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  1. Sound of Jazz, The (1957 Film, Video)

    Producer
    Robert Herridge
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Featured artists include Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Gerry Mulligan, Freddy Green, Jo Jones, Emett Berry, Doc Cheatham, Benny Morton, Joe Newman, Earl Warren, Dickie Wells, Lester Young,...

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  2. America in the Fifties: The Road to the Sixties (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    MacDonalds invents fast food and Detroit designer Harley Earl comes up with exuberant cars more like ‘jukeboxes on wheels’; the Russians shock the Americans by beating them into space with Sputnik. The...

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  3. Mysteries of the Universe (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC only). col. 120 min., 1999 sale: US$19.95 (+p&p)

    Looks at 20th-century advances in physics and astronomy that have led to greater knowledge about the universe. Explores the contributions of Hale, Leavitt, and Hubble, together with the new physics of space,...

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  4. Ephemeral Films 1931-1961 (1992 Multimedia)

    Producer
    Rick Prelinger
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    A collection of materials that use the promotional films of the ‘golden age of American industry’ top reveal the cultural values and social mores of this period of American history. Includes...

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  5. Howard Zinn’s Emma (2016)

    Director
    Bruce Grund
    Producer
    Bruce Grund
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 104 minutes), $350.00

    Filmed performance of Howard Zinn’s stage play ‘Emma’, a dramatisation of the life of Emma Goldman, the anarchist, feminist, and free-spirited thinker who was exiled from the United States because of...

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  6. On the Waterfront (1954 Film)

    Director
    Elia Kazan
    Producer
    Sam Spiegel
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Feature film. Concerns the fight to wipe out corruption in New York docklands. An introductory title extols the virtues of American democracy and claims that the story will show how corruption can be...

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  7. Baiting the Bear (1996 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    From 1940 to 1965 two generals, Curtis E LeMay and Thomas Power, controlled the nuclear bombers and missiles of the USA’s Strategic Air Command. It is now believed that they amassed a huge nuclear arsenal...

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  8. Einstein’s Journey to the Cosmos: Part 2: Contemplating Black Holes (2007)

    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 50 minutes), $195.00

    How Einstein’s 20th century theories are shaping 21st century science. Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein is universally considered one of the greatest thinkers of modern times, a man whose name is...

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  9. World War II: Sources and Analysis (1995 Multimedia)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    Personal views of what World War 2 was like for those who fought or lived and worked on the Home Front. Draws together personal letters, photographs, official documents and personal views. Case studies cover...

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  10. Forgotten Village, The (1941)

    Director
    Alexander Hammid; Herbert Kline
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Geography; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 65 minutes), £10.99

    Documentary examining the conflicts between the coming of modernization and the traditional culture of a small Mexican village in the early years of the 20th century. Alexander Hammid, famous for his...

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