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Writing for Games: Debate (2011)

Subject

Media studies

Audio recording of a discussion held at BAFTA on 28/10/2011. Which techniques can be adapted from film, TV and other media to make characters and stories in video games more engaging, and which need radical...

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Masque of Red Death, The (1964)

Director

Roger Corman

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £8.00

While the plague rages throughout Europe, sadistic Italian prince Prospero dallies with devil worship. To entertain his fellow Satanists, Prospero hosts a lavish ball in the confines of his castle, but the...

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Storm over Asia (1928 Video)

aka: Potomok Chingis-Khana

Director

Vsevolod I Pudovkin

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD

Set in Mongolia under the rule of British occupational forces, tells the story of a young trapper who appears to be the long-lost descendant of Genghis Khan. The people plan to set him up as Prince Genghis...

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Adventures of Prince Achmed, The (1926 Video)

Director

Lotte Reiniger

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL), £11.99

Based on tales from ‘The Arabian Nights’ this is one of the first full-length animated films in the history of cinema. It uses silhouette animation, based on the ancient Chinese and Indonesian art of...

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Phantom of the Opera at the Albert Hall (2011)

Director

Laurence Connor

Producer

Cameron Mackintosh

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 160 minutes), £19.99 (DVD):" £24.99 (Blu-ray)

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s "The Phantom of the Opera", Cameron Mackintosh produced a spectacular staging of the musical on a scale never been seen before. Inspired by the...

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France ActualitÉs. No 23 (1944 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This issue of the Vichy newsreel released in May 1944 shows: 1) Ruins of historical and religious monuments and ordinary housing throughout France ‘devastated by those who call themselves our...

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Traditions and the Environment, The (1991 Video)

Subject

Environmental science; Politics & government

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The word ‘environment’ made a dramatic entry into the political vocabulary in the early 1980s. This programme examines how traditional ways of thinking about social problems have been used to provide a...

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San Francesco, Rimini: Il Tempio Malatestiano (1985 Video)

Producer

Charles Cooper

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Sigismondo Malatesta, successful soldier and self-proclaimed prince, undertook the rebuilding of the existing Gothic church of San Francesco, Rimini, into a new classical-style mausoleum for himself and his...

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Reith Lectures 2000, The: Respect for the Earth (6 Lectures) (2005)

Subject

Agriculture; Development studies; Politics & government

The series of 5 Millennium Reith Lectures deal with one of the most pressing issues of our time - sustainable development. They are delivered by five different thinkers, each eminent in a different field. At...

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Were Ni!: He is a Madman (1963 Film)

Director

Raymond Prince; Francis Speed

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An ethnopsychiatric film of the management of psychiatric disorders by the Yoruba of Western Nigeria. Among the Yoruba, psychiatric disorder is widespread and a set of institutions has been developed to deal...

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