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Edinburgh’s Festival

Date released

27 Aug 1953

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1264A

NoS ID

018714

Story no

7 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Edinburgh Festival. DESCRIPTION: Year by year, the Festival has grown in popularity. One of the items on the programme is a production of Hamlet, which stars Claire Bloom, Richard...

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Brontës at the BBC, The

Producer

Rebecca Whyte

Subject

English language and literature; Television studies

A chronological account of the how the BBC has depicted the lives and works of the Brontë sisters over the past fifty years. Amongst the productions included are the 1956 version of ‘Jane Eyre’ with...

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Hamlet (1980 Television)

aka: The Shakespeare Plays

Series

BBC Television Shakespeare

Director

Rodney Bennett

Producer

Cedric Messina

Television production shot entirely in a studio with Derek Jacobi as Hamlet and Claire Bloom as Gertrude.

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Princess Margaret at Film Premiere

Date released

20 Oct 1952

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1220

NoS ID

018137

Story no

5 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Limelight. Princess Margaret at Film Premiere. DESCRIPTION: The Charlie Chaplin film premiere drew many thousands to Leicester Square. Princess Margaret was there, and she was greeted...

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Cannes Film Festival

Date released

30 Apr 1956

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1404

NoS ID

020899

Story no

2 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cannes Film Festival. DESCRIPTION: Sunshine at Cannes, and all the joys of a Film Festival. British actors and actresses, figure prominently at the Festival. The production chosen to...

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Life and Death of King John, The (1984 Television)

aka: The Shakespeare Plays

Series

BBC Television Shakespeare

Director

David Giles

Producer

Shaun Sutton

A BBC television production with Leonard Rossiter in the title role.

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