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Feathers for Your Bird!

Date released

18 Nov 1965

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1902A

NoS ID

026225

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Feathers for Your Bird!. DESCRIPTION: The Italian painter Novella Parigini demonstrates her new idea for make up. She uses feathers as eye lashes and clown like make up for the mouth....

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Turn of the Screw, The (2000)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 92 minutes), £12.99

A television adaptation by Nick Dear of the Henry James novella, in which a governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.

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Tragedia Alla Corte di Sicilia, Una (1914 Film)

aka: Winter’s Tale, The Lost Princess, The Novella d’Inverno: Una Novella di Shakespeare

Director

Baldassare Negroni

Abbreviated version of The Winter’s Tale. William Shakespeare reads the play to some friends. The story is largely the plot of the play but Autolycus is omitted and there is no pursuit of a bear. McKernan...

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Daisy Miller (1985)

Genre

Fiction; Serial

Reading from Daisy Miller, Henry James’s 1878 novella. In the story Daisy Miller portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl, who is very beautiful, by Winterbourne, a compatriot with...

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The Innocents

Date

31 Mar 2014, 10:26

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

The Innocents. GB.. bfi. Blu-ray (Region B) and DVD (Region 2 PAL). 96 minutes + extras. £19.99 About the reviewer: Dr Suzanne Speidel is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University....

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Medieval Football

Date released

28 Sep 1975

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2417

NoS ID

030718

Story no

3 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Historic Football. DESCRIPTION: A game with no rules is the medieval version of football. This match, played in the Piazzia della Signoria, Florence between ‘Santo Spiritos’ and...

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What Chance Argentina?

Date released

18 Jul 1966

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1937

NoS ID

026511

Story no

2 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: What Chance Argentina?. DESCRIPTION: Argentina beat Spain at Villa Park, two goals to one, while in Florence, Italian teams meet in a Renaissance World Cup. Historical football that’s...

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Fox and Other Stories, The (Audio)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Hire, Audio (Cassette), £5.97

Diana Olsson reads DH Lawrence’s novella ‘The Fox’ , a compelling study of two lonely women and the dramatic effect of a man’s intrusion upon their world - plus three other Lawrence short stories. .

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Apocalypse Now Redux (1979)

Subject

Literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 194), £19.99

Film based on Joseph Conrad’s novella "Heart of Darkness" on the horrors and moral dilemmas of the Vietnam war.

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Daisy Miller (1985)

Genre

Fiction; Serial

Concluding episode of reading of Henry James’ novella Daisy Miller, which describes the pursuit in Switzerland and Italy of the American Daisy by her compatriot Winterbourne. Episode covers their meeting...

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