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No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948)

Director

St John Legh Clowes

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 99 minutes), £15.99

One of the most controversial British films ever produced, this lurid crime drama caused an unprecedented storm of controversy upon release: local councils banned it, the Bishop of London denounced it, and...

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Poetry in the National Curriculum: Before 1900 (2000)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, CD-ROM (Hybrid), £25.00

This double audio CD contains works by poets listed in the National Curriculum. They include William Blake, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Herbert, Robert Herrick,...

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Early Textile Manufacturing Processes (1979 Video)

Director

Gordon Thomson

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 17, 17, 5 min., 1996 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

3: The last piecing machine to operate in Britain was filmed at Bridgend on the Isle of Islay. The piecing machine’s function was to join the strips of wool, produced by the carding machine, to form...

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Visit East Lothian (1963)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 67 minutes), £12.99

Three archive films about the historic county of East Lothian, its towns, castles and farms. A VIEW FROM THE BASS (1963, Henry Cooper, Campbell Harper Films). Take a trip to the sunny seaside resort of North...

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Politics of Food, The (4 Parts) (1987 Video)

Director

Peter A Gordon; Ian McFarlane

Producer

Chris Bryer

Subject

Agriculture; Development studies

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col 4 x 52 min., 1996 sale: £35.00 (+VAT +p&p) series (AVP)

1: Studies the high level of hunger and malnutrition in Sudan. 2: Looks at the relationship between the Western farmer and the peasants of the Third World and examines how decisions made in the US and Europe...

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Task Force South: The Battle for the Falklands (8 Parts) (1984 Video)

Producer

Gordon Carr

Subject

History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 8 x 30 min.

On 18th March 1982, a group of Argentine scrap-metal merchants raised their country’s flag on the island of South Georgia. It was an act that started a chain of events ending with Britain’s biggest and...

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Great Events of the 20th Century (1999 Video)

aka: Greatest Events of the 20th Century, The

Subject

History

Distribution

DVD

A collection of newsfilm covering 101 newsworthy events of the 20th century. Items are: 1) Opening credits; 2) Queen Victoria’s funeral; 3) Wright brothers’ first flight; 4) Suffragette dies under...

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