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Look at Life: Swinging London (2006)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 132 minutes), £14.99

Sixteen films from the colourful LOOK AT LIFE series, produced by the Rank Organisation every week for screening in Odeon cinemas between 1960 and 1969. Stories covered include the boutiques of Carnaby...

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Max Herman Maxy and the Romanian Avant-Garde

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 33 minutes), £137.00

The film explores the life of Romanian artist M.H. Maxy (1895-1971, who played a major role in the history of modern painting in Romania. While many of his contemporaries emigrated to the West from Romania...

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Pyramids of Waste: The Light Bulb Conspiracy (2010)

Director

Cosima Dannoritzer

Subject

Business studies; Environmental science; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £39.50

Planned obsolescence is the deliberate shortening of product life spans to guarantee consumer demand. PYRAMIDS OF WASTE (aka THE LIGHT BULB CONSPIRACY) combines investigative research and archive footage to...

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Recent additions to the Gateway

Date

30 Nov 2011, 12:32

Author

Cathy Grant

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Backdoor Broadcasting Company A mobile audio webcasting service that specialises in recording academic conferences, lectures, seminars, etc and re-broadcasting them online on demand. The web archive offers...

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Miss Mend (1926)

aka: Miss Mend, An Adventure Serial in Three Parts

Director

Boris Barnet

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 285 minutes), 35.95 Euros

Silent film produced in Russia in 1926 with the goal of rivalling the most entertaining American movies of the 1920s. It features stunning location photography and impressive stunt scenes: horse, car and...

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Exploring Roman Britain (1981)

Subject

Archaeology; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 39 minutes), £20.00

Uses the collections of the Verulamium Museum and the reconstructions of Alan Sorrell to recreate Roman town life. It is produced as a series of three shorter programmes: HOW THE TOWN GREW, LIVING IN THE...

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Addressing the Nation: Gpo Film Unit Volume 1 (2008)

Director

Alberto Cavalcanti; Len Lye; Humphrey Jennings; Basil Wright

Producer

John Grierson

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £24.99

The first of three deluxe double-disc box sets presenting all the key films of the GPO Film Unit on DVD for the first time. The complete collection includes legendary filmmakers such as John Grierson, Len...

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An exciting opportunity for emerging documentary filmmakers

Date

23 Feb 2017, 16:44

Author

Alex Morris

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Our friends at the BBC and the BFI have an exciting opportunity for emerging documentary filmmakers... To celebrate 75 years since Humphrey Jennings and Stuart McAllister made Listen to Britain the BFI...

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Tales out of School: Four Films by David Leland (2011)

Director

Alan Clarke; Edward Bennett; Jane Howell; Mike Newell

Subject

Drama; Education

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £14.40

This anthology brings together the four films written by David Leland and screened originally in 1983 - the films are: BIRTH OF A NATION, FLYING INTO THE WIND, R.H.I.N.O. and MADE IN BRITAIN, all of which...

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Cinema Before Cinema: The Origins of Scientific Cinematography

Date

18 Aug 2015, 10:56

Author

bufvcsergio

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This classic history of early film and photography, first published in 1984, describes the scientific impulses behind sequence photographers such as Eadweard Muybridge and E.J. Marey, whose work led directly...

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