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The Derby 1932

Date released

30 May 1932

Series name

British Movietone Gazette

Issue no

122A

NoS ID

000900

Story no

1 / 2

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Derby 1932 ‘April Fifth’ Wins. DESCRIPTION: Sub 1. 21 starters go to the post for the 149th Derby. Sub 2. Orwell No 18 is hottest favourite for years. Sub 3. Result 1. April the...

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1984 (2007)

Director

Michael Anderson

Subject

English language and literature; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £12.99

Adaptation of George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel starring Edmond O’Brien, Michael Redgrave and Donald Pleasance.

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Room 101 [08/09/1995] (1995 Television)

Series

Room 101

Director

John Northover

Producer

Lissa Evans

Television chat show in which guests discuss with the host the things they dislike most and would like to consign to ‘Room 101’ (a reference from George Orwell’s novel 1984). Comedian Frank Skinner,...

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Geoffrey Howe on South Korean airliner disaster (1983)

Genre

News report; Speech; Press conference

Report on UK Foreign Secretary, Geoffrey Howe’s drawing of comparisons between George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and the Soviet shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. Male reporter not...

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New additions to the Moving Image Gateway

Date

10 Jan 2013, 13:57

Author

Andrew Ormsby

Post Type

Post

The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,300 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments,...

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George Orwell (1994 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £13.74

A programme about George Orwell from the ‘Famous Authors’ series of documentary biographies. Using film, archive documents, portraits, music and commentary, the programme presents not only a factual...

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1984 (1984)

aka: Nineteen Eighty Four

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 108 minutes), £15.99

Adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel, made in the year in which it was set and starring John Hurt and Richard Burton.

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Animal Farm (1954)

Director

John Halas; Joy Batchelor

Subject

English language and literature; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes), £6.98

John Halas and Joy Batchelor’s adaptation of George Orwell’s novel was the first feature-length British animated film to be given a theatrical release. Actor and singer Gordon Heath narrates, and the...

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Hayes at the weekend (1977)

Genre

Interview

Brian Hayes speaks to Richard Adams, author of recently-published novel, The Plague Dogs. Adams talks about the subjects of his books, the animation of Watership Down, his reluctance to be typecast as a...

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1984 (BBC) (2004)

aka: Nineteen Eighty Four

Subject

English language and literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes)

A restored version of the classic 1954 BBC dramatisation of George Orwell’s 1984. One of the earliest surviving television dramas, it was recorded at the time using modified tele-cine machines and this...

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