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Battle Between Freshmen and Sophomores at Chicago University

Date released

17 Nov 1932

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

246

NoS ID

139209

Story no

9 / 10

Extras

1 commentary sheet

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Chicago: The Building of an EntrepÙt City / Chicago: The Rise of the Skyscraper (1999 Video)

Producer

Charles Cooper

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 59 min., 2000 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Between 1830 and 1930 Chicago was laid out and became the second largest city in the USA and a centre of world trade. The complexity of its infrastructure grew as the city was developed using innovative...

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Barbara Gaines (2008 Audio, Radio)

Series

Downstage Centre

Satellite radio broadcast. Barbara Gaines, founder and artistic director of the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, talks about the company’s evolution from a classical acting workshop to a major institution. She...

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English Bells for US

Date released

18 Sep 1933

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

267

NoS ID

032846

Story no

3 / 6

To chime in Chicago. Miss Nora Johnston, famous carillon player, performs on set built for great American University.

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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Robie House (1975 Video)

Subject

Architecture; Design

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows the evolution of Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘prairie house’ type, culminating in the Robie House built in Chicago in 1908. Demonstrates Wright’s masterly organisation of space and his concern for...

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Mies (1987 Film, Video)

Director

Michael Blackwood

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Film (16mm)

As a member, and later, director of the Bauhaus, Mies Van Der Rohe expounded the spirit of constructive inquiry and synthesis that characterised the institution. Discusses the German Pavilion for the...

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Hamoukar: Redrawing the Map of the World’s Earliest Cities (2007)

Subject

Archaeology

Clemens Reichel, Research Associate at the Oriental Institute, explains the importance of the groundbreaking archaeological expedition he co-directed at Hamoukar in Northern Syria. Until recently,...

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King Henry IV: The Shadow of Succession (2000 Audio)

An audio recording by Los Angeles Theatre Works of the production of King Henry IV: the Shadow of Succession Henry IV adapted by Charles Newell and David Bevington. First staged at the University of Chicago...

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Just in Time?: Restructuring Corporate America (1994 Video)

Producer

Jeremy Cooper

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at three large US corporations and examines how the are responding to the economic climate of the 1990s. Ameritech, based in Chicago, is in the middle of restructuring its telecommunications business;...

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William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (1950 Film)

aka: Julius Caesar

Director

David Bradley (2)

Producer

David Bradley (2); Owen Davis; Robert Keigher

Independent film adaptation of the play filmed on 16mm. Samuel Crowl (see review citation) believes the film to be like watching ` an experimental, fringe theatre company performance of Shakespeare where our...

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