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  1. Early Russian Cinema (1991 Video)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, 10 videocassettes. VHS. b&w. 45, 55, 58, 55, 45, 94, 95, 104, 100, 72 min., 1995 sale: £165.00 (+p&p) set

    An anthology in ten volumes of Russian filmmaking from the early years of the 20th century. The films were rediscoved at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in 1989. This selection was made by Ian Christie...

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  2. Victorian and Edwardian Stage on Film, The (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Department of Drama University of Manchester
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 53 min.

    Shows excerpts from films held in the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington DC, with annotations and critical commentary. David Mayer introduces the films, talks of their provenance...

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  3. From the Pole to the Equator (1986 Video)

    Director
    Yervant Gianikian; Angela Ricci Lucchi
    Producer
    Yervant Gianikian
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w (tinted). silent (with music soundtrack). 80 min., 1997 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

    Uses footage shot in 1910 by Italian cinematographer Luca Comerio (1894-1949) and reworks it into a montage of hand-tinted black-and-white images of exotic people and places, set to a minimalist musical...

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  4. Meditation on Violence (1948 Film, Video)

    Director
    Maya Deren
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    In this film Maya Deren sought to represent the philosophical attitudes behind several closely-related forms of martial art. The film consists entirely of sequences of a Chinese boxer demonstrating the...

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  5. At Land (1944 Video)

    Director
    Maya Deren
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A trance-like film tracing the conflict between a woman and her environment. At the start of the film the woman (played by Maya Deren) is washed up on a beach and then goes on an anxious odyssey through a...

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  6. Happiness (1934)

    Director
    Alexander Medvedkin
    Subject
    Film studies; Russian studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 66 minutes), 15.00 Euros

    The film that Medvedkin himself considered his greatest achievement, HAPPINESS is a cinematic folktale in which a poor, idle peasant is sent out by his wife to find happiness. Unfortunately his quest his...

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  7. Man with a Movie Camera (1929 Video)

    Director
    Dziga Vertov
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL)

    A montage of Moscow life showing the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going. Dziga Vertov used all the cinematic techniques at his disposal - dissolves, split...

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  8. Storm over Asia (1928 Video)

    aka: Potomok Chingis-Khana

    Director
    Vsevolod I Pudovkin
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    Set in Mongolia under the rule of British occupational forces, tells the story of a young trapper who appears to be the long-lost descendant of Genghis Khan. The people plan to set him up as Prince Genghis...

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  9. Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928)

    aka: Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, La

    Director
    Carl Theodor Dreyer
    Subject
    Film studies; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 105 minutes), £17.99

    Carl Th. Dreyer’s 1928 film follows the final days of the eponymous heroine as she undergoes the debasement and interrogation that accompanies her trial for charges of heresy, followed by imprisonment and...

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  10. Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

    Director
    James Sibley, Jr. Watson
    Subject
    Film studies; Literature

    This 1928 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s story is the most well-known and technically accomplished example of the avant-garde school of American film-making which flourished in the 1920s.

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