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  1. Patience (After Sebald) (2011)

    Director
    Grant Gee
    Subject
    History; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £15.99

    Film essay based on the work and life of German writer W.G. Sebald, with particular reference to his book The Rings of Saturn, a melancholy and atmospheric account of a walking tour of Suffolk, in which...

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  2. Feeding the Nation (2011)

    aka: Yesterday’s Farm: East Anglia and Beyond

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £11.99

    At the outbreak of World War I, farming was on the brink of ruin. By the 1960s, it was thriving once more. Events in Britain and beyond changed agricultural life. After half a century of debts, economic...

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  3. Here was the News 1960: Part 1 (2009)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 75 minutes), £9.50

    In 1959, the launch of Anglia Television brought regional news to television sets for the first time. This DVD presents a selection of local news items, from flooding to fashions. The headlines of 1959 and...

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  4. Bygones: Gone to Burton (2003)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 40 minutes), £14.95

    The third film in a series re-creating the experiences of East Anglian farmworkers before the First World War. After harvest, East Anglian men, with little prospect of employement in the winter, left their...

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  5. Seven Centuries of the English Windmill (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £15.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    The history of windmills in England from the wooden post mill and the timber smock mill to the stone tower mill, showing windmills in the Midlands, East Anglia and southern England. With wind power gathering...

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  6. John Betjeman in Norfolk (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 35 min., 1996 sale: £12.50 (inclusive)

    Malcolm Freegard introduces two films he made in the 1960s with Sir John Betjeman. In SOMETHING ABOUT DISS Betjeman arrives at the railway station and sets out to explore the town, describing the buildings...

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  7. Southend Bygone Years on Film 2 (1995 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 49 min., 1996 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

    Includes Southend publicity films from 1936, 1953 and 1959, Leigh-on-Sea in the 1930s, Londoners on a day trip 1948, and the Queen Mother opening the new Civic Centre in 1967.

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  8. Chasing the Herring (1994 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £12.50 (inclusive)

    Archive film of the Yarmouth and Lowestoft herring fisheries from 1902 to the 1950s, with a commentary by historian David Butcher.

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  9. Colchester Past (1994 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w.& col. 54 min., 1996 sale: £12.50 (inclusive)

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  10. Do You Remember? 1950s Norwich (1994 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 50 min., 1996 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

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