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Spirit of the Age (8 Parts) (1975 Video)

Producer

John Drummond

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 8 x 50 min., 1997 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) (each) 1997 sale: £280.00 (+VAT +p&p) (series)

A series surveying the evolution of architecture in Britain since the Middle Ages. (Part 3 mentions St Paul’s Cathedral).

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Bill Viola

aka: Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul’s

Director

Gerald Fox

Subject

Arts and Humanities; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 82 minutes), £17.99

Documentary following one of the world’s most influential video artist, Bill Viola, and his wife and close collaborator, Kira Perov, over a twelve-year period. During this time they undertake and complete...

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (1998 Video)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 35 min., 1998 sale: £36.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows Frank Gehry’s extraordinary museum building in northern Spain that resembles a gigantic abstract sculpture in titanium, glass and limestone. The exterior volumes are as visually stimulating as the...

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Body As Site (1995 Video)

Director

Rosemary Butcher

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 75 min., 1997 sale: £18.50 (+VAT inc. p&p)

A recording of Rosemary Butcher’s ‘Body as Site’, performed in Guilford Cathedral on 30 January 1995. The dance is made up of four pieces, each choreographed within, and defined by, the boundaries of...

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Riddle of the Dome, The (1999 Video)

Producer

Cameron Balbirnie

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Off-air recording Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 2001 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Follows Florentine architect Massimo Ricci as he attempts to unravel the secret construction methods used by Filippo Brunelleschi in building the dome of Florence cathedral. He has built a house-sized...

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Au Pays de la Marseillaise (1939 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shot in Strasbourg during the opening days of the World War 2. Shows the civilian population packing and leaving the city; soldiers and policemen patrolling empty streets; precautions taken to safeguard the...

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Chartres: Heaven on Earth (1998 Video)

Director

Louise R Illig

Producer

Louise R Illig

Subject

Architecture; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min.

Professor Keith Critchlow of the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture discusses the history, architecture, art and significance - the ‘sacred architecture’ and ‘sacred geometry’ - of the...

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Ruskin’s Journey (2000 Video)

Director

Michael Wheeler

Producer

Michael Wheeler

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 47 min., 2000 sale: £??

Professor Michael Wheeler revisits some of the sites that inspired John Ruskin and informed much of his thinking - Rouen cathedral in France, the falls at Schaffhausen in Switzerland, Chamonix in the French...

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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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Planet Earth, The: A Scientific Model (1986 Video)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Discusses the usefulness of the mental device of putting one’s mind’s eye outside the immediate environment so as to ‘look in’ on it. Introduces the idea by comparing the swing of a pendulum viewed...

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