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Wales, Green Mountain, Black Mountain (1942 Film)

Director

John Eldridge

Producer

Donald Taylor

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An impressionistic survey of Wales at war. Shows industries revitalised by the war effort: steelworks, dockyards, quarries and pitheads at the Rhondda mines. Includes footage of Wales during the depression...

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Unfinished Masterpieces (2012)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

Alastair Sooke explores the appeal of unfinished works of art, from Dickens’s ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’ and Jane Austen’s ‘Sanditon’ to Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan’, and talks to the...

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This Sceptred Isle - Yorkshire (1999 Video)

Director

Ronald Craigen; J.B. Holmes; Ralph Keene; Charles de Lautour; John Taylor; Tony Thompson

Producer

Edgar Anstey; Ian Ferguson

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 92 min., 1999 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

A British Transport Films compilation video made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the film unit of the British Transport Commission. All but FULLY FITTED FREIGHT were produced by Edgar Anstey. 1...

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What is Music? (5 Parts) (1989 Video)

Producer

William Woollard

Subject

Music; Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 5 x 60 min., 1995 sale: £55.00 (inclusive) series

The 160th Royal Institution Christmas Lectures series, given by Professor Charles Taylor, a physicist and a musician, exploring the physics of music. 1. Whenever the pressure of the air is changed rapidly by...

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Battle for Music (1943)

Director

Donald Taylor; Len Lye; Ralph Keene; Ralph Bond; John Banting; Dylan Thomas; Charles de Latour

Subject

History; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 186 minutes), £14.99

Dramatised documentary about the trials of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during World War II. The year is 1939. Following the liquidation of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the players form a new...

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Five Films About Christo and Jeanne Claude (2005)

aka: 5 Films About Christo and Jeanne Claude

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 201 minutes), £35.00

A three-DVD set of five digitally remastered films, chronicling a 30-year collaboration between documentary filmmakers Albert Maysles and his late brother David and the renowned environmental artists Christo...

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