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  1. Canada at War

    Date released
    May 1940
    Series name
    The March of Time 5th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    352016
    Story no
    1 / 1

    Documentary News Letter synopsis: The material is extremely well photographed - even better than the fine camera work of the Vatican issue - and is frequently in itself dramatic - as when a kilted Canadian...

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  2. Irish Question, The: A Case Study in Media Control (1990 Video)

    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 20 min.

    Features excerpts from ‘Mother Ireland’, ‘16 Dead’ and ‘Behind the Mask’ and explains why they were not broadcast. Producers explain the problems they have making programmes about Ireland and...

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  3. Shakespeare Tong Tai (2012 Film)

    aka: Shakespeare Must die

    Director
    Manit Sriwanichpoom; Ing Kanjanavanit

    Film which tells the story of a theatre group in a fictional country resembling Thailand that is staging a production of Macbeth. One of the film’s characters is a dictator named ‘Dear Leader’ who...

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  4. Video Recordings Act 1984

    Date
    28 Aug 2009, 18:37
    Author
    bufvcsergio
    Post Type
    Post

    It has been announced that the 1984 Video Recordings Act, which governs the role of the BBFC in classifying and censoring home video releases in the UK, was never referred to the European Parliament and thus...

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  5. Left and Write: Recalling the 30s (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Betty Talks
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at how writers, poets and film-makers looked outwards from England to a wider European perspective in the 1930s. Julian Symons, Stephen Spender and Naomi Mitchison look back at how it felt to be a...

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  6. BBFC Symposium

    Date
    7 Mar 2012, 11:45
    Author
    bufvcsergio
    Post Type
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    Cuts and Categories: 100 years of the BBFC Wednesday 21 March 2012, from 12.00 to 18.00 De Montfort University, Leicester http://re-thinkingcinemaandtv.blogspot.com The Cinema and Television History...

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  7. Merchant of Venice, The (1914 Film)

    Director
    Phillips Smalley; Lois Weber

    Fiction film. A version of The Merchant of Venice directed by Phillips Smalley and his wife Lois Weber. Reviewed by Hanford C. Judson in Moving Picture World (February 14) with the heading ‘Full of Dignity...

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  8. War Game, The (2003)

    Subject
    Drama; Media studies; Politics & government; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 130 minutes)

    Few films have caused as much controversy as Peter Watkins’ THE WAR GAME, a drama documentary made for BBC TV in 1965 about a ‘limited’ nuclear attack on Kent. Blending fiction and fact to create a...

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  9. Media Screen Roundup - April 2014

    Date
    9 May 2014, 16:04
    Author
    Linda
    Post Type
    Post

    The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. A bit of a testosterone feel to this...

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  10. Film & Video Censorship in Modern Britain

    Date
    17 Sep 2012, 17:00
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Review

    Film & Video Censorship in Modern Britain by Julian Petley (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), 240 pages. ISBN: 978-0748625383 (hardback), £75; ISBN: 978-0748625390 (paperback), £24.99 About the...

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