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BALLETOMINES

Date released

Aug 1954

Series name

Mining Review 7th Year

Issue no

12

NoS ID

345840

Story no

4 / 4

BFI synopsis: miners dancing ballet. Miners from the West Riding Colliery give performance of Delibes’ "Coppelia" for charity at Normanton Central Town Club. NCB Commentary - Many times in the past have...

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Don Quixote: Rudolf Nureyev (1973)

Director

Rudolf Nureyev

Producer

John L. Hargreaves

Subject

Dance; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), 317.99

Restored version of Rudolf Nureyev’s classic 1973 production of Ludwig Minkus’ ‘Don Quixote’, filmed in a Melbourne hangar. Nureyev, directed, choreographed and starred in the ballet, performing...

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Hamlet (1964 Video)

aka: Royal Ballet in Rehearsal: Hamlet

Tchaikovsky’s ballet choreographed by Robert Helpmann with scenery and costume by Leslie Hurry. The Royal Ballet is filmed in dress rehearsal on stage at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London in...

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Instruments of the Orchestra/Steps of the Ballet (1995 Video)

Subject

Dance; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 45 min., 1995 sale: £9.95 (inclusive)

Two classic education films of the 1940s from the Crown Film Unit. INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA features Sir Malcolm Sargent and the London Symphony Orchestra and centres around specially composed music by...

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Steps of the Ballet (1948 Video)

Director

Muir Mathieson

Producer

Alexander Shaw

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 30 min.

Explains the principles of ballet, and the stages involved in mounting a new work. Robert Helpmann explains how a new ballet is produced and Elaine Fifield demonstrates the position of the arms and other...

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Shakespeare in Ballet (1964 Radio)

Series

Talking of Theatre

Radio documentary introduced by Carl Wildman. Robert Helpmann talks to Gordon Gow about his new production of Hamlet, first created and performed in 1943 and now with Rudolf Nureyev in the title role....

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1944 Radio)

Producer

Val Gielgud

Radio version of the play adapted by Cynthia Pughe and produced by Val Gielgud. With Robert Helpmann as Oberon and Max Adrian as Puck. Incidental music by Mendelssohn.

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Romeo and Juliet (1957 Television)

Series

Producers’ Showcase

Director

Clark Jones

Television drama. Sol Hurak’s presentation of the Old Vic Company’s production of Romeo and Juliet based on the stage production by Robert Helpmann. Directed for the Old Vic by Michael Benthall and by...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1954 Audio)

Director

Michael Benthall

A sound recording of Michael Benthall’s 1954 Old Vic production with Robert Helpmann as Oberon and Moira Shearer as Titania. Mendelssohn’s incidental music is played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra...

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Midwinter Night’s Dream, A (1961 Television)

aka: King John

Series

Omnibus (Us Series)

Director

William A. Graham

Producer

Robert Saudek

Anthology arts series hosted by Alistair Cooke. A preview of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, then under construction and scheduled to be completed in 1964. The episode includes an extract (Act...

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