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Irish Sweepstake

Date released

8 Jan 1973

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2275

NoS ID

029712

Story no

1 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Irish Sweepstake. DESCRIPTION: The Irish Sweepstake 1931 from Movietone’s Archives and the draw for 1972. The Irish Sweeps Hurdles Race at Leopardstown, won by Captain Christy....

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Act Without Words (1983 Video)

Director

Margaret Jordan

Producer

Robin Browne

Subject

Drama

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 17 min., 1995 sale: £50.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Film version of Beckett’s puppet play ‘Act without Words’. ‘A puppet finds a palm tree and sits in the shade, but the tree closes its fronds, leaving him in the hot sun. There is a carafe of water,...

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Tragedy of Coriolanus, The (2002 Audio, Radio)

aka: BBC Radio Collection: William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus

Series

Drama on 3

Director

Ned Chaillet

Radio adaptation of the play adapted and directed by Ned Chaillet. Samuel West plays the title role and Susannah York is Volumnia. With music composed by Orlando Gough, and performed by Jeremy Avis and the...

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Looking for Light (2014)

Director

Luke Dodd

Producer

Michael Whyte

Subject

Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £8.20

A portrait of the photographer Jane Bown: her quiet determination working in an almost exclusively male world; her unique working method; and how the sorrow of her early childhood informed her unique...

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Unfinished Masterpieces (2012)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

Alastair Sooke explores the appeal of unfinished works of art, from Dickens’s ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’ and Jane Austen’s ‘Sanditon’ to Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan’, and talks to the...

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All Colour Reel: The Cheltenham Gold Cup

Date released

21 Mar 1974

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2337A

NoS ID

030276

Story no

1 / 1

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cheltenham Gold Cup Colour. DESCRIPTION: The 50th Anniversary of the Running of the Cheltenham Gold Cup. The favourite Pendil is brought down by High Ken and the second favourite The...

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Tales from the Map Room (1993 Video)

Producer

Julian Stenhouse

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 30 min., 1996 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £250.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series on the history of maps, with actors recreating key moments from map-making history and cartographers explaining the importance of maps. 1: The history of London as seen through various of maps...

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Tyger, The Rose and the Pleasure Dome, The

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 3 x 15 minutes), £19.99

Dramatisations and performances of poems written by major poets before 1914. Offers a wide range of poetry for analysis and interpretation.

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Hamlet (1993 Video)

Director

Adrian Noble

Video recording using three cameras of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1993 production of Hamlet directed by Adrian Noble with Kenneth Branagh in the title role.

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Antony and Cleopatra (1972 Film)

aka: Maro Antonio y Cleopatra

Director

Charlton Heston

Producer

Peter Snell

Feature film version of the play. Ponderous, under-resourced film presented as an epic whose poor reviews prevented its wide distribution.

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