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Gutenberg Bible Fetches £22,000

Date released

17 Mar 1947

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1674

NoS ID

040461

Story no

2 / 5

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

Collector’s record bid of £22,000 secures historic five hundred year-old Gutenberg Bible, first book to be printed in movable type.

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What Did Gutenberg Invent? (2002)

Subject

History; Technology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £145.00 +VAT +p&p

For the last 550 years, it has been believed the Johannes Gutenberg was the inventor of movable type. This programme travels to Gutenberg’s hometown of Maintz in Germany to discover how Gutenberg lived and...

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Manuel Gómez

Animated version of Alfred Jarry’s play by Manuel Gómez which uses animated pieces of meat. The play offers parodic adaptations of situations and plots from Shakespearean drama, including Macbeth,...

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Ubu (1978 Film)

aka: Ubu Roi

Director

Geoff Dunbar

Producer

Geoff Dunbar

Animated version of Alfred Jarry’s play by Geoff Dunbar. The play offers parodic adaptations of situations and plots from Shakespearean drama, including Macbeth, Hamlet and Richard III.

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Ubu Roi (1976 Film, Television)

aka: King Ubu

Director

Jan Lenica

Made-for-television hand-drawn animated version of Alfred Jarry’s play. The play offers parodic adaptations of situations and plots from Shakespearean drama, including Macbeth, Hamlet and Richard III.

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Ubu Roi (1976 Television)

aka: King Ubu

Director

Paul Kafno

The play by Alfred Jarry. Pere Ubu is an oafish, barely ranking civil servant persuaded by his shrewish wife to kill the King of Poland and usurp the throne. Ubu is unfit to rule anything, so his eventual...

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