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Fame and Shame of Salvador Dali, The (2 Parts) (1997 Video)

Director

Michael Dibb

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 2 x 50 min., 1998 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) both parts

Profile of the surrealist painter Salvador Dali. Biographer Ian Gibson uncovers the sources of his most startling images. Part 2 explores Dali’s and his wife Gala’s wealth and celebrity in the USA. Also...

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King in New York, A (1957 Film)

Director

Charlie Chaplin

Producer

Charlie Chaplin

Feature film. King Shahdov (Chaplin) is a deposed monarch exiled in New York without money. He becomes involved with Ann Kay (Addams) who hosts a television show, and soon becomes a celebrity. Befriending a...

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Before Your Very Eyes [23/03/1956] (1956 Television)

Series

Before Your Very Eyes

Director

Kenneth Carter

Television comedy show hosted by Arthur Askey. This edition includes a running gag where Askey wants to prove himself a serious actor and quotes the ‘quality of mercy’ speech from The Merchant of Venice...

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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Director

Chuck Workman

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £4.99

A look at the life, work, and impact of Andy Warhol (1928-1987), pop icon and artist, from his childhood in Pittsburgh to his death after a botched surgery. Warhol coined the word "superstar," became one,...

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Ultrasuede - In Search of Halston (2011)

Director

Whitney Sudler-Smith

Subject

Business studies; Design

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £8.00

Halston, with his signature fabric ultrasuede, was America’s first celebrity designer. At his pinnacle Halston sold his business and his name for a large sum of money but this couldn’t protect him from...

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Mister Shakespeare (1947 Radio)

Series

Favorite Story

Director

Robert E Lee; Jerome Lawrence

Radio anthology drama series hosted by Ronald Colman. The series had the convention of asking celebrities to name their favourite story; the celebrity then appeared on the show to introduce the adaptation of...

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Xy Chelsea (2019)

Director

Tim Travers Hawkins

Subject

American Studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes)

Documentary about ex-soldier whistleblower and trans woman Chelsea Manning, who disclosed over 750,000 documents to Wikileaks. She was supposed to spend most of the rest of her life behind bars in an...

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Rembrandt (5 Parts) (1974 Film)

aka: Rembrandt: The 1974 Kenneth Clark Lectures

Director

Colin Clark

Producer

Colin Clark

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Part 1: Rembrandt was the first artist to make the self-portrait a major means of artistic expression. The series begins with the image of a vigorous roughneck, passes through confident celebrity, and ends...

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Edison: The Father of Invention (2015)

Subject

Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 minutes), £14.99

Born on the threshold of Americas burgeoning industrial empire, Edisons curiosity led him to its cutting edge. With just three months of formal schooling, he took on one seemingly impossible technical...

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Sense and Sensation: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (2002)

Subject

Arts and Humanities; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £!6.99

An exploration of the arts in eighteenth-century London, written and presented by historian John Brewer. The film considers the world of commerce and celebrity in which Georgian culture was created. A world,...

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