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Awesome Giants of Steam (1997 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 52 min., 1997 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

A compilation of two short British Transport films.

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Queen is Crowned, A (2012)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 79 minutes), £8.40

Brand-new restoration of the only feature-length colour record of the Coronation itself, filmed in Technicolor and featuring narration by Laurence Olivier. Also included in this set is PALACES OF A QUEEN, a...

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Tonic to the Nation - From Festival to Coronation (1951 Video)

Director

Humphrey Jennings; Richard Massingham

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 68 min., 2001 sale £12.95 (inc VAT +p&p)

A compilation of four films, three of them commissioned for the Festival of Britain. BRIEF CITY (d. Richard Massingham. COI, b&w, 1951) and LONDON IN FESTIVAL YEAR (COI, col, 1951) cover the capital’s...

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Moving Memories 4 (1993 Video)

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 59 min.

A compilation of ten archive films about traditions, events, people and places of north-west England from 1910 to 1955. Contents: Sir Stanley Matthews and his ‘magic feet’ - how Stanley Matthews’...

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Norwich 1940-87 (1991 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 33 min., 1996 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

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A Royal Occasion: From Victoria to Elizabeth II (2012)

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 287 minutes), £19.99

To coincide with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the BFI has put together a collection of films from the the BFI National Archive on a range of royalty-related subjects, beginning as far back as 1896. The...

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Way we Used to Live, The (2 Parts) (Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 2 x 70 min., 1997 sale: £12.99 (inc. VAT +p&p) each

1: A collection of early films from Victorian times, including Queen Victoria with her family, the Boer War, family life, early cinematograph experiments and theatre and music hall acts. 2: Archive films...

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God Slot, The (1994 Video)

Subject

Religious studies; Sociology

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 1995 sale: £175.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the way is religion is portrayed on television. Rosemary Hartill, former religious affairs correspondent for the BBC, plots the changes in the ‘God slot’ from the DAILY SERVICE in the 1920s to...

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Do You Remember? 1950s Norwich (1994 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 50 min., 1996 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

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David Starkey’s Music & Monarchy (2017)

Subject

History; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 135 minutes), £7.99

Presented by renowned historian David Starkey, this BBC series reveals how British kings and queens shaped the story of the nation’s music as patrons and taste makers, and even as composers and performers....

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