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Locksmiths of the Black Country. Tape 22 (1989)

Director

Jonathan Smith

Distribution

Reference only, Videocassette. Betacam.

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Shapes of the Invisible (2005)

Subject

Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 72 minutes), £16.99

A series of 22 short scientific films, each up to 3 minutes in length, providing the chance to zoom into the atomic structure of 22 objects of daily life (steel, brass, concrete, aluminium, ceramic, hair,...

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Frigate (1983 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1996 sale: £9.95 (+p&p)

Two official films of the Royal Navy, featuring two generations of ships. FRIGATE (1972) is about life for young officers on board F40 ‘HMS Sirius’, a Leander class frigate. BOXER - FOREWARNED IS...

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Television: The Family Friend (1940)

Subject

Media studies; Social Studies; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 120 minutes), $14.99

A collection of US films detailing the development of television, from its inception to its grand heyday. Individual titles are: The Hillsborough with New Hideaway Styling 1959 2:30 Magic in the Air 1941...

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South Bank Show: Vol.1: Ken Russell (2012)

Director

Ken Russell

Subject

Film studies; Media studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 500 minutes), £29.99

Compilation of the eight films made by Ken Russell between 1983 and 2002 for The South Bank Show, on Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, Elgar, a portrait of the widows of four British composers, a found-footage...

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Kino-Pravda No. 22 (1925 Film)

Director

Dziga Vertov

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The first anniversary of Lenin’s death. Workers and peasants eat together and unite; free meals being given out. A delegation of peasants visits Moscow, sees Lenin’s body in the mausoleum, the Tsar’s...

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Complete Cosmos, The (DVD) (2000 Video)

Director

Martyn Ives; John Mason; David Taylor

Producer

Martyn Ives; John Mason; David Taylor

Subject

Space science

Distribution

DVD

Disc 2: Discovery - Into Deep Space. 14) Space Frontier: human space exploration; 15) High Life: living and working in space; 16) Where Next?; 17) Breakthrough!: astronomy and astronomers - Copernicus,...

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Soviet Newsreel No. 59 (June 1941): Special Issue: The Radio Broadcast by the Chairman of the Peoples’ Commissars, V M Molotov (1941 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The broadcast made by Molotov on 22 June 1941 in which he announced to the Russian people that their country had been invaded by German troops. The newsreel shows shots of factory workers and members of the...

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Visions of Africa: Colonial Cinema I. Films from Central Africa, 1940s - 1960s (2012)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 56 minutes), £28.00 (individual rate)

Collection of films mostly made by government of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, during the 1940s, 19550s, and 1960s. Contents include the following films: Mary’s Lucky Day (Lux toilet soap commercial); The Box...

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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (2003)

Subject

Drama; Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £17.99

Adapted by Alan Sillitoe from his novel about an angry young man. Arthur Seaton is a young labourer who just wants to get through the week and raise hell at the weekend. Albert Finney’s performance as the...

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