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  1. Deep Secrets (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Andrew Crilly
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Whales can dive to a depth of up to 2000 metres, and they can stay down on a single breath for over an hour. Looks at reseach into how whales solve the problem of diving so deeply. Most of the programme was...

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  2. Flying in Birds: An Experimental Approach (1986 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at pioneering work into flapping flight of birds. In Bristol University for the first time accurate measurements are being made of lift and thrust of a bird in flight. In an experiment at Cranfield...

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  3. Swimming in Fish: An Experimental Approach (1986 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at how fish use different muscles for slow or fast swimming with film from the Marine Laboratory in Aberdeen, where fish have been trained to ‘race’ for a food reward. There are also sequences...

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  4. Aqueous Humour (1976 Audio)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 60 min.

    Structure of the eye, functions of aqueous humour, comparison of aqueous humour with plasma, secretion of aqueous humour, impairment of drainage of aqueous humour.

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  5. Muscle Contraction: Crabs and Controversy (1986 Video)

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

    After 30 years of research the actual mechanism of muscle contraction is still not certain. Shows a team at New York State University investigating the horseshoe crab, Limulus, which apparently disobeys the...

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  6. Thrombocytes: ‘Homo Sapiens’ (1962 Film)

    Director
    H-J Engel
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows the production of fibrin. An Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film.

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  7. Functions of Carotid Sinus and Aortic Nerve (1952 Film)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The carotid body, the aortic body; function of chemoreceptors; electrical stimulation of carotid chemoreceptors; chemical stimulation of aortic body chemoreceptors. Experiments on cats and dogs.

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  8. Muscle Contraction: A Biophysical Approach (1983 Video)

    Producer
    Peter Coltman
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 19 min.

    Muscle tissue is examined in a number of ways: under the light and electron microscopes, by X-ray and laser diffraction, in order to illustrate the way in which muscle works.

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  9. Development of the Newt (1957 Film)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Time-lapse photographic record of stages in egg cleavage up to gastrulation and formation of neural folds.

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  10. Physiology of the Spleen (1940 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Free loan to members, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 17 min.

    Experiments illustrating the effect of exercise, injury, shock, pregnancy, and lactation on spleen size of various animals.

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