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A J Cook, Miners’ Leader 1926 (1984 Video)

Director

Philip Priestly

Subject

History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 20. min.

Cook was national secretary of the Miners’ Federation in 1926. He is remembered by historian Paul Davies, Will Paynter, Dennis Skinner and Arthur Scargill. Comments on the General Strike are juxtaposed...

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How Silent Movie Special Effects Were Done (2017)

Subject

Film studies

Films have always used special effects. This short video offers a compilation of clips showing some famous tricks in the following titles: -Safety Last! (1923) -Modern Times (1936) -Ella Cinders (1926)...

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Battle of Lewes Road, The: Our History (1983 Video)

Director

Jan Mathew

Subject

History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 45 min.

Demonstrates the use of primary and secondary sources in historical research. The first part of the programme focuses on a number of eyewitness reports of the Battle of Lewes Road, a famous Brighton incident...

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Colour of the Moment, The (1989 Video)

Director

Alain Jaubert

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £19.99

Discusses Claude Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’ in terms of the painting itself, the painter, and a palette of colour: pigment, composition and light effects. In his garden at Giverny, Monet created a gigantic...

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Days of Hope (4 Parts) (1975 Video)

Director

Ken Loach

Producer

Tony Garnett

Subject

Drama; History

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 95, 100, 80, 135 min.

A dramatised documentary series interpreting British labour history from a socialist angle. After depicting the plight of conscientious objectors in the First World War, and a significant sideways glance at...

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Avec Claude Monet (1960 Film)

Director

Dominique Delouche

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows the place where Monet lived and painted and the progress of his life and painting.

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Miss Mend (1926)

aka: Miss Mend, An Adventure Serial in Three Parts

Director

Boris Barnet

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 285 minutes), 35.95 Euros

Silent film produced in Russia in 1926 with the goal of rivalling the most entertaining American movies of the 1920s. It features stunning location photography and impressive stunt scenes: horse, car and...

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Fires Within, The (1992 Video)

Director

Antonella Ibba

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 53 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS)

Portrait of Grazia Deledda, whose novels won her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. Includes dramatised scenes from her novels and her life.

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Alan Irvine (1990 Multimedia)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

out of distribution, 102 slides. col.

An exhibition at the RIBA Heinz Gallery, in 1989 dedicated to the work of Alan Irvine, a contemporary architect specialising in interiors of museums and the display of works of art. The exhibition was...

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Hollywood: The Fabulous Era (1962)

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £12.99

1962 TV documentary hosted by Henry Fonda. archive footage of many stars of Tinseltown’s Golden Age. Among the screen legends featured are Marilyn Monroe, Lana Turner, Gary Cooper and Humphrey Bogart.

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