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For Bird Lovers - Little Mothers. The Ovenbird and the Sandpiper.

Date released

21 Aug 1924

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

168

NoS ID

331109

Story no

3 / 5

Pathe Intertitles - "The Ovenbird - her speckled breast makes her easy to recognize - gets her name from the oven-like nest she builds on the ground." "Notice how the parent bird softens the grub with her...

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Wonderful London (1924)

Director

Harry B. Parkinson; Frank Miller

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (75 minutes), £19.99

A collection of twelve silent films made in 1924 by Harry B. Parkinson and Frank Miller. The films were made to capitalise on the popularity of the magazine of the same name and were often based on the idea...

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Agatha Christie’s the Pale Horse, The (1997 Television)

aka: Pale Horse, The

Director

Charles Beeson

Producer

Adrian Bate

Television mystery drama based on Agatha Christie’s novel of the same name. The story begins with Mark Easterbrook (Buchanan), a young sculptor, leaving a production of Macbeth. He stumbles across a dying...

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Wild, Wild Babies!

Date released

2 Apr 1931

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

513

NoS ID

332691

Story no

5 / 7

Pathe Summary - Intimate glances at some new arrivals at the Zoo. NoS synopsis: ‘To this old bird, babies are just a shipment ...' M/S of a stork. ‘These Mallards are born wild’. High angle shots of a...

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Human Element, The (1992 Video)

Subject

Chemistry

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 30 min., 1997 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p) (each) 1997 sale: £200.00 (+VAT +p&p) five programmes

A human view of the world of science, aiming to show that there is more to chemistry than meets the eye. 1: The story of Lise Meitner, whose achievements included vital work which led to the splitting of the...

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Playboys, The (1992 Film)

Director

Gillies MacKinon

Producer

Simon Perry; William P. Cartlidge

Feature film. Set in Ireland in 1957, strong-willed Tara (Wright) is an unmarried mother who refuses to name the father of her child and is therefore seen as shameful by the townsfolk. When a troupe of...

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Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (1945 Film)

Director

Elia Kazan

Producer

Louis D. Lighton

Feature filmed based on Betty Smith’s novel of the same name. A young girl, Francie, tries to keep her idealism alive and surmount the hardships of her slum tenement life in the face of her family’s...

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You Made Me Love You (1933 Film)

Director

Monty Banks

Musical comedy updating The Taming of the Shrew. Pamela Beren (Thelma Todd) is beautiful and spoilt, ferocious and shrewish, her fiery nature causing fear in her father, brother and the servants. Tom Daly, a...

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Cinema 16: European Short Films (2004)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 210 minutes (films) + 210 minutes (commentary)), £20.00

A selection of 16 short films, including many unseen early works from some of Europe’s greatest directors. Made between 1957 and 2000. All the films are accompanied by commentaries, many given by the...

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