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Point of View: Mary McCarthy (1974 Video)

Director

Michael Steele

Producer

Andrew Hook

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 36 min.

Mary McCarthy talks about her writing career as a novelist and as a political journalist.

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Charge and Countercharge (1968 Film)

Director

Emile de Antonio

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Extensive film footage from the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings showing the tactics of Senator Joseph R McCarthy and the organisation of the hearings themselves.

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See It Now (1954 Film)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A film compiled from extracts of television programmes in the series SEE IT NOW, which was presented on CBS Television by Edward R Murrow. The film is presented by speakers from Freedom House, an...

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Driverless Car, The (2015)

aka: Baby, You Can Drive My Car

Subject

Engineering; Transport

Audio podcast recorded to complement an article in E&T , the journal of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Laura Onita talks to Dr John McCarthy, Technical Director Highways and Transportation...

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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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Transformation (2014)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 55 minutes), £17.99

Costumes and masks, makeup and style, dolls and mannequins, stage and cinema: what strategies do we use to refashion identity? Do we seek out excess and extremes in order to see ourselves more clearly? The...

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Arthur Miller and ‘The Crucible’ (1981 Video)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the basic ideas in the ‘The Crucible’ and examines its place in the playwright’s development, using excerpts from the play and a dramatisation of the 1950s’ House UnAmerican Activities...

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Fellow Traveller (1989 Video)

Director

Philip Saville

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 97 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

A McCarthy period thriller in which a blacklisted scriptwriter attempts to investigate the death of an actor friend and the role played in it by their Marxist psychotherapist. Highlights the differing moods...

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Night and the City (1950) (1950)

Director

Jules Dassin

Subject

English language and literature; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes + extras), £19.99

Loose 1950 adaptation of the celebrated pre-war London gangland novel by Gerald Kersh starring Richard Widmark and Googie Withers and directed by Jules Dassin just as he was becoming a victim of the...

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Paper: Its History and Uses (1988 Video)

Director

Brian Hill

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1997 sale: £23.95 (+VAT +p&p)

Uses slides, charts, graphs, diagrams and demonstrations to explore the growth of papermaking from its roots in second-century China through its spread to Europe and rapid growth with the appearance of...

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