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Review of the Year - 1956

Date released

27 Dec 1956

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

2398

NoS ID

073857

Story no

1 / 1

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

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Brecht: A Man’s a Man (1962)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 27 minutes), £150.00

Eric Bentley - historian, playwright, drama critic and leading Brecht scholar - introduces scenes from his translation of Bertolt Brecht’s play-with-songs "Mann Ist Mann" ("A Man’s A Man.") The...

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Otello (1957 Television)

Director

Claudio Fino

Italian TV version of the celebrated 1956 stage production by Vittorio Gassman of Shakespeare’s tragedy, translated into Italian by Salvatore Quasimodo. Gassman and Salvo Randone had originally alternated...

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Anthony Eden on Suez Canal crisis (1956) (1982)

Genre

Speech; Special

Archive ITN recording from 1956, of a speech by UK Prime Minister Anthony Eden on the Suez Canal crisis and the danger to the international oil supply.

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Matthews People: Mary O Hara (1985)

Mike Matthews talks to Mary O Hara, singer and harpist with a soprano voice. Born 1935 in Ireland, she married the American poet Richard Selig in 1956 and after 15 months of their marriage, he died. She...

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Lord Butler on Suez crisis (1976)

Genre

Interview

Tony Tucker interviews Lord Butler (Richard Austen Butler, otherwise known as Rab Butler) of Saffron Walden about the Suez Crisis in 1956, the actions of Anthony Eden and involvement of the USA. Butler was...

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Plaiting the Maypole - On Horseback!

Date released

18 Jul 1933

Series name

Pathe Super Sound Gazette

Issue no

33/57

NoS ID

090727

Story no

6 / 6

Extras

1 film clip

Princess Marie Louise and Lord Trenchard, at unique exhibition of perfect equestrianship by Metropolitan Mounted Police, at annual tournament.

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The Premier’s 1956 Message

Date released

2 Jan 1956

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

2295

NoS ID

073039

Story no

8 / 8

Extras

1 film clip

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The Motor Show 1956

Date released

18 Oct 1956

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

2378

NoS ID

073721

Story no

6 / 8

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

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Middle East Headlines

Date released

20 Dec 1956

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

2396

NoS ID

073836

Story no

5 / 15

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

Home from Egypt.

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