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Heat and Dust (1983)

aka: Heat & Dust

Director

James Ivory

Subject

History; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 130 minutes), £19.99

A young historical researcher, inherits letters written by her great aunt Olivia and becomes obsessed with their revelations of her past in colonial India. Flitting between the present-day and the 1920s, the...

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Century of Change, A (2 Parts) (1987 Video)

Producer

Michael Leonard; Janet McBain

Subject

Anthropology; History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 61, 60 min.

56 extracts of archive film illustrating the changes in work, leisure and education which have taken place this century. Includes images shot on St Kilda in 1923 of the women gutting fish and hauling loads...

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Why the Enlightenment Still Matters Today (2012)

Subject

History

Video recording of the 2012 Joint Royal Historical Society/Gresham College Annual Lecture in which Professor Justin Champion argues why we would be wise to go back to explore some of the more radical...

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Heads and Tails (1987 Video)

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Explains the definition of the Riemann integral, and shows an application of the integral to the folowing tlwo problems: if you drop 200 coins, what is the probability of getting exactly 100 heads and 100...

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Springfast (1997 Video)

Director

Sherry Moran

Producer

Sherry Moran

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 10 min., 1999 sale: £39.50 (+VAT +p&p)

A case study showing how a business has used good business practices to enhance its competitive edge. Springfast, a producer of spring-steel fasteners with 56 employees, undertook benchmarking to gain the...

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Agelena Labrinthica ('Araneae’): Embryonal Development (1959 Film)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The stages of embryo development are made visible by keeping the eggs under a thin skin of paraffin oil. Superficial cleavage, contraction, segmentation and the formation of the limbs and of the body can be...

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Bauhausworld: The Utopia (2019)

Director

Lydia Ranke

Subject

Architecture; Design

How has the Bauhaus school of architecture and design, Germany’s best-known art school, shaped the world we live in today? This is a three-part documentary to mark the 100th anniversary of the opening of...

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Martha Gellhorn Interview (1981)

Director

Peter Davis

Producer

Peter Davis

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 30 minutes), £28.00 (individual rate)

Interview with journalist Martha Gellhorn produced in 1981.

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Give Us This Day (1978 Film, Video)

Director

philip Mulloy

Producer

Jim Pearse

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A dramatised account of the the nine years spent in England by Robert Noonan who, in 1910 as Robert Tressell, finished writing ‘The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists’. The film shows Noonan’s life...

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It Helps if You Understand the Accounts (1983 Video)

Producer

Gavin Nettleton

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

In 2 parts: each part shows a grocer seeking a loan of £56,000 from his bank to enable him to complete the purchase of the freehold premises next door to his shop in order to expand his business. In part 1...

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