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Surreally Scozzese (2001 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 80 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

Enrico Scozzese, the son of immigrant Italians, was one of Scotland’s most unusual filmmakers. An academic, he pursued an ‘underground’ career making movies with amateur casts and crews. His ambitious,...

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Around China with a Movie Camera: A Journey from Beijing to Shanghai, 1900 - 1948 (2016)

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 minutes), £11.99

This DVD is a compilation of home movies, travelogues and newsreels, made by British and French filmmakers, from professionals to tourists, colonial-era expatriates and Christian missionaries. The collection...

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Beregis Avtomobilya! (1966 Film)

aka: Beware of the Car

Director

Eldar Ryazanov

Feature film comedy. Detochkin, an insurance agent, is angry at the thought of crooks going unpunished and he begins a retribution campaign by stealing offenders’ cars, selling them, and donating the...

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Alfred Kaiser: Decomposing Nazi Phraseology (1975)

Director

Alfred Kaiser

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 54 minutes), £24.99

In the second half of the 1970s Alfred Kaiser was entirely unknown to the film world when he went public with two films, namely A THIRD REICH (1975) and A THIRD REICH FROM ITS REFUSE (1977). Using excerpts...

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Yellow Week at Stanway, The (1923 Film)

Director

J.M. Barrie

Amateur film. Record of a house party held by author J.M. Barrie at Stanway, Gloucestershire, the home of Lord Wemyss. Written and directed by Barrie, it features a semi-dramatised dream sequence in which...

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Ofelia Kommer til Byen (1985 Film)

aka: Ophelia Comes to Town

Director

Jon Bang Carlsen

Producer

Jon Bang Carlsen; Per Holst; Jane Graun; Jens Arnoldus

Feature film. In a small village in western Jutland, John leads an isolated life as a grave-digger. During the winter a city school teacher coaches the tiny population is an amateur production of Hamlet....

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John V. Hansen Footage of Hamlet at Kronberg (1937 Film)

Silent amateur film shot by John V. Hansen, engineer and member of the Amateur Cinema League, of a performance of Tyrone Guthrie’s Hamlet at Kronberg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark with Laurence Olivier as...

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Scotland Calling: At the Empire Exhibition 1938 (1938)

Subject

Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (154 minutes), £18.99

A 2-DVD compilation of films made at and for the Empire Exhibition of 1938, which was held in Glasgow. DVD 1: Seven films made under the direction of John Grierson to spotlight Scotland: FACE OF SCOTLAND:...

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Burnley... Memories of the 1930s and 1940s: The Films of Sam Hanna

Director

Sam Hanna

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL), £14.99

Sam Hanna pioneered the use of film in schools as a means of instruction. In 1932 he started to film life and events in his home town Burnley, as well as capturing dying local crafts for posterity on movie...

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Courtney Jones and Doreen Denny

Date released

1960

Series name

British Sporting Personalities

Issue no

4

NoS ID

323879

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: A film about Britain’s amateur ice-dancing champions of the world. Courtney Jones began serious skating at twenty-two, carrying off the British, American and World titles two years later....

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