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Robert Motherwell and the New York School (1991)

Director

Catherine Tatge

Producer

Catherine Tatge

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 56 minutes), £14.95

In a programme made shortly before his death, Robert Motherwell, one of the chief protagonists of the New York school, this film recalls the ‘heroic age’ of American abstract expressionism, tracing the...

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Wearing the Green (1994 Video)

Director

Arthur McCaig

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £50.00 (inclusive)

Portrays a number of prisoners and ex-prisoners of the New York state prison system. Some of them have organised to reform the prison system, including Eddie Ellis, a former ‘Black Panther’ imprisoned...

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Mondrian in New York (1979 Film)

Director

Piet Hoenderdos

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Traces the experience of Piet Mondrian in New York, where he lived from 1940 until his death in 1944. Uses old newsreels to create a picture of New York during the war. Six people close to the artist...

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On the Bowery (1955 Film)

aka: Skid Row

Director

Lionel Rogosin

Subject

Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows the alcoholics of New York’s Bowery district and society’s contempt for them.

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World of Tomorrow: The 1939 New York World’s Fair Vol 3 (2006)

Subject

History; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0)

THE MEDICUS COLLECTION: REEL 4 PART 2, REEL 5 AND REEL 6 (1939, COLOR, SILENT, 2:32:18) Kodachrome amateur colour film that documents the many different sights to be seen at the fair (more included in THE...

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Songs of Sappho (2000 Video)

Subject

Classical studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (PAL). col. 24 min., 2000 sale: US$£59.50 (+p&p)

Six poems by Sappho realised for movement and voice, with Andrea Goodman and the chorus of the New York Greek Drama Company.

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Reinventing the City (1994 Video)

Producer

Vic Lockwood

Subject

Architecture; Politics & government

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 2001 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Explores the local and global forces that have directed and shaped the urban development of New York and Los Angeles over the last 30 years. Examines Battery Park City and the 42nd Street project in New...

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World of Tomorrow: The 1939 New York World’s Fair Vol 2 (2006)

Subject

History; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 150 minutes), $9.99

THE MEDICUS COLLECTION: REEL 1 PART 3, REEL 2, REEL 3 AND REEL 4 PART 1 Kodachrome amateur colour film that documents the many different sights to be seen at the fair (more included in THE WORLD OF TOMORROW:...

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Page One - Inside the New York Times (2011)

Director

Andrew Rossi

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £9.99

With the Internet surpassing print as our main news source, and newspapers going bankrupt, PAGE ONE chronicles the media industry’s transformation and assesses the high stakes for democracy. Unprecedented...

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Bill Cunningham, New York (2012)

Director

Richard Press

Subject

Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £6.99

The "Bill" in question is veteran New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and...

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