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Operatic Star with Laughing Bird in Sydney

Date released

15 Jul 1937

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

370

NoS ID

056394

Story no

4 / 15

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

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Hpo, The: Heavenly Post Office (1938 Video)

Director

Lotte Reiniger

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. dufaycolour. 4 min.

The Post Office slogan at the time was: ‘It’s heaven to receive a greetings telegram. Be an angel and send one!' Lotte Reiniger translated this into a silhouette film that did much to promote telegram...

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Bertolt Brecht: Practice Pieces (1964 Video)

Director

Nick Havinga

Producer

Sig Moglen

Brecht wrote the scenes to train actors in his own method for performing classical drama. The scenes were intended to be strenuously rehearsed, but then omitted when the play was presented. The idea was to...

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Kidnapping of Mrs Lotte Boehm (1977)

Genre

News report

Lotte Boehm, the wife of a wealthy Viennese businessman, has been kidnapped in Austria by two masked men wearing army gear. Police are investigating the case, and believe the abduction was carried out by a...

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100 Animated Feature Films

Date

9 Jun 2015, 09:07

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

100 Animated Feature Films by Andrew Osmond (Palgrave Macmillan / BFI, December 2010) 246 pages, ISBN: 978-1844573400 (hardback), £20 About the reviewer: Professor Paul Wells is Director of the Animation...

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Talking Shop

Date released

Jun 1938

Series name

Ace Cinemagazine

Issue no

70

NoS ID

349188

Story no

4 / 5

NoS synopsis: The making of a cartoon film by Lotte Reiniger

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Adventures of Prince Achmed, The (1926 Video)

Director

Lotte Reiniger

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL), £11.99

Based on tales from ‘The Arabian Nights’ this is one of the first full-length animated films in the history of cinema. It uses silhouette animation, based on the ancient Chinese and Indonesian art of...

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Song

Date released

15 Jul 1937

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

423A

NoS ID

007793

Story no

6 / 11

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Prima Donna Meets Strange Song Birds in Australia. DESCRIPTION: Prima Donna meets strange song-birds in Australian bush - Lotte Lehmann. SHOTLIST: Lottie Lehman at Australian Picnic....

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Tocher, The (1938 Video)

Director

Lotte Reiniger

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 5 min.

A fairy-tale ballet silhouette as a means of promoting the Post Office Savings Bank. Music consists of Rossini themes arranged by Benjamin Britten.

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Early Cinema Commercials: Animation (1991 Video)

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 27 min., 1999 sale: £15.45 (inclusive)

Compilation of six short films from the GPO Film Unit featuring some early revolutionary work by noted animators Len Lye, Lotte Reiniger and Norman McLaren. [See individual titles for synopsis details.]

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