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Benjamin Britten: A Time There was (2013)

Director

Tony Palmer

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 minutes), £12.99

Tony Palmer’s in-depth portrait of composer Benjamin Britten. The English Chamber Orchestra perform extracts from Britten’s works, including ‘The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’, ‘Peter...

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Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes (2012)

aka: Benjamin: Written on Skin

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 168 minutes), £24.99

An opera by Britten with a libretto by Montagu Slater from George Crabbe’s poem ‘Peter Grimes’, which appeared in his book, The Borough. The borough in the opera is a fictional village which shares...

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Britten: War Requiem (2012)

Subject

English language and literature; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £29.99

2012 sees the 50th anniversary of Britten’s War Requiem and the building it was written for, Coventry Cathedral. The work combines the words of the Latin Mass for the Dead and poems by the First World War...

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Instruments of the Orchestra/Steps of the Ballet (1995 Video)

Subject

Dance; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 45 min., 1995 sale: £9.95 (inclusive)

Two classic education films of the 1940s from the Crown Film Unit. INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA features Sir Malcolm Sargent and the London Symphony Orchestra and centres around specially composed music by...

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Turn of the Screw, The (Opera) (2004)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 110 minutes), Subscription only

Benjamin Britten’s opera based on the Henry James novel about a governess who discovers that the house in which she lives and works is haunted by the evil spirits of two former employees, and that her two...

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Coal Face (1935 Video)

Director

Alberto Cavalcanti

Producer

John Grierson

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Hire (film - BFI), Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 10 min.

Coalmining in Britain in the 1930s - conditions and state of the industry in the economy at that time. Set to verse by W H Auden, with music by Benjamin Britten.

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War Requiem (2008)

Director

Derek Jarman

Subject

English language and literature; History; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £19.99

Based on the life of Wilfred Owen, the poet, who died in 1918, this film is a blend of Benjamin Britten’s music, Owen’s poetry and director Derek Jarman’s visuals. The film includes wartime footage...

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King’s Stamp, The (1935 Video)

Director

William Coldstream

Subject

History; Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 20 min.

Shows the designing, lithographing and printing of the King George V Silver Jubilee stamp. A short history of postage stamps is dramatised with scenes about Rowland Hill and the reactions of the general...

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Saving of Bill Blewitt, The (1937 Video)

Director

Harry Watt

Producer

Alberto Cavalcanti

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 25 min.

A fiction film, made in the documentary style, about two fishermen whose boat is wrecked but who manage to save up enough to buy another. Harry Watt has described how he was told to make a film about saving,...

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Tocher, The (1938 Video)

Director

Lotte Reiniger

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 5 min.

A fairy-tale ballet silhouette as a means of promoting the Post Office Savings Bank. Music consists of Rossini themes arranged by Benjamin Britten.

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