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Date released

1939

Series name

Shell Cinemagazine

Issue no

3

NoS ID

350394

Story no

2 / 3

Documentary News Letter synopsis: a beautifully photographed description of the Mauretania leaving dock for her trials

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Housing Problems (1935 Film)

Director

Edgar Anstey; Edgar Elton

Producer

Arthur Elton

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Slum-dwellers in Stepney in the East End of London tell their own stories of poor housing in on-the-spot interviews, unrehearsed and unscripted. Also shows rehousing in new flats.*

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Special Collections

Date

4 Mar 2016, 15:26

Author

Gabriel

Post Type

Page

Bert Baker book collection The late Bert Baker, who wrote for The Morning Star and Variety (as Stuart Lane), amassed a notable collection of books relating to television and media studies. The collection of...

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(Untitled record)

Date released

1939

Series name

Shell Cinemagazine

Issue no

3

NoS ID

350395

Story no

1 / 3

Documentary News Letter synopsis: a description of the operation of the airport on Lake Kisumu

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Mr. Tedham Makes a Wheel

Date released

1939

Series name

Shell Cinemagazine

Issue no

3

NoS ID

350393

Story no

3 / 3

Documentary News Letter synopsis: shows Mr. Tedham making a cartwheel while he comments on his ancient craft with the assurance of Sacha Guitry and the native simplicity of Walt Whitman

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Britain in the Thirties

Director

Edgar Anstey; Vivian Brau; Alberto Cavalcanti; Arthur Elton; Humphrey Jennings; London Kino Group; Len Lye; Richard Massingham; Norman McLaren; Basil Wright

Subject

History

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Land of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930 - 1950 (2008)

Director

Paul Rotha; Arthur Elton; Basil Wright; Humphrey Jennings

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 720 minutes), £34.99

A collection of 40 films from the British documentary movement during its period of greatest influence. These films capture the spirit and strength, concerns and resolve of Britain and its people before,...

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Addressing the Nation: Gpo Film Unit Volume 1 (2008)

Director

Alberto Cavalcanti; Len Lye; Humphrey Jennings; Basil Wright

Producer

John Grierson

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £24.99

The first of three deluxe double-disc box sets presenting all the key films of the GPO Film Unit on DVD for the first time. The complete collection includes legendary filmmakers such as John Grierson, Len...

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Soviet Influence, The: From Turksib to Nightmail (2011)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 163 minutes), £19.99

In the early 1930s, a small number of Soviet propaganda films were shown in Britain that excited filmmakers such as John Grierson, Paul Rotha and Basil Wright - luminaries of the British documentary film...

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Britain in the Thirties (1939 Video)

aka: British Avant-Garde: The Thirties

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. silent/sound. 177 min., 2000 sale: £19.99 (inclusive)

A compilation of short British avant-garde films from the 1930s - a decade marked by both the birth of British realism, and a surrealist influence from Europe.

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