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Shooting Shakespeare (2004 Video)

A comic murder mystery conceived and staged by Forkbeard Fantasy to mark their 30th year in the theatre. Set in 1904 in the pioneering days of cinema, a group of fledgling movie makers, desperate to...

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R.W. Paul - The Collected Films 1895-1908 (2006)

aka: R.W. Paul - The Complete Surviving Films 1895-1908

Director

Robert W Paul

Subject

Film Studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 148 minutes), £14.99

Robert W Paul is justly celebrated as the leading pioneer of British film and one of the founders of world cinema. This collection of 62 films brings together for the first time the collected output of R W...

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Immaterial Bodies: A Cultural Analysis of Early Russian Films (2001)

Subject

Media studies; Russian studies

Distribution

Sale, CD-ROM (PC Version, 129 minutes), £27.99

A CD-ROM exploring Russian cinema before 1919 in the context of life and culture in pre-revolutionary Russia. There are over 100 film clips (55 mins), 74 minutes of analysis and commentary by film scholar...

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Michael Nyman’s Man with a Movie Camera (2002)

Subject

Media studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 min), £15.99 (inc)

A montage of Moscow life showing the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going. Dziga Vertov used all the cinematic techniques at his disposal - dissolves, split...

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Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers (1911)

Director

Alice Guy-Blache; Lois Weber

Subject

Film studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 1320 minutes), $59.96

In the early decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated filmmakers in America were women. Alice Guy-Blaché helped establish the basics of cinematic language, while others boldly continued...

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Make More Noise: Suffragettes in Silent Film (2015)

Subject

Film studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 71 minutes), £19.99

This compilation combines documentary footage of the suffragettes’ public activities with comedy films of the period. These gloriously anarchic pre-war comedies are full of bright sparks like the Tilly...

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From the Pole to the Equator (1986 Video)

Director

Yervant Gianikian; Angela Ricci Lucchi

Producer

Yervant Gianikian

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w (tinted). silent (with music soundtrack). 80 min., 1997 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

Uses footage shot in 1910 by Italian cinematographer Luca Comerio (1894-1949) and reworks it into a montage of hand-tinted black-and-white images of exotic people and places, set to a minimalist musical...

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At Land (1944 Video)

Director

Maya Deren

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A trance-like film tracing the conflict between a woman and her environment. At the start of the film the woman (played by Maya Deren) is washed up on a beach and then goes on an anxious odyssey through a...

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Storm over Asia (1928 Video)

aka: Potomok Chingis-Khana

Director

Vsevolod I Pudovkin

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD

Set in Mongolia under the rule of British occupational forces, tells the story of a young trapper who appears to be the long-lost descendant of Genghis Khan. The people plan to set him up as Prince Genghis...

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Lubitsch in Berlin: Six Films 1918-1921 (1918)

Director

Ernst Lubitsch

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 439 minutes), £24.99

This set collects six recently restored works from the silent phase of Lubitsch’s career, and casts new light on the director both as a fully-formed comic master, and as a virtuoso of cinematographic...

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