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Movietone’s War Time News Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Women and Chivalry V Cricket Stars

Date released

1 Feb 1940

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

556A

NoS ID

010588

Story no

6 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Mixed Cricket Match. DESCRIPTION: At Sydney it is women players versus international stars. SHOTLIST: A team of ladies plays the cricket stars. Charlie McCartney, Arthur Mailey, Bill...

News on Screen Cinema news Online Moving image

Man of Aran (1934)

Director

Robert J Flaherty

Subject

Anthropology; Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 73 minutes), £11.50

Robert Flaherty is one of the founding figures of the documentary film, and this portrait of the Herculean struggles of the Aran islanders for existence in the teeth of the untamed forces of nature also...

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Rock Concert (1979 Television)

Series

Sctv

Director

George Bloomfield

Canadian comedy sketch show. The premise is that SCTV (Second City Television) is the television station for the city of Melonville. Rather than broadcast the usual TV re-run fare, the business, run by the...

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Arts week (1984)

Genre

Interview; Talk show

Arts Week, presented by Sue Jameson. Part 2 of 2 (the first part, not included here, having begun with an interview with Elizabeth Jane Howard), featuring an interview with Robin Gibson, Curator of the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Matthews People: Mary O Hara (1985)

Mike Matthews talks to Mary O Hara, singer and harpist with a soprano voice. Born 1935 in Ireland, she married the American poet Richard Selig in 1956 and after 15 months of their marriage, he died. She...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Celebrity interview (1988)

aka: Bob Holness in conversation with Ernest O’Flatt

Bob Holness’ guest is Ernest O’Flatt (also known as Ernest Flatt), the American director responsible for bringing ‘Sugar Babies’, which opens soon, from Broadway to London. He talks about his life and...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Professor Philip M. Taylor

Date

8 Dec 2010, 13:18

Author

bufvcsergio

Post Type

Post

[caption id="attachment_6645" align="alignright" width="130" caption="(image: Institute of Communication Studies, Leeds)"][/caption] It is with regret that we report the death this week of Professor...

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Moana (1923 Film)

Director

Robert J Flaherty

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Describes Polynesian life in general with special reference to the ceremony of initiation to manhood, with its painful, and then almost defunct, tattooing operation. Filmed in Samoa.

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Looking for the Man of Aran (1995 Video)

Director

Sebastian Eschenbach

Subject

Anthropology; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 2001 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

It is 60 years since Robert Flaherty made MAN OF ARAN. Looks at how the people of the Aran Islands remember the experience and what they feel about the image the films give of their land.

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How the Myth was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty’s "Man of Aran" (1979)

Director

George C Stoney

Subject

Anthropology; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 58 minutes), $219.00 [Institutional rate]

George C. Stoney revisits the island made famous in Robert Flaherty’s documentary MAN OF ARAN, and speaks with some of the surviving islanders who took part in the original film, asking them about their...

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