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Japanese London

Date released

28 Mar 1968

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

692

NoS ID

121980

Story no

1 / 1

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: A kimono worn in London today is no Carnaby Street caper. It’s part of a determined gesture by Japanese in Britain to retain their national dress, cultures and customs. Like Origami - paper...

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Italian Gestures

Date released

15 Mar 1971

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2180

NoS ID

028750

Story no

6 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Italian Gestures. DESCRIPTION: The Italians are well known for their habit of gesticulating during conversation. A book is on sale in Rome entitled Dictionary of Gestures. SHOTLIST: GV...

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Death of a Princess (1981 Video)

Director

Antony Thomas

Producer

Martin McKeand; Antony Thomas

Subject

Law

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 120 min.

Ostensibly about the execution for adultery in 1977 of the Saudi Princess Mis’ahl, but the film became the subject of a major diplomatic row between Britain and Soudi Arabia. Its importance lies both in...

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Essay on Camera Work, An (1998 Video)

Director

Kwame Braun

Subject

Anthropology; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 22 min., 1999 sale: US$220.00 (+p&p) PAL version

As a tool for cross-cultural research and representation, video has many advantages over other, older technologies of documentation. It also compounds many of the ethical dilemmas confronting the...

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Living Chess

Date released

31 Aug 1933

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

639

NoS ID

333271

Story no

3 / 4

NoS Summary - children playing a game of chess on an outdoor board. British Pathe synopsis: "Chess - the great name of the thinker - and a novel way they played it in Kent" High angle shot of a chess...

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Lear (1983 Video)

Director

Barry Kyle

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1983 production of Edward Bond’s play, directed by Barry Kyle with Bob Peck as Lear. ‘In Bond’s play, Lear is a...

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Information Theory Meets Writing (2010)

Subject

Information technology; Languages

A video recording of the Clifford Paterson Lecture 2010 given by Professor David MacKay, University of Cambridge, at the Royal Society on 12 October. Information theory concerns the best way to get...

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Next! (1990 Television, Video)

aka: Lip Synch: Next

Series

Aardman Animations Vol 1

Director

Barry Purves

Producer

Sara Mullock

A puppet William Shakespeare, made using three-dimensional model animation techniques, performs his complete works before a sceptical Peter Hall figure. Without dialogue. Notable for the detailed perception...

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Camera Interviews -: Mr Alfred Praga

Date released

15 Dec 1927

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

341

NoS ID

331757

Story no

2 / 6

NoS Summary - painter Alfred Praga paints Jose Lennard. British Pathe synopsis: Mr Alfred Praga RBA is the President of the Society of Miniaturists and a well known Portrait Painter. "During the 18th...

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Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007)

Subject

French studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 minutes), £19.99

The film tells the remarkable tale of Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), the world-renowned editor of French ELLE magazine, who suffered a stroke and was paralyzed by the inexplicable ‘locked in’...

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