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  1. TV Family: Behind the Scenes of the First Reality Television Program (2015)

    Director
    Ethan Thompson
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 56 minutes), $275

    In 1960, NBC transmitted what is widely considered to be the first "reality television" show in American broadcast history. Hosted by Jane Wyatt, and billing itself as a "new kind of visual reporting," it...

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  2. Brand New You: Makeover Television and the American Dream (2015)

    Director
    Katherine Sender
    Subject
    Broadcasting; Media studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 53 minutes), $275

    What do popular television makeover programmes tell us about about what a good life looks like in contemporary America? Based on Katherine Sender’s book The Makeover the film examines this question against...

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  3. This Week: Volume 1 (2014)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 400 minutes), £9.60

    THIS WEEK was the first weekly current-affairs programme aired on commercial television in the UK. Beginning in 1956 as a light, magazine-style show punctuated by more serious items, by the mid-1960s it...

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  4. North Korea Undercover (2014)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £195.00

    Panorama reporter John Sweeney reports undercover from North Korea, as he travels from the capital Pyongyang to the countryside beyond and to the de-Militarised Zone on the border with South Korea.

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  5. World in Action: Volume 4 (2014)

    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 628 minutes), £14.40

    This DVD collects a number of notable episodes from the ITV current affairs series which ran from 1963-1999. The Granada-produced series was trailblazing and hard-hitting, choosing subjects that other...

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  6. Music in the Air: A History of Classical Music on Television (2012)

    Director
    Reiner E Moritz
    Subject
    Media studies; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 85 minutes), £19.15

    Documentary covering the history of classical music on television which examines how the televisual medium has been instrumental in popularising music, preserving performances and making events accessible to...

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  7. From Headlines to "Tight Lines": The Story of Atv Today (2012)

    Director
    Peter Raven
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 371 minutes), £19.99

    A 2 Disc DVD produced by ATVLAND.productions for the Media Archive for Central England, telling the story of ATV Today, the regional news magazine programme that broadcast to the Midlands from 1964 to 1981....

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  8. Look at Life: Volume 6 - World Affairs (2012)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 720 minutes), £14.39

    This collection from the LOOK AT LIFE series presents films encompassing world affairs in the 1960s, from a visit behind the Iron Curtain to the fun and sun of Copacabana beach, from the plight of Tibetan...

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  9. From "Atvland" In Colour (2011)

    Director
    Peter Raven
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 245 minutes), £17.99

    This documentary, presented in a 2 disc set, tells the story of the affectionately known ‘ATVLand’ - the ATV Centre in Birmingham - from its beginnings to its ultimate closure in 1997, celebrating some...

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  10. Frost on Saturday (2011)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 290 minutes), £8.86

    This two DVD set presents the lighter side of David Frost’s interview programmes. Whereas FROST ON FRIDAY concentrated on current affairs and politics, this programme featured mainly topical interviews...

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