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Design in industry

Date released

1946

Series name

Britain Can Make It

Issue no

3

NoS ID

352045

Story no

2 / 3

COI synopsis: During the war, the only new radios available in Britain were of a standard design, but the end of the war found the engineers busy with plans for post-war sets. One factory is already...

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ON SET

Date released

Sep 1952

Series name

Mining Review 6th Year

Issue no

1

NoS ID

345758

Story no

4 / 4

NoS Summary - Filming "The Brave Don’t Cry" at Southall Studios. BFI synopsis: Includes scenes from the film; consultant Bill Withes with art director Michael Stringer; how to make coal from plaster and...

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Arcadia (1995 Video)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

VHS (PAL, 195 minutes), REFERENCE ONLY

A set of video recordings using three cameras of a performance by the Royal National Theatre Company of ‘Arcadia’ by Tom Stoppard at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London, on 24 May 1995. Directed by...

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Pett and Pott (1934 Film)

Director

Alberto Cavalcanti

Producer

John Grierson

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An experimental propaganda film made to encourage people to use the telephone. Equally it is a satire on suburban life and middle-class respectability. The film experiments with various sound techniques -...

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Shakespeare Stamps (1964 Film)

Newsfilm. Footage of the set of 5 postage stamps which will commemorate Shakespeare’s 400th birthday when the National Shakespeare Festival opens on April 23rd. Also footage of the stamps designer David...

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Reopening Night (2021 Television)

Director

Rudy Valdez

Producer

Meghan Schale

Documentary charting the development of Merry Wives, the Black-led 2021 Shakespeare in the Park adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor set in a community of West African immigrants in South Harlem. The...

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New Pillar Box for the Post Office (1986 Multimedia)

Subject

Design

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, 80 slides., 1993 sale: £30.00 +VAT +p&p

Looks at the work of industrial designer Tony Gibbs of Hop Studios and the development of a design for a pillar box. Describes each stage of development from presentation drawings, model making and...

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Modernism in the Home

Date released

24 Jan 1929

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

399

NoS ID

332076

Story no

2 / 4

British Pathe synopsis: Introductory intertitle reads: "The new art has invaded our homes. Master craftsmen are modelling new angles and lines into our wares - " C/U of a man at a drawing board painting...

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Pamela Howard (1980 Television)

Series

In the Making

Producer

Rosemary Bowen-Jones

Nine-part television documentary series on arts and crafts in Britain. Episode 7 follows theatre designer Pamela Howard through her collaboration with director Ronald Eyre on a production of Othello for the...

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Immortal Passado, The (1976 Film, Video)

Producer

Jeff Baynes

Shows how a repertory company at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, mounted a production of Romeo and Juliet in five weeks. Traces the progress of the production from ideas to drawings, then into the workshop...

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