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  1. Music Hall Days (2003)

    Subject
    Drama; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 75 minutes), £12.99

    Lionel Blair traces the origins of the Music Hall back to the days of the riotous Bartholomew Fayres of the Middle Ages through to the performers of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens of the 19th Century. He...

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  2. Maria Martin, Or Murder in the Red Barn (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. col. 120 min.

    Video recording using a single camera of a performance of ‘Maria Marten, or Murder in the Red Barn’ and Victorian Music Hall, directed by John Caird, recorded at the Britten Theatre in December 1999, and...

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  3. Canterbury Hall and Theatre of Varieties, The (1982 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, 44 slides. b&w & col.

    Charles Morton’s famous Canterbury Hall was a big song room - a hall attached to a tavern where eating and drinking customers were provided with a varied, mainly vocal entertainment. The music hall...

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  4. Wilton’s Music Hall, London (1975 Multimedia)

    Producer
    Russell Towns
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, 39 slides. b&w/col.

    Illustrates the design, history and use of the oldest surviving music hall in Great Britain. Opened in 1859, Wilton’s is especially interesting because it has remained virtually unaltered, never having...

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  5. Laughing Gas (1968 Film)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A popular comic song that was originally performed in the music halls of the 1830s by Mr W Smith. Transcribed for concertina accompaniment, it is here performed by Peter Honri at the City Varieties, Leeds.

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  6. Music Hall Artists Compilation (1927 Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. U-matic. sd/st. b&w. 30 min.

    A collection of film material held in the National Film and Television archive. Contents: 1) RECORDS OF FAMOUS MUSIC HALL ARTISTS (4 min): a composite silent film of surviving fragmentary newsreel glimpses...

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  7. Winsor McCay: Animation Legend (1911 Video)

    Producer
    Albert M Miller
    Subject
    Drama; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 100 min., 1996 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

    A compilation of the work of Winsor McCay, one of the founding fathers of cinema animation and a key figure in the development of cinema. He became famous as a newspaper strip cartoonist, then developed a...

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  8. Little Tich and His Big Boots (1902 Film)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Studio performance - with no audience but with a set of sorts and musical accompaniment dubbed over - filmed for the Paris exhibition in the early years of this century. Shows Little Tich (Harry Relph) doing...

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