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Banana Blush (1994)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD), £6.99

A series of John Betjeman’s poems read by himself with musical accompaniment by Jim Parker. The musical style varies from 1920’s pastiche on ‘Agricultural Caress’ to flute and strings on ‘Age and...

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Entr’Acte (1924 Film)

Director

René Clair

Subject

Art; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The famous surrealist film made by a team of leading French intellectuals of the 1920s to fill an intermission between the two acts of the Francis Picabia’s Dada ballet ‘Rel ache’, performed by the...

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Hiawatha (1982 Video)

Subject

Education

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 47 min., 1996 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Drawn from a five-day workshop involving a group of postgraduate students in Drama in Education and a group of spastic teenagers with two of their teachers, including Dorothy Heathcote. They attend Beaumont...

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Thanhouser Collection. Volume 7: Thanhouser Presents Shakespeare (2007 Film)

aka: Cymbeline King Lear Winter’s Tale, The

Three silent Shakespeare films produced by the Thanhouser Company. The films were restored and updated with new musical accompaniment composed by Raymond A. Brubacher and released on dvd in 2007. The titles...

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Scots on Screen 1899-1936 (2000 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £15.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

A compilation of samples of the output of Scottish film-makers in the silent and early sound period. Optional piano accompaniment is provided for three of the titles, reflecting aspects of the experience of...

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Big Melt, The (2014)

Director

Martin Wallace

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 70 minutes), £19.99

A special commission as part of the 100 Years of Stainless Steel celebrations, THE BIG MELT is a feature length elegy to the men and women who toiled in Sheffield’s steelworks and a hymn to Britain’s...

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Dream, The (1976 Video)

Director

John Hart (2)

Dance. Excerpts from Frederick Ashton’s ballet The Dream danced by the Joffrey Ballet and directed and staged by John Hart. Music by Mendelssohn, arranged by John Lanchbery. Videotaped in studio rehearsal...

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Scenes from ‘Hamlet’ (1927 Radio)

Scenes from Shakespeare’s Hamlet adapted for radio by Donald Davies. With Murray Carrington in the title role. The music is performed by the Cardiff Station Trio with George Pizzey (baritone).

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Curtain Up: Remembering Edinburgh’s Cinemas

Subject

Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 63 minutes), £19.99

In 1929 Edinburgh had more than thirty cinemas but was eagerly awaiting the opening of yet another one. This time it would be The Playhouse, a large cinema seating 3000. CURTAIN UP is the story of The...

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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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