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Like a Glimpse from "The Arabian Nights"

Date released

18 Nov 1926

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

1347; Super Issue No.: 26/92

NoS ID

085532

Story no

7 / 9

Extras

1 film clip

Concealed in curtained chairs, the brides of the Sultan’s heir and his 2 brothers journey to the Palace for their wedding. The bridegrooms with shrouded faces (according to custom) await their coming.

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Arabian Nights, The (1974 Video)

aka: Fiore Delle Mille e una Notte, Il

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Producer

Alberto Grimaldi

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD

The final part of Pasolini’s ‘Trilogy of life’ series which also includes THE DECAMERON and THE CANTERBURY TALES. A dream-like, sensuous interpretation of the original folk tales. Locations in Yemen,...

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Comedy of Errors, The (2005 Video)

Director

Douglas C. Wager

Video recording of the Shakespeare Theatre’s Company 2005 production of The Comedy of Errors directed for stage by Douglas C. Wager and videotaped for WAPAVA by Mikael Manoukian.

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Ranulph Fiennes finds lost city of Ubar (1990)

Genre

Interview

David Piper interviews explorer Ranulph Fiennes following the discovery of what is believed to be the lost city of Ubar buried in the sands of the Middle East. The find would corroborate the Arabian Nights...

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Film Sound in Italy

Date

27 Feb 2015, 12:46

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Film Sound in Italy by Antonella Sisto (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 236 pages, ISBN: 978-1137387707 (hardback), £60 About the reviewer: Professor Gordon has published widely on 20th-century Italian...

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Ball of the Century

Date released

13 Sep 1951

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

51/74

NoS ID

104335

Story no

1 / 6

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Celebrities attend ‘Arabian Nights’ party that recalls glories of the past.

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With the British in Baghdad

Date released

3 Nov 1917

Series name

War Office Official Topical Budget

Issue no

323-2

NoS ID

126290

Story no

2 / 5

[SUBTITLE]: "Some of our splendid Indian Troops on the march through the famous City of Arabian Nights." Indian troops marching down Baghdad streets with some locals going about their daily business. Closer...

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Arabian Nights

Director

Miguel Gomes

Subject

Film studies; Portuguese studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 377 minutes), £15.53

Using the framing device from the original Arabian Nights of the young Scheherazade telling tale after tale in order to keep her murderous husband from killing her, Miguel Gomes channels the current...

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Adventures of Prince Achmed, The (1926 Video)

Director

Lotte Reiniger

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL), £11.99

Based on tales from ‘The Arabian Nights’ this is one of the first full-length animated films in the history of cinema. It uses silhouette animation, based on the ancient Chinese and Indonesian art of...

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Lubitsch in Berlin: Six Films 1918-1921 (1918)

Director

Ernst Lubitsch

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 439 minutes), £24.99

This set collects six recently restored works from the silent phase of Lubitsch’s career, and casts new light on the director both as a fully-formed comic master, and as a virtuoso of cinematographic...

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