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A series of six authoritative and challenging documentaries about the visual arts in the 1980s. Filmed in Europe, the United States and Australia in 1985-6, the six programmes feature many key artists...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: 8th Army Moves Into Florence. DESCRIPTION: The Allied Armies have now reached Florence where they had to evict the Germans whilst preserving the historic city. The retreating Nazis had...
The March of Time synopsis: War, points out the film, was responsible for the mass production of such remarkable new medicines as the sulfa drugs, streptomycin and the British discovery penicillin, and it...
A 20 minute reviewer’s reel for Paul Rudnick’s play I Hate Hamlet. Set in Manhattan, the action takes place in an apartment, once inhabited by John Barrymore. Andrew, a television star who has been...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: German Chaos West of the Rhine. DESCRIPTION: The Allies have closed up to the Rhine all the way from Arnhem to within a mile of Coblenz. This has involved very heavy fighting by part of...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Japan’s Final Fade-Out. DESCRIPTION: At Okinawa on the eve of the Japanese surrender hundreds of transport planes were waiting to take troops to begin the occupation. General...
Feature film. The story of how speech therapist Lionel Logue (Rush) worked with Albert, Duke of York, later George VI (Firth) to modify his stammer and give him confidence in public speaking. The film...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Bridgehead to Rome. DESCRIPTION: The landings at Anzio caught the Germans napping having just moved troops up to the Cassino front. Salerno was the embarkation site and crafts of many...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Forward Into Germany. DESCRIPTION: The Siegfried Line has been breached and the first German town to fall was Roetgen. United Kingdom troops have crossed the Escaut Canal, this was the...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Steady Progress on Second Front. DESCRIPTION: New despatches from Normandy show the reduction of Fort Central at Cherbourg. The Germans had already put the port out of action, the city...
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