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  1. (Untitled record)

    Date released
    4 Sep 1939
    Series name
    The March of Time 5th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    352943
    Story no
    1 / 1

    Today’s Cinema synopsis: This issue of the famous series ... is devoted to the history of films from its early experimental beginnings to the flawless technique of to-day’s talkies. To a commentary which...

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  2. Honour for Film Maker

    Date released
    28 Oct 1968
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2056
    NoS ID
    027605
    Story no
    2 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Honour for Film Maker. DESCRIPTION: Darryl Zanuck, the first American film maker to receive the highest honour France can award in the field of Culture. While in Paris, he meets Rex...

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  3. Blue Collar (1978)

    Director
    Paul Schrader
    Subject
    American Studies; Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (109 minutes), £15.99

    After writing TAXI DRIVER for Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader made his directorial debut with this little-known drama about life on the factory floor of a Detroit car manufacturing plant. The film is one of...

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  4. Night of the Hunter, The (1955)

    Director
    Charles Laughton
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 89 minutes), £13.99

    Robert Mitchum plays Harry Powell, a self-appointed preacher with ‘LOVE’ and ‘HATE’ tattooed on his knuckles, who travels to a small town in search of his executed cellmate’s stash of cash, under...

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  5. Home News: Film Star Swims Thames

    Date released
    28 Sep 1953
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1269
    NoS ID
    018774
    Story no
    1 / 9

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Film Star Swims the Thames. DESCRIPTION: American film star Hilary Brooke and British stunt girl Connie Tilton recently indulged in a swimming race across the Thames. SHOTLIST: Cut...

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  6. Maya Deren: Dance Films (1997)

    Subject
    Dance; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 47 minutes), £23.00 (individual); £60.00 (institutional)

    Selections from the series of dance films made by the American avant-garde film-maker Maya Deren in the 1940s and 1950s. It contains Talley Beatty’s A Study in Choreography for the Camera, Frank...

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  7. 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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  8. Last Detail, The (1973)

    Director
    Hal Ashby
    Subject
    American Studies; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £15.99

    When Buddusky and Mulhall are detailed to take a young sailor, Meadows, from a Virginia Naval Base to a New Hampshire Naval Prison to serve an eight-year sentence for a trivial offence they decide to show...

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  9. Nagasaki: The Horror and Legacy of ‘Fat Man’, The World’s First Plutonium Bomb (1995 Video)

    Director
    Serge Viallet
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS col. 51 min., 1998 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    On 8 August 1945 America dropped its second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, marking the end of the war for Japan. Survivors, both Japanese civilians and Western POWs, tell of the morbid aftermath, the road from war...

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  10. Soviet Influence, The: Battleship Potemkin / Drifters (2012)

    Director
    Sergei Eisenstein; John Grierson
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 124 minutes), £19.99

    The second in the BFI’s series looking at the influence of silent Soviet films on British filmmakers of the 1930s pairs Sergei Eisenstein’s 1929 film BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN) with John...

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