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IlÉ AiyÉ (The House of Life) (2004)

aka: House of Life, The

Director

David Byrne

Subject

Anthropology; Media studies; Music; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (50 minutes), £17.99

An impressionistic documentary by David Byrne (of Talking Heads) on Candomblé, the Brazilian spirit cult of the Bahia region. This "docu-poem" eschews all traditional documentary techniques and evokes the...

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Spanish Morocco - Tetuan Demonstration

Date released

1 Feb 1954

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1287

NoS ID

019018

Story no

1 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Spanish Morocco - Tetuan Demonstration. DESCRIPTION: In Tetuan, the capital of Spanish Morocco, Moroccans demonstrate against the French decision to depose the former Sultan without...

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N/Um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !kung Bushmen (1966 Film)

Director

John K Marshall

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The medicine dance is one activity in !Kung life that draws people together in groups that are not shaped by family, band, or close friendship. The dance is essentially a curing ritual but is not solemn; the...

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Dancing Round the World

Date released

7 Jul 1958

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1518

NoS ID

022473

Story no

2 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: South African Folk Dancing. DESCRIPTION: London’s Trafalgar Square recently provided a stage for Folk Dancers from South Africa. These South Africans are on a world tour: dancing...

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Mandela spends 70th birthday in jail (1988)

Genre

Interview; Music; News report

Jailed Black Nationalist leader Nelson Mandela will be spending his 70th birthday today without his family in a South African jail. His wife has turned down an invitation to visit him, stating she doesn’t...

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A Republic’s Birthday

Date released

7 Dec 1959

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1592

NoS ID

023355

Story no

1 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: A Republic’s Birthday. DESCRIPTION: The Congolese Republic in Equatorial Africa, formerly a French Colony, has been celebrating its first birthday with a big parade in Brazzaville. It...

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Manding Civilisation

Date released

1972

Series name

London Line

Issue no

405

NoS ID

326668

Story no

1 / 2

COI synopsis: London Line visits a conference on the Manding culture of West Africa and the British Museum’s exhibition of Mading art held in London. In the studio the legend of the Lion King, founder of...

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State banquet during President Kaunda’s visit to UK (1983)

Genre

Speech; Music

Speeches by Queen Elizabeth II and President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia at the state banquet for President Kaunda on his state visit to the UK. Topics covered include each other; Commonwealth; Zimbabwe;...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: F/M Smuts Reviews SA Division

Date released

6 Jan 1944

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

761A

NoS ID

012961

Story no

2 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: F/M Smuts Reviews SA Division. DESCRIPTION: Field Marshal Smuts stopped in Cairo on his way home to South Africa and took the opportunity of inspecting a South African Division....

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World at War, The. Vol 2 (6 Parts) (1973 Video)

Director

Ted Childs; Hugh Raggett; Martin Smith

Producer

Peter Batty; Ted Childs; Martin Smith

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 6 x 52 min.

1 DESERT - THE WAR IN NORTH AFRICA 1940-1943 - North Africa, the battle of El Alamein and Operation Torch (producer/writer Peter Batty). 2: Stalingrad, the symbol of the Soviet Union’s stubborn resistance,...

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