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  1. Royal Command Film Performance

    Date released
    7 Nov 1946
    Series name
    Universal News
    Issue no
    1702
    NoS ID
    148980
    Story no
    1 / 1

    First show of its kind in the history of the cinema. First performance of film "Matter of Life and Death". British and American film stars presented to King and Queen after performance. Empire Leicester Square.

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  2. Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 85 minutes), £19.99

    CAMERAMAN illuminates a unique figure in British and international cinema, Jack Cardiff, a man whose life and career are inextricably interwoven with the history of cinema spanning nine decades of moving...

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  3. Matter of Life and Death, A (1948 Radio)

    Producer
    Archie Campbell

    Radio version of the film about RAF pilot (and poet, lunatic and lover) Peter Carter who unwittingly cheats death when he survives bailing out of his plane without a parachute. Originally written and...

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  4. Death penalty no vote (1979)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on the majority vote by Parliament against the re-introduction of the death penalty, and the prospects of a referendum on the matter and for reconsideration of...

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  5. Ocean Sound This Week No.43: Programme 43 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

    OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 43 Programme 43 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 16 August 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER....

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  6. Meshes of the Afternoon

    Date
    2 Apr 2013, 11:42
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Review

    Meshes of the Afternoon by John David Rhodes (BFI Film Classics, 2011). (British Film Institute / Palgrave MacMillan, 2011). 128 pages. ISBN: 978-1844573776 (paperback). Price: £9.99 About the reviewer:...

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  7. Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: The Royal Command Film Performance

    Date released
    7 Nov 1946
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    909A
    NoS ID
    014137
    Story no
    4 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Command Film Performance. DESCRIPTION: Film stars turned out in force for the first Royal Command Film Performance. Over £30,000 was raised for the Cinema Trade Benevolent Fund...

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  8. Barts to lose casualty department (1994)

    Genre
    Interview

    Doctors from St Bartholomew’s Hospital (Barts) have joined patients and medical students to lobby MPs at Westminster today. The Accident and Emergency department is earmarked for closure in January and...

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  9. 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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  10. Seal virus debate (1988)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    A mysterious virus which is killing thousands of seals in the North Sea has sparked debate. Environment Minister, Virginia Bottomley says that Britain is clean when it comes to pollution, but Conservative...

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