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  1. The Lion’s Cubs Come Home

    Date released
    12 Aug 1940
    Series name
    Pathetone Weekly
    Issue no
    541
    NoS ID
    124569
    Story no
    1 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Having travelled a war-time route of close on fifteen thousand miles to come home to the Mother country - the British Lion greets her cubs from New Zealand.

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  2. Beggar’s Opera, The (1953 Video)

    Director
    Peter Brook
    Producer
    Laurence Olivier; Herbert Wilcox
    Subject
    Drama; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

    Peter Brook’s 1953 film adaptation of the John Gay opera. Laurence Olivier plays MacHeath, a highwayman in Newgate prison, and his love for too many beautiful women.

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  3. Melody and Romance (1937 Film)

    Director
    Maurice Elvey
    Producer
    Herbert Smith

    Musical comedy. A young man (Green) aspires to a career as a radio star. Along the way, the falls in love with a scientist’s daughter (Lockwood). He then adds several talented friends to his act and...

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  4. Assortment of Terry Thomas clips (1989)

    Genre
    Special

    Assortment of clips from radio and television, featuring the actor Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens, better known as Terry-Thomas. 1: Victory Star Show - excerpt from BBC broadcast at the end of World War II. 2:...

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  5. Transformation and Tradition in Sixties British Cinema

    Date
    10 Mar 2016, 16:49
    Author
    Ben Hodson
    Post Type
    BUFVC Article

    The 1960s in Britain is remembered as a time of great change, not least at the cinema. But how did this all come about? Laura Mayne previews a new three-year AHRC project studying the phenomenon.  ...

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  6. War Cartoon No 1

    Date released
    28 Sep 1939
    Series name
    Gaumont British News
    Issue no
    598
    NoS ID
    059526
    Story no
    10 / 10
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Hitler and Ribbentrop Meet the British Lion.

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  7. Winslow Boy, The (1948)

    Director
    Anthony Asquith
    Producer
    Teddy Baird; Anatole de Grunwald
    Subject
    Drama; Film studies; Law
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 114 minutes), £15.99

    A courtroom drama adapted from Terence Rattigan’s play ‘The Winslow Boy’, based on a true story. Follows a father’s struggle in the face of bankruptcy and personal ruin for justice for his son, a...

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  8. Movietone’s War Time News Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Watch on the Nile

    Date released
    17 Jun 1940
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    576
    NoS ID
    010918
    Story no
    3 / 8

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Defence of the Nile. DESCRIPTION: Following Italy’s declaration of war the Egyptians strengthen their defences. SHOTLIST: Tanks co-operate with Egyptian troops ashore. Under the...

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  9. Country Durham - LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES

    Date released
    Dec 1966
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346353
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Miner’s daughter Dorothy Wright, who becomes a projectionist in an Auckland cinema. NCB Commentary - Bishop Auckland is in mining country. Here in retirement after a lifetime in the pits...

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  10. Lord of the Flies (1963) (1963)

    Director
    Peter Brook
    Subject
    Anthropology; English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £19.99

    Following a plane crash a group of schoolboys find themselves marooned on a deserted island. With no adults to supervise and guide them, the boys elect a leader in the shape of the upstanding and...

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