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Historic Film

Date released

21 Apr 1963

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

434

NoS ID

121366

Story no

2 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: ... the 1896 Derby horses we see running in one of the cinema’s earliest newsreels. Pathe Pictorial shows how the British Film Institute’s National Film Archive collects and preserves...

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Story of Children and Film, A (2014)

Director

Mark Cousins

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 106 minutes), £15.99

Mark Cousins tells the story of children in film through a selection of clips from 53 films from 23 different countries.

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Hamlet (2009 Multimedia, Video)

Series

In Conversation

Mark Lawson talks to Gregory Doran and Patrick Stewart at the National Film Theatre following a preview screening of Doran’s televised production of Hamlet with David Tennant in the title role and Patrick...

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British Film Institute honours Alec Guinness (1991)

Genre

Speech

Sir Alec Guinness accepts a British Film Institute Fellowship Award. In his speech he claims he was never a great cinema actor.

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Museum of Moving Image in financial trouble (1993)

Genre

Interview

Sir Richard Attenborough (former Chairman of British Film Institute) interviewed at the celebrations for the fifth birthday of the Museum of Moving Image on the South Bank in London on the funding troubles...

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UK film censorship (1996)

Genre

Interview; News report

Harry Gibson interviews Michael Winner, film director and Wilf Stevenson, British Film Institute about the 18 rating given to the American film, Kids, and about the British Board of Film Censors...

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Film archive gets grant (1982)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a spokesman for the British Film Institute (BFI) on the allocation of a 100,000 pounds budget from the National Heritage Memorial Fund to help save rare copies of decaying nitrate stock in the...

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That Boy Joe (1944 Film)

Director

Al Watzel

Documentary about juvenile deliquency (smoking and drinking) in small town America. Towards the end of the film, after showing the delinquent (Joe) a chart of the human brain (and stating the damage alcohol...

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Hamlet (1964 Film, Video)

aka: Richard Burton’s Hamlet

Director

Bill Colleran

Producer

Alfred W Crown; William Sargent

Richard Burton’s performance as Hamlet, directed for stage by John Gielgud, and recorded at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre, New York, on 30 June and 1 July 1964, during a regularly scheduled performance of the...

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King John (1899 Film)

aka: Scene - ‘King John’ - Now Playing at Her Majesty’s Theatre, A Beerbohm Tree, The Great British Actor

Director

William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson

Four scenes from the Her Majesty’s Theatre production of King John, one of which survives. The descriptions quoted are from the copyright records in The National Archives: THE BATTLEFIELD NEAR ANGIERS -...

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