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Dead Birds Re-Encountered (2014)

Director

Robert Gardner

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 46 minutes), $330

In 1961, anthropologist Robert Gardner organised an expedition to the highlands of New Guinea to film the Dani people. He stayed for six months to create an essay on the themes of violence and death most...

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Frans Hals of Antwerp (1988)

Director

Jonne Severjin

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 55 minutes), £14.95

An outstanding portrait painter, the Dutch artist Frans Hals (1581-1666) remains a mysterious personality. This film reconstructs his life and times through attention to the clues in his paintings, which...

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How to Live Forever (2009)

Director

Mark S. Wexler

Producer

Mark Luethi; Mark S. Wexler

Subject

Health Education

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 92 minutes), $19.95

Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever. During the course of his investigations he meets 94-year-old...

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Magritte: Day and Night (2010)

aka: Jour et la Nuit, Le

Director

Henri de Gerlache

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 73 minutes), £24.99

As mystifying and peculiar as his work, Rene Magritte painted in a style that was at once real and surreal, witty and disturbing. His enigmatic nature and amazing career deserve more than a routine...

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Trailer: Diphtheria 10

Date released

23 Oct 1947

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

959A

NoS ID

014737

Story no

7 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Diphtheria 10 - Trailer. SHOTLIST: MS distressed man walks down steps of Isolation Hospital. MS boy approaches him and says tell me the right time please? CU face of man. CU pocket...

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All is True (2018 Film)

Director

Kenneth Branagh

Starting in 1613, this is a biographical drama written by Ben Elton about the final years in the life of William Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon after the Globe Theatre burned to the ground. Kenneth...

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Ophelia (2006 Television)

aka: Someone Like You, Ophelia Anata Ni Nita Dareka

Series

Ergo Proxy

Director

Shuko Murase

A science fiction suspense anime television series set in a future where humans and AutoReiv androids coexist peacefully until a virus gives the robots self-awareness, causing them to commit a series of...

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Youth Prepares

Date released

1939

Series name

The March of Time 4th Year

Issue no

12

NoS ID

352213

Story no

2 / 2

The March of Time synopsis: The March of Time sets in sharp relief the differences in meaning, aim and teachings between the regimented militarized youth groups of the dictatorships, and the ideals of...

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Harper Audio: Anthony Burgess’ ‘A Clockwork Orange’

Subject

English language and literature

A selection of the HarperCollins audio collections can now be heard on the Internet Town Hall. Anthony Burgess reads from his cult classic, "A Clockwork Orange." This novel consists of a series of episodes...

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Impressionist Surface, The (1993 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Clement Greenberg’s Modernist criticism argued that Impressionism was a critical stage in the movement towards flatness and abstraction. On the other hand, T J Clark saw flatness in Impressionism as...

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