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Finding Foreign & Domestic Feature Films
In the FVL Collection using Roger

1. If you want to know what films by a particular director are in the collection.
Author search (example: Hitchcock, Alfred, Kiarostami, A )

2. If you want to know if we have a particular film.
Title search (example: Taste of Cherry, or His Girl Friday )

3. If you are unsure of the exact title.
Keyword - searches multiple words as "exact phrase" The order in which you enter words into the search box is important.

     Use operators: AND, OR, AND NOT. (example s:motion pictures, spanish AND NOT Cuba)
     Proximity: Use NEAR to specify words close to each other, in any order. Use WITHIN # to specify words within a set range of each other. Symbol # may
      stand for any number. (example Taste NEAR Cherry)
     Fields: (author) a:, (title) t: , (subject) s: , (additional keyword) n: (example s: feature films n:16th century n: women)

4. If you want to know ALL the feature films in the collection.
Subject search (example: Feature Films)

5. If you want all the Latin American or African feature films in the collection.
Subject search (example: Feature Films--Latin America or Feature Films--Africa)

6. If you want to know what films from a particular country are in the collection
Subject search (example: Feature Films--France)

7. If you want film in a particular language.
Subject search (example; Motion Pictures French)

Motion Pictures -- Spanish, gets you films from Latin America, Mexico, Cuba, but not Brazil (Portuguese) + you get films from Spain.
Motion Pictures -- French, gets you films from France as well as films from Africa in French.
Motion pictures -- Chinese, gets you both Mandarin & Cantonese. Use Keyword -- Mandarin to limit to this dialect.

8. If you do not find the foreign film you are looking for using the above searches. Try a subject search and then limit by language.
Subject search. (example: Feature Films) then Limit by Language - Dutch. The languages are listed for you when you do a Roger search and then limit by language.

9. If you want to know all the Silent Films in the collection.
Subject search (example; Silent Films [ALL silent films], or Silent Films--"country" [silent film from that particular country.] )

10. How about Experimental Films.
Subject search (example: Experimental Films [all], or Experimental Films--"country" [experimental films from that particular country] )