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Wonderful London (1924)

Director

Harry B. Parkinson; Frank Miller

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (75 minutes), £19.99

A collection of twelve silent films made in 1924 by Harry B. Parkinson and Frank Miller. The films were made to capitalise on the popularity of the magazine of the same name and were often based on the idea...

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Walking and Running (1986 Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at locomotion with legs in its many forms - the different gaits of a horse, the long stride length of a cheetah, the hopping of a kangaroo etc. Sequences were filmed at the Gait Analysis Laboratory in...

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Private Lives (2014)

Director

Jonathan Kent

Subject

Drama

Toby Stephens and Anna Chancellor star as Eylot and Amanda in Jonathan Kent’s production of Noel Coward’s Private Lives for the 2012 Chichester Festival. The production transferred to the Gielgud Theatre...

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Literary Festival 2014: War and Memory

Subject

History; Literature

Panel discussion about the differing imperatives of the historian and the creative artist in response to the First World War. Richard Ormond is an art historian, co-author of the John Singer Sargent...

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Hedda Gabler (1993 Video)

Director

Deborah Warner

Producer

Simon Curtis

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 125 minutes), £195.00

A television version of the play, directed by Deborah Warner, first produced in Dublin in 1991 and then transferred to London’s West End. Hedda Gabler (Fiona Shaw) is a woman uncomfortably out of her time,...

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Volpone (2010)

Director

Elizabeth Freestone

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 159 minutes), £35.99

Recording of a production of Ben Jonson’s Volopne performed at Greenwich Theatre in London during March/April 2010 with an excellent ensemble cast including familiar faces from the RSC , the National and...

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Birds and the Bees, The (2011)

aka: Joy of Sex Education, The

Subject

Health Education; History; Media studies; Medical sciences; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 338 minutes), £19.99

From the impenetrably euphemistic to the breathtakingly explicit, this intriguing anthology of 16 films takes us through 60 years of sex education in Britain from the 1910s to the 1970s. All ‘unmentionable...

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Rosie Newman’s Britain at War in Colour (2011)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 121 minutes), £19.99

Filmed and edited by socialite and amateur filmmaker Rosie Newman, this 1946 documentary shows members of the armed forces engaged in training exercises as well as fascinating shots of life on the Home...

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Collection, The (1976)

Director

Michael Apted

Producer

Laurence Olivier

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 64 minutes), £8.67

From the 1970s ITV series Laurence Olivier Presents..., this adaptation of the early stage and TV play by Harold Pinter stars Olivier, Alan Bates, Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren abd us directed by Michael...

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School for Scandal, The (2009)

Director

Elizabeth Freestone

Subject

Drama; English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL), £35.99

A production of Sheridan’s The School for Scandal performed at Greenwich Theatre in London during October 2009. Directed by Elizabeth Freestone, the play was staged in order to be recorded in front of a...

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