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Trotsky’s Home Movies (1992 Video)

Director

Oliver Curtis

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Commemorates the 50th anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination. Shows most of the surviving 45 minutes of Trotsky’s daily life filmed by family and friends in 1939. A discussion follows.

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Winter War in Its European Context, The (1974)

Director

George Brandt

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £60.00

Deals with the character of Soviet-Finnish relations after the Second World War in comparison with other European neighbours of the Soviet Union, and examines the Winter War of 1939-40. First part considers...

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Home Front 1939-1945, The

Subject

FE; History

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette CD, 90 minutes), £5.99 (cassette) £9.99 (CD)

First-hand accounts from 15 men and women who lived in Britain during the Second World War including sections on the outbreak of war, evacuation, domestic conditions, war effort, air raids and VE Day.

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Feuertaufe (1940 Film)

aka: Baptism of Fire

Director

Hans Bertram

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Glorifies the role of the Luftwaffe in Poland in 1939 and the sequences showing bomb destruction in Warsaw are intended to frighten other nations. The music of the film is by the composer of ‘Lili...

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Sutton Hoo: The Million Pound Grave (1986 Video)

Producer

Ray Sutcliffe

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Follows the discovery in Suffolk in 1939 by three local men of the spectacular hoard of royal regalia buried in the midst of a ghost outline of a great wooden ship. An update of an earlier programme, looking...

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Edwin Lutyens: Deanery Gardens (1975 Video)

Subject

Architecture; Design

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23 min., 1999 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at Deanery Gardens, Sonning (1899) and notes Lutyens’ empirical approach to planning and the supremely English character of his work.

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Eric Mendelsohn: The Einstein Tower (1975 Video)

Subject

Architecture; Design

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 24 min., 1999 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Traces the genesis of the design for this key Expressionist building in Mendelsohn’s letters and sketches from the front during World War 1. He points to some of the daunting technical problems that had to...

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World of the Suburb, The (1975 Video)

Subject

Architecture; Design

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines some of the characteristic design features of thw world of the suburb, contrasting an Edwardian terrace house in Ilford with a semi-detached house, also in Ilford, of the 1920s.

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Terence Brown on W B Yeats (1998 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 45 min., 1999 sale: £150.00 (+VAT +p&p) higher education - master tape for re-editing and copying 2000 sale: £35.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) VHS

Terence Brown, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at Trinity College Dublin, lectures on the young W B Yeats, focusing on two of the writer’s preoccupations - work and sexuality.

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What is Architecture?: An Architect at Work (1975 Video)

Subject

Architecture; Design

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 24 min., 1999 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Geoffrey Baker uses the house he designed for himself near Newcastle upon Tyne, to explain some of the practical constraints and architect faces in the design of any building and to suggest the role played...

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