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  1. Britain’s Latest Underwater Craft

    Date released
    28 Feb 1929
    Series name
    Topical Budget
    Issue no
    914-1
    NoS ID
    132542
    Story no
    5 / 5

    Launch of submarine ‘Orpheus’ by Lady Berry. New safety device submarines demonstrated in USA.

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  2. Black Orpheus (1959)

    aka: Orfeu Negro

    Director
    Marcel Camus
    Subject
    Classical studies; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £19.99

    Marcel Camus’ multi award winning film Black Orpheus made a huge impact on its original release, garnering top accolades, an Oscar, Golden Globe and Palme D’Or and putting bossa nova on the map.This...

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  3. Orpheus Redevivus: The Songs of Thomas Campion (1976 Video)

    Producer
    Michael Bowen

    R. H. Wells sings and accompanies on lute the songs of Thomas Campion, explaining their poetry, musical style and their place in the Elizabethan England.

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  4. The Spell of Jazz

    Date released
    17 Dec 1925
    Series name
    Topical Budget
    Issue no
    747-1
    NoS ID
    130309
    Story no
    3 / 6

    [1ST SUBTITLE]: "A modern Orpheus tries his charms on the Zoo!." Jazz band playing outside Polar bear cage in American zoo. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "And the Polar Bear finds there really are fairies!". Girl in white...

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  5. Calling London - Morriston Orpheus Choir sing in London

    Date released
    Jan 1953
    Series name
    Ingot Pictorial
    Issue no
    14
    NoS ID
    349409
    Story no
    5 / 6

    NFA synopsis: 30th November 1952. After the Festival Hall performance they go on a sight-seeing tour of London. A shot is shown of them singing at Hyde Park Corner.

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  6. The Wonderful Derby of 1920

    Date released
    3 Jun 1920
    Series name
    Topical Budget
    Issue no
    458-1
    NoS ID
    127689
    Story no
    1 / 3

    [1ST SUBTITLE]: "Record crowds flocked to the great Festival of Sport which was attended by the King and Queen." ‘Spion Kop’ wins the Derby at Epsom. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "THEY’RE OFF". "Rounding the famous...

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  7. Revolution and Rebirth: Modern Theatrical Reform and Its Debt to Antiquity (198 Video)

    Subject
    Classical studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 45 min., £38.00 (inc p&p + VAT)

    The evolution of modern theatrical production based on Wagner’s ideal of the ‘total work of art’. Starting with Wagner’s reform of opera, it details the ideas of Adolphe Appia, who first formulated a...

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  8. Fugitive Kind, The (1961)

    Director
    Sidney Lumet
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 122 minutes + 110 minutes extras), $40.00

    This adaptation of the one-act Tennessee Williams play ‘Orpheus Descending’ stars Marlon Brando as the drifter in a small Southern town who provokes violence and lust in equal measure. Directed by Sydney...

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  9. Murder in the Cathedral (2015)

    Director
    George Hoellering
    Producer
    George Hoellering
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 114 minutes), £19.99

    T.S. Eliot’s verse drama recounting the complex relationship between twelfth-century British monarch Henry ll and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket. Featuring a cast of mainly non-professional...

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  10. Prospero’s Books (1991 Film)

    Director
    Peter Greenaway
    Producer
    Kees Kasander

    Feature film based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Prospero is given 24 books to lessen the pain of his exile on a barren island. Greenaway interprets The Tempest as a mind reviewing its entire contents, and...

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