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Frankenstein: The True Story (2014)

Director

Jack Smight

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 181 minutes), £15.99

This made-for- television film, which was first broadcast in 1973, was co-scripted by Christoper Isherwood, and features a heavyweight cast, including John Gielgud, James Mason and Ralph Richardson. Less...

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Media Screen Roundup - April 2014

Date

9 May 2014, 16:04

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. A bit of a testosterone feel to this...

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Unknown Chaplin (2006)

Producer

Kevin Brownlow

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £9.18

Documentary series written and produced by the awarding-winning factual team Kevin Brownlow and David Gill and narrated by actor James Mason. During the making of the Hollywood series, Lady Chaplin gave...

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Poetry of Robert Browning, The (1993)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette), £9.99

A recording of a selection of the work of Robert Browning, read by James Mason. Ranges from swome of the shorter lyrical poems to the vivid characterizations and perceptive insights of the dramatic monologues.

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Struggle for China, The (1969 Film, Video)

Producer

Michael Deakin; Tony Essex

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Using a wide range of archive material, the film reconstructs events in China during the first half of the century, from the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty to the founding of the People’s Republic of...

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Heat and Dust (1983)

aka: Heat & Dust

Director

James Ivory

Subject

History; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 130 minutes), £19.99

A young historical researcher, inherits letters written by her great aunt Olivia and becomes obsessed with their revelations of her past in colonial India. Flitting between the present-day and the 1920s, the...

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Thunder Rock (1942 Film)

Director

Roy Boulting

Producer

John Boulting

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Feature film. A former political journalist, who feels helpless in the face of the rising tide of Fascism in the 1930s, becomes a lighthouse keeper in Canada. He is visited by the ghosts of immigrants from...

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World of Economics, The (Parts 1-6) (1988 Video)

Subject

Economics

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25, 33, 15, 25, 14, 30 min.

Part 1: Professor James Buchanan, Director of the Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, Virginia, and the 1986 Nobel Laureate in Economic Science, in discussion with John Burton, Head...

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