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The Magic Box

Date released

24 Sep 1951

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1164

NoS ID

017383

Story no

4 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Magic Box. DESCRIPTION: There was a very big gathering at the Odeon, Leicester Square, for the premiere of The Magic Box - the story of William Friese-Greene, the Englishman, whose...

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Graham Greene Collection, The

Director

John Boulting; Carol Reed; George More O’Ferrall

Producer

Roy Boulting

Subject

English language and literature; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 389 minutes), £29.99

Collection of four films based on Graham Greene novels. Includes Carol Reed’s The THIRD MAN and The FALLEN IDOL, George More O’Farrell’s The HEART OF THE MATTER, and John Boulting’s BRIGHTON ROCK.

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East of Piccadilly (1940 Film)

aka: Strangler, The

Director

Harold Huth

Producer

Walter C. Mycroft

Feature film set in London’s Soho. A crime reporter and writer of thrillers captures a silk stocking murderer. George Hayes provides a cameo of an insane actor who keeps effigies of theatre critics...

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Monty at large (1980)

Genre

Documentary; Interview

In this week’s edition Monty Modlyn visits and tours two traditional craft businesses in London with the context of computerisation and increased mechanisation in British industry. At furniture makers John...

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Books and Articles

Date

13 Apr 2016, 16:29

Author

Gabriel

Post Type

Page

This is a collection of some of key books and articles on British newsreels and cinemagazines.  The BUFVC publications can be ordered here. A fuller bibliography that includes essays, newspaper articles,...

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Labour Looks Ahead

Date released

3 Oct 1963

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1791A

NoS ID

025273

Story no

1 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Labour Looks Ahead. DESCRIPTION: Transport, housing, land reform, and the setting up of 3 new ministries were among early talking points at this year’s Labour Party Conference at...

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Saint Joan (1957)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

VHS (PAL, 110 minutes), Available to BUFVC members only

The story of 15th-century French heroine Joan of Arc, a young farm girl who heard voices telling her to lead an army against the English occupying forces and crown the dauphin king of France. But Joan was...

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Great Writers of the Twentieth Century (1997)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 50 minutes each), £125.00 each or £500 the set of 25

Profiles of 25 prominent 20th-century novelists, using interviews with friends, relatives and experts along with archive footage. Subjects of individual programmes are: D H Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, F Scott...

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Rival, The (2021 Radio)

Series

Drama on 3

Director

Jeremy Mortimer

Radio drama by Jude Cook that imagines what may have happened when William Shakespeare went to Titchfield House to escape the plague, wrote his celebrated sonnets and got tangled up in emotional and...

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Twelfth Night (1957 Television)

Series

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Director

David Greene

Producer

Robert Hartung

US television production of the play adapted for television by William Nicholls. Rosemary Harris is Viola and Maurice Evans is Malvolio.

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