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Fairy Tales: Early Colour Stencil Films from Pathé (1901)

Director

Georges Méliès

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 164 minutes), £19.99

During the belle époque in turn-of-the-century Paris, a short-lived film form called ‘scènes de feeries’, or ‘fairy films’, was made popular thanks to the Pathé Frères company. The films...

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Denmark

Date released

22 Jul 1965

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

552

NoS ID

121670

Story no

1 / 1

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: Denmark begins in England. It sounds strange, but that’s the invitation from a 10,000-ton ship named "England", which has been introduced to ferry cars and passengers across the sea to this...

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Peter Pan’s Proteges

Date released

30 Dec 1946

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

917

NoS ID

014221

Story no

2 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Peter Pan’s Hospital. DESCRIPTION: Children at the Great Ormond Street Hospital receive a visit from Wendy, Peter Pan and Nana, from the Christmas production of JM Barrie’s play....

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Morocco - The Kingdom of Surprise

Date released

29 Jun 1967

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

653

NoS ID

121892

Story no

1 / 1

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: A King rides in a red and gold coach to prayers and thousands cheer. The Sabbath Day scene in Rabat, capital of Morocco - land of enigmas. This isn’t a desert kingdom but one bursting with...

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Shakespeare’s Ideas in the Last Group of Plays, With Special Reference to ‘The Tempest’ (1985 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare, Course A361

Professor A.D. Nuttall examines how, in his last plays Shakespeare turns to the world of fairy tale in contrast to the realism of his earlier works.

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Dieppe

Date released

15 Nov 1964

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

516

NoS ID

121581

Story no

1 / 1

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: A new car-ferry to Dieppe has made Paris and the Riviera a day nearer than it was when you had to land in northern France. So what do you do - press on quickly, or linger to discover the...

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Romeo et Juliette (1994 Radio)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Director

Nicolas Joel

BBC radio broadcast of Gounod’s opera live from Covent Garden. The new production by Nicolas Joel is sung in French. Charles Mackerras conducts the Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Covent Garden.

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World Hang Gliding Championships

Date released

26 Sep 1976

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2469

NoS ID

030874

Story no

3 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: World Hang Gliding Championships. DESCRIPTION: The steep, fairy-tale mountains of the Austrian Tyrol are ideal for Hang Gliding and competitors gathered at Koessen for the World...

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Neuer Sommernachtstraum, Ein (1983 Television)

aka: Romantisches Ballet New Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Director

Heide Draexler-Just

Producer

Horst Kiaulehn

Ballet recording. Bernd Köllinger’s modern reworking of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Komische Oper Berlin is adapted for television by Heide Draexler-Just. The programme is...

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Junior Showtime [22/04/1969] (1969 Television)

Series

Junior Showtime

Director

Mike Bevan (2)

Producer

Jess Yates

Television variety and talent show for children. Each programme in this series was staged within a single fairy tale setting; in this episode the setting is Sherwood Forest. Bobby Bennett is Robin Hood, Sue...

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