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Stars Celebrate a Birthday

Date released

21 Mar 1949

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1033

NoS ID

015640

Story no

2 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Spotlight - Celebrates 21st Birthday. DESCRIPTION: At the Ritz, many film stars gathered to celebrate the Spotlight 21st birthday, among those present were Michael Denison, Roger...

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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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Macbeth (1934 Radio)

Producer

Tyrone Guthrie

Broadcast version of Shakespeare’s play performed by the Old Vic Company produced by Tyrone Guthrie. With Charles Laughton and Flora Robson as the Macbeths. Dennis Arundell narrates. Music by Herbert Menges.

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Reminders

Date released

1945

Series name

The Gen

Issue no

18

NoS ID

080937

Story no

2 / 4

(including some film repeated from Gen No. 6) of the making at Pinewood of RAF "Production 26". Now Journey Together is premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square, the audience including Air Marshal Sir Philip...

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To Help Actor’s Orphans

Date released

8 Jun 1950

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1096A

NoS ID

016452

Story no

2 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Commentary to Help Actors’ Orphans. DESCRIPTION: This year, the famous Theatrical Garden Party has a new title - Theatre and Film Carnival; it was aid of the Actors’ Orphanage and...

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Royal Engagements

Date released

3 May 1951

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1143A

NoS ID

017112

Story no

5 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Engagements. King & Queen at Bif. DESCRIPTION: KING AND QUEEN AT THE BIF - The British Industries Fair (London section) received a visit from Their Majesties, who made an...

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Matter of Life and Death, A (1945 Film)

aka: Stairway to Heaven

Director

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Producer

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

A British wartime aviator who cheats death by miraculously surviving bailing out of his plane without a parachute must argue for his life before a celestial court. Fantasy film, ostensibly produced with the...

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Life and Death of Sir John Falstaff, The (1959 Television)

Series

For the Schools

Director

Ronald Eyre

Producer

Ronald Eyre

Schools broadcast based on the two parts of Henry IV, which was presented as a mini-series in seven parts following the fortunes of Falstaff. With music specially composed by Kenneth Leighton, starring Roger...

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