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British Telecom (1994 Video)

Producer

David Akerman

Subject

Information technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1995 sale: £55.00 (inclusive)

Looks at the future of British Telecom in a multimedia world. As the telephone business becomes inextricably linked with entertainment and computing, cable television is signing up thousands of phone...

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Women’s Work in British Film and Television

Date

4 May 2018, 10:41

Author

Gabriel Hernandez

Post Type

Page

Ada Hakeney on camera, BBC Leeds, circa 1972 (c) Joe Hakeney This site contains primary sources relating to the many women who have worked in British film and television. You can listen to oral history...

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Very British Coup, A (1988 Video)

Director

Mick Jackson

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

DVD

The complete television drama series, based on the novel by Chris Mullen, MP, in which a charismatic steelworker is elected prime minister on a radical socialist platform. When he calls for the dismantling...

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Know the British in 1974 (2010)

Subject

Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £14.99

An informative documentary film made in 1974 with the aim of educating American businessmen on the customs of 1970s Britain, as well as offering a definitive list of ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts’. Aspects of...

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Television: The Technological Impact (1992 Video)

Producer

Francis Sealey

Subject

Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Focuses on changes in technology facing the television industry in the early 1990s, and examines implications for growth of both satellite and cable broadcasting. Raises questions as to whether technological...

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Colour of Britain, The (1994 Video)

Director

Pratibha Parmar

Producer

Debra Hauer

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £50.00

Successful British-Asian artists offer controversial new ideas of what it means to be British and, by extension, what constitutes British art. Features artists Sutapa Biswas, Chilla Burman, Zarina Bhimji,...

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Fashion and Textiles (1994 Video)

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

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Aztec Double-Headed Serpent, The (2006)

Subject

Art; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 30 minutes), £9.99

This film takes as its focus the turquoise mosaic of a double-headed serpent from the British Museum’s Mexican Gallery, and examines in detail the method of craftsmanship, the tools and materials of its...

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Off with the Mask: TV In the ‘60s (1998 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Features excerpts from four innovative British television programmes/series of the 1970s to reveal how a ‘cultural revolution’ in 1960s’ Britain transformed the content and style of television from the...

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Script to Screen (1987 Video)

Producer

Anne Gobey

Subject

Film & television production

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 39 min.

Shows the planning and production of a multi-media camera studio television programme. Using the comedy series ‘Ever Decreasing Circles’, it shows the scripts being cast, designed, rehearsed and finally...

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