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Prince George Opens Walker Art Gallery

Date released

9 Oct 1933

Series name

Gaumont Sound News

Issue no

399

NoS ID

381305

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Techniques of Tempera and Oil Painting (1975 Film, Video)

Producer

Peter H Coltman

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows techniques involved in the production of tempera paintings on panel and oil paintings on canvas. Includes examples of tempera and oil paintings from the collections of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow,...

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Shakespeare: Macbeth (1998 Radio)

aka: Macbeth

Series

Sound Stories

Producer

Piers Burton-Page

Radio series, broadcast over five consecutive days, in which Peggy Reynolds unravels the plot of a Shakespeare play and introduces music associated with it. Part 5 MACBETH includes excerpts from Verdi’s...

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Orgue Mystique, L’ And ‘The Mystic Image’ (1990 Video)

Director

Ken Wrench

Producer

Ken Wrench

Subject

Art; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 67 min.

Conversations with the artist Tom Walker about ‘The Mystic Image’, his pictures inspired by the music of Charles Tournemire. Dr Alan Williams of Manchester University and Tom Walker discuss nine of the...

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British Painting of the 18th and 19th Century (2014)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 50 minutes), £14.99

The late 19th and early 19th centuries are regarded as a radical period in British art, in which artists responded to industrialisation and social change with new forms of genre painting and portraiture....

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Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (2015)

Director

Pratibha Parmar

Subject

History; Literature; Social Studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 84 minutes), $395

Feature film documentary. Alice Walker made history as the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple. Her early life unfolded in the midst of...

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Strand: Under the Dark Cloth (1989 Video)

Director

John Walker

Producer

John Walker

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 80 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

A film biography of Paul Strand, a leading figure in the history of American photography, who also worked as a newsreel cameraman. He created a direct, dynamic style of modern photography and was one of the...

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Waste Land (2011)

Director

Lucy Walker

Producer

Angus Aynsley

Subject

Art; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 99 minutes), £19.99

This film follows Brazilian artist Vik Muniz as he leaves his New York studio behind and travels to Jardim Gramacho, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Here, on the world’s largets landfill site, he...

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Slade Women (1979 Film, Video)

Director

Tony Cash

Producer

Tony Cash

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Germaine Greer continues the investigation undertaken in her book ‘The Obstacle Race’ into the ‘absent history’ of women artists, and follows the careers of six women artists, contemporaries of...

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Pots with Pictures (1976 Film)

Director

Jonathan Stedall

Subject

Classical studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows the range of themes from mythology and daily life which occur on Greek vases of the 6th and 5th centuries BC. The vases shown are from the British Museum collection.

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