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T.S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral/The Family Reunion/ The Cocktail Party (198)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 50 minutes), £11.00

Relates the writer to dramatic tradition and to his society. The plays are approached as theatrical experience as well as literary texts, using readings to illuminate questions of theme and style. A...

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Murder in the Cathedral (1951 Film)

Director

George Goellering

Subject

Drama; History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Film based on T S Eliot’s play about the martyrdom of St Thomas a Becket.

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Cathedral Archaeology (1996 Video)

Subject

Archaeology; Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 21 min., 1996 sale: £11.95 (inclusive)

Investigates the ways archaeologists record and excavate evidence in cathedrals, using Canterbury and Norwich as case studies. Looks at the issues raised by the need to balance the conservation of the...

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Setting for St Paul’s, A (1991 Video)

Director

Cathy Denford

Producer

David Sharp; Mike Tomlinson

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1993 price: £20.00

Examines the challenge to design a modern office building beside St. Paul’s Cathedral and follows the proposed development of Petershill to get an insight into the way architecture and the planning system...

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Fight for York Minster, The (1967)

Subject

Archaeology; Architecture

A television programme made in 1967 in which Dr Brian Hope-Taylor presents an appeal film for the York Minster restoration fund, using as background footage of his ongoing investigation of the foundations of...

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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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