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  1. Restoration Stage, The: From Tennis Court to Playhouse (Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Drama
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 46 min., £38.00 (+VAT inc p&p)

    Traces the origins of the first Restoration playhouses in London from the example of French tennis court theatres in Paris. Shows how Sir William Davenant’s 1661 adaptation of Lisle’s tennis court into a...

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  2. Rover, The (1996)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 181 minutes), £67.00

    The stage production of Aphra Behn’s Restoration comedy ‘The Rover’, first performed in 1677, with interviews with Jules Wright, director of the Women’s Playhouse Trust, and a discussion of the...

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  3. English Garden, The. Part 2: A Pattern for Pleasure (1660-1725) (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    Looks at the influence of Dutch, French and Italian styles after the Restoration. Walls of trees and hedges became the vogue as did the use of statues and terracing. There was much interest in exotic plants...

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  4. Way of the World, The (5 Parts) (1975 Video)

    Producer
    Peter Duguid
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 4 x 52 min, 1 x 106 min.

    Five Restoration comedies adapted for television. 1: By Sir John Vanbrugh. 2: By Thomas Shadwell. 3: By Sir John Vanbrugh. 4: By Sir Charles Sedley. 5: By William Congreve, adapted by Robin Chapman. With...

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  5. Forth and Clyde Canal, The (1977 Film)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Illustrates the difficulties experienced in planning and cutting the Forth and Clyde Canal between 1768 and 1790. Discusses the canal today, dealing with the problems of preservation, restoration and use of...

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  6. Walbiri Ritual at Gunadjari (1969 Film)

    Director
    Roger Sandall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Describes the restoration of a large rock painting in Central Australia, with associated acts and dances. The ritual features the phallic ‘act’ of a legendary sexual hero.

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  7. Rehabilitation of Adult Hemiplegia (1978 Film)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows some of the techniques in handling the patients to achieve restoration of function on the affected side as far as the potential of the damaged central nervous system permits. Stresses the need for a...

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  8. Congreve’s ‘The Way of the World’ (2 Parts) (1979 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 54, 61 min.

    Professor Brooks clarifies the complications of the plot, and then examines the world Congreve depicts, the duel between the hero and heroine, the characterisation in the play and the writer’s style.

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  9. Treasures from the Past (1987 Video)

    Director
    Joe Seamans
    Subject
    Archaeology; Crafts
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min.

    Shows artists and crafts specialists preserving and restoring a Russian palace, a Dusenberg automobile, and turn-of-the-century carousel, the square-rigged ship Elissa, and a World War I Curtiss ‘Jenny’...

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  10. Managing Landscape (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Aileen Llewellyn
    Subject
    Architecture; Environmental science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23 min.

    Farming and industry have had a major impact on the landscape. Whether derelict land is restored, or areas of beauty preserved, is largely influenced by politics and finance but ecologists have an essential...

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