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The Mighty Wurlitzer

Series name

London Line

Issue no

593

NoS ID

326883

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: The Mighty Wurlitzer was a much-loved feature of cinema programmes thirty years ago. As audiences dwindled theatre organs were dismantled or simply neglected. With the increasing popularity of...

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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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Hamlet (1948 Film, Video)

Director

Laurence Olivier

Producer

Laurence Olivier

Oscar-winning feature film adaptation of the play directed by and starring Laurence Olivier.

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Mighty Wurlitzer

Date released

1979

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

1052

NoS ID

329293

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: The Mighty Wurlitzer was a much-loved feature of cinema programmes thirty years ago. As audiences dwindled theatre organs were dismantled or simply neglected. With the increasing popularity of...

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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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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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