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  1. Bombay: Our City (1985 Video)

    Director
    Anand Patwardhan
    Producer
    Anand Patwardhan
    Subject
    Development studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 82 min.

    Relates the daily battle for survival of the four million slum dwellers of Bombay, who constitute half of the city’s population. They are the workforce of Bombay: the industrial labour, the construction...

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  2. Programme Map

    Date
    10 Dec 2013, 14:12
    Author
    Gabriel Hernandez
    Post Type
    Page

    From the Motor Show brochures to Manchester University’s Rag magazine, newsreel cameramen would pick up souvenir programmes on assignments to provide contextual information for the editorial department....

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  3. Any Old Iron (1996 Video)

    Director
    Kelda Holmes
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Preview, Videocassette. VHS. col. 143 min.

    Looks at the working life of a rag-and-bone man in the Chislehurst area of London, and examines how changes in lifestyles have effected his livelihood. Contrasts between neighbourhoods where he collects and...

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  4. Django Reinhardt: King of Jazz Guitar (2007)

    Producer
    Jordi Vall Escriu
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £15.99

    Hugely influential gypsy guitarist, Reinhardt was the first European jazz superstar. This DVD features him playing Mystery Paris, Musette Folie, Presentation Stomp, Tiger Rag, I aw Stars, Confessin’...

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  5. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: The Last Prophet (2002)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 122 min), £17.99

    A portrait of Nusrat who produced a contemporary interpretation of the qawwali, the Moslem chanting song emanating from the belief of the Sufis. It comes from Pakistan and combines traditional Persian poetic...

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  6. Look at Life: Volume 5 - Cultural Heritage (2012)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 640 minutes), £10.96

    This collection presents 64 films from the LOOK AT LIFE series encompassing Britain’s cultural heritage in all its forms and documenting a fascinating era of change - from the rebuilding of post-War...

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  7. How I Won the War (1967)

    Director
    Richard Lester
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 111 minutes), £19.99

    Lieutenant Goodbody enthusiastically leads his troops in a series of dreadful debacles on the battlefields of the Second World War, before receiving orders to install a cricket pitch behind enemy lines. A...

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  8. Nightcleaners & ‘36 to ‘77 (2006)

    Director
    Marc Karlin; Mary Kelly; James Scott; Humphry Trevelyan
    Subject
    Film Studies; Politics & government; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £24.00

    Nightcleaners (1975) by the Berwick Street Film Collective has long been recognised as a landmark of British experimental film and political cinema. Together with its companion film ‘36 to ‘77 (1978), it...

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  9. New Features for News on Screen

    Date
    26 Mar 2013, 14:49
    Author
    Linda
    Post Type
    Post

    Three new exciting search & discover features have been added to News on Screen (NoS). You can now Search across 80,000 newsreel production documents Listen to five interviews with newsreel staff...

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  10. 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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