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Village Colleges

Date released

1971

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

650

NoS ID

328891

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Village colleges are an exciting new development in expanding the uses of school buildings to serve all the members of remote rural communities. Now it’s not only children who are going to...

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Haig’s Men Hit Out

Date released

15 Aug 1918

Series name

Pictorial News (Official) / War Office Official Topical Budget

Issue no

364-1

NoS ID

126707

Story no

2 / 5

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "Battle-scarred village whence Huns were driven in fierce hand-to-hand fight." British troops in ruins of village. Scenes of destruction. Dead horse. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "Batteries of French 75s...

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Between Two Villages (2006)

aka: Entre Deux Villages Entre Duas Terras

Director

Muriel Jaquerod; Eduardo Saraiva Pereira

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £50.00

The film tells the story of the village of Aldeia da Luz, population 330, which is due to disappear with the construction of the Alqueva dam in the south of Portugal. A new village is being built a few...

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Indian Pilgrimage, An: Village Man, City Man (1975 Film)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Deals with the way in which one man, Shripal, views his life as a city man whose kinship ties and duties still bind him to his natal village. Shripal now works in a New Delhi cloth factory, 400 miles west of...

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Small Happiness: Women of a Chinese Village (1984 Video)

Director

Richard Gordon; Carma Hinton

Subject

Anthropology; Women’s studies

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 58 min.

Concerns the women of the village, Long Bow, who are the subject of the William Hinton books ‘Shenfan’ and Fanshen’. The title refers to the enduring attitude in rural China that while a boy is ‘big...

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Village Life and Music in Hungary (198 Video)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Folk songs, dances and instrumental music from Hungarian villages, paralleling gypsy music.

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Dimanche en Anjou (1993 Video)

Producer

Betty Talks

Subject

French studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Contrasts Sunday in a French village with Sunday in a town. All is peaceful in the village in the early morning, while the town is bustling with people going ot market. During the day, roles are reversed,...

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'The Most Perfect Scheme of Its Kind I Have Ever Seen’ (HM the King)

Date released

21 May 1928

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

873-2

NoS ID

132011

Story no

5 / 7

[SUBTITLE]: "The Prince of Wales visits Papworth Village settlement for tubercular treatment." The Prince of Wales visits the Papworth Village Settlement for the curing of tuberculosis sufferers.

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Floating Village Starts Life on New Site

Date released

6 Apr 1953

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2306

NoS ID

044329

Story no

4 / 7

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Whole village which recently moved on rafts to bandit-free location settles down to new life.

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Caught in a Web (2017)

aka: Caught in a Web Trilogy

Director

Toni de Bromhead

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (52 minutes (each film)), £50.00

Three films comparing and contrasting aspects of life in a Dorset community in the Bride Valley and in Villes-sur-Auzon, a French village in Provence. The first film in the trilogy is A VILLAGE HERITAGE...

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