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Sfx in the Cinema (1994 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2001 sale: £16.50 (inc VAT +p&p)

A video-based teaching pack that uses interviews, film clips and special effects to explore the techniques and visionary impulses in the creation of special effects in science fiction and fantasy films.

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Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978 Video)

aka: Albero Degli Zoccoli, L’

Director

Ermanno Olmi

Subject

Italian studies; Media studies

Distribution

Videocassette. VHS. col. 170 min., 2001 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

Feature film about a poor farming family in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century. The family sacrifices to send the son to school, but his shoes break and there is no money to replace them.

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Immaterial Bodies: A Cultural Analysis of Early Russian Films (2001)

Subject

Media studies; Russian studies

Distribution

Sale, CD-ROM (PC Version, 129 minutes), £27.99

A CD-ROM exploring Russian cinema before 1919 in the context of life and culture in pre-revolutionary Russia. There are over 100 film clips (55 mins), 74 minutes of analysis and commentary by film scholar...

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Four Feathers, The (1939 Video)

Director

Zoltan Korda

Producer

Irving Asher; Alexander Korda

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 110 min.

Feature film. A disgraced young British officer redeems his honour by helping to put down the Khalifa’s revolt in the Sudan in 1898.

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Metropolis (1926 Film, Video)

Director

Fritz Lang

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An expressionist science fiction feature film dealing with a city presided over by an elite ruling class, under a dictatorship and based on the slave labour of the workers toiling underground. Adapted from...

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American Cinema. Vol 5: The Film School Generation / The Edge of Hollywood (1994 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 105 min., 1997 sale: £11.99 (inclusive)

A 10-part history of seven decades of American cinema, released in five volumes.

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American Cinema: Film Language / Writing and Thinking About Film / Classical Hollywood Style Today (1994 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC). col. 90 min.

Follow-up to the 10-part history of seven decades of American cinema.

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Trade Tattoo (1937 Video)

Director

Len Lye

Producer

John Grierson

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. Technicolor. 6 min.

A mixture of live action submerged in a sea of abstract patterns and line movements. The underlying theme is that to maintain the rhythm of workaday Britain one must post early in the day. Music played by...

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Acting Tapes: Acting in the Cinema (2 Parts) (1984 Video)

Director

Mark Nash; James Swinson

Producer

Mark Nash; James Swinson

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Hire (BFI) or sale (Zero One), Videocassette. VHS. col. 2 x 54 min.

Explores the ideas and training methods behind two opposing movements in 20th-century theatre and cinema. Argues that British film and television acting is out of touch with these movements, being too...

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Hpo, The: Heavenly Post Office (1938 Video)

Director

Lotte Reiniger

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. dufaycolour. 4 min.

The Post Office slogan at the time was: ‘It’s heaven to receive a greetings telegram. Be an angel and send one!' Lotte Reiniger translated this into a silhouette film that did much to promote telegram...

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