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  1. Family Portrait (1951 Video)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 25 min.

    The last film directed by Humphrey Jennings and made for the Festival of Britain in 1951, the film shows the British in everyday life, in the arts and in the sciences. Surveys the achievements of...

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  2. Tonic to the Nation - From Festival to Coronation (1951 Video)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings; Richard Massingham
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 68 min., 2001 sale £12.95 (inc VAT +p&p)

    A compilation of four films, three of them commissioned for the Festival of Britain. BRIEF CITY (d. Richard Massingham. COI, b&w, 1951) and LONDON IN FESTIVAL YEAR (COI, col, 1951) cover the capital’s...

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  3. Confessions of Winifred Wagner, The (1976 Film)

    Director
    Hans Jürgen Syberberg
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Winifred Wagner was born in Hastings, England. Orphaned, she was adopted by Karl Klindworth, a friend of Richard Wagner. In 1914 she was taken to Bayreuth; one year later she married Richard Wagner’s son,...

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  4. Gelede: A Yoruba Masquerade (1969 Film)

    Director
    Francis Speed
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A study of the Gelede ritual which is found in Western Nigeria and amongst the Yoruba in Dahomey. The purpose of this ceremony is to propitiate the great mother and assure the placation of women with...

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  5. London in Festival Year 1951

    Subject
    Design; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 66minutes), £19.99

    A collection of films in celebration of the 1951 Festival of Britain. Features the last films made by Humphrey Jennings - FAMILY PORTRAIT, and Richard Massingham - BRIEF CITY, written for the Observer by...

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  6. Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998)

    Director
    Aleksey German
    Subject
    Russian studies; Social Studies

    Late winter 1953. The lives of nearly half the planet are in Stalin’s hands. A military surgeon, General Yuri Georgievich Klensky, finds himself a target of the ‘Doctors’ Plot’: the anti-Semitic...

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  7. Ben Culey’s Thetford (1993 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 40 min., 1996 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

    Events in the town filmed by Ben Culey who owned the Palace Cinema. Sequences include carnivals, football, sports days, the old fire brigade, floods, Armistice Day, the 1951 Festival of Britain celebrations...

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  8. Refinery in Miniature and Refinery at Work (1951)

    Subject
    Chemistry; Energy; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 31 minutes), £8.00

    Two films about the Hawley oil refinery on Southampton Water in Hampshire. REFINERY IN MINIATURE (1951, B&W, 9 mins 35 secs). In 1950, as thousands of workers descended on Fawley to build a new refinery, a...

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  9. Moving Mountains

    Producer
    Ray Johnson
    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.99

    This is a collection of documentary films and interviews charting the important and monumental changes to the local environment achieved by the Planning Team of Stoke-on-Trent City Council in the 20 years...

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  10. Walking Away with the Music (1989 Video)

    Director
    Shafeeq Vallani
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS)

    Explores the cultural approation of black music and dance, focusing the the WOMAD world music festival in 1988.

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