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  1. Morning in the Park

    Date released
    28 Aug 1924
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    169
    NoS ID
    331113
    Story no
    2 / 4

    Pathe Intertitles - "That refreshing early stroll - with just that delightful indefinable feeling known to every woman, when dressed just right for the occasion." One shot "In this latest Paris model the...

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  2. 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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  3. Artist, The (2011 Film)

    Director
    Michael Hazanavicius
    Producer
    Thomas Langmann

    Feature film. A romance taking place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 focusing on a declining male film star (Dujardin) and a rising actress (Bejo), as silent cinema declines and is replaced by the...

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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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