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R.W. Paul - The Collected Films 1895-1908 (2006)

aka: R.W. Paul - The Complete Surviving Films 1895-1908

Director

Robert W Paul

Subject

Film Studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 148 minutes), £14.99

Robert W Paul is justly celebrated as the leading pioneer of British film and one of the founders of world cinema. This collection of 62 films brings together for the first time the collected output of R W...

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Out of the Melting Pot (1994 Video)

Producer

Jeremy Cooper

Subject

Anthropology; History

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 2001 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The Jewish-American community of Los Angeles is confident enough of its American identity to be rediscovering and reasserting its Jewishness. This film uses actuality, personal testimony and expert opinion...

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Film in Victorian Britain (1996 Video)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2001 sale: £19.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

A video-based package for teaching both Media and the Victorian Britain topic in KS2 history. The video is a compilation of 33 short films made between 1896 and 1905. An emphasis on actuality footage...

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Restoration Comedy of Manners (1978 Audio)

Director

N.C. Collins

Producer

N.C. Collins

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. ? min., 2001 sale: £23.50 (inclusive)

A compilation of extracts from seven talks by Harold Brooks about aspects of Restoration comedy. Titles are: ‘What Sort of Comedy?' (47 min); The Dramatists’ Artistic Justification (45 min); Stage and...

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Fifty Fighting Years (1973 Film)

Director

Roland Bischoff; Stanley Forman

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A tribute to ‘Labour Monthly’, the Socialist magazine founded in 1921 by R Palme Dutt and still edited by him today. Includes interviews with R Palme Dutt and his associate editor Robin Page Armot. Using...

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Leona Tyler on Counselling (1973 Film, Video)

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Dr Leona Tyler discusses issues in counselling, including the role of the counsellor, helping the client transform potentiality into actuality, confusion and isolation as two of the basic problems facing...

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Warwork News. No 50 (1944 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

'Warwork News’ was a series of short newsreels produced during World War 2 for distribution in British factories. ‘Churchill visits the front’: a report from Normandy which emphasises the great victory...

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Prisoner, The (2007)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 850 minutes + extras), £59.99

All 17 episodes of the enigmatic, surrealist, paranoiac television series from the 1960s, produced, co-written and co-produced by Patrick McGoohan. Restored and remastered from original film elements....

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This Working Life: Tales from the Shipyard (2011)

Subject

Engineering; Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 314 minutes), £24.99

This 2-disc box set, the second release in the BFI’s This Working Life series, features 23 films made between 1898 and 1974. The collection contains over five hours of material that portrays our...

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