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This Working Life: Tales from the Shipyard (2011)

Subject

Engineering; Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 314 minutes), £24.99

This 2-disc box set, the second release in the BFI’s This Working Life series, features 23 films made between 1898 and 1974. The collection contains over five hours of material that portrays our...

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Churchill Court for British Legion

Date released

17 Oct 1946

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

906A

NoS ID

014098

Story no

1 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Churchill Court for British Legion. DESCRIPTION: Mr Churchill has handed on Kippington Court at Sevenoaks to the Royal British Legion. The former Premier officially opened the building...

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Dark Lady of the Sonnets, The (1938 Radio)

Producer

Peter Creswell

Radio play about an imaginary adventure between William Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth. It was originally written in 1910 by George Bernard Shaw in aid of the scheme for a National Theatre. In the play the...

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Middle Sea Race

Date released

16 Nov 1970

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2163

NoS ID

028576

Story no

5 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Middle Sea Race. DESCRIPTION: The six hundred mile Middle Sea Race attracts 24 entries from eight countries. Robin Knox-Johnston is among the leading yachtsmen taking part, skippering a...

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County Durham - Marian Pickering

Date released

May 1968

Series name

Mining Review 21st Year

Issue no

9

NoS ID

346410

Story no

2 / 3

NoS synopsis: 17-year-old Marian, daughter of a Westoe miner, is one of Britain’s top gymnasts NCB Commentary - Westoe Colliery, and a proud miner father’s off shift and on his way home. There he’ll...

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Play’s the Thing, The (2016 Television)

Series

Upstart Crow

Director

Matt Lipsey

Producer

Gareth Edwards

Television sitcom in six parts, written by Ben Elton and David Mitchell, following Shakespeare as he tries to make a name for himself and juggle the work-life balance. In this episode, Will’s...

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Peeps at the Past

Date released

27 Dec 1923

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

644-1

NoS ID

129315

Story no

1 / 1

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "A Pageant of Events filmed by ‘Topical’s’ Cameramen the World over in 1923." [Opening titles superimposed over revolving globe] [2ND SUBTITLE]: "Presented to all ‘Topical’s’...

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School Boy Hovercraft

Date released

5 Oct 1972

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2261A

NoS ID

029590

Story no

5 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Schoolboy Hovercraft. DESCRIPTION: Fourth form swots gather on the beach for the school boy hovercraft rally. SHOTLIST: GV cross channel hovercraft, zoom back to show small hovercraft...

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Korol Lir (1971 Film)

aka: Korol Lir

Director

Grigori Kozintsev

Feature film based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and scored by Dmitri Shostakovich. Jüri Järvet is Lear. Kozintsev’s Lear ‘goes for the wide anle, depicting how the insanity of one man...brings...

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Love’s Labour’s Lost (2003 Video)

Director

Trevor Nunn

National Theatre recording, on a single, fixed camera of the production directed by Trevor Nunn and designed by John Gunter.

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