Libs on Film: Friday Flick: The Desk Set
Who doesn’t love the librarians of the Desk Set?? Bunny Watson their fearless leader, played by Katherine Hepburn, is especially one to love filled with smarts, wits and moxie. The reference library in...
View ArticleLibs on Film: Friday Flick: The Golden Girls
This clip from Golden Girls had us laughing out loud. Dorothy brings Blanche to the library to get a library card. When they enter Blanche exclaims “so many books” with glee! Instead of finding a book...
View ArticleLibs on Film: Friday Flick: Tears for Fears – Head Over Heels Video
In June of 1985 the new wave band Tears for Fears took over the Emmanuel College Library in Toronto to shoot their video “Head Over Heels.” The music video features lead singer Roland Orzabal trying...
View ArticleLibs on Film: Friday Flick: My Fair Lady
This week’s Libs on Film focuses on Henry Higgins’(Rex Harrison) Victorian library in My Fair Lady (1964). A large part of the film takes place in the library where Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn)...
View ArticleLibs on Film: Jimmy Stewart and Librarians
Jimmy Stewart and a library proposal scene? Yes, please. In the 1959 film The FBI Story Stewart plays John Michael ‘Chip’ Hardesty. This clip opens as Chip casually – in true Stewart fashion – saunters...
View ArticleLibs on Film: Friday Flick: Friends – Ross Defends the Paleontology section...
In this episode of Friends we find Ross and Chandler visiting the University Library because Ross has discovered that his doctoral dissertation is housed on the shelves of the paleontology section. As...
View ArticleLibs on Film: Friday Flick: My Little Pony’s Librarian Twilight Sparkle!
Today for our film clip we’d like to visit the Golden Oak Library. Yes we’re talking about a library built in a tree in Ponyville. A library in a tree, it’s quite magical don’t you agree? At Golden...
View ArticleLibs on Film: Friday Flick: Phineas and Ferb Get Rhythm in the Library!
Phineas and Ferb are those adorable brothers who are always up to shenanigans on their endless summer vacation. In this clip the boys show a librarian that he’s still got rhythm. We feel there is great...
View ArticleLibs on Film: Your Life Work: The Librarian
Today we wanted to share a vocational guidance film clip with you from 1946 about becoming a librarian. Your Life Work government film series was filmed at the library at Iowa State University. It also...
View ArticleLibs on Film: Friday Flick: Woody Allen Saves a Book in What’s New Pussycat?
Today’s we give you a book fight where Woody Allen saves a book for the woman he adores Romy Schneider. True romance. In the 1965 classic “What’s New Pussycat?” Victor (Allen in his film debut) is in...
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