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Fifty days (1985)

Genre

Feature; Special

Saturday Feature: Fifty Days. Extensive interview with Bill Cooke, a merchant seaman shipwright, recalling how he spent fifty 50 days at sea in an open raft after the ship SS Lulworth Hill was torpedoed by...

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Ville Louvre, La (2011)

Director

Nicolas Philibert

Subject

Art; History

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £15.99

While the Louvre was closed for extensive renovations, Nicolas Philibert and his crew were allowed access to its galleries and miles of underground corridors. A curator leads the viewer on an appreciative...

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This True Book of Ours: The Human Body: Man Himself (1992 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Using contemporary prints and models, and interviews with three experts in the field, the programme deals with the origins of modern anatomy. Assesses the contributions of Leonardo da Vinci and Andreas...

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Leonardo/The Divine Michelangelo (2004)

Subject

Art; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £19.99

A 3-part BBC series on the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci combined on one DVD with a two-part docudrama on the life of Michelangelo.

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Beauty of Diagrams, The (2010)

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £585.00

Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy illustrates that, far from being a reluctant visual medium, science is actually at the forefront of many of the world’s most iconic and revolutionary designs. In THE BEAUTY...

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Taking a Chance

Date released

17 Apr 1930

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

463

NoS ID

332415

Story no

3 / 4

British Pathe synopsis: Eve tries a new lifesaving suit. M/S of a woman and a man run along a pier putting two small suitcases down on the wooden slats. The suitcases are marked "SOS" and when they are...

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Italian Renaissance Drawings (2010)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 40 minutes), £9.99

More than any other medium, drawings give a direct insight into how Italian Renaissance artists worked. Featuring outstanding examples from two major collections - the Uffizi in Florence and the British...

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Raphael (2 Parts) (1983)

aka: Rafaello

Director

Ann Turner

Producer

Ann Turner

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 58 minutes each), £26.00 (I)

A two-part profile of the Italian painter Raphael (1483-1520). Part 1: Examines Raphael’s life and career up to the age of 25, looking in particular at the ways in which he synthesised the lessons learned...

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Great Artists with Tim Marlow: Vol. 1 (2007)

Director

Ali Ray; Mehreen Saigol

Producer

Phil Grabsky

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 322 minutes), £40.00

What was it like to be an artist in centuries past? What makes a painting or an artist ‘great’? Tim Marlow presents an introduction to the works of the Old Masters as displayed in over fifty museums,...

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Spring Re-Loaded 4 (4 Parts) (1996)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

out of distribution

Recordings of contemporary dance performances from the 1997 Spring Loaded season held at The Place, London. 1: ‘Out of Here’ is a collaboration between Annabel Arden of Thé‚tre de Complicité and Josef...

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