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Show Jumpers Trials

Date released

18 Mar 1974

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2337

NoS ID

030272

Story no

2 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Show Jumpers Trials. DESCRIPTION: Olympic Champion Richard Meade wins the Show Jumpers Cross Country Trophy at Chessington. SHOTLIST: GV pan No 4 Rose Lad ridden by owner Rosemary...

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Nameless Star, A (2003)

aka: Bezymyannaya Zvezda

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 130 minutes), $25.00

Based on the 1943 stage play, "Steaua Fara Nume" by Romanian Jewish writer Iosef Hechter, writing under the pen name Mihail Sebastian (1907-1945). This version was made for television in 1978, but there was...

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His Kind of Woman (1951 Film)

Director

John Farrow; Richard Fleischer

Producer

Robert Sparks; Howard Hughes (2)

Feature film. Gambler Dan Milner (Robert Mitchum) accepts $5,000 to fly to a remote resort in Mexico for purposes undisclosed. On arrival, Dan finds the ostensibly rich, carefree guests all playing...

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Footballer Paul Merson admits addictions (1994)

Genre

Press conference

Arsenal Football Club player Paul Merson speaks to press saying he is a compulsive gambler but not drug-taker. Follows him revealing he is addicted to gambling, cocaine and alcohol.

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NEW WORK NEWCASTLE: art/film crossovers, Part 3

Date

11 Aug 2014, 16:41

Author

bufvclinda

Post Type

Post

 Innovation and Feature Films [caption id="attachment_813" align="alignright" width="300"] "Two Thieves" written and direct by Matt Stokes, produced by Ashley Horner (Third). Courtesy Ashley...

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Gambler’s Guide to Winning, The (1991 Video)

Director

Julian Nott

Producer

Carey Barraclough

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1993 sale: £20.00 Academy 1995 sale: £12.99 (inclusive) retail

Using computer technology, a group of mathematicians have devised gambling strategies. Interviews casino bosses, hopeful gamblers and the professors.

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Compulsive Gambling (1982 Video)

Producer

John Webster

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Out of Distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23 min.

A short drama illustrating the characteristics of the compulsive gambler, and showing how family life is put under stress and risk by this condition; teaching points are illustrated by a summing up section.

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Isoroku Yamamoto, Grand Admiral, Imperial Japanese Navy (197 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. U-matic. col. 60 min.

A portrait of the man who planned the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1971 and the forced the USA into World War 2 - a man with many personal eccentricities and above all a compulsive gambler. In...

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Melies the Magician (2004)

aka: Magic of Melies, The

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 185 minutes), £19.99

The DVD contains a 130-minute documentary THE MAGIC OF MELIES by Jacques Meny (1997, 130 min.) and MELIES’ MAGIC SHOW which consists 15 restored films made by Melies between 1898 and 1909. The compilation...

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Gambling

Date released

Aug 1949

Series name

This Modern Age

Issue no

29

NoS ID

347229

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: The gambling industry in Great Britain. A silent film and survey of the Chamber of Horrors illustrate the lengths to which a gambler can be led. Man will gamble anywhere and on anything - in...

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