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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: The Contribution of British Movietone News to the British Film Festival of 1948

Date released

2 Feb 1948

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

974

NoS ID

014920

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Some Press Occasions. DESCRIPTION: A look back at some of the events organised by British newspapers during the last year. SHOTLIST: COMPILATION REEL. Several Credit titles. SCU & CU...

News on Screen Cinema news Online Moving image

1931

Date

14 Jan 2013, 14:02

Author

Gabriel

Post Type

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Madeleine Carroll at Yorkshire Main Pit At Doncaster (109 seconds) Gaumont Sound News Issue 115, released 19/1/1931 This item shows the actress Madeleine Carroll visiting a Yorkshire colliery...

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David Lean and Gaumont Sound News

Date

19 Aug 2009, 12:21

Author

Gabriel

Post Type

Page

In the late 1920s David Lean started out as a tea boy/runner at Gaumont's studios at Lime Grove, Shepherd's Bush. After a variety of jobs he finally helped to cut an early sound feature film directed by...

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: The Derby

Date released

9 Jun 1947

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

940

NoS ID

014478

Story no

1 / 1

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pearl Diver Wins the Derby. DESCRIPTION: Again Gordon Richards was on the wrong horse, although riding Tudor Minstrel the hottest favourite for years; MOVIETONE shows you GREAT 1947 in...

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David Lean and the Revolution of Sound in the News

Date

29 Jun 2009, 15:26

Author

Gabriel

Post Type

Page

Today we can watch the news at any time, from any place. 'News on demand' is one of many aspects of the digital revolution that is changing news production and distribution as we speak. In the late 1920s...

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William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo + Juliet’ (1996 Film, Video)

aka: William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet

Director

Baz Luhrmann

Producer

Baz Luhrmann; Gabriella Martinelli

An adaptation of Romeo and Juliet radically interpreting the text, while preserving the verse. Set in a futuristic Verona, the film uses shock cuts, speeded-up trick motion, and a rock music score. Leonardo...

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Viewfinder 103

Date

27 Sep 2016, 13:24

Author

Alex Morris

Post Type

Page

Viewfinder 103 was published in May 2016. Contents of this issue: VISIONS OF CHANGE Dr Ieuan Franklin takes a look at the BFI’s new Blu-ray and DVD release Visions of Change: The Evolution of the...

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As You Like It (1936 Film)

Director

Paul Czinner

Feature film. Great Britain’s first feature-length Shakespeare sound film and Laurence Olivier’s first screen performance in a Shakespeare play. An energetic production set in an elaborate studio forest...

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Directors in British and Irish Cinema

Date

25 Jun 2014, 08:28

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Directors in British and Irish Cinema edited by Robert Murphy (bfi, 2006), 672 pages, ISBN: 1844571262 (Paperback), £29.99, ISBN: 1844571254 (Hardback), £95.00 About the reviewer: A distinguished...

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The History of News on Screen

Date

30 Apr 2015, 16:27

Author

Gabriel

Post Type

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Data has been gathered on the British cinema newsreels for academic study since 1969, and under the care of the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) since 1974. What is now called News on...

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