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Concorde Nose Cone

Date released

Dec 1967

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

67

NoS ID

327829

Story no

3 / 5

COI synopsis: A model of the Anglo-French Concorde airliner, and a knitwear firm in Scotland preparing the nose-cone of glass fibre to house radar equipment.

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Glass - A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (2009)

Director

Scott Hicks

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 115 minutes), £8.00

In July 2005, Scott Hicks started shooting a documentary about the composer Philip Glass to celebrate his 70th anniversary in 2007. Over the next 18 months, Hicks followed Philip across three continents and...

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Summer Night Dreams (2004 Television)

Modern ballet based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Choreographed by Heinz Spoerli, the Ballet of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein dance to Philip Glass’ Violin Concerto no. 1 performed by Gidon Kremer and the...

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TWA Flight 847 hijack -crew members interviewed (1985)

Genre

News report; Interview

Charles Glass, ABC, interviews crew members on the hijacked TWA Flight 847 aircraft, at Beirut Airport. Speaking are: John L. Testrake, Captain; Philip Maresca, first officer; Christian Zimmermann, flight...

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Einstein on the Beach: An Opera in Four Acts (2016)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 264 minutes), £29.99

Avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson. The plot revolves, loosely, around Einstein’s relationship to the creation of the atomic bomb. Originally premiered in 1976, this...

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Thin Blue Line, The (1988)

Director

Errol Morris

Producer

Mark Lipson

Subject

Film studies; Law

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £15.99

While researching another project, filmmaker Errol Morris became fascinated by the case of Randall Dale Adams, a man on death row for the murder of a policeman in 1976. Convinced of his innocence, Morris...

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Four American Composers: John Cage, Robert Ashley, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass (1984)

aka: 4 American Composers

Director

Peter Greenaway

Producer

Revel Guest

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 220 minutes), £32.92

A series of four programmes of performances by ‘avant-garde’ musicians from New York: John Cage, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass and Robert Ashley. The programmes are preceeded and followed by short...

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Koyaanisqatsi (1983 Video)

Director

Godfrey Reggio

Producer

Godfrey Reggio

Subject

Anthropology; Environmental science

Distribution

OUT of DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min.

A personal view of America, with a strongly environmental theme, set to music by Philip Glass. (The Hopi Indian title word means ‘unbalanced life’.)

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Shakespeare-On-Avon

Date released

27 Apr 1964

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1821

NoS ID

025516

Story no

1 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Shakespeare-On-Avon. DESCRIPTION: Prince Philip was one of thousands visiting Stratford-upon-Avon, where William Shakespeare was born four centuries ago, and whose genius was to be...

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When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun (2010)

Director

Dirk Simon

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 114 minutes), £19.99

Dirk Simon’s film about the history of the Tibetan people’s struggle for freedon begins in 1950: the Tibet was incorporated by the People’s Republic of China. In 1959, following the Tibetan Rebellion,...

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