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Hydrofoil Ventilation Research (1973 Film)

Director

John S Murray

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Explains how the ventilation effect on a hydrofoil blade travelling through water, can cause instability to the craft, and how a recent boat has been designed to use the ventilation effect to advantage....

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Dennis Potter at London Weekend Television, Vol 1 (2005)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 250 minutes), £19.99

A collection of three of Dennis Potter’s rarely-seen plays made for London Weekend Television in 1980: Blade on the Feather, Rain on the Roof and Cream in my Coffee.

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Chien Andalou, Un (1928 Video)

Director

Luis Buñuel

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. silent. 32 min., 1998 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

A surrealist short film (17 min) which includes dead donkeys on pianos and starts with a woman’s eyeball being cut by a razor blade.

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Flint Implements (1975 Video)

Director

Robin Ridgway

Producer

Clement W Bending

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 19 min.

Investigates the techniques used by prehistoric Neolithic communities to produce stone implements. Normal and high-speed photography are used to show the making of core, flake and blade tools and the method...

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Birdstrike (1978 Film)

Subject

Engineering; Technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Summarises the effects of foreign object damage particularly caused by bird ingestion to aero gas turbines. A vector diagram shows the effect of a bird’s impact on a fan blade. The various failure modes...

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John Lord, Flint Knapper (1995 Video)

Director

Barbara Farmer

Producer

Euan W MacKie

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 48 min.

John Lord, of Little Livermere, Suffolk, has spent more than 20 years perfecting his skills in working flint in the prehistoric manner. He is shown making nine different kinds of prehistoric implements and...

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Portable Power Woodworking Tools Series (9 Parts)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 18-22 minutes each part), £29.95 each part £199.95 series

A series of 9, 18-22 minute programmes featuring the most popular and useful types of woodworking tools. The student will learn the safe operation of each tool, the different models and their purpose, the...

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Nova: Secrets of the Viking Sword (2012)

Subject

Archaeology; History; Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $19.99

This documentary examines one of the most formidable weapons of of the Middle Ages: the Viking Ulfberht sword: a light, razor sharp, virtually indestructible weapon, with the name ULFBERHT inlaid along the...

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Portable Power Woodworking Tools (9 Parts) (1996 Video)

Subject

Crafts

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 21, 21, 19, 22, 20, 19, 14, 14, 25 min., 1997 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p) each

Programmes on woodworking tools, looking at the safe operation of te tool, different models and their purpose, the parts, choosing the proper blade or bit for the task and the various woodworking operations...

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Microcosmos (1996 Video)

aka: Microcosmos: Le Peuple en Herbe

Director

Claude Nuridsany; Marie Pérennou

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 72 minutes), £15.99

Uses cinemicrography, flying cameras and time-lapse cinematography to present a insect’s-eye view of the wildlife found in a meadow in southern France in summertime. Shows a bee gathering pollen; a...

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