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  1. Trade Tattoo (1937 Video)

    Director
    Len Lye
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. Technicolor. 6 min.

    A mixture of live action submerged in a sea of abstract patterns and line movements. The underlying theme is that to maintain the rhythm of workaday Britain one must post early in the day. Music played by...

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  2. Rainbow Dance (1936 Video)

    Director
    Len Lye
    Producer
    Basil Wright
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. Gasparcolour. 4 min.

    A mixture of live action an animation in which the actions of a live dancer combine with shimmering colour fantasies to illustrate the advantages of saving. The message is: ‘The Post Office Savings Bank...

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  3. Dancing Images, Early and Avant-Garde Dance Films (1997)

    Subject
    Dance; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 75 minutes), £22.99

    No. 3 in the series on the history of dance films is a compilation of 9 films made between 1920 and 1989. Includes Opus II, III & IV, by Walter Ruttmann; Emak Bakia by Man Ray; La Marche des Machines by...

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  4. Battle for Music (1943)

    Director
    Donald Taylor; Len Lye; Ralph Keene; Ralph Bond; John Banting; Dylan Thomas; Charles de Latour
    Subject
    History; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 186 minutes), £14.99

    Dramatised documentary about the trials of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during World War II. The year is 1939. Following the liquidation of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the players form a new...

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  5. Rhythms (2003)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (47 minutes)

    A compilation of work by Len Lye, the pioneer of ‘direct film’ whose techniques included painting and scratching images directly onto celluloid, using found footage, casting shadows of objects on to...

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  6. Britain in the Twenties (1936 Video)

    Director
    Adrian Brunel; Desmond Dickensen; Robert Fairthorne; Len Lye; Ivor Montagu; Hans Richter; Brian Salt
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 82 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

    A compilation of rare short British avant-garde films made in the 1920s, influenced by the ‘art’ cinema of the USSR and Germany. The chosen films represent the many distinct avant-garde styles of the...

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  7. Addictive TV: Audiovisualise (2004)

    Subject
    Media studies; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £15.99

    Today’s audiovisual artists perhaps owe as much to the VJs and music producers who emerged from 90s electronic music culture as to 20th Century experimental film makers like Norman McClaren, Len Lye,...

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  8. Soviet Influence, The: Battleship Potemkin / Drifters (2012)

    Director
    Sergei Eisenstein; John Grierson
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 124 minutes), £19.99

    The second in the BFI’s series looking at the influence of silent Soviet films on British filmmakers of the 1930s pairs Sergei Eisenstein’s 1929 film BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN) with John...

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  9. Complete Humphrey Jennings, The: Volume One - The First Days (2011)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 211 minutes), £19.99

    The first ever compilation of films all Humphrey Jennings’ films. Widely considered one of Britain’s greatest documentary filmmakers, Humphrey Jennings has long been critically acclaimed for films which...

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