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16mm
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Updated
May
8 2006
British
DYLAN
THOMAS 1914 - 1953,
1962
Richard Burton, Academy Award winning featurette on the great poet, exc. print,
30 min.
$75
 G.B.S.,
The life of George Bernard Shaw 1956,
a look at the life of this great Literary figure, with interviews and
newsreel sequences of the great man himself, 20 min. b&w, ecellent
shape-
$75
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A
PRINCESS
1975, James
Mason, Merchant Ivory production, color is pink, print is excellent, 60
min- $55 AN
ACT OF FAITH 1949,
The rebuilding of the church of St.
Michael at Coventry
The ruins of St Michael’s are the consequence of violence in our own century. On the night of 14 November 1940, the city of Coventry was devastated by bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe. The Cathedral burned with the city, having been hit by several incendiary devices.
The decision to rebuild the cathedral was taken the morning after its destruction. Rebuilding would not be an act of defiance, but rather a sign of faith, trust and hope for the future of the world.
BBC Symphony orch. Print runs 38 min., b&w, vg to exc. shape-
$65
CEMA
1940, (Counsel for the Encouragement
of the Music & Arts), Dylon Thomas, Desmond Dickinson, Peter
Scoll, Strand Film Production, Encouragement of the Music and Arts
in Britian during World War 2, theatre, Music, 12 MIN., excellent Kodak
density-
$35
BRITISH TV
THE
HECKLERS 1964, a film by Joseph
Strick, BBC, 40 MIN., A comical look at British politics, b&w,
excellent shape- $80
ROMANCE
WITH A DOUBLE BASS
1974, a 40-minute short subject,
designed for British television. John Cleese, still in his Monty Python
period, plays a double-bass player who woos a lovely princess (Connie Booth).
Both Cleese and his beloved are left to wander the countryside naked when a
thief steals their clothes. with amusing cameos from such master performers as
Graham Crowden and Freddie Jones. color is so-so to pinkish, v.g. to exc.
shape-
$75
HORIZON
1969 A look at the The Crab Nebula, the most famous and
conspicuous known supernova remnant, an cloud of gas created in the explosionof a star as supernova.
The supernova was noted on July 4, 1054 A.D. by Chinese astronomers, and was about four times brighter than Venus, or about mag -6. According to the records, it was visible in daylight for 23 days, and 653 days to the naked eye in the night sky. It was probably also recorded by Anasazi
Indian artists (in present-day Arizona and New Mexico), as findings in Navaho Canyon and White Mesa (both AZ) as well as in the Chaco Canyon National Park (NM) indicate; there's a review of the research on the Chaco Canyon Anazasi
art
on
line. 1 Hour, BBC, color is okay, print is excellent $50
French
AN
OCCURANCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE
1962,
directed by Robert Enrico, winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, & the following year an Academy Award
for best live action short subject, This famous featurette was also used as a
Twilight Zone episode, based on a short story by Ambrose Bierce, 30 min., v.g.
to exc. shape- print missing the opening titles, otherwise complete, in v.g. to
exc. shape- $75
ADOLESCENCE
1966, Directed by, Vladimir Forgency,
winner of the Venice Festival, San Giorgio Prize, Mannheim festival,
Golden Ducat, 14th N.Y. Film Festival prize & Academy Award
Nominee, 22 min., on BalletA small and poignant film, 30 minutes of truth about the devotion and the grandeur of the dance, b&w, exc. shape-
$60 BALZAC
1949, Narrated in
English, a look at the life of famous French novelist Balzac, 20
min.- $35 GLORY
TO FELIX TOURNACHION 1966, A film portrait of the man who made the first, enduring photographic portraits of France's leading 19th century artists--among them Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, and the divine Sarah
Bernhardt, fair color, Narrated in English 20
min.-
$30 EMPEROR
PENQUINS
1955,
Armor Films, Paul Emile Victor, Leader Of The French Polar Expedition,
The film was photographed during the Third French Polar Expedition to
Tierre Adelie, photographed and directed by Mario Marret, print is
excellent, 10 min., b&w- $25
ONE EYED MEN ARE KINGS
1974, Michel Leroy
,Oscar winner for best foreign short, exc.
shape, faded color- 15 min. $20
Hungarian
CIRCUSZ
1967, subtitled, b&w, 2
reeler with a circus theme, exc. shape- $25
Italian
FELLINI,
A DIRECTOR'S NOTEBOOK 1969,
a look at the great Italian director Federico Fellini, with appearances
by Fellini, Marcello Mastroianni, and other stars, color is faded. print
is in exc. shape, 50 min., in english
$50
Polish
THE
FAT & THE LEAN 1961, Roman
Polanski, 20 minute short about a master - slave relationship, with
Polanski as the slave, As in all Polanski's shorts, dialogue is eschewed in favour of pantomimic gesture, vivid imagery and musical counterpoint. Everyday rituals (dressing, cooking, eating, washing) are given an aura that is both droll and abject, as will often happen in his later features. The film cleverly uses a cartoonish structure: as the same cycle of actions is repeated it proceeds faster and with sudden variations (such as Polanski's unexpected drum solo).
excellent original- $85
Swedish
LET'S
GO TO PRESS 1939,
the inner workings of a European newspaper,
exc. shape, in English, 15 min.- $15
ADVENTURES
IN THE NORTH, SHADOWS OF A HUNTER 1947, no
dialogue, $15
Russian
LEO
TOLSTOY 1950 , The
Famed Russian writer of Dr. Zhivago is profiled here with rare archive footage,
print is v.g. to exc. shape, b&w, 50 min. narrated in English-
$75 A
BALLAD OF LOVE 1964, winner of the
Gold Prize of the fourth international Moscow Film Festival, directed by
Mikail Bogen, Riga Films, 40 min.- $75
 GALINA
ULANOVA Documentary
on the famed Ballet dancer. Her impact on both Russian and Western ballet was enormous. Unforgettable are her roles in Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping Beauty, Les Sylphides, Fountain of Bakhchisaray and many others. In 1959 she became ballet mistress of the Bolshoi,
45 minutes, narrated in English, with plenty of old film footage- $75
BLACK
PATCH 1951, Story about a
mountain goat, filmed in Russia, narrated in English, v.g. to exc. shape, 20
min. $25
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