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Power Boat

Date released

Feb 1951

Series name

Mining Review 4th Year

Issue no

6

NoS ID

345689

Story no

2 / 4

BFI Summary - the Rover gas turbine launch. BFI synopsis: The launch - "Torquil" - put through its paces on the River Thames, also shows the engine being checked.

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China: Acrobats (1980 Video)

Subject

Drama; Politics & government

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 48 min.

Before 1949 and Liberation, acrobats in China were likened to tramps, thieves and vagabonds. After the Revolution, new attitudes to all forms of art were adopted and acrobats were re-established amongst the...

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King Lear: Reflections (1988 Television, Video)

Four dramas exploring some of the themes from King Lear, including the relationship between Lear and his daughters and Gloucester and his sons. They take the form of two plays, each in two parts. The Mistake...

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Globe Puts Shakespeare Shorts on Big Screen

Date

19 Nov 2015, 16:52

Author

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Post Type

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Short film versions of Shakespeare's 37 plays are to be shown on giant screens next year to mark the 400th anniversary of his death. Actors are being dispatched around the world to film their lines on...

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China: Ballet (1980 Video)

Director

Charles Nairn

Producer

Charles Nairn

Subject

Dance; Politics & government

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

The Peking ballet was turned into a ‘model’ company by Chiang Ching during the time of Mao Tse-Tung’s leadership. This film describes what became of the company during that time. It gives a sense of...

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Greatest Paper in the World, The (1984 Video)

Producer

Robert Fleming

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

Surveys the history of ‘The Times’ from the early influential editors to the strike in the late 1970s. The second half of the programme concentrates on Rupert Murdoch’s policies in running a paper and...

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(Untitled record)

Date released

3 Sep 1928

Series name

British Screen Tatler

Issue no

5

NoS ID

330301

Story no

3 / 6

NoS synopsis: Bungalow Island on the Thames.

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Palestine (3 Parts) (1978 Video)

Producer

Richard Broad

Subject

History

Distribution

Out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 3 x 90 min.

Part 1 covers the history of Palestine from c.1914 to c.1939. Part 2 traces the history of Palestine from c.1939 to 1946. Part 3 covers the years from 1947 through the end of the British Mandate and the...

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Up River

Date released

Aug 1949

Series name

Mining Review 2nd Year

Issue no

12

NoS ID

345620

Story no

2 / 4

BFI Summary - Miners’ cruise on the Thames. BFI synopsis: Alan Tingay and Ken Critchlow, mines from Baddesley Colliery, take family and friends on a motor cruise holiday between Oxford and Teddington.

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In the Time of Stalin (1990 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, 4 videocassettes. VHS. col. 12 hours total running time.

A collection of interviews with survivors from the Stalin era, which were assembled as part of research for the Thames Television documentary series STALIN. The testimonies are in the original language,...

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