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Lord Kelvin’s Clock (1982 Video)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 22 min.

About thermodynamics and the irreversibility of time. Deals with Kelvin’s attempts to establish scientifically the age of the earth. Shows the importance of steam power to 19th-century science and...

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Mind Readers (1996 Video)

Producer

Andrew Law

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks into the nature of the CHI squared stats test, the nature of statistical conficence intervals and the influence of sample size and experimental design on experimental results. Shows the work of Simon...

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Madame de... (1953 Video)

aka: Diamond Earrings

Director

Max Ophüls

Subject

French studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 96 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

French feature film adapted from a novel by Louise de Vilmourin set in ‘fin de siècle’ Paris. A countess has a pair of earrings given to her by husband. After a doomed love affair with a baron she sells...

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Misinformation (2010)

Subject

Media studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 minutes), £14.99

MisinforMation is the result of the BFI asking mysterious music makers Mordant Music to re-score an array of public information films and documentary shorts produced by the Central Office of Information...

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John Virtue: London (2005)

Director

Jake Auerbach

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 47 mins), £7.75

Documentary. Artist John Virtue spent twenty years in rural isolation as a landscape painter, first in the North of England and then Devon. In 2002 he responded to a request from the National Gallery in...

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Paris: Spectacle of Modernity (1993 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

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

Presented by three art historians, all experts on different aspects of 19th-century French art and urbanism. Each displays a particular art historical methodology: that’s the point. Francis Frascina...

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Comes a Horseman (1978)

Director

Alan Pakula

Subject

American Studies; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region free, 119 minutes), £19.99

Set in the American West during the 1940s, the film centres on a pair of little-guy ranchers who join forces against the depredations of a ruthless land baron determined to expand his empire at any cost....

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Whicker’s World Volume 2 (2009)

Subject

Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 400 minutes), £19.56

A cultural icon, consummate interviewer and guiding light behind some of the most popular documentaries ever made, Alan Whicker’s quiet brand of incisive, insightful television journalism has enthralled...

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People’s Century (Parts 25-26) (1997 Video)

Producer

Archie Baron; Angus Macqueen

Subject

History

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 105 min.

A history of 20th century in 26 parts as seen from the point of view of the ordinary people who have lived through the events. Includes interviews and extensive archive footage. 25 (producer Angus Macqueen):...

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Personalities of the Thirties (4 Parts) (1937 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

1 (1935): Stanley Baldwin emphasises the trade revival brought about since 1931 and urges people to continue its support of the National Government in preference to a return to party government so that the...

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