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Molly Dineen Collection: Volume Three (2011)

Director

Molly Dineen

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 236 minutes), £19.99

This is the third of three volumes that brings all of Molly Dineen’s films to DVD. GERI (1999, 89 minutes): Geri Halliwell, the most colourful and outrageous of the Spice Girls, has dramatically left...

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This Sceptred Isle: Day Trips in Britain 1940s to 1970s - The Films of Harold Baim (2012)

Director

Harold Baim

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 365 minutes), £15.99

Spanning the 30 years from 1944 to 1974, THIS SCEPTRED ISLE includes over a dozen archive travelogues as filmed by celebrated quota quickie B-movie producer Harold Baim.

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I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba) / Siberian Mammoth (2007)

aka: Soy Cuba

Director

Mikhail Kalatozov; Vicente Farraz

Subject

Film studies; Politics & government; Spanish studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 230 minutes), £8.99

A 2-disc set. Disc 1 : I AM CUBA, partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, captures the island just before it made the transition to a post-revolutionary society. Moving from city to country...

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Soviet Influence, The: From Turksib to Nightmail (2011)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 163 minutes), £19.99

In the early 1930s, a small number of Soviet propaganda films were shown in Britain that excited filmmakers such as John Grierson, Paul Rotha and Basil Wright - luminaries of the British documentary film...

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New Britain, The (2013)

Director

Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Keene; Roy Boulting; Charles Hasse; John Page

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 79 minutes), £16.33

A collection of British wartime propaganda films made to boost optimism and showing how the armed forces and civilians stood up to the Nazi threat. THE NEW BRITAIN (1940). With great optimism, Britain...

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Off the Rails (1952)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 105 min), £15.99 inclusive

A compilation of 7 films from the British Transport Films collection. Volume 8 in the series

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Water Crisis II: Cyprus, China, Spain (2009)

Subject

Environmental science; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 41 minutes), £97.00

Three films highlight water shortages across the world. Film 1: Inner Mongolia has long been one of China’s driest regions; Film 2: In Spain the government is trying to solve its shortage by pumping water...

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This Sceptred Isle - Scotland (1975 Video)

Director

Ronald Craigen; Kenneth Fairbairn; Edward McConnell; Joe Mendoza; James Ritchie; John Taylor

Producer

Edgar Anstey; Lionel Cole; Stewart McAllister

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 116 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

A British Transport Films video compilation focusing on the highlands, coasts and cities of Scotland. 1 (1965, 17 min, director Edward McConnell, producer Edgar Anstey): Sketches the emotional quality of...

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Century of the City Box Set (2011)

Director

Marije Meerman; Bregtje van der Haak; Rob Schröder

Subject

Architecture; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 205 minutes), 25.95 euros

The four DVDs in this box set are part of the cross-media festival Centuries of the City that the VPRO held in association with the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam in September/October 2009 on...

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History of Advertising - Automobiles 1950-1960 (1950)

Subject

Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 102 minutes), £18.99

A compilation of classic American advertisements for automobiles from the 1950s, when the suburbs were growing and cars were becoming less of a luxury item and more of a necessity. Movie houses - long a...

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