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Lion’s Restaurant

Date released

29 Dec 1969

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2117

NoS ID

028128

Story no

1 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Lion’s Restaurant. DESCRIPTION: After 15 years in Africa, Robert Pesenti returns to Paris with a little reminder of the open spaces, a lioness called Siki. Customers in the...

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NO SMOKING

Date released

Mar 1964

Series name

Mining Review 17th Year

Issue no

7

NoS ID

346239

Story no

2 / 4

BFI synopsis: The production of a new smokeless fuel by the NCB, hexagonal in shape, which burns with a bright flame - Homefire. NCB Commentary - In the Warwickshire countryside, the backroom boys have come...

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Miroir de Venise (Une Mésaventure de Shylock), Le (1905 Film)

aka: Venetian Looking Glass

Director

Georges Méliès

Fiction film, possibly based on The Merchant of Venice.

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Re Lear (1910 Film)

aka: King Lear Roi Lear, Le

Director

Gerolamo Lo Savio

Shortened version of the play which depicts most of the main events but omits the Edgar subplot. Ball (op cit) comments ‘Without subtitles this film could not be understood at all...one sees only tirades...

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Tempest, The (1956 Television)

Series

Sunday-Night Theatre

Producer

Ian Atkins; Robert Atkins

A televised studio set production of the play produced by Robert and Ian Atkins. Robert Atkins also performs as Caliban.

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Fuel Crisis

Date released

20 Feb 1947

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

924A

NoS ID

014316

Story no

1 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Fuel Crisis. DESCRIPTION: COAL ON THE MOVE - Miners have worked very hard to build up stocks and coal is on the move again. In some places people queued for hours in freezing conditions...

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Wimbledon - The Feminine View Point

Date released

28 Jun 1954

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1308

NoS ID

019311

Story no

1 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Wimbledon. Feminine Viewpoint. DESCRIPTION: Women come into their own at Wimbledon - apart from the stars of the Centre Court and entries from all over the World, there’s always the...

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Microbes and Men (1974 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 55 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £360.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Dramatised stories of the founders of modern medicine. Until the 1840s, medicine had remained basically unchanged since the days of the ancient Greece. In the 60 years following it was transformed into a...

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Winsor McCay: Animation Legend (1911 Video)

Producer

Albert M Miller

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 100 min., 1996 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

A compilation of the work of Winsor McCay, one of the founding fathers of cinema animation and a key figure in the development of cinema. He became famous as a newspaper strip cartoonist, then developed a...

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Quest for the Phoenicians (2006)

Subject

Archaeology; History

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 53 minutes), £9.99

In their heyday, the Phoenicians dominated Mediterranean waters with commercial skill and seafaring force. Yet very little is known about this ancient people; their cities, temples and culture were destroyed...

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