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Shrovetide Festive as Ever

Date released

7 Mar 1949

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1880

NoS ID

041568

Story no

1 / 7

Traditional "football" game through Derbyshire town is Pancake Day feature. Boys of Westminster School scramble for Pancake in custom dating back a hundred years.

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Westminster School

Date released

1966

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

374

NoS ID

328615

Story no

1 / 1

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Tossing the Pancake

Date released

10 Feb 1921

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

494-1

NoS ID

128017

Story no

5 / 6

[SUBTITLE]: "Historic Shrove Tuesday custom at Westminster School." People arriving. Winner eating his pancake.

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Beaubourg (1981 Video)

Director

Denis Postle

Producer

Denis Postle

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Postle introduces the film, viewing the building from different perspectives. Includes statements by the designers Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano and Peter Rice; a critique by members of Archigram and Denis...

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Access Denied (1996 Video)

Director

Tim Phillips

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 14 min., 1998 sale: £11.95 (inclusive)

Looks at experiments on animals, with special reference to promate research. Follows the lengthy undercover investigation by the National Anti-Vivisection Socity Special Investigation Department into animal...

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Keith Vaughan (1984 Video)

Director

John Bulmer

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min.

Traces Keith Vaughan’s life and art from his public school days and the war years, to teaching in London art schools, and the final period of self-imposed withdrawal before his suicide at 65. The film’s...

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The Crisis Hour by Hour

Date released

31 Aug 1939

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

888

NoS ID

036846

Story no

3 / 3

London: The King with his brothers at Westminster Abbey Peace Service. Whilst Cabinet considers reply to Hitler’s offer, demonstrator causes panic in Downing Street crowd. France: As further reservists...

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Slade Women (1979 Film, Video)

Director

Tony Cash

Producer

Tony Cash

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Germaine Greer continues the investigation undertaken in her book ‘The Obstacle Race’ into the ‘absent history’ of women artists, and follows the careers of six women artists, contemporaries of...

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Pottery Ladies (4 Parts) (1985 Film, Video)

Director

Jenny Wilkes

Producer

Elizabeth Taylor Mead

Subject

Art; Design

Distribution

Film (16mm)

1: Describes the career of Charlotte Rhead who came from a famous family of designers and who perfected the technique of tube-lining. Mary Harper recalls her working days as a painter for Charlotte Rhead. 2:...

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Elizabeth Maconchy (1985 Video)

Director

Margaret Williams

Producer

Fiz Oliver

Subject

Music; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 48 min.

Introduces Elizabeth Maconchy’s music, explaining how she approaches the task of composition and how her ideas are formulated. Leading musicians and the orchestra of Wells Cathedral School play excerpts...

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