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A Romany Rite

Date released

27 Nov 1933

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

353

NoS ID

140017

Story no

12 / 12

Extras

1 commentary sheet

Gipsy caravan bonfire.

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Adolescence: The Prolonged Transition (1992 Video)

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (PAL). col. 30 min., 1997 sale: US$189.00 (+p&p)

Uses historical and cross-cultural comparisons to question whether the view of adolescence as a period of increased autonomy, identity development, and risk-taking is merely a social construction. Discusses...

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Playing the Dane (2010 Radio)

Series

Archive on 4

Producer

Emma Harding

In anticipation of his own stage Hamlet in 2011, Michael Sheen looks back at the rich archive of Hamlets from the theatre, cinema and radio archives, starting with Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in 1908 and...

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An Indian Rite At Alexandria

Date released

14 Jun 1915

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

441

NoS ID

075905

Story no

5 / 7

NoS synopsis: The funeral service of an Indian soldier who has died of wounds, Alexandria, summer 1915. The body, on the seashore at Alexandria, is wrapped in a burial cloth and tended by Indian soldiers....

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Royal Academy of Music

Date released

Aug 1973

Series name

Carrousel Britanico

Issue no

61

NoS ID

324878

Story no

4 / 4

COI synopsis: A RCM student orchestra rehearsing the ‘Rite of Spring’.

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Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema (2018)

aka: The Criterion Collection: Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema

Director

Ingmar Bergman

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC), $239.96

This collection spans six decades and 39 films, including classics such as The Seventh Seal, Persona, and Fanny and Alexander alongside previously unavailable works like Dreams, The Rite and Brink of Life....

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Women’s Olamal, The (1984 Video)

Director

Melissa Llewellyn-Davies

Producer

Chris Curling; Melissa Llewellyn-Davies

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 110 min.

Looks at the organisation and meaning of a Maasai woman’s fertility rite, and the conflict which arose at this particular ceremony with the men of the Maasai village (on the Loita Hills near the...

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Guardians of the Flute (1994 Video)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

Looks at a coming-of-age rite among the Sambia, who live in an isolated valley in the highlands of New Guinea. In order to inherit the courage and virity of their elders, boys as young as seven must swallow...

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Quechua, The (1974 Film, Video)

Director

Carlos Pasini

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Set in the southern Peruvian Andes, the film deals with a community of peasant agriculturalists who farm land between 12,000 and 14,000 feet above sea level, and concentrates mainly on a single family. The...

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Power of Myth, The (1988)

Director

Bill Moyers

Producer

Catherine Tatge

Subject

Philosophy; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 342 minutes), £19.99

During the last two years of Joseph Campbell’s life journalist Bill Moyers interviewed him at filmmaker George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch in California and at the Museum of Natural History in New York City....

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