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Shakespeare Audiotapes, Series

The pre-recorded programmes in this series combine academic criticism and actors’ rehearsals of key scenes and speeches. The scenes rehearsed on the second side of the tapes are directed by John Russell...

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Hamlet (2015)

Director

Margaret Williams

Subject

Drama; English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £17.99

A film version of the play with Maxine Peake in the title role. The production was first staged at the Royal Exchange, Manchester in 2014. Sarah Frankcom directed for stage, Margaret Williams for screen.

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Painted Ballad of India (198 Video)

Subject

Anthropology; Art; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the art of painting the eight-metre long horizontal scrolls in a desert village in Rajasthan, with a ballad singer telling the tale of the folk hero Pabuji. The moves to a hamlet of traditional...

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Englishman Abroad, An (1983 Video)

Director

John Schlesinger

Producer

Innes Lloyd

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 1995 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Coral Browne plays herself in a dramatisation written by Alan Bennett of her chance meeting with the exiled spy Guy Burgess, played by Alan Bates, and the relationship that develops between them. The play...

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Stanislavski Century, The

Director

Peter Hercombe

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 156 minutes), £145.00 [Institutional rate]

This documentary examines the life and work of Russian actor and theatre director Constantin Stanislavski. Set against the historical background of revolutionary Russia and featuring rare footage, the...

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Soundtrack, The (1991 Video)

Director

Mike Crisp

Subject

Film & television production

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 34 min.

An introduction to single-camera training. Begins with a history of sound recording and how early developments still influence the work of the professional sound recordist. Miles England interviews two BBC...

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Shakespeare and the Law (2016)

Subject

Law; Shakespeare

Video podcast from Warwick University with PhD student Adam Slavny and Professor of Law Paul Raffield. The podcast takes as its starting point the gravedigger scene from Hamlet, which parodies Hales v....

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Minis Make Money (1973 Video)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 76 min., 2000 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

Seven selected official British government information films showing how Britain has been portrayed over the last 60 years: 1) Opus (1967, 27 min): an impressionistic survey of the arts in Britain in the...

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Seven Artists (7 Parts) (1979 Video)

Director

David Gladwell; Geoffrey Haydon; John Mansfield; Ian Sharp; Peter West

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 7 x 30 min., 1996 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £210.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Examines some of the main features of 20th-century art, which is characterised by a multiplicity and profusion of styles. In each film the artist speaks for himself and the narrative follows the creation of...

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Humphrey Jennings Collection, The (2005)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 184 minutes), £19.99

Features three films by Humphrey Jennings - LISTEN TO BRITAIN, DIARY FOR TIMOTHY and I WAS A FIREMAN. Also includes a documentary - HUMPHREY JENNINGS:THE MAN WHO LISTENED TO BRITAIN (50 minutes).

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