Brand, Neil

Overview

Works:	126 works in 169 publications in 8 languages and 2,118 library holdings
Roles:	Composer, Instrumentalist, Interviewee, Arranger, Editor
Classifications:	pn1993.5.a1, 791.4375

Publication Timeline

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Publications about Neil Brand

Publications by Neil Brand

Most widely held works by Neil Brand

The European pioneers ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1994 and 2002 in English and held by 210 libraries worldwide
A collection of early motion picture films from Europe, including works by Auguste and Louis Lumière, Robert W. Paul, George Albert Smith, James Bamforth & James A. Williamson.

Experimentation and discovery ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1994 and 2002 in English and held by 209 libraries worldwide
A collection of early motion picture films from the first 10 years of medium, including works by Cecil Hepworth, George Howard Cricks, John Howard Martin, Pathé Frères, and the Edison Manufacturing Company.

Piccadilly ( Visual )
6 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 185 libraries worldwide
Valentine Wilmot, the owner of the popular Picadilly Club finds his lead male attraction, Victor Smiles, has quit and that the public has judged Victor's partner Mabel as over the hill. Though they are lovers, Valentine must find another dancer to replace Mabel or face an uncertain future.

The best Arbuckle/Keaton collection ( Visual )
3 editions published between 2002 and 2006 in English and held by 165 libraries worldwide
A collection of 12 originally silent films with English intertitles and added musical accompaniment.

Chaplin at Keystone ( Visual )
2 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 146 libraries worldwide
Charlie Chaplin came to Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios late in 1913 as a little-known British vaudevillian. After a year, he had not only established his Tramp character, he also learned to write and direct his own films and achieved public recognition as a star comedian. The Chaplin at Keystone collection contains over thirty of Charlie Chaplin's greatest works.

The oyster princess a grotesque comedy in 4 acts ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 140 libraries worldwide
The Oyster Princess: a comedy in which a pampered American oyster tycoon plans to find a prince to marry his much-indulged daughter, but things don't go his way. I don't wanna be a man: while her father is away, a teenage tomboy impersonates a man in this gender-bending absurdist comedy.

The haunted castle the exposure of a secret : in 5 acts ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 133 libraries worldwide
A hunting party is interrupted by the arrival of a notorious count, who is believed to have murdered his brother. The uninvited guest sets in motion an elaborate plot to resurrect the ghosts of the past and bring secrets of his brother's death to light.

Dramatic notes : foregrounding music in the dramatic experience by Neil Brand ( Book )
3 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 125 libraries worldwide

War and peace by Лев Толстой ( Recording )
1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 107 libraries worldwide
A BBC Radio dramatizaton of the classic novel chronicles Russian history during and after the Napoeonic Wars.

The cat and the canary ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 96 libraries worldwide
The potential heirs to a large fortune gather at their benefactor's mansion twenty years after his death, but the reading of his will is interrupted by a series of disturbing events.

Starewicz's fantasies ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1913 and 1992 in Russian and held by 76 libraries worldwide
"Starewicz's fantasies, Wladislaw Starewicz's later puppet animation is now better known than his brilliant beginning at the Khanzhonkov Studio. He pioneered insect-puppets in The ant and the grasshopper (1911), before turning to live-action fantasy in a version of Gogol's Christmas eve (1913) and contributing to the war effort with an anti-German allegory The lily of Belgium (1915). 58 minutes"--Notes from publisher.

Provincial variations ( Visual )
1 edition published in 1992 in Russian and held by 71 libraries worldwide
"Jewish life was one of the exotic subjects covered in provincial films like the Latvian Wedding day (Slovinski, 1912). The remarkably bleak melodrama Merchant Bashkirov's daughter (Larin, 1913), set on the Volga, was based on a real murder scandal. 55 minutes"--Notes from publisher.

The Stan Laurel collection. Volume 2 ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 56 libraries worldwide
Collection of 21 silent comedy shorts starring Stan Laurel.

Les premiers pas du cinéma by Eric Lange ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2005 in French and held by 22 libraries worldwide
Historical survey of the development of color in motion pictures with early films included to illustrate the main points of technological and artistic development.

South ( Visual )
6 editions published between 1998 and 2005 in English and held by 21 libraries worldwide
South is the film record of Sir Ernest Shackleton's heroic but ill-starred attempt to cross the Antarctica in 1914-16.

Roald Dahl's The giraffe and the pelly and me : a play with music for children by Neil Brand ( Book )
1 edition published in 1996 in English and held by 21 libraries worldwide

South Sir Ernest Shackleton's glorious epic of the Antarctic ( Visual )
9 editions published between 1998 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 19 libraries worldwide
This is the film record of Sir Ernest Shackleton's heroic but ill-starred attempt to cross Antartica in 1914-16. It is both a unique historical document, and a tribute to the indomitable courage of a small party of men who set out on a voyage of discovery that turned into an epic struggle for survival. Frank Hurley first made his name on Douglas Mawson's Australian Antartic expedition in 1911-13. His stills and documentary film 'Home of the Blizzard' (1913) secured his position as Shackleton's photographer. After the Shackleton expedition he became an official war photographer and cameraman.

South Sir Ernest Shackleton's glorious epic of the Antarctic ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 15 libraries worldwide
This is the film record of Sir Ernest Shackleton's heroic but ill-starred attempt to cross Antartica in 1914-16. It is both a unique historical document, and a tribute to the indomitable courage of a small party of men who set out on a voyage of discovery that turned into an epic struggle for survival. Hurley first made his name on Douglas Mawson's Australian Antartic expedition in 1911-13. His stills and documentary film 'Home of the Blizzard' (1913) secured his position as Shackleton's photographer. After the Shackleton expedition he became an official war photographer and cameraman.

The Oliver Hardy collection Eight comedy classics, showcasing an American Slapstick legend ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 15 libraries worldwide
"Better known as the rotund half of the classic comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, Oliver Hardy had an early career as a solo silent comic. This collection of 8 silent comedy shorts reveals the evolution of Hardy's comic mastery as well as showcasing many lesser-known stars of the slapstick era".--Container.

Ich möchte kein Mann sein ( Visual )
2 editions published in 2006 in German and Undetermined and held by 11 libraries worldwide