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Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (2017 Video)

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is performed as a ballet which combines the classical choreography of Kenneth MacMillan with Prokofiev’s reknown music.

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1984 Film)

aka: Suena de una Noche de Verano

Director

Celestino Coronado

Producer

David Haughton; Lindsay Kemp

Opera, ballet and pantomime are incorporated into this adaptation which is derived from a Lindsay Kemp stage production at Sadler’s Wells. Titania (The Incredible Orlando) is a drag queen; the Indian boy...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1954 Audio)

Director

Michael Benthall

A sound recording of Michael Benthall’s 1954 Old Vic production with Robert Helpmann as Oberon and Moira Shearer as Titania. Mendelssohn’s incidental music is played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra...

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London in Festival Year 1951

Subject

Design; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 66minutes), £19.99

A collection of films in celebration of the 1951 Festival of Britain. Features the last films made by Humphrey Jennings - FAMILY PORTRAIT, and Richard Massingham - BRIEF CITY, written for the Observer by...

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Jazz - A Film by Ken Burns (3 Vols) (2001 Video)

Director

Ken Burns

Subject

Music

Distribution

DVD

A comprehensive history of jazz, from its roots in the early 19th century to today. Features hundreds of rare and classic recordings and live performances from a century of jazz music, supported by...

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Umabatha (1997 Video)

Director

Welcome Msomi

A Zulu version of Macbeth incorporating music and dance. ‘Shakespeare’s Macbeth was chosen by Welcome Msomi as perfect source material on which to base a Zulu adaptation, as it seemed ‘almost a carbon...

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We Live in Two Worlds : Gpo Film Unit Volume 2 (2009)

Director

Len Lye; Harry Watt; Evelyn Spice; William Coldstream; Basil Wright; Stuart Legg; Alberto Cavalcanti; Norman McLaren; Lotte Reiniger; Pat Jackson; Humphrey Jennings; Richard Massingham

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 257 minutes), £24.99

The second of three double-disc box sets presenting all the key films of the GPO Film Unit produced between 1936-1938. The collection is not just important in cinematic terms, but provides a valuable and...

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Romeo and Juliet (1968 Film, Video)

Director

Franco Zeffirelli

Producer

John Brabourne; Anthony Havelock-Allan

A feature film adaptation, much cut, and aimed at a mainstream, young audience. Beautifully photographed and costumed, the film was a huge box office success and a forerunner of the ‘teen movie’.

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Romeo and Juliet (Video)

Director

Tae-suk Oh

Video recording of the Mokwha Repertory Company’s 2005 production of Romeo and Juliet directed by Oh Tae-suk which employs martial arts, live music, dance, ritual and gesture. Oh Tae-suk directs his actors...

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