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Photosynthesis 1 (1986 Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1999 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p)

Uses computer animation to show the process of photosynthesis at the molecular level. In six 10-minute segments: Seeing the Light (discoveries of Joseph Priestly, Jan Ingenhousz Jean Senebier); Absorbing the...

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Media Screen Roundup March 2016

Date

21 Apr 2016, 10:06

Author

Andrew Ormsby

Post Type

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The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at the BUFVC by Andrew Ormsby. Highlights in this month’s Roundup include...

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Témoins de la Libération de Paris, Les, Et 20 Ans en Août 1944: Deux Films de Jorge Amat

Director

Lorenzo Alvary

Subject

French studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL), 15 Euros

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Daughters of de Beauvoir (1989 Video)

Director

Imogen Sutton

Producer

Penny Forster

Subject

English language and literature; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS)

Looks at the influence of French writer Simone de Beauvoir’s work. Kate Millet, Marge Piercy, Eva Figes, Ann Oakley, Simone’s sister Helene and her adopted daughter Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir talk of de...

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De Gaulle: The Man Who was France (1973 Film)

Director

Jonathan Gill; Philip Strick

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A study of General de Gaulle.

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Simone de Beauvoir: Une Feministe (2006)

Director

Delphine Camolli

Subject

French studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 15 minutes), 15 Euros

Short film about French feminist Simone de Beauvoir, with a commentary by Delphine Seyrig, and featuring photographs and archive footage.

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Madame de... (1953 Video)

aka: Diamond Earrings

Director

Max Ophüls

Subject

French studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 96 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

French feature film adapted from a novel by Louise de Vilmourin set in ‘fin de siècle’ Paris. A countess has a pair of earrings given to her by husband. After a doomed love affair with a baron she sells...

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Mme de SÉvignÉ (196 Film)

Producer

Roger Stephane

Subject

French studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Françoise Mallet-Jones gives a commentary on Madame de Sevigné. Consists in large parts of illustrated reading from the letters.

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Chapelle de Ronchamp, La (1967 Film)

Director

Jacques de Casembroot

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Looks at one of Le Corbusier’s masterworks: La Chapelle de Ronchamp.

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Peter de Wint (1987 Video)

Director

John Walton

Producer

John Walton

Subject

Art

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 18 min.

Born in 1784, Peter de Wint, Lincolnshire’s most famous landscape painter, was a close contemporary of Turner and Constable. Richard Wood, Keeper of Art at Lincoln’s Usher Gallery, where the artist’s...

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