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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Flying - Short-Shetland Takes the Air

Date released

22 Sep 1947

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

955

NoS ID

014674

Story no

7 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Short’s Shetland Flying Boat. DESCRIPTION: Britain’s largest flying boat takes to the air at Rochester. SHOTLIST: KS SCU nose of plane as same taxies through water for take off....

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Casting the Runes

Director

Lawrence Gordon Clark

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes + extras), £9.99

A contemporary reworking of M.R. James’ classic ghost story, Casting the Runes is adapted by BAFTA-nominated playwright Clive Exton and directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. It stars Iain Cuthbertson, Edward...

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Dante’s Hamlet (2012 Film)

Director

Babetta Kelly

Producer

Brynn Kelly Zimmer

Independent student short set in the Bronx. Spurred on by his English teacher’s classroom discussions about Hamlet’s inability to take revenge, Dante goes to confront the man who killed his brother.

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Falklands war - Special Boat Squadron (1982)

Genre

Interview

Interview with military expert James Short, on the possible deployment of the Special Boat Squadron (SBS) forces in the South Atlantic during the Falklands war. Male interviewer not identified.

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Roof Over Their Heads: a Victory Special Report on the Homeless Persons Act of ?1977 or 1983 - nd [1977-1983]

ROOF OVER THEIR HEADS [Series RADIO VICTORY ARCHIVE] A special programme about homeless people, produced by Radio Victory, for broadcast after the Homeless Persons Act of ?1977. Presented by JANE YOUNG....

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Short story (1988)

aka: Oh Whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad!

Serialised short stories. Drama for radio, by M. R. James, read by Hamish Wilson.

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Secondary Sources

Date

21 May 2010, 11:26

Author

Gabriel

Post Type

Page

Read short histories of the Consortium from two different perspectives: the first from Dr Peter Bell, Executive Secretary of IUHFC, and the second from James Chapman, Professor of Film at the University of...

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News from the East: Volcano from the Sea

Date released

6 Oct 1952

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1218

NoS ID

018105

Story no

3 / 7

Only a short while after a new volcano had appeared off Southern California, another rose above the sea, 200 miles South of Tokyo.

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Stanley Holloway - Young Albert’s Creator Arrives in Sydney

Date released

19 May 1949

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1041A

NoS ID

015740

Story no

9 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Stanley Holloway Arrives in Australia. DESCRIPTION: Stanley Holloway performs a short monologue for the Press. SHOTLIST: Holloway down gangway, SCU Stanley Holloway. Does one of his...

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James Pickles on DPP Allan Green’s resignation (1991)

Genre

Interview

Short interview extract with retired judge, James Pickles, on the resignation of Sir Allan Green, the Director of Public Prosecutions, following his police caution for alleged kerb-crawling in a London red...

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