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Agony Aunt Margery Boobs (based on real life newspaper correspondent Margery Proops) has heard it all when it comes to sexual fantasies. Still, she finds her match in the unlikely “worried Streatham” when his sex life and weird obsessions call for expert advice.
Centred around the unwelcome visit of a happy young couple staying in a tent on a farmer's land, and the unforeseen consequences of their stay.
At Stamford Road in Dalston Junction of east London, the camera follows pedestrians, cars and birds while a narrator, who appears to be the director behind the camera, seems to instruct the objects.
A mad doctor (Paul Kirby) has created a woman (Clyda Rosen) from the body parts of various dolly birds, hence 'Dolly Mixture'. Upon being brought to life, she immediately embarks on a threesome with a passing Tax Inspector (Jack Gold) and the mad doctor's hunchback assistant.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the work of supply ships to North Sea oil rigs. Described by members of the crew, it focusses on the difficulties posed by the unpredictable weather conditions.
Live concert at the Rainbow Theatre in London, on May 5, 1973.
Sparse chapters from a mysterious, lonely life are witnessed from a passing train.
Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt to assemble raw footage taken by ornithologist Tulse Luper into a short film, in accordance with his notes and structuralist film theory. The footage consists mostly of vertical landscape features, such as trees and posts, shot in the English landscape.
Some ex-rugby players gather at a stadium to reminisce.. They meet a TV commentator to rehearse the discussion of the scoring of "the most momentous try in rugby history." Discord follows, when a lone voice declares that the try was awarded in error.
1977: Edgar Parker is about to emigrate to Canada. His wife wants him to stay in London for the Jubilee celebrations.
An experimental film by Derek Jarman in which male subjects are bathed in light.
Raban layers recordings of successive film performances in which he stands before a projection, states the date and time, and says "A camera is filming the audience watching yesterday's audience watching the blank screen. Sounds of the projection and the audience's responses are being recorded."
A film in four segments, which expose particular paradoxes of filmic reality by circular progression of images.
A short Sheila Graber cut out animation.
In 1971, Alan Schneider directed an historic video taped performance of Samuel Beckett's Krapps Last Tape, starring Jack MacGowran. The play dramatized an old man’s struggle to repossess his youth by searching through reels of audiotape. This performance was originally intended for television but never shown and subsequently put away and forgotten for nearly twenty years. The videotape has been restored and will remain a memorial to the late Jack MacGowran, Alan Schneider and William Ritman.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the ecology of European deciduous woodland and the diversity of wildlife it contains.
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
Two usherettes in a cinema foyer talk about boys and boredom and what they are going to do when they get home from work.
In this, the first of his 58 documentary films, John Pilger combines candid interviews and amazing frontline footage of Vietnam to portray a growing rift between the US military bureaucrats - "lifers" - and the soldiers who physically and mentally fight the war on the ground, the "grunts". By 1970, it is an internal sense of disillusionment and frustration born from this rift that is triggering the withdrawal of US forces from Vietnam.
Writers, actors, directors discuss E.M. Forster and his literary works.
Dan Farson, the great nephew of Bram Stoker, travels to Transylvania to investigate the facts, the legend and the business interests which surround Dracula.
Short documentary about the Kings Troop in London.
Ada the office Tea Lady wiggles herself and her clanking trolley backwards pushing open a fire door with her Behind. A critical smoking office worker supplies a door wedge and mocks the rules about keeping the door closed at all times. Due to carelessness they stubs out a cigar before they leave the office. After the building has burned down rescued sheepish Tea Lady Ada is subsequently seen being handed a cup of tea by a sympathetic fireman.
Margaret Drabble visits Haworth Parsonage and the Yorkshire Moors, home of the famous literary family the Brontës and the setting for Emily's Wuthering Heights.
The Royal Navy stumble across a drug smuggling racket.
One of Jeff Keen's diary films. Keen made many diary films with his daughter, wife and friends in the late 60s and 70s. These were edited in camera and used multiple exposures. They would then be projected in various combinations though usually as a four-screen. Rosa Canina was always show in the bottom right-hand corner
Unsold British horror television pilot for a proposed series entitled "The Fearmakers" is a ghost story set in Warwick Castle.
A woman is menaced in a house on a Greek island.
An elderly man takes a hypnotic journey through his memories in the moments before his death.
Sequel to the documentary ‘Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric’.
The first of these is the simple domestic task of washing dishes, and the second is the aesthetic task of filming the first task. I, the filmmaker, am the protagonist in both acts, controlling the two cameras, which record the action. - M.L.G.
Documentary following life on the Royal Navy ship HMS Ark Royal.
