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Man from Beyond (1921 Video)

Director

Burton King

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. st. b&w. 80 min.

A story in which escapologist Harry Houdini stars as a man frozen in the ice for a hundred years.

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Redesigned Europeana launched

Date

12 Oct 2011, 10:20

Author

Eve-Marie

Post Type

Post

Europeana, a multi-lingual online collection of millions of digitized items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections, has launched its redesigned portal. 'The portal...

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Yachting in the 1930s (1991 Video)

Producer

Philip Sugg

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

Archive film from the National Maritime Museum’s collection showing yachting in the 1930s. Film of four great yachts - ‘Britannia’, ‘Velsheder’, ‘Astra’ and ‘Westward’ in action in the...

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Odeon Cavalcade (1973)

Director

Barry Clayton

Subject

Architecture; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 35 minutes), £50.00

The Odeon chain of cinemas was notable for the Art Deco style of the buildings themselves. Under the auspices of the chain’s owner Oscar Deutsch, architects Harry Weedon and Cecil Clavering, influenced by...

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Restoration of a Painting, The (1976 Film, Video)

Director

Peter H Coltman

Producer

Peter H Coltman

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows some of the basic processes used in cleaning and restoring oil paintings on canvas. About the methods of Harry Woolford, who recently retired from the post of chief restorer to the National Galleries...

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30s Britain Volume 2: North Sea (2006)

Director

John Grierson; Alberto Cavalcanti; Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Elton

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 86 minutes), £12.99

Collection of films from the GPO Film Unit. ‘North Sea’ (1938) directed by Harry Watt. An Aberdeen trawler in trouble gets assistance from Wick coastguard radio station, operated by the GPO. The first...

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Now It Can Be Told (2014 Video)

aka: School for Danger

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 minutes), £19.99

Studies the work carried out during World War 2 by Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents who were trained to assist resistance groups in their fight against Hitler. Two actual British agents, Captain...

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Britain Can Take It (1940 Video)

Director

Humphrey Jennings; Harry Watt

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 9 min.

'The film was a collaboration by the whole unit. Everything else stopped for it’ Harry Watt has said. ‘I think I wrote the script. At least I wrote it down, but let us say it was a communal script. It...

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Unveiling of the Karl Marx Memorial (1956 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shots of Horner, Professor Bernal, Harry Pollitt and Andrew Rothstein. Longuets - grandchildren of Marx. Delegations from Russia, China, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria, etc.

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Seeing to Learning: Colour (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

Art

Distribution

out of distribution, 36 slides., 1996 sale: £19.95 (+VAT)

Introduces colour and it properties, colour relationships and combinations, and further explains hue, saturation, temperature, tint and shade, colour transparency, complementary colours, and colour...

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