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Leeds - United! (1974)

Director

Roy Battersby

Producer

Kenith Trodd

Subject

Television studies

Distribution

Out of distribution

This controversial account of a strike by Leeds clothing workers was, when it was broadcast in 1974, the most expensive film to be made for British television. Featuring a huge cast, striking black and white...

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Blackadder Back and Forth (2000 Film)

aka: Blackadder Back & Forth

Director

Paul Welland

Producer

Sophie Clarke-Jones

A film charting British history since Roman times, made especially for the Millennium Dome in London. In the Shakespeare sketch at a 1999 New Year’s Eve dinner party given by Edmund Blackadder for old...

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Colin Welland Oscar acceptance speech (1982)

Genre

Speech

Acceptance speech by screenplay writer Colin Welland at the Academy Awards on receiving an Oscar for the Chariots of Fire script.

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The Encyclopedia of British Film (1st edition)

Date

28 May 2015, 14:06

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

The Encyclopedia of British Film edited by Brian McFarlane (Methuen in association with the British Film Institute, 2003), 774 pages, ISBN: 978-0413773012 (paperback) N.B. This review originally appeared in...

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1980s news clips - Chariots of Fire wins Oscars (1989)

Genre

Speech

Speech by screenwriter and actor, Colin Welland, on receiving an Oscar for best original screenplay for the film, Chariots of Fire. Includes excerpt from film score. The film was nominated for seven Academy...

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Funeral of Roy Kinnear (1988)

Genre

Interview; News report; Tribute

54 year-old actor, Roy Kinnear died in Spain after falling from his horse whilst filming The Return of the Musketeers. Amongst the mourners at his funeral were Brian Rix, Judi Dench, John Junkin, Bernard...

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John Schlesinger on new film Yanks (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with director John Schlesinger on his new Second World War film Yanks, co-written by Colin Welland and Walter Bernstein, which focuses on 3 love stories and the clash of cultures when US GIs are...

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Decade. Pt 4 (1990)

Genre

Interview; Music; News report; Special; Speech

Simon Bowden presents a special series looking back at the main news stories of the 1980s. This part looks at the world of entertainment and sport. Includes interview with Ian Botham; speeches by Colin...

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Kinnock speech at Labour meeting (1987)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report on a pre-General Election speech in Northampton by Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock, in which he claims people can only oust Thatcherism by voting for Labour and dismisses the idea of tactical voting....

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Dennis Potter: Blue Remembered Hills (1979 Video)

aka: Blue Remembered Hills

Director

Brian Gibson

Producer

Kenith Trodd

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £19.99

Dennis Potter’s play about childhood and the quickly changing intensities of misery and unhappiness, kindness and cruelty. On an apparently ordinary summer’s day in 1943, seven children are playing in...

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