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News and Sports Pageant - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Parliament’s Fateful Meeting

Date released

28 Aug 1939

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

534

NoS ID

010203

Story no

8 / 13

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: King Returns - Parliament Meets. DESCRIPTION: Parliament reassembles to consider the situation arising out of the German-Soviet Pact. SHOTLIST: The crowds gathered in Downing Street,...

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Planning for Survival (1984 Multimedia, Video)

Producer

Mark Boulton

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 20 min.; 80 slides. col. Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min.

Introduces the World Conservation Strategy - a strategy designed as a ‘global remedy for keeping the earth alive’. Its main aims are to maintain essential ecological processes and life support systems,...

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Death and the Maiden (1994 Video)

Director

Roman Polanski

Producer

Josh Kramer; Thom Mount

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A psychological thriller based on the play be Ariel Dorfman, which follows Paulina Escobar’s fear of the man who gives her husband a lift home. It could be the man who tortured and raped her 15 years earlier.

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Reunion, The [03/05/2015] (2015 Radio)

Series

Reunion, The

Producer

Matt Taylor

Radio broadcast. Presenter Sue MacGregor looks at how Peter Brook’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1970 heralded a radical shift in productions of...

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Othello (1985 Video)

Director

Terry Hands

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1985 production of Othello. Directed by Terry Hands with Ben Kingsley as Othello and David Suchet as Iago.

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Peter Brook and Associates: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016 Audio)

Accompanying event to the British Library’s ‘Shakespeare in Ten Acts’ exhibition. Director and members of cast discuss the 1970 Royal Shakespeare Company staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream....

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Playing Shakespeare (1984)

Director

John Carlow

Producer

Andrew Snell

Subject

Drama; Shakespeare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 500 minutes), £9.99

Television documentary series in nine parts in which John Barton, associate director with the Royal Shakespeare Company, works with RSC actors analysing how Shakespeare’s text works, examining the use of...

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Liberation (1994 Video)

Director

Arnold Schwartzman

Producer

Marvin Hier; Arnold Schwartzman

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 100 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Interweaves the history of World War 2 with the story of the Holocaust. Beginning in 1942, the film combines archive footage, period music and radio broadcasts collected from archives around the world to...

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Force More Powerful, A: A Century of Non-Violent Struggle (2003)

Subject

HISTORY & POLITICS CATALOGUES; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 6 x 30 minutes), £30.00 (+VAT) each

A series of six half-hour programmes tracing the use of non-violent struggle around the world in the 20th century. Highlighting examples from various countries, the series identifies the elements of...

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Twelfth Night (1996 Film)

Director

Trevor Nunn

Producer

Stephen Evans; David Parfitt

An intelligent and meditative interpretation emphasising class distinctions and sexual confusion, which ‘has dated better than most...and which captures the shadowy magic of the play well’ (The Guardian...

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