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Burnley... Memories of the 1930s and 1940s: The Films of Sam Hanna

Director

Sam Hanna

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL), £14.99

Sam Hanna pioneered the use of film in schools as a means of instruction. In 1932 he started to film life and events in his home town Burnley, as well as capturing dying local crafts for posterity on movie...

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Year to Remember, A: The 1930s

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £19.99

This three disc DVD set features Pathe footage taken from across the 1930s, giving an insight into the decade leading up to World War II. In a world reeling from the Great Depression, the decade was...

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Other Weimar, The

aka: Andere Weimar, Der

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), 114.95 euros

This seven DVD collection presents newly rediscovered and meticulously restored films of less known German filmmakers such as Robert Reinert, Richard Oswald, Curt Goetz, Hanns Walter Kornblum, Fritz...

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Congo Belge: Filmé Par Gérard de Boe, André Cauvin et Ernest Genval

aka: Belgisch Congo Gefilmd Door Gérard de Boe, André Cauvin & Ernest Genval

Director

Ernest Genval; Gérard De De Boe; André Cauvin

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 276 minutes), 21 Euros

This 2 DVD set presents the work of the three most prominent Belgian ‘colonial filmmakers’. The pioneer Ernest Genval began filming in the Belgian Congo in around 1925; from 1937 Gérard De Boe took up...

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Reel Life: Saturdays in Film and Sound

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £5.00

This DVD provides a fascinating glimpse into Saturday afternoons of the last 100 years through examples of films and sound interviews held in public archives. The material is grouped into six themes,...

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Lincolnshire: A Century on Film, Vol. 1

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 60 minutes), £14.95

Volume One of this series, written and narrated by Alan Stennett, covers the century’s early years, with film dating back to as early as 1901. Grimsby trawlermen bringing home their catch, hats and dresses...

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Joli Mai, Le

aka: Joli Mai, Le: Version Restaurée 2013

Director

Chris Marker; Pierre Lhomme

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 207 minutes), 24.99 Euros

1963 documentary by Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme. Marker (who is unseen in the film) asked people on the streets of Paris questions about their personal lives, as well as questions relating to the social...

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British Animation Awards, Vol. 9

Subject

Art; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £17.99 [Educational institutions £22.50]

Compilation of animation films. BARE by Helen Dallatt; WALLPAPER by Fiona Geillinger; THURSDSAY by Matthias Hoegg; LIZ GRENE: DISPLACEMENT SONG by Kate Anderson; ARQITECH: INTO THE COSMOS by Darren Robbie;...

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Len Lye: Rhythms

Subject

Art; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 47 minutes), £23.00

Collection of Len Lye’s experimental films accompanied by a 28 page booklet with texts by David Curtis, Roger Horrocks and Len Lye on his films. The films are as follows: A COLOUR BOX 35mm 1935 [4...

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London Can Take It: The British Home Front at War

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 minutes), £12.00

Seven wartime films looking at the city of London, specifically life during the Blitz. Includes Humphrey Jennings and Harry Watt’s LONDON CAN TAKE IT (1940).

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