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The Circus Comes to Town

Series name

Rhodesian Spotlight

Issue no

53

NoS ID

351990

Story no

4 / 5

Rhodesian Spotlight synopsis: Wilkies Continental Circus Visits Lusaka. Rhodesian Spotlight Commentary - After its successful South African Tour, a super Continental circus arrived at Lusaka, and Jumbo the...

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Retreat to Romanticism (1993 Video)

Subject

Music; Philosophy

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Rousseau’s career in Paris begun as a music critic and composer. Maurice Cranston discusses how Rousseau’s theories on music led to his developing a whole new philosophical approach away from the...

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Koening Lear (1987 Video)

aka: King Lear

Director

Bernard Sobel

Video recording, using a single camera, of Bernard Sobel’s 1987 production of King Lear at the Schauspielhaus, Zurich with Hans Dieter Zeidler as Lear.

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Updates to the BUFVC Gateway

Date

9 Nov 2012, 10:57

Author

Andrew Ormsby

Post Type

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The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,250 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or...

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Surprised!: The Paintings of Henri Rousseau (1993 Video)

Producer

Jacquie Footer; Joan Lane; Marcus Latham; Karl McClumpha; Carol McFadyen

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 18 min., 1999 sale £10.00 (inclusive)

Looks at the life and work of French artist Henri Rousseau, chronicling his evolution from a Paris customs bureau official to a leader of the avant-garde. Rousseau persisted in his work, which includes such...

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Rousseau in Africa: Democracy in the Making (1997 Video)

Producer

Jenny Bardwell

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau believed that a society that was allowed to elect a legitimate government was the best option of all, because if people were ruling themselves, they would surely act in...

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Ken Russell at the BBC (2008)

Director

Ken Russell

Subject

Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 477 minutes), £29.95

Collection of six films made by Ken Russell for the BBC in the 1960s: ELGAR (1962); THE DEBUSSY FILM (1965); ALWAYS ON SUNDAY (1965); ISADORA DUNCAN (1966); DANTE’S INFERNO (1967) and SONG OF SUMMER...

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Dinner at Baron d’Holbachs (1987 Video)

Producer

Robert Philip

Subject

History

Distribution

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

A dramatisation of a dinner party at the Baron d’Holbach’s house in Paris in 1770. The guests are Frederick the Great of Prussia, Diderot, Voltaire and Rousseau. The action takes place in the dining room...

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Rousseau and Minorities (1998 Video)

aka: Waiting Their Turn: Minorities in Democracy

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Considers the difficult position of minorities in a democracy and looks at the various options available if they wish to get their views heard. Also looks at the reasons why minorities wish to remain in a...

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Ken Russell: The Great Passions: Always on Sunday; Isadora; Dante’s Inferno (2016)

Director

Ken Russell

Subject

Art; Dance; Literature; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes + 64 minutes + 88 minutes), £29.99

This collection brings together three films from 1965-7. The collection opens with ALWAYS ON SUNDAY (1965) a dramatized examination of the painter Henri Rousseau. ISADORA, THE BIGGEST DANCER IN THE WORLD...

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