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Spotlight on the Railways

Series name

Rhodesian Spotlight

Issue no

52

NoS ID

351982

Story no

5 / 5

Rhodesian Spotlight synopsis: A survey of Railway progress includes the work of the Central Training Centre where pupils include Italians and Greeks the hude task of maintenance , the building of the new...

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We Live in Two Worlds : Gpo Film Unit Volume 2 (2009)

Director

Len Lye; Harry Watt; Evelyn Spice; William Coldstream; Basil Wright; Stuart Legg; Alberto Cavalcanti; Norman McLaren; Lotte Reiniger; Pat Jackson; Humphrey Jennings; Richard Massingham

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 257 minutes), £24.99

The second of three double-disc box sets presenting all the key films of the GPO Film Unit produced between 1936-1938. The collection is not just important in cinematic terms, but provides a valuable and...

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Macbeth (1971 Video)

Director

Peter Gill

Video recording of Peter Gill’s 1971 production of Macbeth for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Ian Hogg and Pat Galloway are the Macbeths.

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Henry VI. Part 2 (2001 Video)

Series

This England: The Histories

Director

Michael Boyd

A video recording, using two cameras (upstage and downstage), of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2000 production of Henry VI, Part 2. Directed by Michael Boyd with David Oyelowo as King Henry.

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This Sceptred Isle - Yorkshire (1999 Video)

Director

Ronald Craigen; J.B. Holmes; Ralph Keene; Charles de Lautour; John Taylor; Tony Thompson

Producer

Edgar Anstey; Ian Ferguson

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 92 min., 1999 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

A British Transport Films compilation video made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the film unit of the British Transport Commission. All but FULLY FITTED FREIGHT were produced by Edgar Anstey. 1...

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Natural Disaster Films 1905-1973 (2005)

aka: Natural Disaster Films - Earthquakes, Floods, Tornados & Hurricanes

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 150 minutes), $19.95

A compilation of footage of earthquakes, floods, tornadoes & hurricanes. Includes: 1936 PITTSBURGH FLOOD (PART II - PART I MISSING) (1936, 2:49, Silent); A TRIP DOWN MARKET STREET BEFORE THE FIRE (1906,...

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Advertising on TV (Vols 1-26) (2005)

Subject

Business studies; Media studies; Politics & government; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 55 mins each vol), $20.00 each vol

A 26-part series covering in detail, with many examples, the theory and technology behind the development of television advertising in the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s. Many of the films were...

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Peter Whitehead and the Sixties (2007)

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £14.99

Filmmaker Peter Whitehead was at the heart of Swinging London, chronicling the youth explosion, the burgeoning popular music scene and the counterculture of the 1960s. Two of his films are now released for...

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Minders (1995 Video)

Producer

Anne Laking

Subject

Psychiatry

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 30 min., 1996 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £180.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series looking at a year in the life of a community mental health team based in South London. 1 (director Lorraine Heggessey): Follows a young black man with a history of paranoid schizophrenia who appears...

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Why Democracy? (Short Films) (2007)

Subject

Development studies; Philosophy; Politics & government

Distribution

Not In Distribution

In October 2007, ten one-hour films focusing on contemporary democracy were broadcast in the world’s largest ever factual media event. Running alongside the 10 documentaries, and integral to the outreach...

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