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  1. Robert Mapplethorpe (1988 Video)

    Director
    Nigel Finch
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 55 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Profiles photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, with contributions from body-builder Lisa Lyons, singer Patti Smith, novelists Kathy Acker and Edmund White. Mapplethorpe’s studies of nude black men were a...

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  2. Topical Budget: The Great British News Filmvideo (1992 Video)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 90 min., 1993 sale: £19.91 inc.VAT

    A compilation of thirty programmes from ‘Topical Budget’ (1911-1931), one of the major Brigish newsreels of the silent era. It illustrates early newsreel form and gives an entertaining portrait of the...

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  3. Dance for the Camera 3 (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale (video only), Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 1997 sale: (VHS video): £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Twelve 5-minute dance programmes made for television and attempting to confront and extend the boundaries of dance on television: ‘Dwell Time’, choreographed by Siobhan Davies; ‘Horseplay’,...

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  4. Winslow Boy, The (1998 Video)

    Director
    David Mamet
    Producer
    Sarah Green
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    DVD

    A courtroom drama adapted by David Mamet from Terence Rattigan’s play ‘The Winslow Boy’, based on a true story. Follows a father’s struggle in the face of bankruptcy and personal ruing for justice...

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  5. About Face (1994 Video)

    Director
    Mark James
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1999 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Follows the evolution of the self-portrait artist from being the invisible figure behind the canvas to the actual subject of the painting. Makes unexpected connections between old and new, describes some...

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  6. Trials Without Errors (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Law; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1999 sale: £120.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    A guide to the laws of contempt of court, using examples of well-known criminal trials to look at issues including: what is contempt of court?; at what stage of the proceedings do the laws start to matter?;...

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  7. Sylvie Guillem: At Work/ A Portrait (2012)

    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £29.99

    Included is a portrait of Sylvie Guillem in conversation and profiled by, among others, Anthony Dowell, Maurice Bejart and John Percival. AT WORK; Film of the acclaimed prima ballerina performing classical...

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  8. Royal Glassmakers (1980 Film)

    Director
    Jennifer Tann
    Subject
    Crafts
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An account of the processes involved in the manufacture of hand-cut lead glass at the works of Royal Brierley Crystal. Shows how the old craft skills and modern technology exist side by side. Shows all...

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  9. Walter (1982 Film, Video)

    Director
    Stephen Frears
    Producer
    Nigel Evans
    Subject
    Drama; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £19.99

    The story of a mentally handicapped man. Shows the problems faced by Walter as he struggles against the misfortune of his birth. As a teenager he learns through his own efforts, and those of his mother, how...

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  10. Stevenson’s Travels (1994)

    Producer
    John Archer
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 100 minutes), £125.00

    Celebrates the life and work of Robert Louis Stevenson, who died on 3 December 1894 at the age of 44. Part 1 tells the story of Stevenson’s restless life, from a sickly childhood in Edinburgh, which he...

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