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Around China with a Movie Camera: A Journey from Beijing to Shanghai, 1900 - 1948 (2016)

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 minutes), £11.99

This DVD is a compilation of home movies, travelogues and newsreels, made by British and French filmmakers, from professionals to tourists, colonial-era expatriates and Christian missionaries. The collection...

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Picturing the Modern City (1992 Video)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

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LumiÈre and Company (1995 Video)

aka: LumiÈre y CompaÑia

Director

John Boorman; Costa Gavras; Peter Greenaway; Hugh Hudson; Andrei Konchalovsky; Patrice Leconte; Spike Lee; Claude Lelouch; Bigas Luna; David Lynch; Sarah Moon; Arthur Penn; Jacques Rivette; Fernando Trueba; Liv Ullmann; Wim Wendes; Zhang Yimou

Producer

Angel Amigo; Neal Edelstein; Fabienne Servan-Schreiber; Soren StÊrmose

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 88 min., 2001 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

To commenorate the centenary of the Lumière brothers’ first ‘motion picture’, David Lynch, Spike Lee, Wim Wenders, Zhang Yimou, John Boorman, Arthur Penn, Peter Greenaway, Claude LeLouch, Luis Costa...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Proof Positive

Date released

24 Sep 1942

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

694A

NoS ID

012455

Story no

3 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Proof Positive. DESCRIPTION: Precision bombing by the RAF is crippling the Nazi industrial effort not only in their own land but also in the occupied countries. Photographic evidence is...

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I for India (2005)

Director

Sandhya Suri

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 70 minutes), £15.99

In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the UK. The first thing he did was buy two Super-8 cameras, one of which he sent home to his family in India. For the next 40 years, the family exchanged...

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R & J : The True Story (2012 Film)

Director

Christopher D. Turner

Shakespeare’s story told through the camera of a documentary film-maker.

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In-Flight Movie (1987 Video)

Producer

John Downer

Subject

Biology; Technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

Looks at how and why birds fly. Using remarkable new film techniques the audience is given a ‘bird’s eye’ view of the world. Shows a goose’s perpective of flying among clouds and what a fast-flying...

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Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)

Director

Banksy

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £22.99

The world’s first street art disaster movie, EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP is the groundbreaking film from Banksy - the world’s most famous graffiti artist; a global phenomenon with a fiercely guarded...

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Film Montage: The Projection of Modernity (1993)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 60 minutes ), £34.99 (CM)

Dr Briony Fer talks about the political aesthetic of film montage and the different approaches that the influential Soviet film-makers. Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov developed as they invented this new...

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Crocodile Farm

Date released

8 Feb 1976

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2436

NoS ID

030772

Story no

3 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Crocodile Farm. DESCRIPTION: The Crocodiles are being looked after for commercial purposes - shoes, belts and handbags. But, meanwhile, they prove to be a tourist attraction -...

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