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Triumph (1924 Film)

Director

Cecil B. DeMille

Producer

Cecil B. DeMille

Feature film. David Garnet, a tin magnate, dies leaving his fortune to his wastral son on the condition that he settles down within two years. The son, King Garnet, becomes a tramp and so the business passes...

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After Impressionism (2004)

Subject

Art

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £19.99

A compilation of three 30-minute videos from the Palettes series devoted to great works of painting history. The secrets of the images are revealed using video animation techniques. This tape covers three...

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Exploration of the Contemporary Arts, The (2004)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 160 minutes), £19.99

A compilation of 5-minute programmes about the work of leading contemporary artists. DVD extras include biographies of the individual artists featured and information on contemporary arts in the UK.

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Romeo und Julia im Schnee (1920 Film)

aka: Romeo and Juliet in the Snow

Director

Ernst Lubitsch

Producer

Paul Ebner; Maxim Galitzenstein

Fiction short. A burlesque of Romeo and Juliet set in Garmisch, in the Bavarian Mountains. The family feud between the Kapulethofers and the Montekugers (leading to several snowball fights) is initiated by...

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Sommernachtstraum, Ein (1925 Film)

aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Wood Love Heiteres Fastnachtsspeil, Ein

Director

Hans Neumann

Producer

Hans Neumann

Feature film which appears to have combined great charm and ribaldry. Ball, summarising contemporary reviews, writes: ‘Theseus was shown at the telephone, Amazons and Athenians moved into battle to the...

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Hamlet (1920 Film)

aka: Hamlet: The Drama of Vengeance

Director

Svend Gade; Heinz Schall

Feature film which presents Hamlet as a princess. While the King of Denmark is seriously ill his wife gives birth to a daughter, telling the court that a son has been born in order to safeguard the crown....

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Power of Myth, The (1988)

Director

Bill Moyers

Producer

Catherine Tatge

Subject

Philosophy; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 342 minutes), £19.99

During the last two years of Joseph Campbell’s life journalist Bill Moyers interviewed him at filmmaker George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch in California and at the Museum of Natural History in New York City....

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Doubling for Romeo (1921 Film)

Director

Clarence Badger

Producer

Samuel Goldwyn

Feature film. A burlesque. Sam Cody is a clumsy cowboy who, because he is a diffident lover, loses his girlfriend, Lulu, to another man. Sam goes to a film studio to learn how to make love as they do in the...

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State of the Art: Ideas and Images in the 1980s (2006)

Director

Geoff Dunlop

Producer

John Wyver; Geoff Dunlop

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 320 minutes), £39.99

A series of six authoritative and challenging documentaries about the visual arts in the 1980s. Filmed in Europe, the United States and Australia in 1985-6, the six programmes feature many key artists...

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Western Tradition, The (8 Parts) (1989 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 8 x 30 min., 1997 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p) each

Series tracing the history of ideas, events and institutions that have shaped modern societies. Explores interconnections among politics, literature, economics, industry, agriculture, art, philosophy and...

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