Should we set up a not-for-profit company and try
to distribute all TSE audio and visual materials?
I'd love to have both the Fiona Shaw and the
Murder in the Cathedral videos.

John Stewart


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Subject: Re: Shaw / Warner _TWL_ availability?


I don't have any answers, but I think a person to
check with would be
David Chinitz, whose latest book is on Eliot and
popular culture.  He
has been working on that for years.
Nancy

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Strange that it would not be available, having
aired so recently. I did
a quick check on e-bay -- surprising what can
sometimes be found there
-- but, unfortunately, the answer to your question
"can I help", is
"no".

I can sympathize though (for what that's worth).
I've spent years
occassionally searching for any format containing
George Hoellering's
1950's film of "Murder in the Cathedral".  Though
there's a book on the
making of the film, the film itself is available
no-where on line, and
not to be had even by pilgrimage to Cantebury
itself (as my sister
informed me after a recent trip there).  But at
least that is old enough
that the unavailability seems more understandable.

I saw the Shaw performance when it was in NYC (I
forget the year).  I
found it well worthwhile.  It is, of course, far
shorter than a feature
film.

Tom K

In a message dated 11/30/2004 10:00:46 PM Eastern
Standard Time, J
Pollard <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>Dear list,
>
>     I delurk to ask if anyone might have a
contact or a resource
which
>would help me to locate a vhs or dvd of the Shaw
/ Warner
collaboration of
>_The Waste Land_.
>
>     I know it was filmed for BBC2 and shown in
1995. It also won
praise at
>Cannes the following year. However, I can't find
it on Amazon, the BBC
shop
>(UK or US), or any reference to it for sale on
Google. Neither can I
find it
>in the ILL catalog at my institution.
>
>     I am jumping to conclusions, but I wonder if
Mrs. Eliot has
limited its
>distribution. If not, I'd be very grateful if
someone could guide me
to a
>source.
>
>     Thank you very much.
>     Best,
>     Jacque
>