos Aires in the 1950s.

786. Esperanza, Sylvia Morales et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 52 min.), Los Angeles, Calif, 1991.
     Notes: Performer Note: Judy Torres, Tony Torres, Aaron Ramirez.
     Abstract: Two children, whose mother has suddenly been taken and deported as an illegal alien, try to cope and get to their father, working far away.

787. Esperanza, Mady Samper, 1 videorecording (25 min.), Bogota, Colombia, 1999.
     Notes: Performer Note: Martha Cardenas, David Jaramillo, Constanza Gutierrez.
     Abstract: A mentally ill homeless woman pretends that a doll is her baby.

788. Esposa o amante, Jorge Mistral et al., 1 videocassette (84 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Libertad Lamarque, Jorge Mistral, Aberto Bello.
     Abstract: Estela lives alone with her father and helps manage the family business. She is introduced to Roberto by Francisco, whom she was seeing for a short time. Roberto and Estela are soon married and Roberto takes a major role in managing the factory owned by Estela's father. However, when Estela announces she is pregnant, Roberto begins to act coldly, not only toward her, but also toward the employees, causing them to rebel against him. It becomes apparent that he was more interested in the business than in Estela.

789. Esposas maltratadas: Esposas maltratadas. Un mundo para ellos, =Esposas maltratadas: Esposas maltratadas. Un mundo para ellos, 1 videocassette (75 min.), 1982.
     Notes: Contents: Esposas maltratadas. Discusses wife abuse in Spain; the extent of the problem, its effects on children, characteristics of abusive situations, societal response, and solutions and alternatives to the problem. Includes interviews with doctors, psychologists, sociologists and lawyers. (30 min.)
     Contents: Un mundo para ellos. Consists of three short documentary pieces about the altered lifestyle and inconvenience of having a major health problem; what students think about year-round school, and a segment on tuberculosis. Each part is followed by a short panel discussion. (45 min.)
     Added Title: Esposas maltratadas.

790. Esquilache, José Sámano et al., 1 videocassette (102 min.), Madrid, 1990.
     Notes: Performer Note: Fernando Fernán Gómez, José L. López-Vázquez, Angelina Molina, Angel de Andrés, Concha Velasco, Adolfo Marsillach, Amparo Rivelles, Alberto Closas, Fernando Valverde.
     Abstract: In 18th century Madrid the people rise against the monarchy. The destiny of the crown and the Marqués de Esquilache Ilega depend upon the next few hours.

791. Está es mi vida, Román Viñoly Barreto et al., 1 videocassette (96 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Miguel de Molina, Adolfo Stray, Fidel Pintos.

792. Estado de sitio State of siege, Costa Gavras et al., 1 videocassette (120 min.), Madrid, 198?
     Notes: Performer Note: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse, Jacques Weber, Jean-Luc Bideau
     Added Title: State of siege.
     Abstract: A political thriller based on fact, about the kidnapping and murder of an American "adviser" in Uruguay that is used as a pretext for clamping down on civil liberties.

793. Estado del tiempo Changing times, Luis Felipe Bernaza et al., 1 videocassette (35 min.), Havana, Cuba, 199?
     Abstract: Interviews with Cubans who are attempting to escape Cuba by raft and with those who have chosen to remain in Cuba despite difficult economic and social circumstances.

794. La estancia de Gaucho Cruz, Leopoldo Torres Ríos et al., 1 videocassette (76 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: José Gola, Rosa Rosen, Francisco Alverez.
     Abstract: A baby is left at a rancho. Hilario Cruz, the patrón, and his gauchos must take care of it while they try to discover who the mother might be.

795. Estos fueron los palacios, Carlos Fuentes and Silvia Fuentes, 1 videocassette (54 min.), Hanover, NH, 1983.
     Abstract: In this interview done by his wife Silvia, Carlos Fuentes speaks of the Hispanic preoccupation with originality and of the function of time in literature. He recalls his youth in the United States, the affirmation of his own identity, and his political and literary formation. He also speaks of his artistic evolution and relations with the theater, and reads excerpts from La región más transparente.

796. Estoy casado ja! ja!, Miguel M Delgado et al., 1 videocassette (77 min.), Harlingen, Tex, 1996.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ana Luisa Peluffo, Mauricio Garces, Oscar Ortiz de Pinedo.
     Abstract: Marcello and Ana María are newlyweds who have recently met on a cruise on which Marcello is the captain. They arrive at a tropical hotel which caters specifically to the recently married, and are treated royally by the staff. Marcello, excited for his wedding night, prepares for bed, but Ana María is reluctant and avoids him. She tells him that she feels she doesn't know him well enough, and that she will require one or two months of "getting to know each other" before they can consummate the marriage. Marcello is driven crazy in anticipation over the next several days.

797. Estrellas de Buenos Aires, Kurt Land et al., 1 videocassette (68 min.), Argentina, 19??
     Notes: Performer Note: Pepe Arias, Alfredo Barbieri, Maruja Montes.

798. Estrés. Juicio al chequeo, Estrés. Juicio al chequeo, 1 videocassette (50 min.), 198?
     Notes: Added Title: Juicio al chequeo.
     Abstract: Describes stress; how and why it occures and how to control it. Also includes a discussion on the pros and cons of physical checkups.

799. Eterna martir, Consuelo More