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Midsummer’s Nightmare, A (2004 Television)

Series

Lexx

Director

Paul Donovan (2); Chris Bould

Producer

Paul Donovan (2); David Marlow

Science fiction television series that follows the adventures of a group of mismatched fugitives from the Lexx, a living, insect-shaped aircraft. This episode is loosely based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer...

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Country Buses

Date released

1948

Series name

Cinegazette

Issue no

4

NoS ID

349261

Story no

1 / 1

NoS Summary - A promotional story about the Green Line country bus service NoS synopsis: A scenic tour of ‘London’s back garden’ from the Reigate office where Green Line bus routes are planned to...

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Quaint Railways

Date released

10 Aug 1933

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

636

NoS ID

333254

Story no

2 / 6

NoS Summary - small railway train is contrasted with a locomotive British Pathe synopsis: "Not all the Railways in Britain have the many-ton engines such as we see generally. Here’s a contrast." C/U of...

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Britain from the Air (2 Vols) (2001 Video)

aka: Flying Through History

Subject

Architecture; History

Distribution

Sale, 2 videocassettes. VHS. col. 168 min., 2001 sale: £14.99 (inclusive) - boxed set

A series of six programmes, filmed entirely from helicopter, showing key sites and how the landscape of Britain has evolved over 2000 years. Each of the six units covers a key period.

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Legacy 2 (6 Parts) (1991 Video)

Director

Peter Spry-Leverton

Producer

Peter Spry-Leverton

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 6 x 60 min., 2000 sale: £19.99 (inc. VAT +p&p) (series) - Choices Direct

Five thousand years ago, the first cities in the world were built on the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers in what is now Iraq. Here was the first writing, the first law, the first science -...

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Education for Living

Date released

Apr 1949

Series name

This Modern Age

Issue no

27

NoS ID

347223

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: The film shows the new approaches to teaching in primary and secondary schools. Opening shot of a small girl conducting her classmates in singing, marching and percussion. At a nursery school,...

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Putting Art in Its Place (5 Parts) (1993 Video)

Director

Maggie Ellis

Producer

Trevor Boden

Subject

Art

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. 5 x 25 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) each (VHS)

Series looking at works of art commissioned for public places. 1: The city of Birmingham raised almost £1m to commission new art works for public spaces. Anthony Gormley’s ‘Iron Man’, cast in a local...

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British Public Information Films 2 DVD Set (2007)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

DVD (Region 0, 180 minutes), $14.99

A compilation of 22 UK public information films made between 1945 and 1952. Titles are: A Warning to Travellers (Five Pounds in Notes); Berlin Airlift; Brief City; Charley’s March of Time; Charley...

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High Wide And Faster

Date released

1964

Series name

Look At Life

Issue no

244

NoS ID

350165

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: A survey of some current developments in road and rail transport engineering in Britain, with some information on new port facilities. Views of the M6 Motorway viaduct at Gathurst, Lancs....

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