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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Berbera British Again

Date released

20 Mar 1941

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

615A

NoS ID

011546

Story no

6 / 10

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Berbera British Again. DESCRIPTION: The capital of British Somaliland has been recaptured. SHOTLIST: Various library scenes of the withdrawal from British Somaliland. Fleet Air Arm...

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Encounters in the Natural World (2009)

Director

Werner Herzog

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 370 minutes), £44.99

This five DVD set contains five documentaries by German filmmaker Werner Herzog. In ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (2008) he travels to Antarctica in order to deliver a funny, visually arresting,...

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Shakespeare Celebrations (1964 Film)

aka: Trinidad Shakespeare Carnival

Series

Parade

Cinemagazine. Shakespeare quatercentenary celebrations in Stratford-upon-Avon and Trinidad. In Trinidad, dancers in the street portray Shakespeare’s characters as part of a carnival procession. Commentator...

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Union of South Africa 1943

Date released

28 Jun 1943

Series name

The March of Time 8th Year

Issue no

13

NoS ID

352233

Story no

1 / 1

The March of Time synopsis: As Prime Minister, Commander-in-Chief of South Africa’s armed forces, Minister of Defence and Foreign Affairs, Field Marshal Smuts has been a dominant force for unity in a land...

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Together (1995 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 44 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

A video-based resource pack. The video is a compilation of five films made during World War 2, complete with original commentaries, which demonstrate the contributions to the war effort made by Indians, West...

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Holiday Camp for Kiddies

Date released

3 May 1962

Series name

Federal Spotlight

Issue no

154

NoS ID

351710

Story no

1 / 5

BFI synopsis: A holiday camp at Marcuti Beach in Beira, Portuguese East Africa.

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Tanzanian Sisal

Date released

May 1965

Series name

Parade

Issue no

20

NoS ID

327254

Story no

3 / 4

COI synopsis: Rope making in a London factory from sissal grown in East Africa.

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Cruise ship fire and rescue (1994)

Genre

Interview; News report

Peter Griffiths(?) reports on the fire on the Achille Lauro cruise ship off East Africa and subsequent rescue operation. Two passengers are dead with one still missing, the rest are being transferred to...

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Village Under the Forest, The (2013)

Director

Mark J Kaplan

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £39.50

Unfolding as a personal meditation from the Jewish Diaspora, this programme explores the hidden remains of the destroyed Palestinian village of Lubya, which lies under a purposely cultivated forest...

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U-Gugu No Andile (2008 Television)

Series

Shakespeare in Mzansi

Director

Minky Schlesinger

Producer

Bridget Pickering; Neil Brandt

A mini-series which sets the story of Romeo and Juliet during the faction fighting that brought the East Rand township of Thokoza to international attention in 1993. A Xhosa boy finds a Zulu girl but their...

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