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Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, The (1995 Video)

Director

Katie Mitchell

Producer

Simon Curtis

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 90 min., 1998 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

An adaptaton of D H Lawrence’s 1926 play exploring life in a mining community in 1914. Tells the story of Lizzie Holroyd (ZoÎ Wanamaker), a miner’s wife yoked to a husband (Colin Firth) she despises for...

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Pandora’s Box. Part 2: To the Brink of Eternity (1992 Television)

Producer

Adam Curtis; Edward Mirzoeff

Subject

Science

Distribution

Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 60 min.

PANDORA’S BOX is an award-winning 6-part series on the impact of science and technology on everyday life in the twentieth century, and their reflection in changing media images of science and scientists....

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Nick Leeson and the Fall of the House of Barings (1996 Video)

aka: £830,000,000: Nick Leeson and the Fall of the House of Barings

Producer

Adam Curtis

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Tells how Nick Leeson and the executives of Barings, the oldest bank in Britain, lost £830 million. For over two years Leeson, working in Singapore, deceived everyone around him into believing he was a star...

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Len Lye: Rhythms

Subject

Art; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 47 minutes), £23.00

Collection of Len Lye’s experimental films accompanied by a 28 page booklet with texts by David Curtis, Roger Horrocks and Len Lye on his films. The films are as follows: A COLOUR BOX 35mm 1935 [4...

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Art of Barbara Hepworth, The (2003)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £19.99

Reveals the beauty and the power of Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures, and the ideas which motivated her throughout her creative life. Extensive exhibitions at Tate St Ives and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and...

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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (1949 Television)

aka: Julius Caesar

Director

Garry Simpson

Producer

Owen Davis

Video recording of a stage play, the first to be presented on the stage of the Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C. The players are from the Amherst College Drama Department under the direction of Curtis...

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Making of Mankind, The (7 Parts) (1981 Video)

Producer

Graham Massey; Peter Spry-Leverton

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 7 x 50 min., 1999 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1999 sale: £250.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Richard Leakey traces the origins on man and asks why and how man became the most successful, powerful and dangerous animal on earth. Filmed world-wide, the programmes reflect Leakey’s own views of the...

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Ukrocena Trmoglavka (1999 Television)

aka: Taming of the Shrew, The

Director

Janusz Kica

The Taming of the Shrew made for Slovenian television and directed by Janus Kica. Milada Kalezic is Katherina and Mario Selih plays Petruchio.

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Otello (2016 Radio)

Series

Afternoon on 3

A concert performance of Rossini’s opera recorded in Barcelona. Gregory Kunde sings the title role. The Gran Teatro del Liceo Chorus and Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Christopher Franklin. Presented...

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Pandora’s Box. Part 4: Goodbye Mrs Ant (1992 Television)

Producer

Adam Curtis; Edward Mirzoeff

Subject

Science

Distribution

Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 60 min.

PANDORA’S BOX is an award-winning 6-part series on the impact of science and technology on everyday life in the twentieth century, and their reflection in changing media images of science and scientists....

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