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  1. Fairy Tales: Early Colour Stencil Films from Pathé (1901)

    Director
    Georges Méliès
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 164 minutes), £19.99

    During the belle époque in turn-of-the-century Paris, a short-lived film form called ‘scènes de feeries’, or ‘fairy films’, was made popular thanks to the Pathé Frères company. The films...

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  2. St George’s Day (1915 Film)

    Series
    Pathe Gazette

    Newsreel item on the Saint George’s Day procession through Stratford-upon-Avon, 23rd April 1915. The procession, led by the Mayor and Mr George Benson, winds through the streets to lay a wreath on...

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  3. Disaster 1 (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Davies
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

    Uses newsreel footage from British Pathé to illustrate large-scale disasters of the 20th century. Covers the sinking of the ‘Titanic’, the Tenerife air crash, the mud-slide in Aberfan in South Wales in...

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  4. Tempest, The (1920 Film)

    Director
    Robert N. Bradbury

    Fiction short. A modernisation very loosely based on Shakespeare’s play. The hero is shang-haid, thrown overboard in a storm, finds refuge on an island and falls in love with the lighthouse keeper’s...

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  5. Freedom (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Sasha Stewart
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

    Uses newsreel footage from British Pathé to illustrate the struggles for freedom world-wide in the 20th century. Looks at apartheid in South Africa and the triumph of Nelson Mandela, East Germany and the...

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  6. Cleopatra (1910 Film)

    aka: Antony and Cleopatra

    Fiction short. `...as fine an example of the producer’s skill as we have seen. The management of the riotous crowds, the costly splendour of the costumes, and the perfectly artistic spirit in which the...

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  7. La Mode (in Pathecolor)

    Date released
    27 Mar 1930
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    460
    NoS ID
    332396
    Story no
    3 / 7

    NoS synopsis: The latest fashions from Paris.

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  8. Ronald Frankau [Macbeth] (1935 Film)

    Series
    Pathe Sound Pictorial

    Comedian Ronald Frankau, in his customary top hat and tails and smoking a cigarette in a long holder, recites a humorous rhyming monologue on blood in Shakespeare’s plays because ‘I like to see a murder...

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  9. Chickens

    Date released
    27 Mar 1930
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    460
    NoS ID
    332395
    Story no
    2 / 7

    NoS synopsis: girls who work in bathing costumes on a chicken farm.

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  10. Pathé Collection: Fabulous Fashions of the 1940s (2010)

    Subject
    Design; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 70 minutes), £14.99

    This compilation of British Pathé Cinemagazines focuses on fashion. Reports are included on eccentric hat designer Lady Newborough and the legendary designer Norman Hartnell. Film star Lana Turner is seen...

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