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Farms Left to Rot

Date released

16 Jan 1936

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

510

NoS ID

034318

Story no

6 / 8

Derelict rural area in fairest England. Local council contemplate action against absentee tenant.

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Choices 1 (1988 Video)

Producer

Marjorie Bulos; Stephen Walker

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col.

Concerns the ownership and management of high-rise blocks of flats with information on the setting up of equity share, co-op management and community leasehold schemes.

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Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942 Film)

Director

Irving Pichel

Producer

Nunnally Johnson

Feature film. Kathy (Lupino) lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas (Woolley), a celebrated and cynical actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age, and feeling trapped with...

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New Tenant, The (1964 Film)

Director

George Brandt

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Film (16mm)

From the play by Eugene Ionesco. A production by the University of Bristol Drama Department. Note: This is not a film of a stage performance of Ionesco’s play, but a re-treatment of the subject using...

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Moon for the Misbegotten (2004)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 135 minutes), £19.99

A television version of Eugene O’Neill’s semi-autobiographical drama starring Jason Robards as a cynical, self-hating alcoholic actor - based on O’Neill’s elder brother, Jamie. Colleen Dewhurst plays...

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Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The (1996)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 159 minutes), £12.99

A television adaptation of Anne Bronte’s classic novel about women and marriage in the 19th century, originally broadcast in 3 parts in 1996 and repeated in 2 parts in 2003.

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Welcome Home to the Tenant (1991)

Producer

Sally Lessiter

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 16 minutes), £29.38

Shows how landlord and tenants can work together to improve heating in rented flats in an energy-efficient way. Describes a three-year project on a large local authority housing estate in Birmingham which...

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Stranger’s Eye, A (2000 Audio)

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 150 min., 2000 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

BBC correspondent Fergal Keane travels around Britain listening to the stories of ordinary people who find themselves on the fringes of society and surviving on limited means. He begins in Glasgow, among the...

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Living Through Regeneration (2005)

Subject

Social Studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 27 minutes), £35.00

Rebuilding Britain’s run-down social housing seems like a good deal for everyone. But what’s it like to live through regeneration? This thought-provoking film shows what ‘tenant participation’ means...

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Melies the Magician (2004)

aka: Magic of Melies, The

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 185 minutes), £19.99

The DVD contains a 130-minute documentary THE MAGIC OF MELIES by Jacques Meny (1997, 130 min.) and MELIES’ MAGIC SHOW which consists 15 restored films made by Melies between 1898 and 1909. The compilation...

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