Category: Music
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3-DEVO
3-DEVO took place on October 30, 1982, at the Warner Beverly Hills Theater in Beverly Hills, California. It was filmed and transmitted live in 3-D to college campuses around the country. This is the original broadcast, not the late rebroadcast that was edited significantly.
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EPCOT Center: The Opening Celebration
Danny Kaye tours EPCOT Center, singing its praises in Future World and the World Showcase. He meets celebrities and park characters like Dreamfinder and Figment, and speaks with some of the people responsible for creating the park.
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Horowitz in London
Vladimir Horowitz’s piano recital in 1982 at Royal Festival Hall in London.
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Michael Jackson’s Thriller
A night at the movies turns into a nightmare when Michael and his date are attacked by a horde of bloody-thirsty zombies. On top of the success of the Thriller album and Michael Jackson’s electrifying performance at Motown 25, the short film/music video for “Thriller” established Jackson as an international superstar and global phenomenon. Thriller…
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O’ Money
A wealthy man doing a business of money lending for high interest put his son to as a collector. But when he begins to love a girl who is one of his father customers, he tears up the lending contract, moves out of his father’s house and even joins the people demonstrating against his father…
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Emerald Cities
Emerald Cities, completing the trilogy, is a story about a young woman who runs off from her Death Valley home to seek her fortune. Her drunken dad still stuck in his Santa suit from the local Christmas pagent, follows and soon comes in contact with the “new dark ages” of 1984. Juxtapositions of “on-the street”…
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Stevie Nicks: Live At The US Festival – 30/05/83
Stevie Nicks at the 1983 US festival May 30th. Setlist: Gold Dust Woman, Outside The Rain, Dreams, Gold And Braid, I Need To Know, Gypsy, Angel, Leather And Lace, Stand Back, How Still My Love, Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around, Edge Of Seventeen, and Rhiannon.
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Champagne in paradiso
Musical, in the style of GREASE, with dance numbers and entertainment. Set in a high school, about the ups and downs in the love affair between Paola, the class mischief maker, and Marco, a substitute teacher.
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The Gold Diggers
An avant-garde examination of the relationship between women and money in society. Mixing musical, silent melodrama, and philosophical treatise into a post-punk, heady brew.
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Chor Police
Inspector Sunil Rana thwarts a hijacking, but instead of earning praise, he ends up suspended from the force. Depressed about the unchecked corruption in the police department, Rana seeks solace in a bottle. But when his best friend in the department is murdered, he realizes he must stand up for what is right. He may…
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Papadistik Company
Kavouras is the owner of the popular nightclub “Xerokomata,” which has begun to lose its patrons. When he learns from a friend that the monks Malachias, Charon, and Billias are passionate about music and singing, he convinces them to leave the Medouli monastery, where they lived a virtuous and solitary life, and take to the…
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Spring Symphony
“Spring Symphony” is the story of Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. Both were music entities. Robert Schumann turns out to have been a second tier composer, if that, never rising to the heights of a Beethoven or Mozart. In contrast, Clara Wieck was a master technician in the playing of the piano, a composer (probably…
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Jazz Is My Native Language: A Portrait of Toshiko Akiyoshi
Jazz is my Native Language: A Portrait of Toshiko Akiyoshi is a 1983 documentary film by Renee Cho about the jazz pianist, composer, arranger and big band leader Toshiko Akiyoshi.
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Saxon: Live in Nottingham
Right at the top of the “new wave of British heavy metal” was Saxon. Join Biff Byford and the rest of the guys as they lavish energy through a selection of classic moments, resulting in a unique performance like the best of Saxon live.
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Tender Mercies
Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
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We’re from Jazz
A music student is expelled from school because he loves jazz, a kind of music that represents the US capitalism. He hires two street musicians to form a dixie band, and goes from one city to another trying to gain fame.
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Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing?
A poor army veteran in Taiwan adopts a daughter. She grows up and leaves him to enter show business. When she becomes famous she shuns her father and friends.