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Funny Business Is No Joke

Date released

1967

Series name

Look At Life

Issue no

419

NoS ID

350604

Story no

1 / 1

NoS synopsis: The business of comedians and of writing humorous material for them. In this issue we find a look at the business behind the humour. The music halls are dying out and television and cinema have...

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Chanel, Chanel (1984 Video)

Director

Roberto Guerra; Eila Hershon

Subject

Design

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 62 minutes), £14.95

Archival documents presented by fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld recall the life and loves of French designer Coco Chanel (1883-1971), whose understated, sophisticated designs dominated the international...

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Carer, The (2016 Film)

Director

János Edelényi

Feature film. A young Hungarian actress (Coco König) becomes the carer of famously difficult stage actor Sir Michael Gifford (Brian Cox), who is in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease. Their...

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Music

Date released

1971

Series name

London Line

Issue no

358

NoS ID

350445

Story no

3 / 4

COI synopsis: From the pop charts: "The Sweet" singing "Coco".

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Shakespeare’s Kings - Henry IV (1957 Television)

aka: Henry IV

Series

Camera Three

Director

Clay Yurdin

Series discussing four English monarchs portrayed in Shakespeare’s plays. This episode includes several scenes from Henry IV parts 1 and II and a segment from Henry V (IV i). Hosted by James Macandrew.

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Fame (1980 Film)

Director

Alan Parker

Producer

David de Silva; Alan Marshall

Musical drama. The fortunes of some of the students at Manhattan’s High School for the Performing Arts. During the auditions at the beginning of the film, several students recite Shakespeare; one delivers...

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Hamlet (2010 Video)

Director

Joseph Haj

Video recording of the Folger Theatre’s 2010 modern dress production of Hamlet directed by Joseph Haj with Graham Michael Hamilton in the title role. Videographer for WAPAVA is T.J. O’Toole.

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Strike, The (1982 Television, Video)

Series

Fame

Director

Thomas Carter

Television series based on the 1980 film of the same name which, using drama and music, follows the lives of the students and faculty at the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. In this episode...

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Story of Fashion, The (3 Parts) (1987)

Director

Roberto Guerra; Eila Hershon

Subject

Design

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes each), £14.95 each part

Traces the history of fashion in the 20th century through its creators and those whose business it is to interpret it - illustrators, writers and photographers - as well as models, media stars and ordinary...

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Signé Chanel (2008)

aka: House of Chanel, The

Director

Loïc Prigent

Subject

Arts and Humanities; Design

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 142 minutes), £24.99

Originally made as a 5-part television series, the programmes go behind the scenes to follow the creation of Chanel’s Fall/Winter 2004-2005 Haute Couture collection, from Karl Lagerfeld’s first drawings...

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