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Designing Dream Machines (1995 Video)

Director

Richard Burke

Producer

Richard Burke

Subject

Design

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1998 sale: £19.95 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the work of British designers Richard Seymour and Dick Powell, who aim for the ‘X-factor’ - that bit extra that makes the product irresistible to the consumer. In the past Seymour and Powell...

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Basics of Filmmaking: The Language of Film

Date

9 Jun 2015, 08:38

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Basics of Filmmaking: The Language of Film by John Marland, Robert Edgar-Hunt and Steven Rawle (AVA Academia, 2010), pages ISBN: 978-2940411276 (paperback), £19.95 About the reviewer:  Eddie McMillan is...

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Michael Powell with Chris Peachment (1986 Video)

Subject

Dance; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

Michael Powell is interviewed by Chris Peachment, film editor and critic for ‘Time Out’. The occasion is the publication of Powell’s autobiography which takes him up to 1947, ‘A Life in the...

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Murder, My Sweet (1944)

aka: Farewell, My Lovely

Director

Edward Dmytryk

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £9.99

Raymond Chandler’s celebrated novel ‘Farewell, My Lovely’ was turned into a classic film noir in 1944 with Dick Powell as the private eye Philip Marlowe.

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1945 Labour Government, The (2 Parts) (1974 Audio)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 28, 28 min.

The Rt Hon Enoch Powell and Prof John P Mckintosh discuss the 1945 Labour government.

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Rdinsights Podcast Series (2007)

Subject

Design

RDInsights is a series monthly informal podcast interviews conducted by Mike Dempsey with fellow Royal Designers for Industry (RDI) designers from a range of design disciplines. Those interviewed so far...

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Trobriand Islanders, The (1952 Film, Video)

Director

Harry A Powell

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A general introduction to the people of the Trobriand Islands. Also covers gardening and associated magic, mortuary rites, Kula preparations, and the harvest season. Made mainly in the region of Omarakana...

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Osprey (1979 Film, Video)

Director

Hugh Miles

Producer

John Tomkins

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Robert Powell tells how, for nearly 50 years, the shrill cry of the osprey was not heard in Scotland. The birds returned in the 1950s and have arrived each year since then to build their enormous eyries, to...

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Rubber Universe, The (1994 Video)

Director

Storm Thorgerson

Producer

Geoff Deehan

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1998 sale: £19.95 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the disputes surrounding the Hubble constant started 60 years ago by American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble. In 1929 he discovered that all of the galaxies are rushing away from us and concluded...

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Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943 Video)

Director

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Subject

Film studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (157 minutes), £15.99

Classic feature film in which a British soldier survives three wars and falls in love with three women. Roger Livesey is the colonel whose past life is revealed in flashback. The 2012 DVD release features...

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