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Seawards the Great Ships (1960 Video)

Director

Hilary Harris

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

A testimony to the achievements of the shipbuilders on the Clyde and to the men of the ‘black squads’. Shows work from blueprint-making to the launching of the tanker ‘British Trust’. With treatment...

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Mandy (1952)

Director

Alexander Mackendrick

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 93 minutes), £9.99; £6.99

The film follows Mandy, a young deaf girl who has also been mute for most of her childhood. Believing she can speak if given the proper education, Mandy’s parents enrol her in special education classes at...

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Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943 Video)

Director

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Subject

Film studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (157 minutes), £15.99

Classic feature film in which a British soldier survives three wars and falls in love with three women. Roger Livesey is the colonel whose past life is revealed in flashback. The 2012 DVD release features...

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Dangerous Comment (1939 Film)

Director

John Paddy Carstairs

Producer

Michael Balcon

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

One of three CARELESS TALK films. Professionally made, but even on release it was felt to be remote from the lives of ordinary people, its heroes too upper class and its traitors too inevitably working...

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Church Eaton: Portrait of a Village (2011)

Director

Ray Johnson

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £12.99

Church Eaton is a typical rural community of about 750 people about seven miles from Stafford. This video looks at the archaeology and history of the village, its cattle, pigs and sheep farming, the green...

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Henry V (1944 Film)

Trailer for HENRY V (1944). Laurence Olivier is seen seated at Denham Studios in 1944. He reads a letter he has written to Filippo Del Giudice telling him of the completion of the film. There follows a...

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Martin Scorsese Directs (1990 Video)

Director

Steven Fischler; Joel Sucher

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2004 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

An insight into the working methods of Martin Scorsese, shot during the production of GOODFELLAS. Visits to the set, editing rooms and mixing studios show the work in progress, while interviews with Steven...

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Ecotoons (1993 Video)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 47 min., 2001 sale: £10.00 (inc VAT +p&p)

Tony Robinson presents a collection of 30 short films from young animators around the globe on the environmental problems facing our planet - desertification, pollution, waste, and consumptio. Includes an...

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Lightstudio (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

Film & television production

Distribution

CD-ROM

A A CD-ROM based simulator for training in lighting design for film and television, allowing practice in four different virutual studios. Practice exercises help the user to work out solutions alone,...

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Gumshoe (1971)

Director

Stephen Frears

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 88 minutes), £15.99

Stephen Frears’ debut feature is an affectionate tribute to the Hollywood detective movies of the 1940s. A Liverpool bingo caller, Albert Finney, dreams of being a private eye and then finds himself...

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