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Ancient Ceremony on Thames

Date released

22 Jul 1926

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

778-1

NoS ID

130666

Story no

2 / 5

Swan Upping ceremony on the Thames.

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Ceremony of the Land (1979 Video)

Director

James Woodward-Nutt

Producer

P Love

Subject

Law

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 14 min.

Ceremony depicting how land was transferred prior to 1845.

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London 2012 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony (2012 Television)

The Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The show is entitled Enlightenment with a theme of science and discovery. Ian McKellen appears as Prospero in sequences inspired by the play.

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Bali: Down from the Mountain (1978 Film)

Director

Peter Ramsden

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

About the use of water in Bali and its relation to purity. Shows sequences of stages of the ceremony for consecrating holy water and of the three-month ceremony for removing the impurities of birth.

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Maitres Fous, Les (1955 Film)

aka: Mad Masters, The

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows a ceremony of the Hauka, a religious sect in West Africa, and explores questions of dependence, domination and synthesis. During trance possession the participants of the ceremony reflect traditional...

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Spirit of the Navajo, The (1966 Film)

Director

Mary Jane Tsosie; Maxine Tsosie

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An old medicine man, Sam Yazzie, looks for roots to use in a ceremony. He prepares for a sand painting and part of the actual curing ceremony in which the patient appears is shown.

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Palm Sunday Ceremony

Date released

14 Apr 1927

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

816-1

NoS ID

131209

Story no

3 / 5

Cardinal Bourne conducts the Palm Sunday ceremony at Westminster Cathedral.

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Goodbye Old Man (1977 Film, Video)

aka: Good-Bye Old Man

Director

David MacDougall

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Ethnographic record of a pukumani (bereavement) ceremony of the Tiwi of Melville Island, off the coast of Australia. Made at the request of the Mangatopi family of Snake Bay, the ceremony was held for the...

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Ainu Bear Ceremony, The (1931 Video)

Director

N G Munro

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale (video - RAI), Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 27 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

An examination of the lives of the Ainu people of Japan, who are racially and culturally different from their Japanese neighbours and who obtain their food mainly by hunting and gathering. The bear ceremony,...

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Ceremonies End, The (1972 Film)

Director

Ian Dunlop

Producer

John Martin-Jones

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This sequence shows a purification ceremony, the dismantling of the head-dresses, a concluding feast, and an eloquent speech for the initiates. A sacred betelnut ceremony is conducted and the lecture, which...

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