Drama documentary for the BBC Schools series Scene looking at London's Metropolitan Police, their role and powers within society and how society, specifically young people, view them.
Legends say that St. Brendan crossed the Atlantic in the sixth century. Tim Severin made the trip to see if the legend might be fact.
Experimental essay in film history, associating very early archive material (circa 1909) and studio shot footage in an attempt to provide insights into the way in which "film language" developed during the silent era, with emphasis on the process by which spectators came to be increasingly "contained" with the space time of narrative.
Directed by Michael Shoring.
Hancock, (who was voted Britain's best-ever comic 35 years after his death) leaves his home in Railway Cuttings, East Cheam, England for warmer, more challenging climes. He encounters the Australian natives on his terms having dragged his attitudes with him halfway across the world.
The first complete animation produced by Sheila Graber and set in her native South Shields. The film follows the adventures of a small boy and his cat as they walk through the snowy landscape, chase a Robin down onto the River Tyne and meet Father Christmas. The character of the boy is based upon Sheila’s nephew Nigel and the cat is based upon her own cat Whitey.
South Wales is an area of great natural beauty - from the Brecon Beacons in the north of the area to the rugged coastline of Pembrokeshire in the south. It is a land of attractive market towns and ancient castles, of hill and forest landscapes. This film covers many aspects of life in a region whose abundant attractions for the holidaymaker are made readily accessible by rail and road.
Enter the imaginative world of acclaimed sculptor Rolanda Polonsky, who had been a resident of Netherne Psychiatric Hospital in Coulsdon, Surrey for 26 years when this film was made. One of the positive aspects of her illness, described in the film as a schizophrenia, is that it "tapped a deep source of mystical vision and human feeling" which finds expression in her work.
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
The original 1979 documentary that introduced the world to Bolton steeplejack Fred Dibnah as he goes about his death-defying job demolishing or repairing factory chimneys, steeples and towers.
In 1973 Yorkshire public television made a short film of the Nobel laureate while he was there. The resulting film, Take the World from Another Point of View, was broadcast in America as part of the PBS Nova series. The documentary features a fascinating interview, but what sets it apart from other films on Feynman is the inclusion of a lively conversation he had with the eminent British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle.
The Tide of Traffic is a 1972 British short documentary film directed by Derek Williams, made by British Petroleum as a contribution to the UN Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm 1972. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Super 8 footage shot on location in Sardinia in 1975.
A compilation film about the complex railway systems of Great Britain, demonstrating the work and individual responsibilities of many departments.
British horror short from 1976.
A short documentary about the making of David Lean's 1962 film LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Some behind the scenes footage comes from the 1963 promotional featurette with a similar title but includes new footage, a new narration and adds an audio interview with the film's star Peter O'Toole.
An instructional film by Bruce Lacey.
Smoke bombs fail to dislodge an old busker who has taken over the kids' headquarters, an abandoned circus caravan. One of Magpie's hidden treasures, a half-eaten fish, finally drives him out.
Recorded at Ronnie Scott's in London in 1974 and backed by the Tommy Flanagan Quartet, Ella Fitzgerald performs some of her most famous songs, including George Gershwin's The Man I Love.
Life in Notting Hill Gate, concentrating on key problems like housing, welfare and drugs, and featuring interviews with local personalities.
A homeless pensioner tries to fathom the correct procedure to get a meal.
In rural New Zealand an alcoholic ex-soldier is desperate to obtain more liquor. His family try to keep liquor away from him.
Recorded as part of the Edinburgh Festival of Popular Music on 17th September 1976, 'Live at the Playhouse Theatre' gives fans an exhilarating view of Elton at the height of his '70s popularity, having just enjoyed his first UK #1 single with 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart.' This electrifying solo performance kicks off with Skyline Pigeon (taken from 'Empty Sky') before ending with a riotous version of 'Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)'. The setlist rips through classic after classic, including 'Rocket Man,' 'Daniel and 'Bennie and the Jets.' It was also the first time Elton performed 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' solo. Climbing on his piano and stomping his way through this virtuoso performance, Elton leaves every ounce of himself on the stage, in a classic concert that was to be the last time he would perform a full show for another 7 months.
Comedy about a pub theatre group seen as dramatic revolutionaries by an actress with more than her share of imagination.
A short film from the Children's Film Foundation (CFF) regarding some children trying to break in a new pony, before running into horse thieves. The source material comes from the 1948 serial Riders of The New Forest, re-edited into a stand-alone short in 1972.
Documentary on the work of jazz musician Mike Westbrook.
A look at Scotland's first country park.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary about the importance of paying strict attention to detail by managers, supervisors and staff.