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Canada Remembers (1995 Video)

Director

Terence Macartney-Filgate

Producer

Kent Martin

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 53, 54, 49 min.

Three part documentary which looks at the key steps leading to the Allied Victory of the Second World War. Contains images from the Natinal Film Board of Canada’s newsreel and stock shot libraries and...

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Let Glasgow Flourish (1956 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 16 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

The people’s protests against Glasgow Corporation’s proposal to sell of council housing stock on the Merrylee estate.

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Tuareg, The (1972 Film, Video)

Director

Charlie Nairn

Producer

Charlie Nairn

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Follows a group of Tuareg living high up in the Hoggar Mountains, at the foot of Tahat, the highest mountain in Algeria. Details, after some introductory descriptive material about Tuareg social life, the...

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Killer Fluke (1971 Film)

Subject

Veterinary science

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Discusses the economic losses in sheep and cattle which are caused by the parasite. Considers the external appearance of infested stock and the internal damage to their livers. The life cycle of the...

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Foxfield Railway: 50 Years in Steam

aka: Foxfield on Film

Subject

History; Transport

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £12.99

This is a celebration of 50 years of the Foxfield Light Railway Society. The documentary uses early sequence of films taken by Ken Snow of the very first days of the Foxfield Railway Society, from the...

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Coniston Muster: Scenes from a Stockman’s Life (1972 Video)

Director

Roger Sandall

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 28 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) (video)

On Coniston Station, north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia, cattle are mustered and yarded. The lease is held by a European, but the stockmen are Anmatjara people, whose...

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Csa: The Confederate States of America (2006)

Director

Kevin Wilmott

Producer

Spike Lee

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £13.99

An exercise in counterfactual history which explores what might have happened had the South won the American Civil War. Supposedly produced by a British broadcasting company, the feature film is presented as...

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Early Days of Local Anaesthesia in Dentistry, The (1962 Film)

Producer

H Heuser; E Stock

Subject

Dentistry; Medical sciences

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Covers the history of anaesthesia from just after the turn of the century when it was introduced as an alternative to ether and chloroform. Before it could be used in dental surgery the basic principle for...

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Shooting for Black and White with Allen Daviau and Denis Lenoir (1994 Video)

Subject

Film & television production

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1995 sale: £33.00 (inclusive)

Daviau evokes the spirit and dynamic of the black-and-white silent screen masterpieces of the 1920s by painstakingly recreating the shooting style of the period. French cinematographer Denis Lenoir creates...

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Jazz Age, The (1955 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Depicts with archive footage the social life and customs in America during the 1920s, and traces important historical events of the period. Part 1 includes the Harding political campaign and scandal, rise of...

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