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Pithead Nurse

Date released

Apr 1948

Series name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue no

8

NoS ID

334745

Story no

1 / 4

BFI synopsis: The newly set up medical centres with a nurse showing the surgery at Vane Tempest mine, near Sunderland, as an example. Featuring the nurse Sister Easton.

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Cradle of Genius (1959 Film)

Director

Paul Rotha

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The history of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Shows the interior of the badly damaged building, empty since the fire of 1951, and recalls many celebrities who appeared there. Sean O’Casey talks about his life...

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Pas de Deux at Wynyard. No. 1 (1971 Film)

aka: Romeo and Juliet: Pas de Deux

Director

Ben Harrison

Producer

Richard Bigham

One of a series of ballet films shot on location at Wynyard Park in county Cleveland, England. The balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet.

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Miners with Gloves on

Date released

Apr 1948

Series name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue no

8

NoS ID

334747

Story no

3 / 4

BFI synopsis: Eddie Thomas seen at home with his family, in training with his brother and father. His brother Hughie attends the National Coal Board’s amateur boxing championships at Manchester. Other...

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Rembrandt’s ‘Three Crosses’ (1969 Film, Video)

Director

Dudley Shaw Ashton; Naomi Mayberg

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Christopher White, formerly of the British Museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings, discusses Rembrandt’s print of ‘The Three Crosses’: the engraving of the original plate; the artist’s...

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Scenes and Songs from Boyd Webb (1984 Film, Video)

Director

Philip Haas; Boyd Webb

Producer

Philip Haas

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Boyd Webb’s art works are extremely large photographs. In the studio he constructs elaborate sculptural sets in which figures pose and are photographed. In this film Boyd Webb has designed eight new works...

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Locomotion, Rail, Snow (1992 Video)

Director

Geoffrey Jones

Producer

Edgar Anstey; Geoffrey Jones

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 37 min., 1992 sale: £10.99

LOCOMOTION (1975, 15 min), produced by Geoffrey Jones, presents a chronology of British railway history and made to commemorate the 150th anniversity of the Stockton and Darlington railway, the world’s...

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Land of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930 - 1950 (2008)

Director

Paul Rotha; Arthur Elton; Basil Wright; Humphrey Jennings

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 720 minutes), £34.99

A collection of 40 films from the British documentary movement during its period of greatest influence. These films capture the spirit and strength, concerns and resolve of Britain and its people before,...

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New Britain, The (2013)

Director

Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Keene; Roy Boulting; Charles Hasse; John Page

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 79 minutes), £16.33

A collection of British wartime propaganda films made to boost optimism and showing how the armed forces and civilians stood up to the Nazi threat. THE NEW BRITAIN (1940). With great optimism, Britain...

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