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  1. Scotland Calling: At the Empire Exhibition 1938 (1938)

    Subject
    Geography; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (154 minutes), £18.99

    A 2-DVD compilation of films made at and for the Empire Exhibition of 1938, which was held in Glasgow. DVD 1: Seven films made under the direction of John Grierson to spotlight Scotland: FACE OF SCOTLAND:...

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  2. Earthquake Connection, The (1983 Video)

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

    Concerns research on the land mass from which the British Isles was created and the links with earthquake activity in the Aegean area, possibly linked to the size of the British North Sea oil field.

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  3. Majes Project, The (1976 Film)

    Director
    Patrick Ashton
    Producer
    John Wiles
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows the importance of water to the people of Peru and how the lack of it is being overcome through the construction of an extensive irrigation scheme, which diverts rivers through tunnels and canals to...

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  4. Predator, The (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Kate O’Sullivan
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Recounts efforts by scientists to save the ‘Partula’, a Polynesian tree snail, which has been driven to near-extinction in its natural habitats by ‘Euglandina’, a rapacious meat-eating snail...

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  5. Colourful Notions (1985 Video)

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

    Looks at theories of colour perception. The tradition theory holds that humans see colour because there are cones in the eye which analyse the red, green and blue components of objects. Dr Edwin Land, who...

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  6. Memoirs of Women Who Went to War, The (2003)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 58 minutes), £10.00

    Eye-witness accounts by women who contributed to the British war effort during World War 2. Includes the Royals, the WAAF, the WRNS, the ATS, the WVS, the AFS, Air Raid Wardens, Civil Defence, Women’s...

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  7. In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2004)

    Director
    Martina Kudlácek
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 104 minutes), $195.00

    IN THE MIRROR uses excerpts from the films of Maya Deren, together with archival footage and interviews with disciples and contemporaries such as Stan Brakhage and Jonas Mekas and a score by jazz composer...

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  8. Maya Deren: Experimental Films

    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 47 minutes), £23.00 (Institutional use £60.00)

    MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON 1943 music by Teiji Ito, 1959, b/w, 15’ With Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid. Grand Prix International, avant-garde section, Cannes 1947. AT LAND 1944 silent, b/w, 16’ With Deren,...

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  9. Exodus (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Nick Rhodes
    Subject
    Environmental science; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Follows the progress of the world’s first Environmental Impact Assessment of the refugee crisis in Tanzania, where the second largest city appeared out of nothing as half a million Rwandan refugees set up...

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  10. Open Road, The (2007)

    Director
    Claude Friese-Greene
    Subject
    Film studies; Geography; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 64 minutes), £11.99

    In the summer of 1924 Claude Friese-Greene, a pioneer of colour cinematography, recorded life on the road between Land’s End and John O’Groats. This travelogue was conceived as a series of 26 shorts to...

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