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Suspected UVF leader Gusty Spemce was abducted while on leave from prison to attend his daughter's wedding. A TV crew tracks him down.

Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.

About animation itself, in which a live-action man's movements are mimicked by means of various animated techniques.

The music video for the innuendo-laden comedy novelty song, written and performed by the English comedian Benny Hill. topping the UK Singles Chart in December 1971, reaching the Christmas number-one spot

A social satire in which advertisers realise that having a blind beggar as the public face of charities would help make them seem more appealing to donors.

Presented in the interest of chain saw safety by the Oregon Saw Chain Division, Omark Industries. (Ft. Chainsaw Charlie)

Mr Humphreys, a modest clerk, unexpected inherits a country mansion from an obscure uncle. In its grounds lies a maze and when he explores it, the new owner disturbs something frightening at its centre.

'Miss Gaby' gets ready for her close up, Sunset Boulevard-style. Primping and preening herself in the make-up mirror, she applies her mask while an admirer pays court from an unmade bed.

'The Man' and 'The Woman' regularly meet for an extramarital affair whilst her husband works late. Professing love for both men creates paranoia in The Man who invents a fourth person - a mistress, Evelyn.

Play about a student, taken from his point of view, and his reactions to the pressures and vacuums of student life.

A man gets stuck in a deep hole, unable to escape. From The Bristol University RFT course 1979.

The gang genuinely believe they have helped a farmer - even though he has been bad-tempered with them and does not deserve help - by rounding up what they suppose to be his stray cows.

Eleven one-act sex comedies, involving wife swappers, a bored housewife, a young virgin, and an orgy in Kilburn.

A panorama of the Clyde, from Biggar to Brodick, with Billy Connolly as your guide. Directed by Murray Grigor for the Films of Scotland Committee.

They were all there for the beer. (BBC Genome)

A BAFTA award nominated feature telling the story of the making of a sales film about beds.

A depressed middle-aged man, revisiting the seaside resort he often vacationed at as a child, encounters a highly optimistic and carefree young woman who attempts to reason him out of following through on his suicidal thoughts.

An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.

They write so many innocent words, but what are the authors of your children's stories really like?

Documentary about contamination of the air and other forms of pollution, costing Britain £400 million a year, which are countered by smoke elimination programmes and the use of natural gas, fuel research and other measures.

Drama about the 1914-16 Irish uprising, from the perspective of Irish rebels and English military planners.

In Stalybridge, middle-aged scoutmaster Kenneth "Kim" McGrath begins to crack up under the strain of his personal and domestic frustrations.

A student commits murder. He inherits his victim's estate. For a while, he is content, but finally his conscience starts to trouble him.

Three screen piece. "I was looking for a pure image, an image which was intrinsic to the medium of film. This film is not an abstract film; the subject is the projector gate, the plane where the film frame is arrested in the projected light beam, and the frame whose edges contain and divide the projected illusion from the blacked-out present of the movie theatre. W.R."

Travel through a history of transport by land, sea and air at a delirious speed.

A young woman's knowledge of Shakespeare helps her solve a five-year-old mystery.

Blinker, so named because he blinks whenever he has a bright idea for a new invention, is the son of an eccentric Professor who is developing a top secret Pulsar Crystal X. Blinker's inventions help him to be a successful goalkeeper and to keep an eye on The Masons gang - and some real crooks.

This chilling and provocative faux home movie presents the story of three dissidents and their plan to commit a revolutionary act on film. Bicât and scriptwriter Howard Brenton explore the consequences and co-option of political violence with hard, grubby directness and a pre-punk, semi-nihilistic attack on bourgeois values.

A film in three acts, each act prefaced by a short circus act. Act 1 – Cutting liver, Act II – Ironing, Act III – Plucking Eyebrows. Three potentially violent domestic activities performed by a woman. Jayne Parker discovered film as a medium when she was a sculpture student at Canterbury College of Art (1977-80). In early works, objects, performance and gesture were combined by the camera to explore space, duration and the physical body. The images in these early films were both literal and metaphoric, depicting exact events but also creating physical and personal associations for the viewer. Ideas are evoked in images rather than words; ordinary actions are also enigmas.

The kids decide to earn money by making jam from damaged apples, but disaster occurs.

When Mal Leyton's modern jazz quintet sets out to play an unlikely gig at a college concert, the musicians really need their legendary sense of humour.

As the general election is held in the UK, it's polling day for the Clangers on a small blue planet far away.

Interview with French director Jacques Tati, focusing on his on-screen persona, Monsieur Hulot. Produced for the British television series "Omnibus".

George Melly explores his lifelong relationship with surrealism in all its forms and prominent personalities.

A lonely gay man discovers friends, love and activism in this rediscovered educational film made by the Campaign for Homosexual Equality.

Fleets of UFOs roam around the Moon Base. One manages to land and is confronted by Colonel Foster who is then accused of treason for having collaborated with the alien pilot in an attempt to survive on the lunar surface. Foster flees, chased by security agents, while Commander Straker and Colonel Freeman investigate to exonerate him.

