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Hindu Festival

Date released

25 Jan 1954

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1286

NoS ID

019007

Story no

6 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hindu Festival. DESCRIPTION: At Allahabad, the occasion of the celebration of the Hindu Kumbh festival. Held once every twelve years, it is attended by Indian people in their tens of...

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King Lear (1938 Radio)

Producer

Peter Creswell

Shakespeare’s play (without the subplot but with an extra story teller) arranged as a sequence for broadcasting and produced by Peter Creswell. With Godfrey Tearle in the title role.

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I Am Become Death (1995 Video)

Director

Arthur McCaig

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £50.00 (inclusive)

Looks at the people who worked on the Manhattan Project, developing the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, New Mexico, between 1943-1945: Bob Wilson, Bob Serber, Bon Christy, Harold Agnew, Hans Bethe, Stan...

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Edmond (2005)

Director

Stuart Gordon

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Hire, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), Rental only.

'You are not where you belong’ says the fortune teller, and Edmond (William H.Macy) begins his descent onto a darkly funny yet horrifying urban hell in this compelling film adapted from the play written by...

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Systems in Banking ... And Data Protection (2003)

Subject

Business studies; Information technology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £120.00

Illustrates the use of information systems in banks by following the process by which a cheque that is paid in goes through the bank’s clearing system and becomes a piece of electronic information paid...

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ActualitÉs FranÇaises, Les: No 6 (1945 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This issue of the post-liberation newsreel released in February 1945 shows 1) students at the Ecole de Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Paris donating blood for wounded soldiers; 2) Tollet, president of the...

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Col. Heeza Liar Plays Hamlet (1916 Film)

aka: Colonel Heeza Liar Plays Hamlet

Director

John Randolph Bray

Producer

John Randolph Bray

Animation. Part of the animated series starring Colonel Heeza Liar, a teller of tall tales. The series was shown as part of Bray’s Paramount Pictorial screen magazine. In this edition the Colonel is...

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Some Women of Marrakech (1977 Film, Video)

Director

Melissa Llewelyn-Davies

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

In Marrakech traditional Islamic attitudes to women prevail more strongly than in other Morrocan cities. The film attempts to say something about women who have experienced the hardships of life in such a...

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William Eggleston: Photographer (2008)

Director

Reiner Holzemer

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 26 minutes), £13.99

This DVD looks at the work of William Eggleston, pioneer of modern colour photography, whose work has influenced generations of young photographers, artists and filmmakers including Jurgen Teller, Andreas...

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Romanies Go Rich

Date released

20 Jun 1960

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1620

NoS ID

023651

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Romanies Go Rich. DESCRIPTION: A well-to-do race goer fulfilled a promise to a couple of gypsy boys, Billy Karey and Tony Smith, who live at a camp near Iver in Bucks. He took these...

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