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Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2011)

Director

Giles Penso

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £17.99

Documentary which looks at the life, career and influence of Ray Harryhausen, a man deemed the grandfather of stop-motion animation. Famous for his work on films such as JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963) and...

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War Against Pornography, The (1972 Television)

Series

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Director

Ian MacNaughton

British television comedy series. Includes a sketch, presented in newsreel style, satirising Mary Whitehouse’s campaign against pornography. A coach load of ‘pepperpots’ (middle-class grey-haired women...

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American Avant-Garde: The Lawrence Jordan Album and the Films of James Broughton (2011)

Director

Lawrence Jordan; James Broughton

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 465, 290 minutes), $89.95

The life’s work of two legends of the US avant-garde cinema is included in this 7-disc collection. Lawrence Jordan’s collage-style animation—which influenced the early work of Terry Gilliam, among...

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Do Not Adjust Your Set (1967)

Subject

Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 361 minutes), £29.99

A madcap sketch show with a cult following, DO NOT... was a huge influence on television comedy. Written by and starring Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Eric Idle, with performances and additional material by...

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Much Loved Friend?, The: A Portrait of the National Gallery (1991 Video)

Director

Nicholas Rossiter

Producer

Keith Alexander; Nicholas Rossiter

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 47 min., 1999 sale £13.00 (inclusive)

A portrait of the National Gallery, London, at the time of the opening of the new wing. Interweaves the comments of curators, conservators, trustees, artists, writers, art critics and the public with...

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How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body (1970 Television)

Series

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Producer

Ian MacNaughton

British television comedy series. The episodes features a sketch which presents the first underwater production of Measure For Measure. Dubbed over an expanse of sea is muffled Shakespearean blank verse. The...

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Man Who Speaks in Anagrams, The (1972 Television)

Series

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Producer

Ian MacNaughton

British television comedy series. This episode includes the sketch ‘The Man Who Speaks in Anagrams’. Part of the dialogue is as follows: Palin: And I believe you’re working on an anagram version of...

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Spam (1970 Television)

Series

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Director

Ian MacNaughton

British television comedy series. Includes a sketch entitled ‘Hospital for Over-Actors’ which parodies Olivier. Dialogue is as follows: Specialist: Most of these cases are pretty unpleasant. Nurse......

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Monty Python’s Fliegender Zirkus, Episode 1 (1972 Television)

aka: Monty Python in Deutschland

Series

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Director

Ian MacNaughton

Producer

Thomas Woitkewitsch

In the first episode of the Monty Python special (performed in phonetic German), a documentary about Albrecht Dürer is interrupted by a condensed performance of The Merchant of Venice, starring ‘The Bad...

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