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Movietone’s War Time News Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Presidential Battle in US is Now On

Date released

22 Jul 1940

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

581

NoS ID

010995

Story no

1 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: US Presidential Candidates. DESCRIPTION: President Roosevelt has agreed to stand for a third term in the White House. SHOTLIST: Library pictures of the two candidates, Wendell Wilkie...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Lucky Omen in Names of Our US Visitors

Date released

10 Mar 1941

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

614

NoS ID

011518

Story no

6 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Our American Visitors’ Good Omen. DESCRIPTION: We have had three American visitors whose names begin with W, Sumner Welles, Wilkie and Winant, from their names comes "WE WILL WIN"....

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What Did You Learn in School Today? (1990 Video)

Director

Sharon Goulds; Marilyn Wheatcroft

Producer

Sharon Goulds; Marilyn Wheatcroft

Subject

Education

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1994 sale: £15.00 +VAT

Looks at the recent upheavals in education as they are experienced by three very different schools and asks whether children are getting a better deal. Or have the experts failed to grasp what education is...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: President and People Greet War Heroes

Date released

2 Jul 1942

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

682A

NoS ID

012331

Story no

3 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: War Heroes in Washington, and New York. DESCRIPTION: Ten British and five American War Heroes were welcomed in New York by Wendell Wilkie and took part in a War Bond Rally. At...

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Boy Mir, The: Ten Years in Afghanistan (2012)

Director

Phil Grabsky

Producer

Amanda Wilkie; Phil Grabsky

Subject

Anthropology; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.99

Phil Grabsky’s documentary was filmed over the course of ten years and follows the life of an Afghani boy, Mir, growing up in the years after the fall of the Taliban in 2002. The film traces his journey...

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Dennis Potter at London Weekend Television, Vol 2 (2007)

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1665 minutes), £99.99

A collection of three of Dennis Potter’s plays made for London Weekend Television that have been unavailable for nearly forty years: Shaggy Dog, Moonlight on the Highway and Lay Down Your Arms....

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Olympic Games. Highlights. (Part Two)

Date released

8 Aug 1976

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2462

NoS ID

030848

Story no

1 / 1

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Montreal Olympic Games Highlights Second Part. DESCRIPTION: The second part of Movietone’s Highlights of the Olympic GamesIn the Olympic Pool, David Wilkie of Scotland, clocks the...

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Green for Danger (1946 Film)

Director

Sidney Gilliat

Producer

Sidney Gilliat; Frank Launder

Comedy crime film. In a rural English hospital during WWII, a postman dies on the operating table. One of the nurses states that she has proof of who the murderer is. The facetious Inspector Cockrill...

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Shakespeare in Love: The Play (2016 Video)

Director

Declan Donnellan

Video recording of a play based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, adapted for the stage by Lee Hall, and directed by Declan Donnellan. Shannon Taylor is Viola de Lesseps and Luke Humphrey...

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Adventures of Pericles, The (2016 Video)

aka: Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Director

Barry Avrich; Scott Wentworth

Producer

Barry Avrich

Film version, in front of a live audience, of the production directed for stage by Scott Wentworth for the 2015 Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Evan Buliong is Pericles.

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