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Charles Ricketts’ Stage Designs (1987 Multimedia)

Series

Theatre in Focus

Slide set. Between 1906 and his death in 1931, Charles Ricketts was the foremost practising designer of his generation in England working with Shaw, Granville Barker, Yeats and Sybil Thorndike. The slides...

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Tina Packer (2006 Video)

Series

Women in Theater

Director

Audra D. Malone; Tina Packer

Producer

Bob Isaacson

Discussion series spotlighting prominent women from the theatre. In this episode Linda Winer (Newsday critic) talks to Tina Packer, the founder, president and artistic director of Shakespeare & Company in...

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Taming of the Shrew, The (1979 Video)

Director

Pamela Hawthorn

Video recording of Pamela Hawthorn’s 1979 production of The Taming of the Shrew for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Margot Dionne is Katherina and Graeme Campbell is Petruchio.

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Boys from Syracuse, The (1986 Video)

Director

John Neville

Video recording of John Neville’s staging of The Boys from Syracuse for the 1986 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival.

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Pyramids of Waste: The Light Bulb Conspiracy (2010)

Director

Cosima Dannoritzer

Subject

Business studies; Environmental science; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £39.50

Planned obsolescence is the deliberate shortening of product life spans to guarantee consumer demand. PYRAMIDS OF WASTE (aka THE LIGHT BULB CONSPIRACY) combines investigative research and archive footage to...

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At Last the 1948 Show (1967)

Subject

Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 320 minutes), £29.99

AT LAST THE 1948 SHOW debuted in 1967 and it is now considered a pioneering comedy series. This Collector’s Edition includes all 10 surviving shows, plus two near-complete reconstructions and a partially...

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As You Like It (1978 Video)

Director

Robin Phillips

Video recording of Robin Phillips’ 1978 production of As You Like It for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Maggie Smith is Rosalind.

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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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Cinema of Transgression (1979 Video)

Director

Holly Adams; Beth B; Jeri Cain Rossi; Tessa Hughes-Freeland; M Henry Jones; Richard Kern; Jon Moritsugu; Kembra Pfahler; Jeri Cain Rossi; Tommy Turner; David Wojnarowicz; Nick Zedd

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 147 min., 2000 sale: £19.99 (inclusive)

Compilation of films made by avant-garde film-makers and artists based in the Lower East Side of New York City between 1979 and 1993 They aimed to transform values by breaking all taboos of cinematic...

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As You Like It (1977 Video)

Director

Robin Phillips

Video recording of Robin Phillips’ 1977 production of As You Like It for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Maggie Smith is Rosalind.

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