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Boesman and Lena (1974 Film)

Director

Ross Devenish

Producer

Johan Wicht

Subject

Drama; Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Based on Athol Fugard’s play.

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Pantomime in Scotland: A Celebration of Scottish Pantomime on Film

Subject

Drama; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 165 minutes), £18.95

Archive silent film from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s with a specially recorded musical soundtrack. Providing a unique insight into a forgotten golden age of pantomime, these films from the collections of the...

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Victorian and Edwardian Stage on Film, The (1991 Video)

Producer

Department of Drama University of Manchester

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 53 min.

Shows excerpts from films held in the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington DC, with annotations and critical commentary. David Mayer introduces the films, talks of their provenance...

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Early Days of Cinema and the Beginning of Modern Dance, The (1996 Video)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. st. b&w. 60 min., 1997 sale: NLG 59.00 (inclusive)

Focuses on dance from the early days of cinema 1894-1912, and on the pioneering work of Ted Shawn and Ruth St Denis (1912-1950), who created modern dance, inspired by ethnic theatre traditions and the...

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Three Films by Ken Loach (2017)

Director

Ken Loach

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 + 87 + 96 minutes), £29.99

Collection of three feature films directed by Ken Loach. In Riff-Raff, Glaswegian jailbird Stevie (Robert Carlyle) heads to London to find work but discovers a world of corruption and degradation. Inner-city...

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Three Sisters (1970)

Director

Laurence Olivier

Producer

John Goldstone

Subject

Drama

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 156 minutes), £19.99

A feature film version of the play by Anton Chekhov, translated by Moura Budberg, with music by William Walton, based on the 1967 National Theatre production of the play. Two fantasy sequences are added for...

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Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil, The (1974 Film)

Director

John Mackenzie

Producer

Graeme McDonald

Subject

Drama; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 90 minutes), £16.99

The travelling theatre company 7.84 gives a polemical account of the history of Scotland from the Highland Clearances to the effects of the development of the North Sea oilfield. Intercuts film of a stage...

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Bergman: A Year in a Life (2019)

Director

Jane Magnusson

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 117 minutes), £14.99

Journeying through 1957, the year Bergman released THE SEVEN SEAL and WILD STRAWBERRIES, made a TV film and directed four plays for theatre, a wealth of archive and contemporary interviews reveals previously...

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Entr’Acte (1924 Film)

Director

René Clair

Subject

Art; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The famous surrealist film made by a team of leading French intellectuals of the 1920s to fill an intermission between the two acts of the Francis Picabia’s Dada ballet ‘Rel ache’, performed by the...

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Faust 1 (1994 Video)

aka: Lekce Faust

Director

Jan Svankmajer

Producer

Jaromir Kallista

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 97 min., 1997 sale: £13.99 (inclusive)

Jan Svankmajer’s surreal version of the Faust legend. Uses live action, animation and grotesque puppets. Based on the Faust plays by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Christopher Marlowe....

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