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No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948)

Director

St John Legh Clowes

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 99 minutes), £15.99

One of the most controversial British films ever produced, this lurid crime drama caused an unprecedented storm of controversy upon release: local councils banned it, the Bishop of London denounced it, and...

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International Women's Day on the Moving Image Gateway

Date

8 Mar 2017, 09:23

Author

Andrew Ormsby

Post Type

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Learning on Screen’s Gateway includes over 1,950 websites relating to moving image and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please...

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Home Front Britain with Jim Carter (2011)

Director

Humphrey Jennings; Ruby Grierson; Jack Lee; Brian Desmond Hurst

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 270 minutes), £19.99

The six-part documentary series, Home Front Britain With Jim Carter, looks at the British home front during World War II. Presented by British actor Jim Carter, the series explores the archives of British...

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Equinox: Near Miss (2010)

Director

Jeremy Llewelyn-Jones

Producer

Emma Bowman

Subject

Aviation

Behind the scenes of air traffic control in NewYork, the world’s busiest airspace. There’s a dramatic rise in the number of near misses, is this due to the sheer volume of traffic? Near-misses are...

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Destination Fashion - India (2006)

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 28 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

In India, DESTINATION FASHION travels to Mumbai and Delhi, where the emergence of fashion weeks has provided a platform for India to show the rest of the fashion world what it’s been missing. Ritu Kumar,...

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Newsreel Nostalgia (1992 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 65 min., AUS$29.95

Stories from ‘Cinesound Reviews’ and ‘Movietone News’ from 1908 to 1975, with original commentaries. The footage comes from the original 35mm newsreel prints and are complete newsreel issues as shown...

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British Guide to Showing off (2011)

Director

Jes Benstock

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £8.00

A look at The Alternative Miss World Show, the exotic subculture event and spectacular costume pageant created and hosted by Andrew Logan. THE BRITISH GUIDE TO SHOWING OFF was filmed over five years,...

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Remarkable Miss North, The (2016)

aka: Kew’s Forgotten Queen

Director

Irene Antoniades

Subject

Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £13.95

A BBC4 documentary about the unknown story of Marianne North, one of the most prolific botanical artists of the Victorian age. North embarked on a project that changed the face of botanical research. The...

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40s Britain: Women and Children at War (2006)

Subject

History; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 84 minutes), £19.99

A collection of war-time documentary shorts depicting the lives of women and children. Evacuees, land girls, factory workers, doughty countrywomen confronting Nazi paratroopers, and the Women’s Institute...

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Against the Grain (1983)

Director

Margaret Dickinson

Subject

Crafts; History

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £50.00

Documentary about the lives of Ernest Gimson, Ernest Barnsley and Sidney Barnsley three young British architects, who, in the early 1890s, were inspired by the ideas of William Morris to settle in the...

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