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The first US Federal Government documentary intended to be shown publicly. This is a graphic description of the Dust Bowl in the Great Plains. Indicates steps already taken by the New Deal agencies to tackle...
Shows many of the salient characteristics of parts of the Appalachians, New England, the eastern coastal plains and Florida. Emphasis is on the form of megalopolis, the geographical and geomorphological...
This resource provides examples of potholes, rapids, waterfalls, gorges, meanders, braiding, flood plains and deltas, using video footage filmed both in the UK and abroad. These case studies, along with the...
Track A: DESERT LANDFORMS: MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS. Track B: DESERT LANDFORMS: DUNES AND CLIMATIC CHANGE. Introduces the great variability (climatic, tectonic, geological, edaphic and biological) of deserts,...
Begins with a vignette of a communicative misunderstanding in an office, demomstrating that a person who does not listen courts disaster. Dr Carl Rogers explains how the tendency to interpret messages from...
Beginning with archival film of the first human submersible (William Beebe’s bathysphere), shows how oceanographers gain a picture of the ocean floor. Shows modern submersibles, remotely operated vehicles...
Contrasts past and present conditions of the Dust Bowl area of the southern Great Plains. Shows newsreel footage of the area during the dust storms of the early 1930s. Interviews residents in Dalhart, Texas,...
Follows the fortunes of the farming communities in the Midwest of the United States, where they have been devastated by over-exploitation of the land. Profits have plummeted, costs soared, as the wells - dug...
Four Survival Anglia programmes from the 1980s on 1) PEOPLE OF THE GREAT SAND FACE: the Gwike people of southern Africa; 2) LAST KINGDOM OF THE ELEPHANTS: the remote Luangwa Valley in Zambia, which contains...
About the involvement of Meo tribesmen in the war in Laos. Shows a Meo (Hmong) village and a Shaman’s procedure for exorcising an evil influence, then continues with the effect of war on the Meo. These...
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