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Eve Arnold in Retrospect (1996 Video)

Director

Beeban Kidron

Subject

Art

Distribution

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

Follows photojournalist Eve Arnold as she prepares for a retrospective exhibition, with the stories behind some of famous photos. Arnold joined the Magnum agency in 1957, and has worked and travelled all...

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If: A Film About Rudyard Kipling (1997 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 2 x 50 min., 1999 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Actor Mace Richards visits Batemans, the Sussex home of writer Rudyard Kipling, picking up some clues about Kipling’s first, seemingly unpublished, novel. The film mimics a favoured story form, with a...

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Norman Foster (1995 Video)

Director

Mark Kidel

Producer

Mark Kidel

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 53 minutes), £14.95

Profiles Sir Norman Foster at age 60, showing him at work in his office and on the site at some of his major new projects, including the Law Faculty at Cambridge University and the communications tower in...

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Jane Austen: Presumption (1995 Video)

aka: Presumption: The Life of Jane Austen

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

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

Biography of novelist Jane Austen, showing the stately home of her brothers, the ballrooms of her friends, the beach at Sidmouth where she fell in love. Descendants of her aristocratic family and...

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East of Eastenders (1997 Video)

Director

Andrzej Fidyk

Producer

Jemma Jupp

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Follows a team of writers and producers of ‘EastEnders’ who are in Kazakhstan to teach local film-makers the principles of producing a popular soap opera. Charts the attempts to instill the values of...

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Degas: The Old Man Mad About Art (1996 Video)

Director

Mischa Scorer

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS)

Re-evaluates the paintings of Degas made during the last ten yiears of his life, providing an insight into the artist’s life in Montmartre. Visits the archives of the Bibliotheque Nationale for...

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Arthur Miller (1987 Video)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £195.00

Alan Yentob interviews Arthur Miller about his life and career. Miller talks about his New York upbringing and the Great Depression’s effects upon him, then discusses the McCarthy witch-hunt trials and his...

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Last Journey of John Keats, The (1995 Video)

Producer

James Runcie

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

In 1820 poet John Keats was advised by doctors to travel to Italy for the healthier climate, as he was dying of tuberculosis. Here, Keats’ biographer Andrew Motion retraces the poet’s journey to Naples...

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Norman Foster: Watch This Space (1981 Film, Video)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Norman Foster gives a conducted tour of a number of his buildings: the IBM Technical Park in Greenford, the Willis Faber Insurance office in Ipswich and the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts in Norwich....

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Malcolm Morley: The Outsider (1985)

Director

Mike Mortimer

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 51 minutes), £14.95

Malcolm Morley (b.1931), the English-born ‘enfant terrible’ of American art, learned to paint in prison, and abandoned photorealism for a succession of styles. In this film he is shown talking to Patrick...

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