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Big Knife, The

Director

Robert Aldrich

Subject

Drama; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 minutes), £15.99

THE BIG KNIFE, adapted from Clifford Odets’s gripping play, is a dark, cynical probing of the film industry’s behemoth studio system. When matinee idol Charlie Castle (Jack Palance) refuses to renew his...

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Reincarnation of Serena (1979 Film)

Director

Roy Karch

Adult movie. The film comprises two narratively unconnected 30 min. segments - Romeo and Juliet and The First Convertible. The former is shot on a single studio set, in Elizabethan costume and with actors...

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American Cinema: Film Language / Writing and Thinking About Film / Classical Hollywood Style Today (1994 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC). col. 90 min.

Follow-up to the 10-part history of seven decades of American cinema.

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Georges Méliès: Le Premier Magicien du Cinéma (2010)

aka: Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema

Director

Georges Méliès; Georges Franju

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 896 minutes), 65.95 Euros

Geoges Méliès built the world’s first movie studio in 1896 near Paris, from where he produced his films of fantasy, dream, historical reconstructions, imaginary journeys, melodramas, slapstick comedies;...

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History of Motion Pictures - Production Technologies - Volumes I and II (2005)

Subject

Media studies; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 129 minutes), £20.99 each

This 2-DVD set explains with the help of examples how a 16mm movie projector works. The collection also shows how manufacturers used films to train movie projector operators in the use and maintenance of...

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Teenager Hamlet (2010 Film)

Director

Margaux Williamson

Producer

Julia Rosenberg

Independent experimental film exploring how young people make art and morality in the city. A painter leaves her studio, needing to know her world directly no longer through making paintings. Emerging into...

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Doubling for Romeo (1921 Film)

Director

Clarence Badger

Producer

Samuel Goldwyn

Feature film. A burlesque. Sam Cody is a clumsy cowboy who, because he is a diffident lover, loses his girlfriend, Lulu, to another man. Sam goes to a film studio to learn how to make love as they do in the...

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History of Advertising - Automobiles 1940-1950 (2004)

Subject

Business studies; Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 38 minutes), £15.99

A compilation of classic American automobile advertising films and examples of car-centric stories from the 1940s and the early days of television. It includes classic "Capitalistic Realist" dramas showing...

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King Lear (2006 Video)

Director

David K.S. Tse

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera of Yellow Earth Theatre with Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre’s production of King Lear directed by David K.S. Tse with Chinese movie star Zhou Ye Mang as Lear....

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History of Advertising - Automobiles 1950-1960 (1950)

Subject

Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 102 minutes), £18.99

A compilation of classic American advertisements for automobiles from the 1950s, when the suburbs were growing and cars were becoming less of a luxury item and more of a necessity. Movie houses - long a...

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