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  1. Early Days of Local Anaesthesia in Dentistry, The (1962 Film)

    Producer
    H Heuser; E Stock
    Subject
    Dentistry; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Covers the history of anaesthesia from just after the turn of the century when it was introduced as an alternative to ether and chloroform. Before it could be used in dental surgery the basic principle for...

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  2. Ukroshenie Stroptivoy (1961 Film)

    aka: Taming of the Shrew, The

    Director
    Sergei Kolosov
    Subject
    Drama

    Film of a stage performance of The Taming of the Shrew directed by Andrei Popov and performed by the Central Theatre of the Soviet Army.

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  3. Importance of Being Earnest, The (Audio) (1960 Audio)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 150 min., 2004 sale: £10.99 (+p&p)

    A full-cast dramatisation of Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance of being Earnest’, with Geraldine McEwan as Lady Bracknell and Simon Russell Beale as Jack.

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  4. High Speed Flight (Simplified Version) (1960)

    Subject
    Physics; Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A compilation made from the three films in the HIGH SPEED FLIGHT series, illustrating the behaviour of airflow at speeds approaching, around, and beyond that of sound: the effects of airflow behaviour on...

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  5. Summoned by Bells (1960 Audio)

    Producer
    Douglas Cleverdon
    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Audiocassette. 120 min., 2004 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

    Sir John Betjeman reads his verse autobiography, describing the pains and pleasures of growing up. Covers his earliest boyhood memories of Highgate and of Archibald, his old stuffed bear, through to his...

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  6. Mark Twain’s America (1960 Film)

    Subject
    History; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1), £8.91

    Recreates the life of Mark Twain and the age in which he lived, through a collection of period engravings and photographs. Highlights the 1880s and 1890s, with pictures of frontier towns and Manhattan....

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  7. War of the Worlds, The (1953 Video)

    Director
    Byron Haskin
    Producer
    George Pal
    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    Film adaptation of H G Wells’ novel about the invasion of earth by Martians, which terrified American listeners in a radio dramatisation by Orson Welles in 1938.

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  8. Red, Hot and Blue (1949 Film)

    Director
    John Farrow
    Producer
    Robert Fellows
    Subject
    Drama; Music

    Feature film. Musical comedy with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. An aspiring chorus girl finds herself in a jam when a gangster, who is backing the show she is appearing in, is found dead in her...

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  9. Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (1945 Film)

    Director
    Elia Kazan
    Producer
    Louis D. Lighton
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature filmed based on Betty Smith’s novel of the same name. A young girl, Francie, tries to keep her idealism alive and surmount the hardships of her slum tenement life in the face of her family’s...

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  10. Phantom of 42nd Street, The (1945 Film)

    Director
    Albert Herman
    Producer
    Albert Herman

    Feature film. Theatre critic Tony Wooldrich (O’Brien) and his sidekick cab driver Romeo with a penchant for quoting Shakespeare (Mulhall) investigate a backstage murder apparently linked to Shakespearean...

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