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Films

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

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Cinema films of the atomic weapons trials at Bikini, 1946-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBLE 2/6
Scope and Contents

Also includes notes and a corrected copy of the commentary for film strips of "Operation Crossroads".

Dates: 1946-10
Conditions Governing Access: An access copy of this film would need to be made before access could be provided to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre. Please ask staff for details.
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"Clementine Churchill": "A Walk with Destiny", 1974-01 - 1974-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/1/242
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, mainly with John Le Vien, on his television adaptation of the first volume of Sir Winston Churchill's war memoirs, "The Gathering Storm". Also includes letters from Richard Burton, who was playing Churchill (2), and press cuttings on Burton's article saying that to play Churchill was to hate him.

Dates: 1974-01 - 1974-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence concerning the showing of films by Cambridge University History Club and Historical Association Film Group; with 1964 'constitution', 1963 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.VI.1
Scope and Contents From the Management Group:

The category - Student administration and support records - comprises records relating to student admissions at all levels, graduate students, visiting senior scholars, student careers advice and welfare, together with the records of clubs and societies.

Dates: 1963 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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GL Greece various 1970 -, 1970 - 1982

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/WDTR/3/2/18
Scope and Contents This file collates images from Lord Taylour's travels across Greece over a twelve-year period. Principal locations include Nauplia, Santorini, Athens, and Mycenae. Images of ancient historical sites and ancient Greek art, natural landscapes and geographical features, streets, hotels, views from rooms and balconies, museums, restaurants, town squares, people, churches, monasteries, castles, beaches, a marching band and procession in Mycenae, archaeologists working, mountains, a beach party...
Dates: 1970 - 1982
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"Into the Storm", 2009-01 - 2009-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 10/3/24
Scope and Contents

Correspondence on MS’s invitation to a private screening of the film (also known as "Churchill at War").

Dates: 2009-01 - 2009-04
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Letter about art and music in films and various social engagements in Cambridge, 1927-11-13

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH/7/1/10
Scope and Contents

He had been to see the film of the battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands. He had found the choice of music interesting and thought "a lot might be done to push the inernationalisn of art as a prevention of [post-war] unpleasantness between countries." He had been to visit Gow who would be examining him in January and been to tea at Girton to see Babbie Gough who was visiting and Gillian. With envelope.

Dates: 1927-11-13
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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Miscellaneous secretarial and accounting papers of Cambridge University Film Society, 1947 - 1971

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.VI.2
Scope and Contents

Include five modern reprints of photographs taken during the visit of the director Alfred Hitchcock who addressed the Society in Easter term 1966. The photographs show Alfred Hitchcock, Dr H.C. Porter, Fellow of Selwyn College, and various student members of the Society exiting i) Corpus Christi College and ii) King's College Chapel, iii) walking along King's Parade and iv) standing in front of an unidentified brick wall, Hitchcock scratching his chin.

Dates: 1947 - 1971
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Notebook of films shown to Churchill, 1942-04 - 1945-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WCHL 6/61
Scope and Contents

Copy of notebook kept by Joseph Hill with lists of films shown to Churchill at various official venues, also including copy of a photograph of the Long Gallery at Chequers [Buckinghamshire] set up for a film show.

Dates: 1942-04 - 1945-04
Conditions Governing Access: Also available on cd.
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Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1935-01 - 1935-04, 1935-09 - 1935-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/25
Scope and Contents Mainly "Chartwell Bulletins" [while Clementine was on a cruise aboard the Rosaura, to the Dutch East Indies, later Indonesia], on subjects including: work at Chartwell [Kent], particularly the use of the mechanical digger in the grounds and garden, work on the lake and island, and the installation of additional bookcases in Churchill's bedroom and the drawing room; progress of his film script for Sir Alexander Korda on the Silver Jubilee of King George V; the India Bill, family finances; the...
Dates: 1935-01 - 1935-04; 1935-09 - 1935-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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"The Gathering Storm", 1998-11 - 2003-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 10/3/23
Scope and Contents

Correspondence on MS’s consultancy agreement for the film.

Dates: 1998-11 - 2003-06
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Jack Le Vien

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LEVN
Scope and Contents

The collection includes correspondence, papers and photographs relating mainly to the films made by Le Vien based on Churchill's war memoirs.

Dates: 1929 - 1993
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Visits and meetings, 1988-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/70
Scope and Contents

Briefings for a meeting with Swedish newspaper editors (see also KNNK 8/24), on examples of Conservative policies, on housing and the Poll Tax, and for a dinner with Richard Attenborough on the film industry.

Dates: 1988-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.