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  • 1961
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    The First Step

    The First Step

    1 1961 HD

    A child discovers her ambition on her first day at a new school. First act of a three-act ballet, "The Choice", with music by Tchaikovsky.

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  • 1955
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    Bride and Groom

    Bride and Groom

    1 1955 HD

    I now pronounce you... animated! Newlyweds meet a nuisance in an playful mix of cartoon comedy and real-life actors, including Roobarb legend Bob...

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  • 1958
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    Miss Thompson Goes Shopping

    Miss Thompson Goes Shopping

    7.00 1958 HD

    Adaptation of Martin Armstrong's poem about an elderly lady who becomes perturbed by something we can't see. It becomes apparent that she is looking...

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  • 1957
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    Old Aunt China

    Old Aunt China

    1 1957 HD

    Focuses on the drawings by Marguerite Bonnevay who lived in a village outside Paris at the turn of the century.

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    Coventry Cathedral

    Coventry Cathedral

    1 1958 HD

    A documentary feature with Basil Spence explaining, with the aid of a model, the concepts behind the design of the new Coventry Cathedral to replace...

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  • 1958
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    Tomorrow’s Today

    Tomorrow’s Today

    1 1958 HD

    This is a picture that paints a picture, in appealing colour, of the life and times of the children of late '50s London.

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  • 1964
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    An Untitled Film

    An Untitled Film

    6.50 1964 HD

    A BFI production from 1964, directed by David Gladwell, who is best known as an editor of films like Lindsay Anderson's If.... (1968) and O Lucky...

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  • 1963
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    Shirt Factory

    Shirt Factory

    1 1963 HD

    A musical performed by schoolchildren from a secondary modern (Markfield) in North London, combining lively dance to the sounds from a transistor...

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  • 1959
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    The Christmas Play

    The Christmas Play

    1 1959 HD

    Taking the lid off the creative process with a group of theatrically-minded 11-year-olds as they stage the nativity.

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  • 1953
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    Figures in a Landscape

    Figures in a Landscape

    1 1953 HD

    A documentary feature looking at examples of Barbara Hepworth's sculpture set against the Cornish settings that inspired them.

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  • 1964
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    The Maestro

    The Maestro

    1 1964 HD

    The Maestro is conducting Rossini's William Tell overture, but suddenly the music stops dead and he is unable to start again…

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  • 1963
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    The Blackhill Campaign

    The Blackhill Campaign

    1 1963 HD

    The fight of one village and its miners against the closing of the pit that is their main source of livelihood.

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  • 1964
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    Other Worlds

    Other Worlds

    1 1964 HD

    The worlds of the painter Le Douanier Rousseau and the poet Arthur Rimbaud form a basis for exploration of their works.

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  • 1956
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    Down to Earth

    Down to Earth

    1 1956 HD

    A film about a mysterious new boy who, in the course of a single day, rids his school of its bullying, gambling, laboratory explosions and abysmal...

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  • 1962
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    The Party

    The Party

    1 1962 HD

    A group of art-school students hold a party.

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