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Silent Feminists, The: America’s First Women Directors (1992 Video)

Director

Jeffrey Goodman; Anthony Slide

Producer

Jeffrey Goodman; Anthony Slide

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 45 min., 1997 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

A documentary study of the silent movie era concentrating on the pioneering women film-makers. Includes rare film clips, behind-the-scenes photos and interviews with survivors of the era.

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Here’s a Health to the Barley Mow: A Century of Folk Customs and Ancient Rural Games (2011)

Subject

Anthropology; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 365 minutes), £22.99

A collection of films celebrating British folk customs and rural games, ranging from morris and maypole dancing, sword and step dances to Shrove Tuesday football games and the Padstow Obby Oss ceremony. The...

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Silent Britain (2006)

Producer

David Thompson

Subject

Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), £19.99

A journey through the first three decades of British cinema celebrating its visionary filmmakers and the unsung stars. Presented by Matthew Sweet and illustrated throughout with film clips including the...

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Scots on Screen 1899-1936 (2000 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £15.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

A compilation of samples of the output of Scottish film-makers in the silent and early sound period. Optional piano accompaniment is provided for three of the titles, reflecting aspects of the experience of...

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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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Friedrich Schiller: Eine Dichterjugend (2009)

aka: Friedrich Schiller: The Poet As a Young Man

Director

Curt Goetz

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 102 minutes), 19.95 Euros

Silent film. After 16 years’ experience on stage, the actor and playwright Curt Goetz (1888-1960) made his debut as a film director and producer with the silent movie ‘Friedrich Schiller - Eine...

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Man with a Movie Camera (1929 Video)

Director

Dziga Vertov

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL)

A montage of Moscow life showing the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going. Dziga Vertov used all the cinematic techniques at his disposal - dissolves, split...

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Chant d’Amour, Un (2003)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £15.99

Set in a French prison, this silent, poetic, and intensely physical vision of homosexual desire reveals the recurrent themes that unite Genet’s work and the cinematic techniques - of collage, flashback and...

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Iron Horse, The (2002)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 134 min), £19.99

John Ford’s 50th film and his most famous of the silent era. Combines a conventional tale of double-dealing, vengeance and romance with a poetic sense of history, and an epic theme - unitinga nation by...

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Surreally Scozzese (2001 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 80 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

Enrico Scozzese, the son of immigrant Italians, was one of Scotland’s most unusual filmmakers. An academic, he pursued an ‘underground’ career making movies with amateur casts and crews. His ambitious,...

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