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Five 20-minute programmes using amateur film footage together with eyewitness accounts to show ways in which ordinary people filmed everyday life in Britain and Germany during the war years 1939-45: 1) The...
Commemorates the 50th anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination. Shows most of the surviving 45 minutes of Trotsky’s daily life filmed by family and friends in 1939. A discussion follows.
Experimental student amateur film. Yorick returns to earth and lectures Hamlet on God and nuclear power. Filmed in a basement, with English language actors but a French crew.
Low-budget amateur feature film. A self-financed recording by the Rafters Players of their stage production. Filmed over three weeks in Cornwall.
Amateur ballet film photographed by John de Vere Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst. Includes film of three minutes of dress rehearsal of John Cranko’s version of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet staged by the...
Amateur film. Record of a house party held by author J.M. Barrie at Stanway, Gloucestershire, the home of Lord Wemyss. Written and directed by Barrie, it features a semi-dramatised dream sequence in which...
Topical. Scenes from Henry V performed by the boys of King Edward VI Grammar School, Stratford-upon-Avon. Ball (op cit) believes this production to be the first amateur Shakespeare film. Screened at The...
Travelogue. Scenes of Stratford-on-Avon. Shakespeare’s birthplace. School. Anne Hathaway’s cottage, exterior and interior. "The Memorial Theatre before its destruction by fire - and as it stands to-day"....
Silent amateur film shot by John V. Hansen, engineer and member of the Amateur Cinema League, of a performance of Tyrone Guthrie’s Hamlet at Kronberg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark with Laurence Olivier as...
Archive silent film from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s with a specially recorded musical soundtrack. Providing a unique insight into a forgotten golden age of pantomime, these films from the collections of the...
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