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  1. Composer and Audience: Tippett and Sondheim (1985 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows how two composers working in very different areas compose music. Stephen Sondheim explains how ‘The Ballad of Sweeney Todd’ came to be written. He illustrates the stages of composition, and...

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  2. Sir Michael Tippett (1979 Video)

    Director
    Alan Benson
    Producer
    Alan Benson
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 85 min.

    Combines excerpts from key works with an account of Tippet’s development as a composer. Includes excerpts from his symphonies, the concertos for orchestra and for double string orchestra, the Piano Sonata...

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  3. Masque in Dioclesian, The (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Drama; Music
    Distribution
    REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. col. 90 min.

    Video recording using a single camera of a performance by Kent Opera of ‘The Masque in Dioclesian’ by Henry Purcell in its first staged production in modern times, at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, on...

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  4. Oh Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams (2008)

    Director
    Tony Palmer
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 149 minutes), £14.99

    Released to mark the 50th anniversary of Vaughan Williams’ death, this is the first ever full-length biography of the composer, produced by director Tony Palmer. The film features specially recorded...

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  5. Let My People Go (1961)

    Director
    John Krish
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 23 minutes), £20.00

    A polemical film which uses voiceover and reconstructed scenes intercut with newsreel material, including footage of the Sharpeville massacre, to present an indictment of the Apartheid system in South Africa.

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  6. Alan Bush: A Life (1983)

    Director
    Anna Ambrose
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 64 minutes), £50.00

    Film about the life and work of socialist composer Alan Bush, whose career was dedicated to trying to "connect musical activity with real happenings in the world." This aim is exemplified both by the...

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  7. Life in Loch Lomond (1972 Film)

    Director
    Peter Coltman
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An introduction to fresh water ecology, based on Loch Lomond. Explores various physical and topographical features of the different regions of the loch and relates the planktonic and benthic flora and fauna...

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  8. Treatment of Sewage, The (1979 Film, Video)

    Director
    Joyce Begbie
    Producer
    Joyce Begbie
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Follows the primary settlement and secondary biological treatment of sewage from a small town in the west of Scotland, using the activated sludge process. Describes the organisms in activated sludge are...

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