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Waldo and Muriel Lanchester’s Marionette Master Class (1985 Video)

Director

Douglas Fisher

Producer

Douglas Fisher

Subject

Art; Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min.

Begins with a brief introduction to puppetry: shadow, rod, glove and string puppets (marionettes). Introduces Waldo and Muriel Lanchester at their marionette theatre in Malvern during the early 1940s. The...

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Media Screen Roundup - June 2014

Date

15 Jul 2014, 10:34

Author

Linda

Post Type

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The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. Highlights for this month’s Roundup...

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David Copperfield (1935)

Director

George Cukor

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 125 minutes), £14.99

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Frankenstein (1931)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes), £19.99

Classic 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel starring Boris Karloff. The DVD also includes the 1935 sequel, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN in which Elsa Lanchester plays the bride as well as Shelley herself.

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Conflict (1985 Video)

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Looks at Lanchester’s famous ‘square law’ used to predict the outcome of a battle from knowing the firepower of each unit and the number of units. Uses a computer simulation of a battle to demonstrate...

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Low Speed Wind Tunnel (1973 Multimedia)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 14 min. 1000 Hz pulse. 1 second duration.; 43 slides. col.

Describes the low-speed wind tunnel as used in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Lanchester Polytechnic. The layout and operation is covered on a general basis along with examples of scale models...

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Deadly Quarrels (1996)

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 24 minutes), £34.99

During World War 1 eight million people were killed and 20 million wounded. Two people turned to mathematics in a hope of preventing another such disaster. The Quaker Lewis Fry Richardson generated complex...

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Britain in the Twenties (1936 Video)

Director

Adrian Brunel; Desmond Dickensen; Robert Fairthorne; Len Lye; Ivor Montagu; Hans Richter; Brian Salt

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 82 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

A compilation of rare short British avant-garde films made in the 1920s, influenced by the ‘art’ cinema of the USSR and Germany. The chosen films represent the many distinct avant-garde styles of the...

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Nation on Film , Series 2 (2007)

Subject

Film Studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £39.99

The second series of six programmes in which aspects of life in the twentieth century are depicted on film, much of it shot by amateurs. Disc One contains Selling Cars, Women’s Football and Kearton’s...

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