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Schalcken the Painter (2013)

Director

Leslie Megahey

Subject

Art; Literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 minutes), £19.99

Based on the short story ‘Strange Event in the Life of Schalcken the Painter’ by Sheridan Le Fanu, this programme was originally shown in the Omnibus strand on BBC 2 during Christmas 1979. The story...

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Studying Blake’s Songs (2005)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £9.95

A CD-ROM and book package providing a route through William Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’, focusing on key poems and drawing connections across the collection. CD ROM for interactive...

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Rise of the Robots, The (Ri Christmas Lectures 2000) (2001)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 5 x 50 minutes), £19.99 each part £79.99 set

A series of lectures given by Professor Kevin Warwick of Reading University, looking at the history of robots and their future.

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Comes a Horseman (1978)

Director

Alan Pakula

Subject

American Studies; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region free, 119 minutes), £19.99

Set in the American West during the 1940s, the film centres on a pair of little-guy ranchers who join forces against the depredations of a ruthless land baron determined to expand his empire at any cost....

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Battle of the Ancre and Advance of the Tanks, The (1916 Video)

Producer

Geoffrey H Malins

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 67 minutes), £9.99

Official World War 1 film of the Western Front. Actual shots of men in the trenches. No heroics, slow-moving, mundane in style and yet greatly interesting on account of the reality of the situations and the...

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Taming of the Shrew, The (1908 Film)

Director

D.W. Griffith

Fiction film version of The Taming of the Shrew directed by D.W. Griffith with Florence Lawrence as Kate and Arthur Johnson as Petruchio. The film omits the Christopher Sly framing and much reduces the...

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Stage Beauty (2004 Film)

Director

Richard Eyre

Producer

Robert De Niro; Jane Rosenthal; Hardy Justice

Feature film. London in the 1660s, and a declaration from King Charles II (Rupert Everett) legalising female actors puts the girl-boy specialist Ned Kynaston (Billy Crudup) out of a job. His former dresser...

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Multimedia Motion II (2000 Multimedia)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

CD-ROM

Thirty-seven film sequences of objects in motion, including crashing cars and trains, falling and spinning objects, atheltes and gymnasts, rocks and astronauts. Also contains motion analysis software which...

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Enfants du Paradis, Les (1945 Film)

aka: Children of Paradise

Director

Marcel Carne

Producer

André Paulvé

Feature film. Set in a mime theatre in Paris in the 1820s, tells the story of a free-spirited young woman, Garance, and four men who fall in love with her. There are two scenes from Othello (including V...

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Flesh and Blood Show, The (1972 Film)

aka: Asylum of the Insane

Director

Pete Walker

Producer

Pete Walker

Horror film. A group of eight actors rehearsing a review at the Dome, an abandoned seaside theatre, are attacked by a mysterious killer. In an extended flashback sequence (initiated by Othello’s exchange...

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