An evocation of jazz through photographs, words and music. Music by Johnny Griffin Quintet with Jon Hendricks and the voices of Art Blakey, Kenny Clarke, Jo Jones, Sonny Murray, Eddie Gomez, Bill Evans. Jazz poems by Langston Hughes and Ted Joans.

An experimental short film by Derek Jarman cuts together disparate footage.

A race is arranged after Magpie boasts about her pet snail. Paid to catch snails in the Colonel's cabbage patch, Fiddler later persuades Magpie's Mum to give her daughter's snail collection to a French restaurant.

Greenaway's profile of one of Savile Row’s best regarded tailoring establishments, Kilgour, French & Stanbury, placing Britain at the helm of cutting-edge style. The brand became synonymous with the world’s best dressed men including Cary Grant and Fred Astaire and, into the 21st century, Jude Law and Daniel Craig. Tommy Nutter, Kilgour's newly-appointed creative director, offers insight into how he achieves the perfect balance between conformity and change.

Songsmith Neil Diamond performs live with strings and horns laid on by the BBC, including hits such as Sweet Caroline, Solitary Man, Cracklin' Rosie and Holly Holy.

A man sits alone remembering his love affair with the girl his best friend won.

A translation to film of Raymond Williams’ 1973 book of the same title which traces images of ‘nature’ and ‘town’ through 200 years of English literature.

Made from the same footage as Epilogue but in a different order: 1. pan, 2. dissolve-crossfade, 3.freeze.... as opposed topan, freeze, crossfade-dissolve......very different in terms of filmic expectation, recognition, assumptions of anti-narrativity, all whilst watching these small fragments (each film only a few minutes long, each made from the (repeated) opticals of the same very short fragments of several seconds each....)....P.G.

Horse turned detective, and communicates with children, helping them to foil a dairy robbery.

Two egotistical superstars develop a grand passion which threatens to disrupt a West End theatre production.

Teenager Jimmy's life begins to unravel after the death of his father. With his mother promiscuous and his new stepfather and stepbrother difficult to get along with, he begins to fall into a cycle of petty crime and self harm.

Two Black South Africans discover what it means to lose their passbooks, which they must carry yo prove their identity during the apartheid era

A glimpse into the home life of a coal miner and his family. Frustrated with their lot in life, the family quarrel and squabble incessantly with one another in this adaptation of a DH Lawrence short story.

A supermarket offers free groceries to the winner of a Shrove Tuesday pancake race. The kids, after messy experiments with pancake batter, enter Susie in the race; she wins, despite the efforts of the unscrupulous "Mrs. Shove".

A BAFTA award nominated drama set in Norfolk in the Autumn of 1914 where we spend the day of his departure with a farm worker who has enlisted.

Karen and Richard Carpenter concluded their 1976 British tour with this specially-recorded programme. Songs include There's A Kind of Hush, I Need to be in Love, Close to You, Strike up the Band, Top of the World, Only Yesterday, I Won't Last a Day Without You, Hurting Each Other, Superstar, Goodbye to Love, We've Only Just Begun and Yesterday Once More.

Le déjeuner sur l’herbe is simultaneously perceived from four different camera positions in a work which engages with the pro-filmic in order to question documentation, illusion and the film viewing process.

Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman in myth. It asks, among other questions, is the Amazonian woman a rare strong female image or is she a figure derived from male phantasy? The film explores the complexities of such questions, but does not seek any concrete answers.

While Holmes is away recuperating, Watson is left to help a damsel in distress.

In the 1960s, as West Indians, Pakistanis, Indians and Africans began to arrive in Britain from former British colonies, race became a political issue. In the 1964 General Election, a swing to the Conservative Party in Labour’s Smethwick constituency and Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” speech on immigration four years later put attitudes towards ethnic minorities on the political and social agenda. In One British Family, made in 1974, John Pilger focuses on Gus and Julie Gill, who arrived in Britain from Trinidad in 1961. They now had three children and their own house on Tyneside, where they were the only black family in the street. “They take less from the social services than the equivalent white families,” says Pilger. “They’re not on any council’s housing lists and they’ve never been out of work.”

Two sworn enemies, one black and the other white, are forced to confront their prejudices when they are forced together by circumstance.

A look at Woburn Safari Park.

Joe Jackson Live at Hatfield Polytechnic, UK. 29 November 1979. Introduction 1) SUNDAY PAPERS (00:26) 2) ONE MORE TIME (05:22) 3) FRIDAY (08:12) 4) IT’S DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS (12:25) 5) DON’T WANNA BE LIKE THAT (16:06) 6) HAPPY LOVING COUPLES (19:45) 7) I’M THE MAN (24:11) 8) GOT THE TIME (29:20) 9) IS SHE REALLY GOING OUT WITH HIM? (33:30) 10) COME ON (outro) (38:37)