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The Last Of The Great Unknown - A Long Cold Walk Across The Roof Of The World

Date released

1967

Series name

London Line (Colour series 2)

Issue no

3

NoS ID

350110

Story no

2 / 3

COI synopsis: In the London Line Studio Michael Smee talks to the leader of the 4 man British exploration team, Walter Herbert, which is about to set off on a 3,500 mile walk across the Arctic Ice-Cap.

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Triumph of the Will (1936 Film, Video)

aka: Triumph des Willens

Director

Leni Riefenstahl

Producer

Walter Groskopf; Walter Traut

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £15.99 inc

The official record of the Nazi Party Congress held in Nuremberg in 1934. After World War 2 the film was banned because of general fears that it might inspire a new Nazi party.* The DVD also includes...

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Sir Thomas More (1960 Audio, Radio)

Director

Brunar Herbert

Austrian radio adaptation of the scene of the play attributed to Shakespeare. Adapted by Richard Flatter and directed by Brunar Herbert. In an introductory comment, Flatter discusses Shakespeare’s part in...

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Hitler’s Olympia - The Nazi Olympics 1936 (1936 Video)

aka: Olympische Spiele

Director

Leni Riefenstahl

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, 2 videocassettes. VHS. b&w. 204 min., 1995 sale: £14.99 (inclusive)

In 1935 Leni Riefenstahl was approached by the president of the German Olympic Committee to make a film of the 1936 Berlin games, which were being staged by Goebbels as a giant propaganda exercise. Using 44...

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First Command Performance of Romeo and Juliet (1954 Television)

Series

You Are There

Director

Sidney Lumet

Producer

James D. Fonda; Charles Russell

A US drama series re-enacting major historical events and covering them as current news stories. This episode concerns December 26 1597 when Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was selected by Queen Elizabeth I...

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Otello (1969 Television, Video)

aka: Othello

Director

Walter Felsenstein

Verdi’s opera adapted for television by Walter Felsenstein and Georg Mielke, directed by Walter Felsenstein and performed by the Komische Oper Berlin conducted by Kurt Masur. Hans Nocker is Otello.

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Great White Silence, The (1924)

Director

Herbert G Ponting

Subject

Film studies; Geography; Sports science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 110 minutes), £19.99

Henry Ponting’s extraordinary official record of Captain Scott’s legendary final expedition to the South Pole, fully restored by the BFI National Archive, with a new musical score by Simon Fisher Turner,...

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Maß Für Maß (1955 Radio)

aka: Mass Fuer Mass Measure for Measure

Producer

Hans Günther von Klöden

German radio version of Shakespeare’s play, translated, adapted and directed by Hans Günter von Klöden starring Kurt Erhardt as Duke, Wolfgang Wahl as Angelo and Dagmar Altrichter as Isabella.

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Was ihr Wollt (1964 Audio, Radio)

aka: Twelfth Night

Producer

Alfred Hartner

Austrian radio version of Shakespeare’s comedy adapted and directed for broadcasting by Alfred Hartner. With Wolfgang Gasser as Orsino, Renate Berg as Viola, and Halmut Janatsch as Fool. The music is...

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Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Die (1970 Television)

aka: Merry Wives of Windsor, The

Director

Alexander Golling

A production, for German television, of The Merry Wives of Windsor directed by Alexander Golling with Golling playing the role of Falstaff.

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