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  1. Jessye Norman (1986 Film, Video)

    Director
    Bob Bentley
    Producer
    Harvey Kass; Cathy Palmer
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A biography of the classical singer born in Georgia, later working in Berlin and now settled in London. Jessye Norman talks about her cultural roots. this is intercut with newsreel footage of the American...

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  2. Refuse to Dance: The Theatre of Howard Barker (1986 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Looks at selected extracts from Howard Barker’s plays to reveal the social and political themes that inform his work. Focuses on the Royal Shakespeare’s 1985 season produced at the Barbican Theatre,...

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  3. Blast (1975 Video)

    Director
    Murray Grigor
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 23 minutes)

    BLAST was the manifesto of the Vorticist movement, whose name was coined in early 1914 by Ezra Pound. The co-signatories of the manifesto, among them Gaudier-Brzeska, Pound, Wadsworth and Wyndham Lewis, were...

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  4. Pantomime Dame, The (1982 Film, Video)

    Director
    Elizabeth Wood
    Producer
    Elizabeth Wood
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The pantomime has been a uniquely British tradition for over 200 years, but the pantomime dame belongs to an older tradition having evolved from Grimaldi’s clown of the early 1800s through the burlesque...

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  5. Photomontage Today: Peter Kennard (1982 Video)

    Director
    Chris Rodriques; Rod Stoneman
    Producer
    Chris Rodriques; Rod Stoneman
    Subject
    Art; Media studies
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 35 min.

    Examines one particular tendency in the history of photomontage; its analysis in political terms. The first section looks at the effect of layout and juxtaposition in the meaning of images; the second...

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  6. Song of the Shirt, The (1979 Film)

    Director
    Susan Clayton; Jonathan Curling
    Subject
    Economics; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An investigation into the position of working women in the 1840s, the effects of protectionist philanthropy and the resistance to it. Deals with a group of women working in the new ‘sweated’ clothes...

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  7. Ballet Black (1986 Video)

    Director
    Stephen Dwoskin
    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (83 minutes), £50

    Ballet Negres was Europe’s first all black dance company, founded in London by Berto Pasuka in 1946. The fusion of Afro-Caribbean dance, classical ballet and mime was unique at the time and the Company...

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  8. Mantegna: The Triumph of Caesar (1973)

    Director
    Dudley Shaw Ashton
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 24 minutes), £50.00

    An account partly descriptive, partly historical account of the eight extant canvases of The Triumph of Caesar which Andrea Mantegna was commissioned to paint in 1484 by Ludovico II, Marquis of Mantua.

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  9. Buildings - Who Cares? (1985 Video)

    Director
    David Thompson
    Producer
    Ann Balfour Fraser
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 51 min.

    Many options exist between the instinct to create new buildings and to preserve existing ones. This film, developed from an original idea by architect Donald Insali, examines the implications on three...

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  10. Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy (1980 Film, Video)

    Director
    Keith Griffiths; Stephen Quaij; Timothy Quaij
    Producer
    Keith Griffiths
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A cultural history of Punch and Judy and a documentary on Giovanni Piccini. Piccini’s ‘Tragical Comedy and Comical Tragedy’ of Punch and Judy was first recorded in 1827 by J Payne Collier and...

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