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  1. Pay As You Exit (1936 Film)

    Series
    Our Gang
    Director
    Gordon Douglas
    Producer
    Hal Roach

    American comedy short. Hoping to attract customers to Spanky McFarland’s barnyard production of Romeo and Juliet, star performer Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer proposes a ‘pay as you exit’ policy: If the...

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  2. British Leyland Speke plant closure (1978)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Quinton McFarland reports on reaction in Liverpool to the proposed Speke assembly plant closure. Frank Banton, Transport Union Secretary at the No. 2 factory, gives his response to Chris Stocking.

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  3. Media Screen Round-up May 2016

    Date
    15 Jun 2016, 15:51
    Author
    Andrew Ormsby
    Post Type
    Post

    The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at the BUFVC by Andrew Ormsby. A varied selection this month includes a trio...

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  4. GMWU conference (1977)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Report by Quinton McFarland on the General and Municipal Workers Union (GMWU) Conference, Southport, 06/77; call for return to free collective bargaining; speeches by Jack Bohanna(?); Fred Biddlestone; David...

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  5. Shakespeare was Right (1930 Film)

    Vitaphone short. Shakespeare is brought to trial in the modern day to defend his plays against a charge of dullness. His characters come to life in the Jazz Age to show they belong there, with snappy...

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  6. Ithele na Yini Vasilias (1967 Film)

    aka: He Wanted to Become King Stay Near Me, Darling

    Director
    Angelos Theodoropoulos
    Producer
    Angelos Theodoropoulos

    Feature film. A re-working of Hamlet set in modern Athens. Alekos returns to Athens after his father, an industrialist, is drowned. He attempts to ensnare his stepfather, a former business associate, into...

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  7. Beginner’s Luck (1935 Film)

    Series
    Our Gang
    Director
    Gus Meins
    Producer
    Robert F. McGowan

    US comedy short series about the adventures of a group of poor neighbourhood children. Spanky is entered into a kid’s talent contest by his pushy mother who brags about Spanky’s ability to recite...

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  8. Withnail & I (1986 Film)

    Director
    Bruce Robinson
    Producer
    Paul Heller

    Feature film. Black comedy about two down-on-their-luck actors holidaying in the Lake District in 1969. Richard Griffiths, as Withnail’s gay uncle, frequently quotes from Hamlet, and the film ends...

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  9. Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989 Film)

    Director
    Steven Soderbergh
    Producer
    Robert Newmayer; John Hardy

    Low-budget independent feature film. Ann and John appear happily married but, unknown to Ann, John is having an affair with Ann’s sister Cynthia. An old college friend of John, Graham, comes to visit and...

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  10. My Own Private Idaho (1991 Film)

    Director
    Gus Van Sant
    Producer
    Allan Mindel

    Feature film. A story about street hustlers that incorporates a reworking of the Hal/King Henry/Falstaff triangle. Some of the dialogue is taken from Henry IV Part 1.

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