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Is Everybody Listening?

Date released

Mar 1948

Series name

The March of Time 13th Year

Issue no

2

NoS ID

352077

Story no

1 / 1

The March of Time synopsis: An exposition of the commercially sponsored radio system of America is given in this month’s March of Time which in discussing the inevitable criticism levelled at the...

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Modern Homes: The Domestic Interior in 1950s Britain (2003)

Subject

Architecture; Design; History

Distribution

Slide (Slide Set, 24), £30.00

This slide set outlines some of the key changes that took place in the nature of interior design and domestic furnishings in Britain in the 1950s, and the attempts made by the Council of Industrial Design...

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King Lear (1987 Film)

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Producer

Menahem Golan; Yoram Globus

Feature film version of the play. Widely criticised and a commercial failure, the film was received as an interesting deconstruction or completely unintelligible according to taste. The film makes the...

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Media Screen Roundup - September 2014

Date

21 Oct 2014, 15:27

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. The journal History and Technology has a...

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Festa for San Gabriel, A (198 Video)

Director

Gregory Barrow; Paul Sant Cassia

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 43 min.

Documents aspects of the preparations for the annual village festa in honour of the patron saints (The Madonna and St Gabriel) of a village in Malta. Looks at the week prior to the celebration and the festa...

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Ever Wondered About Food? Complete Series 5 (2007)

Subject

Catering; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £15.00

Chef Paul Merrett serves up another fascinating menu of recipes, science and fascinating food facts. In this fifth series he savours the flavours of peppers, honey, tea, bananas, milk, and onions.

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Tromeo & Juliet (1996 Film)

aka: Tromeo and Juliet

Director

Lloyd Kaufmann; James Gunn

Producer

Lloyd Kaufmann; Michael Herz

A low-budget, punk rock, exploitation, B film based on Romeo and Juliet and set in modern Manhattan. Filmed in Troma style with much gratuituous violence, it exhibits a healthy disregard for taste and comes...

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LoS Awards 2015

Date

25 Sep 2015, 13:45

Author

Gabriel Hernandez

Post Type

Page

This year's Learning on Screen Awards, the 11th in its revered history, took place on the 23rd April 2015. A resounding success, the event unfolded at the BFI Southbank, and was, in our humble opinion, the...

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Media Screen Round-up, January 2017

Date

14 Feb 2017, 11:47

Author

Andrew Ormsby

Post Type

Post

The monthly round-up of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at Learning on Screen by Andrew Ormsby Amongst this month's selection are a...

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Ken Russell: The Great Composers/The Great Passions

Date

11 Apr 2017, 11:59

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Ken Russell: The Great Composers/The Great Passions 2016. GB. Blu-ray/DVD dual format. BFI. 210/198 mins, £22.99 each. About the reviewer: John Hill is Professor of Media at Royal Holloway, University of...

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