The poet featured on Monitor, speaking about his work and life in Hull.
Originally broadcast 15 December 1964
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1YYHlsVRIw
15 October 1952
Charlie Chaplin - A 'round table' interview with a reluctant genius.
Actor, writer, director and choreographer Charles Chaplin answers questions about his career. Joining him for this discussion are film producer Michael Balcon, actor John Mills and critics Dilys Powell and Paul Holt. Chaplin refutes the claim that he is a 'genius', although the panellists insist that he probably is. He stresses the importance of music in film-making and laments the loss of magic in modern cinema.
Around the table were:
Michael Balcon
Charlie Chaplin
Paul Holt
Robert Mackenzie
John Mills
Dilys Powell
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90LfuvXI9Hs
Are there fairies on the hillside?
A tongue-in-cheek report from James Boyce on the fate of a rath in Cappagh, County Tyrone, which is threatened with removal to make way for a new road.
A rath is an enclosure of roughly circular form made with a strong earth wall, originally serving as a fort and place of residence.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D2OcTV2Xx4
The viewing public had two questions for Robert Robinson: Why does everybody on television start sentences with 'well', and why was The Monsters so rubbish?
This clip is from Points of View.
Originally broadcast 3 December 1962
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOpgUHEvVuo
In this extract from a local Northern Ireland programme, Jim Thompson speaks with great affection and pride about working as a caulker on the Titanic. He says he felt privileged to work on the steamer and truly believed she was unsinkable. He also compares finding out about the accident to hearing about 'a death in your own home'.
Interviewer - Helen Madden
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3VNURVfk7E
Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 animated short film by American cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay. It is the earliest animated film to feature a dinosaur. McCay first used the film before live audiences as an interactive part of his vaudeville act; the frisky, childlike Gertie did tricks at the command of her master. McCay's employer William Randolph Hearst curtailed McCay's vaudeville activities, so McCay added a live-action introductory sequence to the film for its theatrical release. McCay abandoned a sequel, Gertie on Tour (c. 1921), after producing about a minute of footage.
Although Gertie is popularly thought to be the earliest animated film, McCay had earlier made Little Nemo (1911) and How a Mosquito Operates (1912). The American J. Stuart Blackton and the French Émile Cohl had experimented with animation even earlier; Gertie being a character with an appealing personality distinguished McCay's film from these earlier "trick films". Gertie was the first film to use animation techniques such as keyframes, registration marks, tracing paper, the Mutoscope action viewer, and animation loops. It influenced the next generation of animators such as the Fleischer brothers, Otto Messmer, Paul Terry, and Walt Disney. John Randolph Bray unsuccessfully tried to patent many of McCay's animation techniques and is said to have been behind a plagiarized version of Gertie that appeared a year or two after the original. Gertie is the best preserved of McCay's films—some of which have been lost or survive only in fragments—and has been preserved in the U.S. Library of Congress' National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 1991.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i77e-lbvD-w
Terry Gilliam discusses the trials and tribulations of bringing The Adventures of Baron Munchausen to the big screen
This clip is from Wogan
Originally broadcast 13 March 1989
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke-ghAKePOY
1926-03 Liberal Party 1929 Election - The Future of British Industry
Thomas James Macnamara PC (23 August 1861 – 3 December 1931) was a British teacher, educationalist and radical Liberal politician.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWkyqMk70gw
Strange little fashion film from 1969 courtesy of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision via Open Images. From the site: “Dressed in a circle shaped plastic cape, model Joke de Kruijf gets on tram line 8 to The Hague at the Gevers-Doynoot square in Scheveningen. Somewhat later a similiar tram rides through Madurodam, where De Kruijf walks between the minature houses as part of a fashion show with clothing by designer Pierre Cardin. Also with a woman’s suit, jersey men’s wear, woollen checked men’s wear and evening gowns. Cardin looks on.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJt65BIcPS8