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Organ, The: Simon Preston at the Organ of Westminster Abbey (1965 Video)

Director

Muir Mathieson

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 39 min., 1996 sale: £9.95 (+p&p)

WE MAKE MUSIC is a series of films made in the 1960s for the study of music. Devoted to the study of a single instruments and its family, each film is presented by an artist chosen for excellence as a...

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Media Screen Roundup - November 2015

Date

9 Dec 2015, 11:52

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, and published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. A special issue of Word and Image on...

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R.W. Paul - The Collected Films 1895-1908 (2006)

aka: R.W. Paul - The Complete Surviving Films 1895-1908

Director

Robert W Paul

Subject

Film Studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 148 minutes), £14.99

Robert W Paul is justly celebrated as the leading pioneer of British film and one of the founders of world cinema. This collection of 62 films brings together for the first time the collected output of R W...

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Man with a Movie Camera (1929 Video)

Director

Dziga Vertov

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL)

A montage of Moscow life showing the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going. Dziga Vertov used all the cinematic techniques at his disposal - dissolves, split...

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Histoire du Soldat Inconnu (1959)

Director

Henri Storck

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 10 minutes), £15.00

A compilation of newsreels powerfully satirising the signing of the Kellogg Pact (1928) to outlaw war. Made in Belgium as a silent film in 1930 and later given a musical soundtrack.

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Girl Who Would Be God, The (2007)

Director

Tom Simmons; Suzie Hanna

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 7 minutes), £15.00

This short film was commissioned for the Sylvia Plath 75th Year International Symposium ‘Creative Process and Product’ held at Oxford University in 2007. The film focuses on previously unresearched...

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Michael Nyman’s Man with a Movie Camera (2002)

Subject

Media studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 min), £15.99 (inc)

A montage of Moscow life showing the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going. Dziga Vertov used all the cinematic techniques at his disposal - dissolves, split...

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Educational Selection in Ussr (196 Film)

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A literary quiz sponsored by Soviet television for senior schoolchildren. Selection for musical education and a specialised art school. Kiev national contests in mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology.

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Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers (1911)

Director

Alice Guy-Blache; Lois Weber

Subject

Film studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 1320 minutes), $59.96

In the early decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated filmmakers in America were women. Alice Guy-Blaché helped establish the basics of cinematic language, while others boldly continued...

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From the Pole to the Equator (1986 Video)

Director

Yervant Gianikian; Angela Ricci Lucchi

Producer

Yervant Gianikian

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w (tinted). silent (with music soundtrack). 80 min., 1997 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

Uses footage shot in 1910 by Italian cinematographer Luca Comerio (1894-1949) and reworks it into a montage of hand-tinted black-and-white images of exotic people and places, set to a minimalist musical...

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