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  1. Restoration (1988)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    VHS (PAL, 165 minutes), viewing on premises only

    Recording of a performance by the Royal Shakespeare Company performed at the Swan Theatre in 1988. Directed by Roger Michell. NB Only available for research viewing at the Shakespeare Centre, Stratford.

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  2. Sculptors Interviews (5 Parts) (1985 Video)

    Director
    Geoff Dunlop
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 16, 13, 14, 19, 17 min.

    A series of interviews with British sculptors, shot for the Council’s film JUST WHAT IS IT? The sculptors featured are Edward Allington, Tony Cragg, Anish Kapoor, Julian Opie, and Bill Woodrow. Only short...

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  3. Strangers Abroad (6 Parts) (1985 Video)

    aka: Strangers Abroad: Pioneers of Social Anthropology

    Director
    André Singer
    Producer
    André Singer
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (6 x 52 minutes), £60.00 each part or £300 the series

    Series on the first anthropologists to go out to live among the peoples who interested them. Retraces the steps of these pioneering anthropologists in the countries where they worked and, through their...

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  4. Poems in Their Places (1982 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 7 x 10 min., £99.00 +VAT +p&p (series)

    Places the work of seven poets in their geographical and social context.

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  5. Hopper’s Silence (1981)

    Director
    Brian O’Doherty
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 47 minutes), $19.95

    A documentary portrait of American artist Edward Hopper by director Brian O’Doherty, who compares the paintings to the locations that inspired them. Includes footage of Hopper and his wife Jo from a...

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  6. Worlds of Edward Bond, The (1980 Film, Video)

    Director
    Geoff Donlop
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Playwright Edward Bond in conversation with Melvyn Bragg, discusses the concerns that have informed his work since the mid-1960s. Shows excerpts from ‘Saved’, ‘The Fool’, ‘The Women’ and ‘The...

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  7. Seven Artists (7 Parts) (1979 Video)

    Director
    David Gladwell; Geoffrey Haydon; John Mansfield; Ian Sharp; Peter West
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 7 x 30 min., 1996 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £210.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

    Examines some of the main features of 20th-century art, which is characterised by a multiplicity and profusion of styles. In each film the artist speaks for himself and the narrative follows the creation of...

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  8. Penda’s Fen (1974)

    Director
    Alan Clarke
    Producer
    David Rose
    Subject
    Drama; Television studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £19.99

    Set in the village of Pinvin in Worcestershire and set to the music of Edward Elgar, Penda’s Fen tells the story of Stephen, a vicar’s son, and his sexual awakening via a series of visions and mystical...

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  9. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1965)

    Director
    Mike Nichols
    Producer
    Ernest Lehman
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 124 minutes), £9.99

    1965 film starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor based on the Broadway play by Edward Albee, focusing on the bitter quarrels of a middle-aged couple and their effect on a young couple visiting for the...

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  10. See It Now (1954 Film)

    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A film compiled from extracts of television programmes in the series SEE IT NOW, which was presented on CBS Television by Edward R Murrow. The film is presented by speakers from Freedom House, an...

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