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Stonehenge

Date released

1967

Series name

London Line (Colour series 1)

Issue no

11

NoS ID

350219

Story no

3 / 4

COI synopsis: An interview with Professor Fred Hoyle discussing his views on Stonehenge as an ancient observatory.

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Ken Russell: The Great Passions: Always on Sunday; Isadora; Dante’s Inferno (2016)

Director

Ken Russell

Subject

Art; Dance; Literature; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes + 64 minutes + 88 minutes), £29.99

This collection brings together three films from 1965-7. The collection opens with ALWAYS ON SUNDAY (1965) a dramatized examination of the painter Henri Rousseau. ISADORA, THE BIGGEST DANCER IN THE WORLD...

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Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Die (1992 Television)

aka: Merry Wives of Windsor, The

Director

Pit Holzwarth

An all-male production of The Merry Wives of Windsor performed by the Bremer Shakespeare Company. The stage production was filmed for German television. Directed by Pit Holzwarth with Norbert Kentrup as...

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Kings and Cities (1983 Video)

Director

Mike Csaky; Andrew Harries; John Percival; Christopher Ralling

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min.

Focusses on the city of Kano in northern Nigeria and seeks to explore links between past and present in the context of political structures, historical sequences and spatial relationships.

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Back for Half One... (1977 Video)

Director

Roger T Lambert

Producer

Keith Glennie-Smith; John Hoyle

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Uses a dramatised reconstruction to show the value of an advanced form of ambulance crew training in such techniques as intubation of a patient and the setting up of a drip, in reducing the number of...

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Caravans of Gold (1983 Video)

Director

Mike Csaky; Andrew Harries; John Percival; Christopher Ralling

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min.

Illustrates and discusses some of Africa’s historic trading systems internal and external, with special reference to the traditional trans-Saharan caravan trade and to the maritime trading circulations of...

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Bible and the Gun, The (1983 Video)

Director

Mike Csaky; Andrew Harries; John Percival; Christopher Ralling

Subject

Anthropology; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min.

Deals with a series of inter-related themes: first, the negative effects on Africa of the slave trade; second the interior exploration of Africa by Europeans; third the missionary factor in African...

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Magnificent African Cake, The (1983 Video)

Director

Mike Csaky; Andrew Harries; John Percival; Christopher Ralling

Subject

Anthropology; History

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min.

The title is derived from King Leopold II of Belgium who declared his determination during the scramble for African territory in the 1880s to secure for himself a large a slice as possible of ‘this...

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Different but Equal (1983 Video)

Director

Mike Csaky; Andrew Harries; John Percival; Christopher Ralling

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min.

For over four centuries the continent of Africa was ravished by the slave trade. Our response to Africa and its history has been distorted by this and confused by modern day racism. Basil Davidson begins the...

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Legacy, The 3 (1983 Video)

Director

Mike Csaky; Andrew Harries; John Percival; Christopher Ralling

Subject

History

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min.

Explores the problems and successes of the newly liberated African states in the aftermath of colonial rule. The legacy bequeathed by European administrations has not always proved easy to reconcile with...

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