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Every Day Except Christmas (1957 Film)

Director

Lindsay Anderson

Producer

Leon Clore; Karel Reisz

Subject

Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A personal view of Covent Garden market from midnight to mid-day, Director Lindsay Anderson’s describes the film as ‘a lyrical documentary’ - an attempt to bring poetry and humanity back into...

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Anna Nicole (2011)

Subject

Media studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 120 minutes), £29.99

In a tragic-comic take on the extremes of celebrity culture, composer Mark Anthony Turnage, librettist Richard Thomas and director Richard Jones add Anna Nicole Smith to opera’s gallery of bad, sad girls....

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Royal Ballet, The (2007)

aka: Evening with the Royal Ballet, An

Director

Paul Czinner

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 128 minutes), £6.00

Filmed on the stage of The Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in 1960, director Paul Czinner’s film showcases prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn in what was her first feature film. Partnered by Michael Somes,...

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Free Cinema (1957 Video)

Director

Lindsay Anderson; John Fletcher; Karel Reisz

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

DVD

Three short documentary films about British working-class life produced by the ‘Free Cinema’ movement. The compilation consists of EVERY DAY EXCEPT CHRISTMAS, WE ARE THE LAMBETH BOYS, and THE SATURDAY...

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Steps of the Ballet (1948 Video)

Director

Muir Mathieson

Producer

Alexander Shaw

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 30 min.

Explains the principles of ballet, and the stages involved in mounting a new work. Robert Helpmann explains how a new ballet is produced and Elaine Fifield demonstrates the position of the arms and other...

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Maria Callas: Living and Dying for Art and Love (2003)

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 71 minutes), £19.99

Maria Callas appeared on the operatic stage for the very last time at Covent Garden in July 1965. She sang the role of Tosca. Though a huge success, it also marked the beginning of the end for this...

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Charles Dickens’s England (2009)

Subject

English language and literature; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 290 minutes), £17.99

In CHARLES DICKENS’S ENGLAND , Derek Jacobi takes the viewer around the most important places, towns and cities that were the inspiration to some of the most famous settings in literature. The DVD features...

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Fire at Seven Dials (2002)

Subject

Civil Engineering & Building; Health & safety

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 14 minutes), £47.00

In September 1999, the London Fire Brigade attended what at first appeared to be a routine fire at a video editing company, which occupied one of the commercial units of an old warehouse in the fashionable...

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Red, White and Zero (1967)

Director

Lindsay Anderson; Peter Brook; Tony Richardson

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £14.99

A portmanteau feature composed of three shorts, RIDE OF THE VALKYRIE, THE WHITE BUS AND TED AND BLUE. Comic legend Zero Mostel stars as an opera singer navigating the London transport network as he attempts...

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Back to the Floor, Series 4 (8 Parts) (2000 Video)

Producer

Hugh Dehn

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 8 x 30 min., 2001 sale: £300.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series in which top managers spend a week on the shop floors of their companies.

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