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Children’s Cinema

Date released

1959

Series name

Topic

Issue no

12

NoS ID

329662

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COI synopsis: It came as a surprise to Joan and Julius Evans, an American couple visiting Britain, to learn that every part of the British film industry must contribute by Parliamentary Law a small portion...

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Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith (2017)

Director
Stuart A. Staples

Subject
Film studies; Science

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 53 + 64 minutes), £19.99

This film, directed by Stuart A. Staples, is based on the work of naturalist, inventor and pioneering British filmmaker F. Percy Smith (1880-1945). It features Smith’s own footage, combined with a new...
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Secrets of Nature Pioneering Natural History Films, 1922 - 1933 (2010)

Director
Percy Smith; Mary Field

Subject
Biology; Film studies

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £19.99

A digitally remastered collection of 19 British films made between 1922 and 1933 that used groundbreaking techniques to share the secrets of the natural world with cinema audiences. The pioneering series...
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Comes a Horseman (1978)

Director
Alan Pakula

Subject
American Studies; Film studies

Distribution
Sale, DVD (BR Region free, 119 minutes), £19.99

Set in the American West during the 1940s, the film centres on a pair of little-guy ranchers who join forces against the depredations of a ruthless land baron determined to expand his empire at any cost....
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Children’s Film Foundation: Volume I: London Tales (1958)

Director
David Eady

Subject
Film studies

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 114 minutes), £19.99

Collection of three films produced by The Children’s Film Foundation. The SALVAGE GANG (1958), directed by John Krish and featuring a young Frazer Hines and a cameo by Wilfred Brambel, is notable for its...
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