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Scots on Screen 1899-1936 (2000 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £15.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

A compilation of samples of the output of Scottish film-makers in the silent and early sound period. Optional piano accompaniment is provided for three of the titles, reflecting aspects of the experience of...

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Trade Tattoo (1937 Video)

Director

Len Lye

Producer

John Grierson

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. Technicolor. 6 min.

A mixture of live action submerged in a sea of abstract patterns and line movements. The underlying theme is that to maintain the rhythm of workaday Britain one must post early in the day. Music played by...

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Early Cinema: Primitives and Pioneers. Vols. 1 & 2 (1896)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 190 minutes), £19.99

A total of 59 films from the pre-1919 era of cinema. Volume 1 has a collection of 13 shorts by the Lumiere brothers. With accompanying music and commentary. Tinted. Volume 2 has a large selection from...

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Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (2006)

Director

Charles Musser

Subject

Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 58 minutes), £15.99

A detailed documentary on the genesis of early cinema, focusing on one of the craft’s most ingenious pioneers, Edwin S Porter. The film is based on the research of the leading scholar of early American...

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Tocher, The (1938 Video)

Director

Lotte Reiniger

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 5 min.

A fairy-tale ballet silhouette as a means of promoting the Post Office Savings Bank. Music consists of Rossini themes arranged by Benjamin Britten.

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Hpo, The: Heavenly Post Office (1938 Video)

Director

Lotte Reiniger

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. dufaycolour. 4 min.

The Post Office slogan at the time was: ‘It’s heaven to receive a greetings telegram. Be an angel and send one!' Lotte Reiniger translated this into a silhouette film that did much to promote telegram...

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Lost Garden, The: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-BlachÉ (1995 Video)

Director

Marquise Lepage

Producer

Josée Beaudet

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Hire (film) Sale (video), Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 53 min.

Biography of Alice Guy-Blaché, the world’s first woman film-maker who, from the moment she saw the Lumière brothers’ first moving picture, fell in love with movies and progressed to director of all...

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Early Women Filmmakers, 1911-1940 (1902)

Director

Maya Deren; Leni Riefenstahl; Germaine Dulac; Lotte Reiniger; Dorothy Arzner; Mary-Louise Iribe

Subject

Film studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 652 minutes), £44.99

More women worked in film during its first two decades than at any time since. Unfortunately, many early women filmmakers have been largely written out of film history, their contributions undervalued. This...

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Rainbow Dance (1936 Video)

Director

Len Lye

Producer

Basil Wright

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. Gasparcolour. 4 min.

A mixture of live action an animation in which the actions of a live dancer combine with shimmering colour fantasies to illustrate the advantages of saving. The message is: ‘The Post Office Savings Bank...

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Final Reel, The (2016)

aka: The Final Reel: The Story of Our Love Affairs with Cinemas

Director

Jonathan Blagrove

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £10.99

From the early days of silent cinema, through the golden age of the picture palace to the modern multiplexes and beyond, this documentary takes an affectionate and entertaining look at Britain’s obsession...

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