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Cannes Film Festival

Date released

4 Jun 1973

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2296

NoS ID

029916

Story no

3 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cannes Film Festival. DESCRIPTION: The last rites of the Cannes Film Festival, 1973. SHOTLIST: GV at night Cannes Festival Palace. LV crowd inside watching last arrivals. CCU pan Ingrid...

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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)

Director

Joseph L Mankiewicz; Sidney Lumet

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 185 minutes), $349.00

This landmark documentary chronicles the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, and culminating with his assassination in...

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Assassination of Julius Caesar (March 15, 44bc) (1953 Television)

Series

You Are There

Director

Sidney Lumet

Producer

Charles W. Dozier

A US drama series re-enacting major historical events and covering them as current news stories. This episode concerns March 15, 44BC when Julius Caesar was assassinated; Paul Newman is Brutus in the...

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Drugs smuggling ring busted by police and customs (1990)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on an unidentified organisation that was behind a drugs smuggling operation for five years (1983-1988), importing huge quantities of cannabis into Britain. The ringleaders were Roy Crack and Paul...

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Feature Films on British Television in the 1970s

Date

13 Nov 2015, 17:12

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Article

This is an ‘interim report’ by Dr Sheldon Hall, Sheffield Hallam University, on his long-term project on the history of the showing of feature films on British television, covering virtually the entire...

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2000)

Director

Richard Brooks

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 108 minutes), £7.99

Adaptation of the play by Tennessee Williams about a feuding family living in America’s Deep South. DVD includes trailer.

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Star Selection

Date released

9 Sep 1963

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1788

NoS ID

025240

Story no

3 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Star Selection. DESCRIPTION: Bobo and Mandy, two chimpanzees were auditioned for a Hollywood film which is looking for a champion artist chimp. £150 a week with Robert Mitchum and Paul...

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Roland Joffe on Shadow Makers (1990)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Roland Joffe, director of the film Shadow Makers (known in the USA as Fat Man and Little Boy) on the importance of the film; casting and the real figures including Robert Oppenheimer and...

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Oscar Awards

Date released

21 Apr 1969

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2081

NoS ID

027825

Story no

1 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oscar Awards. DESCRIPTION: Hollywood’s big day of the year is the awarding of the coveted Oscars. Cliff Robertson is Best Actor, and Barbra Streisand and Katherine Hepburn share Best...

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King: Montgomery to Memphis (1970 Film, Video)

aka: Montgomery to Memphis

Director

Ely Landau

Producer

Richard Kaplan; Ely Landau

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £50.00

Documents the activities of Dr Martin Luther King Jr in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s and discusses his philosophy of non-violence. Newsreel and television footage recall the civil rights...

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