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Filming in the Desert

Date released

1 Feb 1951

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1130A

NoS ID

016918

Story no

5 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Filming in the Desert. DESCRIPTION: Chosen for its natural resemblance to ancient Palestine a location in an Arizona desert is the scene of another great 20th Century production - the...

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Things to Come (1936 Film)

Director

William Cameron Menzies

Producer

Alexander Korda

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Feature film. Forecasts that World War II would cause the collapse of civilisation to be replaced by a life of Arcadian simplicity. Science takes over with an invention of a ‘space gun’ which shoots...

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Twentieth Century - The Creative Thirties Retrospective Film on American Arts During the 1930s (Film)

Director

Norman Bel Geddes

Very brief extract showing scenes from the 1931 Norman Bel Geddes’ Broadway production of Hamlet with Raymond Massey as Hamlet and Celia Johnson as Ophelia. This was Celia Johnson’s only Broadway...

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Stage Wedding

Date released

29 May 1958

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1512A

NoS ID

022409

Story no

4 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Massey Wedding. DESCRIPTION: The wedding of Anna Massey, actress daughter of Raymond Massey, and Jeremy Brett, took place at St Michael’s, Highgate. It was attended by many theatrical...

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Toast of the Town [07/08/1955] (1955 Television)

aka: Sullivan Reel

Series

Toast of the Town

Director

John Wray (2)

US variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan. This episode includes scenes (c 16mins) from a production of The Tempest filmed at the American Shakespeare Festival Theatre in Stratford, CT. There are also scenes (c...

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Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1935 Film)

Director

Harold Young

Producer

Alexander Korda

Feature film version of the novel by Baroness Orczy set in the French Revolution. At the end of the film, the Scarlet Pimpernel, when he encounters his arch-rival Blakeney, quotes part of John of Gaunt’s...

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Choice DVD (Barry Goldwater 1964 Political Campaign Film) (1964)

Producer

Clifton White; Russ Walton

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 28 minutes), $24.95

This documentary film for Republican Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater was considered so racially divisive by the candidate himself, that he ordered it withdrawn almost immediately after its release and...

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Matter of Life and Death, A (1945 Film)

aka: Stairway to Heaven

Director

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Producer

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

A British wartime aviator who cheats death by miraculously surviving bailing out of his plane without a parachute must argue for his life before a celestial court. Fantasy film, ostensibly produced with the...

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Challenge to Hollywood

Date released

1945

Series name

The March of Time 11th Year

Issue no

5

NoS ID

352260

Story no

1 / 1

The March of Time synopsis: As in England, war time has brought to the U.S. cinemas a greater wave of prosperity than has ever before been experienced, but in spite of this unprecedented boom Hollywood’s...

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Presidential Campaign TV Ads Volume 1 1952-1964/Volume 2 1964-1976 (2006)

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 60+ menutes each), $9.99 each volume

Two compilation volumes (sold separately) of American presidential campaign television commercials. Vol 1: 22 Commercials Selling Candidates For The Presidency. Contains: 52 Eisenhower - "Ike For President...

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