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Class of ‘62 (1984 Video)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

In the summer of 1962 form 5E of Sandford County Secondary School for Girls, Leeds, left school for the last time at the age of 15. The film reunites then 22 years later. Between them they have 30 marriages,...

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Julius Caesar (1974 Film)

Series

Shakespeare Series, The

Director

Peter Seabourne

Extracts from Act II ii (Caesar is flattered by Decius Brutus into going to the forum); Act IV iii (Cassius and Brutus quarrel in the ‘tent scene’ and news comes of Portia’s death).

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BFI Statistical Yearbook 2012 published

Date

26 Jul 2012, 11:22

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

Post

British film thrived during 2011 according to new figures published today by the British Film Institute (BFI). Compiled by the BFI’s Research and Statistics Unit, the Statistical Yearbook presents the...

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Gpo Story, The (1983 Film, Video)

Subject

Film & television production; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the GPO Film Unit. Tells the story of the Unit from its beginnings with the Empire Marketing Board, through to wartime documentaries of the Crown Film Unit....

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Pett and Pott (1934 Film)

Director

Alberto Cavalcanti

Producer

John Grierson

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An experimental propaganda film made to encourage people to use the telephone. Equally it is a satire on suburban life and middle-class respectability. The film experiments with various sound techniques -...

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Colour Box, A (1935 Video)

Director

Len Lye

Subject

Film & television production; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. Dufaycolor. 4 min.

Len Lye pioneered the technique of painting directly on to the film negative, and this is the first film that he brought to John Grierson. Grierson liked the film and told him to go away and paint the new...

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Airbus Progress Report No. 4 (1972 Film)

Director

Anthony Fewkes

Producer

Leslie Dawson

Subject

Engineering; Technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows the roll out and first flight of a new passenger aircraft in the wide body range.

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Airbus Progress Report No. 3 (1972 Film)

Director

Anthony Fewkes

Producer

Leslie Dawson

Subject

Engineering; Technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A record of the assembly of component parts from the sponsor’s European factories. It is recommended that Reports nos. 2 and 3 be viewed together.

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I was a Fireman (1942 Film, Video)

aka: Fires Were Started

Director

Humphrey Jennings

Producer

Ian Dalrymple

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £15.99

One day in the life of an Auxiliary Fire Service unit in the London Blitz. This is the full version of the cinema classic FIRES WERE STARTED, which captured the mood of a Britain under siege. Using real...

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Scottish Tragedy, The (1984 Video)

Director

Mike Crisp

Produced by the BBC’s Training Department and conceived as a comedy, highlights the problems which can beset a badly organised film unit on location. Shows the problems experienced by such a production...

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