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Bold Peace, A (2017)

Director

Matthew Eddy; MIchael Dreiling

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale Hire, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 89 minutes), $350.00 [Rent $95]

Documentary. In 1948, Costa Rica dismantled their military establishment and intentionally cultivated security relationships with other nations through treaties, international laws, and international...

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Right Spirit, The (1931 Film)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Propaganda cartoon film in support of Stanley Baldwin, made for the Conservative Party. John Bull brings his car to MacDonald & Co, a broken-down garage, and is given a mixture of petrols labelled...

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Powers of the President: Foreign Policy: Carter and Reagan (1994 Video)

Producer

Jeremy Cooper

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The bulk of the programme consists of interviews of US presidents by Hugh Sidey, contributing editor of ‘Time’ magazine. The Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution made four...

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News for the Navy (1937 Video)

Director

Norman McLaren

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 10 min.

The story concerns Evelyn, who sends a newsaper to her fiancé Bert Higgins AB, who has gone to sea on the ‘HMS Incredible’. On her mother’s advice she risks a penny-ha’penny stamp and addresses the...

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Silent Village, The / This is Your Enemy (1943 Video)

Director

Humphrey Jennings

Producer

Humphrey Jennings

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 75 min., 2004 sale: £12.99 (combined videocassette)

A compilation of two World War 2 films: 1) THE SILENT VILLAGE (1943, producer, director, scriptwriter: Humphrey Jennings; editor: Stewart McAllister; photographer H E ‘Chick’ Fowle; produced by the Crown...

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Powers of the President: Foreign Policy: Nixon and Ford (1994 Video)

Producer

Jeremy Cooper

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The bulk of the programme consists of interviews of US presidents by Hugh Sidey, contributing editor of ‘Time’ magazine. The Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution made four...

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Enigmatic Smile and the Holy Kinship, The (1989)

aka: Palettes: The Virgin, St Anne and the Infant Jesus, C.1500-15: Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

Director

Alain Jaubert

Producer

Marie de Mercey

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £19.99

Discusses Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne’ (c1510), in terms of the painting itself, the painter, and a palette of colour: pigment, composition and light effects. The figures...

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Namekas: Music in Lake Chambri (1980 Film, Video)

Director

Les McLaren

Producer

Les McLaren

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows the people of three villages on an island in Lake Chambri, adjacent to the Sepik river. Featured are the men’s sacred paired flutes, flute ensembles, slit drums and voice masks, which all have...

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Theatres of the Sun, The (1989 Video)

aka: Palettes: ‘The Port’, 1639: Claude GellÉe, Known As le Lorrain

Director

Alain Jaubert

Producer

Marie de Mercey

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL), £19.99

Discusses Claude Gellée’s (Le Lorrain) painting ‘Seaport at Sunset’ in terms of the painting itself, the painter, and a palette of colour: pigment, composition and light effects. Claude’s paintings...

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Kama Wosi: Music in the Trobriand Islands (1980 Film, Video)

Director

Led McLaren

Producer

Led McLaren

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Set in three inland villages on the largest of the Trobriand Islands. The poetry of songs and the art of singing are a major part of the Trobriand aesthetic traditions. Through the translation of song...

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