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  1. From Handcraft to Mass Production: The Gun Industry in America (1984 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    In America the gun industry was the first to move from handcrafting to mass production, a development which is re-created here with the help of a gunsmith, a museum of early machine tools and a late...

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  2. Putting Training to Work. Part 1: Britain and America (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

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  3. Navajos: Children of the Gods (1967 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The Navaho traditions as seen in Monument Valley in Utah and Arizona.

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  4. Navaho: The Last Red Indians (1973 Film)

    Producer
    Michael Barnes
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows the survival of the traditional way of life of the Navaho Indian on a remote plateau in North America. In particular, looks at various primitive methods of medicine, many of which white doctors claim...

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  5. Appeal from the Rainforest, An (1990 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 10 min.

    Shows the effects of mining in the rain forest. Davi Yanomami makes the first-ever visit by a Yanomami spokesperson to Europe, to appeal for acknowledgement of Yonomami land rights. He also collects the...

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  6. Koyaanisqatsi (1983 Video)

    Director
    Godfrey Reggio
    Producer
    Godfrey Reggio
    Subject
    Anthropology; Environmental science
    Distribution
    OUT of DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min.

    A personal view of America, with a strongly environmental theme, set to music by Philip Glass. (The Hopi Indian title word means ‘unbalanced life’.)

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  7. Points of Intersection (1979 Film)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Seven programmes looking at how European culture intersects with other cultures. Separate programmes show points of intersction with) 1) the East, 2) Egypt, 3) India, 4) China; and points of contact with 5)...

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  8. Falls, The (1991 Video)

    Director
    Kevin McMahon
    Producer
    Brian Dennis; Michael McMahon
    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1993 price: £20.00

    A cinematic portrait of Niagara Falls which over the years has come to symbolise the danger, power, beauty and finally degregation of America. The Falls have spawned a strange mixture of enterprises - from...

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  9. Aymara, The: A Case Study in Social Stratification (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    In Northern Bolivia, where the heterogeneous population is socially and economically stratified, the inequalities of a sharp class division between the Spanish-speaking mestizos and the subordinate Aymara...

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  10. Banking on Disaster (1987 Video)

    Director
    Adrian Cowell
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., 1998 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Documents the destruction of parts of the South American rainforest as the land is opened up by new roads and the forest is cleared to make way for coffee plantations and cattle ranches. As the settlers move...

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