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Date released

1960

Series name

Federal Spotlight

Issue no

111

NoS ID

351482

Story no

2 / 3

BFI synopsis: a) Sir Robert Armitage opens a new museum at Blantyre. b) curing Turkish tobacco. c) harness racing. d) a drive-in cinema. e) the opening of clinker factory.

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Ouaga: African Cinema Now! (1988 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min.

Explores the work of African film-makers, particularly the renewed interest in the traditions of indigenous cultures to articulate new film languages. Leading African film-makers discuss the social and...

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Thunderbolt (2001 Video)

Series

Library of African Cinema

Director

Kelani. Yunde

Producer

Kelani. Yunde

Feature film. The first half of the narrative is a loose-reworking of Othello. Yinka from the Yoruba tribe and Ngozi, an Ibo, meet in the National Youth Service Corps in Nigeria. The seeds of jealousy are...

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Robert Townsend on film and racial stereotypes (1988)

Genre

Interview

Robert Townsend’s film, Holywood Shuffle opens in London this week. Syd Burke talked to its co-writer, star actor, director and producer when Townsend visited London recently. They discuss the...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.7: Programme 7 of a weekly news and sports review (1986)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 7 Programme 7 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 28th November 1986. Presented by MATT HOPPER....

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Media Screen Roundup - September 2013

Date

21 Oct 2013, 11:34

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. Last month’s Roundup featured a...

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Teaching African Cinema (1998 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 116 min., 1998 sale: £19.99 (inclusive)

Video-based teaching pack for examining the huge variety of African cinema and understanding its historical, political and social contexts. The pack contains four sections: Context; The Development of Film...

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Take the Whole Family

Date released

1959

Series name

Rhodesian Spotlight

Issue no

83

NoS ID

351272

Story no

2 / 5

BFI synopsis: Drive-in cinema at Mabelreign.

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Pioneers of African-American Cinema (1915)

Director

Oscar Micheaux; Zora Neale Hurston; Spencer Williams; James Gist; Eloyce Gist

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1309 minutes), £39.99

Collection of features and shorts featuring examples of early African-American film: the so-called ‘race films’ of 1920s, 30s and 40s America which rallied against the prejudiced conventions of the...

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South African Children Welcome Evacuees

Date released

25 Nov 1940

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

40/95

NoS ID

098410

Story no

7 / 8

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

English child evacuees are entertained at the Governor General’s residence at Westbrooke by South African children. They are then the guests of a Cape Town cinema where they attend a matinee, and then for...

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