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The Tartan Story

Date released

1964

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

292

NoS ID

328533

Story no

1 / 1

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Tartan: Cloth of a Nation (2003)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 55 minutes), £12.99

No other country is so readily identified with its national dress as Scotland is with Tartan. Now for the first time on film, its history and industries are placed on record. The connection between the...

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My Kingdom (2002 Film)

Director

Don Boyd

Producer

Gabriele Bacher; Neal Weisman

Feature film. An urban crime drama updating King Lear to modern-day Liverpool. The leader of a gang, Sandeman, decides to divide his territory after the murder of his wife in a street robbery. He would like...

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Scouts Acclaim Prince

Date released

16 Apr 1934

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

327

NoS ID

033201

Story no

2 / 6

Young Scots honoured by Prince of Wales. Wearing own tartan as Duke of Rothesay, His Royal Highness opens great Scouting Exhibition.

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Oedipus Rex (1967)

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Subject

Classical studies; Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £19.99

Sophocles’ Greek tragedy about a boy who becomes obsessed with his mother. Filmed on location in Morocco.

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Etre et Avoir (2003)

aka: To Be and to Have

Subject

Education; French studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 104 minutes), £15.99

A documentary following schoolteacher Georges Lopez as he teaches 12 students between the ages of 4 and 10 in a one-room school in rural France.

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Revenger’s Tragedy (2003)

Subject

Drama; English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 109 minutes), £19.99

A feature film adaptation of Middleton’s 1607 play set in a post-apocalyptic Liverpool.

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Heart of Glass (1976 Video)

Director

Werner Herzog

Subject

German studies

Distribution

Sale (video - retail), Videocassette. VHS. col. 94 min., 1995 sale: £15.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Werner Herzog’s version of a German folktale about a shepherd who reveals the secrets of glassblowing to a factory boss whose expert has died.

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Super Size Me (2005)

Subject

Catering; Health Education; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £15.99

An irreverent look at why so many Americans are obese and what happens if you eat nothing but fast food for a month. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock does just this whilst providing a look at the food culture in...

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Tokyo Olympiad (1965 Video)

aka: Tokyo Orimpikku

Director

Kon Ichikawa

Producer

Suketaru Taguchi

Subject

Media studies; Sports science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 130 min., £15.99 (inclusive)

A documentary film about the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, shot by 164 cameramen using 1031 cameras, showing close, long and medium shots of the games.

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