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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 24, 2018 0:41:53 GMT
bravomailer Richard Kimble so "public" is a semantics thing then. ok. thanks The wiki link is particularly interesting, imo. PLUS it lists many films associated with the library so it's OT
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 24, 2018 1:05:49 GMT
so "public" is a semantics thing then. ok. thanks I was being facetious with my answer. I have no idea why the NY Public Library is not a public library, if it is indeed not public. Or a library.
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 24, 2018 1:29:22 GMT
Take it from a career librarian: a public library is a public library no matter how it is funded. Public libraries are funded in multiple ways in the United States. My current PL is named for the city - the My City Public Library - but gets most of its funds from the state and county. Early in my career I worked for a short time at a small PL that was supported by an endowment - it (at the time anyway) did not take any public funds. In the 1980s, PLs in Ohio got money from a "luxury tax" - and yes that is more than a Monopoly game square - but just as I was leaving for Illinois, that changed to state sales tax. So, it is not semantics. A library that is open to the public and is named for a political jurisdiction, is a Public Library.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 24, 2018 2:01:02 GMT
mikef6 Having grown up with the New York PUBLIC Library system at my beck and call (so to speak) the statement that it was not a public Library just did not ring true. Thanks for the confirming info.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 24, 2018 2:05:37 GMT
Night of the Demon 1957 has two. One in a British library, the other in a private home library.
The book in question is The True Discoveries of Witches and Demons.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 24, 2018 2:17:35 GMT
Kinda shocked nobody mentioned this
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 24, 2018 2:19:05 GMT
Ray Milland as the silent spy in The Thief
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 24, 2018 2:26:16 GMT
Richard Widmark goes to the NYPL to secretly examine the stolen microfilm in Pickup On South Street.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 24, 2018 2:28:26 GMT
The chase through the British Museum's reading room in Hitchcock's Blackmail.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Mar 24, 2018 2:58:47 GMT
Soul Survivors (2001)
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Post by OldAussie on Mar 24, 2018 3:12:13 GMT
Marathon Man - Hoffman meets Keller
My favourite library scene has been mentioned - SE7EN
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Post by vegalyra on Mar 24, 2018 13:59:47 GMT
FBI Story Breakfast Club The Librarian series of made for TV movies
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 24, 2018 14:02:43 GMT
Kinda shocked nobody mentioned this Be shocked no longer, Dr. Kimble -- mentioned in an earlier post.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 24, 2018 14:09:41 GMT
Ray Milland as the silent spy in The Thief File card drawers! Becoming unknown?
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Post by petrolino on Mar 24, 2018 15:03:19 GMT
In Lawrence Foldes' extraordinary action extravaganza 'Young Warriors' (1983), there's a couple of memorable visits made to the college library where Ginger (Linnea Quigley) works.
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Post by marshamae on Mar 24, 2018 15:24:28 GMT
Goodby cColumbus is a perfect time capsule of 1966. Ali McGraw danced, dressed talked and did her hair exactly like we did. That is both it’s strength and it’s weakness. Dick benjamin’s Performance is too chilly to be lasting and it hurts the film’s ability to connect to audiences today. The real standouts were Jack klugman , Nan Martin , michael Meyers and Lorre Schell as the Patimkins. They were every doting father, slightly jealous mother and little sis, hulking big brother. Benjamin had the bad fortune to have a brilliant performance in a very similar role come just before, Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate.i much prefer Roth’s novella but without the zing of the shared mother and daughter, Goodby Columbus is just too fragile.
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Post by louise on Mar 24, 2018 19:38:59 GMT
DEsk Set (1957) is set almost entirely in the reference library of a New York radio company. IT is very funny.
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Post by fangirl1975 on Mar 24, 2018 20:27:23 GMT
The beginning of Ghostbusters.
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Post by divtal on Mar 24, 2018 21:04:21 GMT
Dr. Zhivago - After his family has fled Moscow, Yuri and Lara see each other, again in a small library.
(up to the OP, if personal libraries count):
North by Northwest - Lester Townsend's home library
My Fair Lady - Henry Higgans' Library
High Society - Uncle Willie's library/bar ... "Give Darwin a little nudge."
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Post by spiderwort on Mar 24, 2018 21:17:35 GMT
Dr. Zhivago - After his family has fled Moscow, Yuri and Lara see each other, again in a small library. (up to the OP, if personal libraries count): North by Northwest - Lester Townsend's home library My Fair Lady - Henry Higgans' Library High Society - Uncle Willie's library/bar ... "Give Darwin a little nudge." I was looking for more public venues, but now that you've listed them I have no objection to private libraries, especially when they are as interesting as those. And thanks for the mention of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. That's such an important plot location in the film, and I'll never forget this shot, which is so incredibly beautiful (not just Julie Christie, but the lighting).
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