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Sfx in the Cinema (1994 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2001 sale: £16.50 (inc VAT +p&p)

A video-based teaching pack that uses interviews, film clips and special effects to explore the techniques and visionary impulses in the creation of special effects in science fiction and fantasy films.

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Tartuffe (2005)

Director

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

Subject

Drama; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 64 minutes), £19.99

F. W. Murnau made this film adaptation of Molière’s satire for UFA early in 1925 and it was released the following year, shortly followed by Faust. By presenting the play as a film-within-a-film, Murnau...

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Friedrich Schiller: Eine Dichterjugend (2009)

aka: Friedrich Schiller: The Poet As a Young Man

Director

Curt Goetz

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 102 minutes), 19.95 Euros

Silent film. After 16 years’ experience on stage, the actor and playwright Curt Goetz (1888-1960) made his debut as a film director and producer with the silent movie ‘Friedrich Schiller - Eine...

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Different World, A / Messenger from Poland (1987)

Producer

Raye Farr

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 92 minutes), £14.99

A DIFFERENT WORLD (1987) offers a nuanced and subtle look into interwar Poland and the relationship between Jews and Poles during this turbulent yet promising time, a time of hope and transformation, a time...

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People’s Century (Parts 16-18) (1996 Video)

Producer

James DeVinney; Max Whitby

Subject

History

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 165 min.

A history of 20th century in 26 parts as seen from the point of view of the ordinary people who have lived through the events. Includes interviews and extensive archive footage. 16: The fight against...

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Winsor McCay: Animation Legend (1911 Video)

Producer

Albert M Miller

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 100 min., 1996 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

A compilation of the work of Winsor McCay, one of the founding fathers of cinema animation and a key figure in the development of cinema. He became famous as a newspaper strip cartoonist, then developed a...

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Free Cinema (DVD) (2006)

Subject

History; Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 314 +161 minutes), £29.99

A compilation, on three discs, of 16 documentary films about British working-class life produced by the ‘Free Cinema’ movement. This highly influential but critically neglected movement in British...

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Young in Heart (2009)

Subject

Engineering; Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 100 minutes), £19.99

A compilation of five archive films from the Films of Scotland Collection on aspects of industrial development. RIVERS AT WORK (1958, 20 mins) - The story of the electrification of the Highlands by the...

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Last Detail, The (1973)

Director

Hal Ashby

Subject

American Studies; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £15.99

When Buddusky and Mulhall are detailed to take a young sailor, Meadows, from a Virginia Naval Base to a New Hampshire Naval Prison to serve an eight-year sentence for a trivial offence they decide to show...

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Look at Life: Swinging London (2006)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 132 minutes), £14.99

Sixteen films from the colourful LOOK AT LIFE series, produced by the Rank Organisation every week for screening in Odeon cinemas between 1960 and 1969. Stories covered include the boutiques of Carnaby...

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