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Colours of Infinity, The (1994 Video)

aka: Arthur C Clarke’s Colours of Infinity - Exploring the Fractal Univese

Director

Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS col. 53 min., 1998 sale: £12.50 (+VAT +p&p)

A film about fractal geometry, retracing the steps that led to the discovery of the Mandelbrot set, with the aim of illustrating the implications and applications of the Mandelbrot set and fractal geometry...

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Playing Shakespeare (1984)

Director

John Carlow

Producer

Andrew Snell

Subject

Drama; Shakespeare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 500 minutes), £9.99

Television documentary series in nine parts in which John Barton, associate director with the Royal Shakespeare Company, works with RSC actors analysing how Shakespeare’s text works, examining the use of...

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Theatreland (2009)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £19.99

This programme follows the Theatre Royal Haymarket’s busy daily life from the front of house team dealing with the public, to the production teams backstage working to get a new production up and running,...

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Target for Tonight (1941 Film, Video)

Director

Harry Watt

Producer

Ian Dalrymple

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Illustrates the work of the Bomber Command in World War 2. Shows what it was like to fly on some of the earliest Wellington bomber raids agains Nazi Germany, following the fictional ‘F for Freddie’ on a...

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Another Five Numbers (2005)

Subject

Mathematics

A series of 15-minute programmes in which Simon Singh investigates the history of some of the most special numbers in mathematics - 4, 7, the largest prime, Kepler’s conjecture, and game theory

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Medi-Vision (Parts 16-26) (1995 Video)

Producer

David C Anderson; Robert D Mitchell

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 28, 34, 23, 38, 29, 59, 60, 22, 27, 31, 28 min., 1995 sale: £42.00 (+p&p) each part

Medical education programmes providing demonstrations of various aspects of the clinical method and clinical medicine. These programmes cover paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, cardiac cases,...

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Famous Friends (2001)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 92 min), £15.99 inclusive

A compilation of six films made by British Transport Films between 1952 and 1962. Volume 6 in the series.

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Nation’s Health, The (2005)

Subject

History; Medical sciences; Social Studies

A six part series in which Jonathan Miller examines the development of the nation’s health since the end of the Second World War. Since the war the nation’s health has improved dramatically but the...

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