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Film Stars off Duty

Date released

29 Nov 1948

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

48/96

NoS ID

102653

Story no

5 / 5

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

The Savoy Hotel sees the cocktail party of the year when British and American film stars attend a pre-film Command Performance function. The stars talk of their plans to Pathe’s reporter.

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Italian Patient, The (2002)

Subject

History; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £145.00 +VAT +p&p

While leeches, bleeding and amputation with opium were commonplace practices in Renaissance medicine, it also had a surprisingly enlightened side. The Santa Maria Nuova hospital in Florence offered free...

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Savoy Hotel - 90th anniversary (1979)

Genre

Interview

Chairman of the Savoy (poss. Sir Hugh Wontner) on the ninetieth anniversary of the London hotel, and its connections with the D’Oyly Carte theatre. Male interviewer not identified.

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Afternoon tea (1984)

Genre

Interview; Documentary; Vox pop

Documentary on the Savoy Hotel and in particular the afternoon tea that they serve. It looks at the history of afternoon tea and covers an experience at the hotel. Interviews with staff at the Savoy as well...

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Teddy bear tea at Savoy (1982)

Genre

Interview

Interview in London with a female American tourist and passenger on the cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II called Nancy Winters (wife of New Yorker cartoonist Gahan Wilson), about bringing her teddy bear,...

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London: Personalities of Sport

Date released

15 Jan 1957

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

2403

NoS ID

073890

Story no

1 / 8

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

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Frank Carson on his expensive suit (1989)

Genre

Interview

Comedian Frank Carson speaks to Eve Conway at the launch of a menswear exhibition at the Savoy Hotel about his outfit- a £600 tweed suit that he says is an upmarket country type that Prince Philip or...

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Geraldo

Date released

7 Apr 1932

Series name

Pathe Sound Pictorial

Issue no

731

NoS ID

114188

Story no

5 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

Introducing this famous conductor, and his Gauchos Tango Orchestra from the Savoy Hotel, in "Carmelita".

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News Highlights: London: Princess Attends Ball

Date released

10 Dec 1956

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

2393

NoS ID

073811

Story no

5 / 9

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

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Mike Pickering on Mercury Music Prize win (1994)

Genre

Interview

Sean Connors interviews founder member of M People, Mike Pickering, at the Savoy Hotel in London, after the group’s recording, Elegant Slumming, received the best album award at the 1994 Mercury Music Prize.

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