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Shakespeare: His Comedies (1974 Audio)

Director

Thomas M. Cipolla

Tape-slide. Shows the influence Shakespeare had upon the form of comedy, how the form of his comedies changed over the years, Shakespeare’s use of comic devices in his tragedies, and the difference between...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Humour Behind the Lines

Date released

10 Feb 1944

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

766A

NoS ID

013005

Story no

4 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Humour Behind the Lines (Tommy Trinder in Italy). DESCRIPTION: Tommy Trinder recently arrived at the "Garrison Theatre" in Foggia, Italy to entertain the men of the Eighth Army....

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Humour from "Yoicks" - The Kingsway Theatre Revue, London.

Date released

18 Dec 1924

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

185

NoS ID

331176

Story no

1 / 4

Pathe Intertitles - "The Trainer (Mark Lester) puts the "horse" through its paces - (The horse - Messrs. Selig & Hart.)"

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Hot Ice

Date released

9 Sep 1957

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

57/73

NoS ID

107843

Story no

4 / 6

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Glamour and humour in a New Jersey ice show.

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Vice President Barkley Begins Second Term (At Marriage)

Date released

28 Nov 1949

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1956

NoS ID

042057

Story no

5 / 6

Seventy-two year old American widower shows keen sense of humour when photographers attend his marriage to thirty-eight year old widow.

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Humor (2015)

aka: Humour

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 55 minutes), €15.63

How do artists use irony, goofiness, satire, and sarcasm in their work? Can an artwork be funny and critical at the same time? Do contemporary artists always take themselves seriously? The documentary HUMOR...

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Review Of The Year

Date released

29 Dec 1960

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

60/105

NoS ID

109511

Story no

1 / 1

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

Drama, humour, pathos and tragedy. These were the moods of 1960, and Pathe News brings them vividly to memory with its pictorial recollections of 1960.

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Brian Hayes programme (1990)

Genre

Advertisement; Interview; News bulletin; Phone-in; Trailer

Brian Hayes interviews English comedy writer and television personality Frank Muir following the release of his new book, The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose. Muir talks about his working relationship with...

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Contemporary Distractions

Date released

11 Aug 1958

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

189

NoS ID

120596

Story no

2 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: DISTRACTION. n. diverting the mind or attention. This dictionary definition is clearly illustrated by the Contemporary Distractions - small working models - made by artist Sam Smith. First...

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William Whitelaw thermometer joke (1974)

Genre

Speech

Excerpt from a speech by Conservative Party Chairman Willie Whitelaw, including a thermometer joke.

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