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Shakespeare-On-Avon

Date released

27 Apr 1964

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1821

NoS ID

025516

Story no

1 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Shakespeare-On-Avon. DESCRIPTION: Prince Philip was one of thousands visiting Stratford-upon-Avon, where William Shakespeare was born four centuries ago, and whose genius was to be...

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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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Sylvie Guillem: At Work/ A Portrait (2012)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £29.99

Included is a portrait of Sylvie Guillem in conversation and profiled by, among others, Anthony Dowell, Maurice Bejart and John Percival. AT WORK; Film of the acclaimed prima ballerina performing classical...

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Stem Cell Revolutions (2011)

aka: Stem Cell Revolutions for Educational Use

Director

Amy Hardie; Clare Blackburn

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 71 minutes), £95.00

Documentary charting the history and scientific evolution of stem cell research - from the earliest experiments that first revealed stem cells in the body, to leading current scientific and clinical...

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Halas & Batchelor Collection (1948)

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 133 minutes), £9.99

Affectionately referred to as ‘the British Disney’, Halas & Batchelor’s highly influential and internationally acclaimed body of work encompassed children’s series, public education films, adverts...

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Dame Janet Suzman Remembers ... The Wars of the Roses (2023 Television)

Producer

Simon Goretzki; Shelley Talton

Dame Janet Suzman looks back on her role as Joan of Arc in the BBC’s 1965 adaptations of Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses. Under the direction of John Barton and Peter Hall at the Royal Shakespeare...

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Twelfth Night (2018 Video)

Series

RSC Live from Stratford Upon Avon

Director

Christopher Luscombe

Producer

John Wyver

Two twins, a shipwreck and unrequieted love are the key ingredients in Shakespeare’s acclaimed comedy, ‘Twelfth Night’ in a production set in the 1890s featuring Adrian Edmondson as Malvolio.

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Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Part 2, The (1982 Television)

Director

Jim Goddard; Trevor Nunn; John Caird

Producer

Colin Callender

Television version of the highly acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company 1980 stage production directed for stage by Trevor Nunn and John Caird and adapted by David Edgar from Dickens’ novel. This episode...

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Englishman Abroad, An (1983 Television)

Director

John Schlesinger

Producer

Innes Lloyd

Made-for-television film. Acclaimed recreation of the meeting between actress Coral Browne and British spy and defector Guy Burgess, in Moscow in 1958. The initial meeting took place in a theatre, where...

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Liza with a ‘Z’ (1972)

Director

Bob Fosse

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 51 minutes), 16.99

In May 1972, Liza Minnelli, the Oscar winning star of that year’s blockbuster musical ‘Cabaret’ made television history with a televised concert filmed at New York’s prestigious Lyceum Theatre. The...

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