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Casual Belgian Swims Channel

Date released

8 Sep 1949

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1933

NoS ID

041910

Story no

2 / 3

Champagne and sausages sustain Du Moulin in twenty-three hour effort.

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Welcome to the Spiv Economy (1986)

Subject

Economics; Film studies; Media studies

Made during the industrial decline and rising unemployment of the 1980s, this documentary is a study of the burgeoning numbers of people in casual and temporary jobs, which indicates that the ‘gig’ or...

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Hamlet Gliwicki (2006 Video)

Director

Piotr Lachmann

Video recording of a production directed by Piotr Lachmann based on Hamlet, with excerpts from the works of Polish playwrights Stanislaw Rozewicz and Helmut Kajzar. In this adaptation, keeping the memory of...

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Uncle Sam’s Army

Date released

21 Feb 1917

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

287-1

NoS ID

125985

Story no

3 / 4

[SUBTITLE]: "The United States Army is recruited by voluntary enlistment, the actual strength in 1915 being 5,000 officers and 93 thousand men. An inspection of American Troops at a camp in the Southern...

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Big Flame, The (1969 Video)

Director

Ken Loach

Producer

Tony Garnett

Subject

Drama; Politics & government

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 85 min.

Traces the progress of a strike in Loverpool’s docks following the Devlin Report, which advocated the abolition of casual labour. The workers take over Liverpool docks. The central figure is a...

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Smack - A Night in (2002)

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Sale Hire, VHS (PAL, 25 minutes), £10.00 (+VAT +p&p) hire £25.00 (+VAT +p&p) sale

A hard-hitting documentary account of the real-life consequences of heroin addiction in areas of inner-city Portsmouth. The video maps the pathways from casual multi-drug use - alcohol and cannabis - to the...

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Not This Time (2000 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 2001 sale: £5.00 (inclusive)

Story of the campaign by the friends and family of Simon Jones to bring to justice those responsible for his death in the face of a systematic government cover-up of the human cost of casualisation. Simon...

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Men’s Fashions

Date released

1973

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

750

NoS ID

328991

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Women sporting men’s tailored suits, and men looking as sublime or as casual as they care... Michele Brown seeks inspiration on the fashion front in London - and finds it, to her surprise in...

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Meshes of the Afternoon (1943 Film, Video)

Director

Maya Deren

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Maya Deren re-interprets and elaborates an apparently simple, casual incident into a critical emotional experience, creating an interior world of resonance, of meshes and rhythms, a dream time where beauty...

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Thread of the Needle (1982 Video)

aka: Thread of a Needle

Director

Colette Piault

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 22 minutes), £24.00

Young men leave their rural Greek village in Epirus to find work, learn a trade or serve in the army while a young woman may leave her father’s house only to enter her husband’s. The unmarried girls...

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