Results

The miners’ song

Date released

Sep 1947

Series name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue no

1

NoS ID

334708

Story no

3 / 3

BFI synopsis: Carroll Levis presents a miners song. COI Commentary - Today we salute the miners who have the tremendous task of bringing coal to us in this day of need. I have written the Miners Song, as a...

News on Screen Cinema news To order Moving image

Dickens Before Sound (2006)

Subject

Film Studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 171 minutes), £12.99

This collection of films, the majority of which are previously unreleased, shows how early cinema storytelling developed, as practitioners of this new art struggled to transform a tale from page to screen....

DVD Find Other To order

Timon of Athens (1996 Multimedia, Video)

Director

Norio Deguchi

Video recording of The Shakespeare Theatre Company (Japan) production of Timon of Athens directed by Norio Deguchi with Kotaro Yoshida in the title role.

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions To order

Macbeth (2000 Audio)

Series

BBC Radio Collection

Director

Richard Eyre

Producer

Kate Rowland

Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, adapted for radio, with Ken Stott as Macbeth and Phyllis Logan as Lady Macbeth.

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions To order

Cutter loader

Date released

Sep 1947

Series name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue no

1

NoS ID

334706

Story no

1 / 3

BFI Summary - the Meco Moore cutter-loader is demonstrated and explained. COI Commentary - You may know the Meco-Moore. I dare say there’s one in your pit. Or perhaps there will be soon if you’ve got...

News on Screen Cinema news To order Moving image

Magic Christian, The (1969 Film)

Director

Joseph McGrath

Producer

Denis O’Dell

Feature film. Satirical comedy commenting on greed and fame and what people are prepared to do for money. Laurence Harvey plays a famous Shakespearean who, after being paid to do so by Peter Sellers,...

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions To order

Five day week?

Date released

Sep 1947

Series name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue no

1

NoS ID

334707

Story no

2 / 3

BFI synopsis: Miners discuss the possibilities of a five day week for miners in a pub. COI Commentary - 1st man: A Five Day week. Can we afford it? 2nd man: Well, I am all in favour of a five-day week. We...

News on Screen Cinema news To order Moving image

Macbeth (2000 Audio, Radio)

aka: BBC Radio Collection: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth

Series

Sunday Play, The

Director

Richard Eyre

Producer

Kate Rowland

Shakespeare’s tragedy adapted for radio, with Ken Stott as Macbeth and Phyllis Logan as Lady Macbeth. Music by Dominic Muldowney accompanies the play.

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions To order

King Lear (1987 Television)

Series

South Bank Show, The

Director

Chris Hunt

Producer

Chris Hunt

Television anthology arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg. Programme on the staging of King Lear around a rehearsal in the National Theatre of David Hare’s production with Anthony Hopkins in the title...

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions To order

Merchant of Venice (1972 Television)

Series

Play of the Month

Director

Cedric Messina

Producer

Gerald Savory

Televised adaptation of the play in which the mise en scene was inspired by Italian Renaissance art, a practice which subsequently distinguished director Cedric Messina’s productions for the BBC Television...

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions To order