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WAY OF GENTLENESS

Date released

Aug 1962

Series name

Mining Review 15th Year

Issue no

12

NoS ID

346180

Story no

2 / 3

BFI synopsis: A judo match between Port Talbot and Porth proves the skill of Gerald Thomas, a surveyor from South Wales NCB Commentary - This is the story of a belt and the man who owns it. His name is...

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SHAFT STUDY

Date released

May 1959

Series name

Mining Review 12th Year

Issue no

9

NoS ID

346045

Story no

3 / 3

BFI synopsis: work study survey of shaft operations. Method Study Department sets out to make the safest and most effective use of the industry’s resources. NCB Commentary - The stop-watch comes into its...

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Tropicalia (2013)

Director

Marcel Machado

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £12.99

Marcel Machado’s documentary charts the history of the 1960s Brazilian counter-cultural movement known as Tropicália, which expressed itself in theatre, film, art and poetry, but is perhaps best known...

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Thank You Skinhead Girl (2010)

Director

Sharon Woodward

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £25.00

A documentary detailing the film-maker’s experience of being in care and becoming a skinhead girl during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It gives an insight through a female perspective into a youth...

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REPORT ON RHEUMATISM

Date released

Mar 1953

Series name

Mining Review 6th Year

Issue no

7

NoS ID

345780

Story no

4 / 4

BFI synopsis: research work on the causes and cure of rheumatism in miners at a miners’ clinic - Walkden Clinic, Manchester. NCB Commentary - Mining is a tough job. However much is done to improve...

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Breaking Ground: The Story of the London Irish Women’s Centre (2013)

Director

Michelle Deignan

Producer

Clare Dearnaley

Subject

Social Studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (60 minutes), £10.90

Documentary telling the story of the London Irish Women’s Centre. The film recounts the story of the Centre from its origins in the 1980s to its closure in 2012. Using a creative fusion of montage, archive...

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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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Interview with Ralph Bond (1988 Video)

Director

Alan G Burton

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Preview, Videocassette. VHS. col. 103 min.

An interview with the veteran documentary film-maker Ralph Bond. Ralph Bond was active in the formation of the Workers Film Society and speaks of the distribution of Soviet films in the early 1930s. He was...

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Successful Camera for Video (1996)

Subject

Film & television production

Distribution

Sale, VHS (30 min), £49.00 inclusive

One of a series of six programmes covering different areas of video production. Each programme is delivered in sections punctuated with key point summaries. This programme looks at the main functions of a...

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Voice of Kurdistan, The (1980 Film, Video)

aka: Voix du Kurdistan, La

Director

Jacqueline Bottagisio; Georges Drion

Subject

History

Distribution

VHS (PAL, 66 minutes), 18.50 euros

Documentary on Kurdistan and on the Kurdish liberation movement in Iraq from 1974 to 1979. Filmed largely inside Kurdistan between 1974 and 1975. Also draws on interview material and archive footage.

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