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One of the whinges (sorry!! 'feedback') from students is the difficulty in getting videos. My terse response to this is that this course is about research skills and developing them (well that's my let-out). But that is a serious point - you need to select one film for TMA3 and then you have to think on what is available for the project. You have to develop time and resource management skills for this - more on the Project page.
We have come a long way since Tony Aldgate was writing up the course material over ten years ago. There are far more films of our period being shown on terrestrial TV, and also on cable and satellite - so a mega self help group such as that at the conference OUSA A420 is very handy (see Other Resources). Someone may have Cable/satellite and be able to tape - others may be able to copy tapes they have (not difficult - you need an extra VCR a scart lead and a blank tape - all legal, although the picture quality does degrade)
There are several extra places to locate videos (and now DVDs) - I know of one student who found the tape she wanted in a car boot sale. - but the following are a bit more reliable -
http://www.blackstar.co.uk/
Choices Direct - dvd movies videos films delivery uk buy find sells
http://www.choicesdirect.co.uk/
These two can search around for you for any videos you can't find listed. Don't count on it but I have had luck with them.
There is also the well known Amazon.co.uk Welcome
http://www.amazon.co.uk/
You should be familiar with your local video rental outlet, as the course material advises. But I find that one Blockbuster does not know (or care) what another holds. But here is their site
Welcome To Blockbuster
http://www.blockbuster.co.uk/
Do not forget that Public Libraries now usually stock - but do not always catalogue - videos/DVDs - but also they sometimes charge for them.
Universities and HE Colleges libraries often stock many videos/DVDs - so another reason to join your local one (see Other resources). They won't lend but you may watch them on campus.
If you are really flush with money the BFI can usually arrange a private viewing from thier archives!
But one video I do recomend you buy/watch is -
Century Of Cinema, The - Typically British / Irish Cinema:
"The Century of Cinema is a series of highly personal documentaries made by leading film directors throughout the world. It was produced by Colin MacCabe and Bob Last for BFI TV and Channel Four Television in association with a world-wide alliance of broadcasters and distributors.
Typically British was produced by BFI TV in association with Channel Four Television. Francois Truffaut once observed that the words 'British' and 'Cinema' seemed incompatible. In his celebration of 100 years of British Cinema, Stephen Frears shapes an elegant and witty riposte to this statement. (Well actually quite RUDE!) In discussion with other British film-makers, Frears explores the wealth of stylish and familiar images created by the British film industry over the last century. With Alexander Mackendrick and Gavin Lambert, Frears recalls films from the 1920s through to the 1950s. With his contemporaries Michael Apted and Alan Parker, he discusses the complex and unique relationships that grew up between television and cinema in the 1960s along with the love/hate relationship of British film-makers to Hollywood.
Typically British hosts a wonderful collection of extracts from great British films ranging from Hitchcock's Blackmail (1920) to Mike Newell's Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). "
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