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Aranya Amrita (1991 Video)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1997 sale: £14.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

A dance performance about ecology, deforestation, popular resistance, women as organisers of social change, and the power of contemporary Indian dance theatre. Based on a dance drama created by the Manjusri...

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Foxtrot from ‘FaÇade’ (1997 Video)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1997 sale: £12.55 (+VAT inc. p&p)

A fully costumed performance of ‘Foxtrot’ from ‘Façade’, choreographed by Frederick Ashton to music by William Walton, danced by four students from the Royal Ballet School and recorded at the Margot...

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N/Um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !kung Bushmen (1966 Film)

Director

John K Marshall

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The medicine dance is one activity in !Kung life that draws people together in groups that are not shaped by family, band, or close friendship. The dance is essentially a curing ritual but is not solemn; the...

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Connected Baby, The (2011)

Director

Jonathan Robertson

Producer

Suzanne Zeedyk

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.00

This film uses insights from scientific studies to demonstrate how babies come into the world already communicating, social and able to engage actively with the people around them, by responding to other...

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Tune-Up at the Ship (1982 Video)

Director

Carole Pegg

Producer

Carole Pegg

Subject

Anthropology; Dance; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23 min.

A ‘tune-up’ of traditional folk song, music and dance in the Blaxhall Ship, East Suffolk. ‘Chairman’ Clive Woolnough calls upon those present to contribute. Instrumental music from Oscar Woods, Jen...

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Feet First (1996 Video)

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 11 min., 1997 sale: £35.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Describes a project at Blundeston Prison, Lowestoft, Suffolk, whereby inmates are taught to dance in order to work with children from a special school. Two groups of children visit the prison each week - one...

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Krishna in Spring (198 Video)

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

'Holi’, the Indian festival of spring, retells through music and dance the story of the life of Krishna, the Indian god of love and the arts. Krishna is portrayed through poetry and songs, dance drama and...

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Health (1999 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale - see BEYOND RED, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

Three 8-minute films: 1) FIGHTING AIDS: The thriving industrial town of Verkhnaya Salda has been devastated by an AIDS epidemic. Economic crisis has led to the total collapse of social welfare systems and...

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Face Values. Part 7: Body and Soul (1978 Film)

Director

David Cordingley

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The series attempts to present social anthropology to a wide audience and aims to show the basic similarities between people of different cultures and to suggest, through the deployment of material from...

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Power to the People: British Music Videos 1966-2016 (2018)

aka: British Music Video 1966-2016

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 900 minutes), £32.99

This DVD collection, which contains 200 of the most influential music videos produced in Britain, is the result of a three-year university research project in partnership with the British Library and the...

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