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Edsac Film, The (1976 Film)

Subject

Information technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

In 1951 a film was made in the Mathematical Laboratory at Cambridge University illustrating the operation of the EDSAC computer which had been working since May 1949. The film was first shown at the First...

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Hollywood Librarian, The: a Look at Librarians Through Film (2009)

Director

Ann Seidl

Producer

Ann Seidl

Subject

Film studies; Librarianship

Distribution

DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 96 minutes), $275.00

A blend of factual documentary, feature film, and storytelling, the film reveals the history and realities of librarianship as depicted in American movies. Interviews with actual librarians, intercut with...

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Bathers, The, By Cezanne & Renoir: Modernism and the Nude (1993 Video)

Producer

G D Jayalakshmi

Subject

Art

Distribution

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

Shot in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the programme deals with the nude bathers that Renoir and Cezanne painted in the 1870s. The programme adopts a feminist angle in trying to understand how the nude...

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Three Colours CÉzanne (1996)

aka: Paul Cézanne

Director

Janice Sutherland

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 55 minutes), £17.99

Paul Cézanne is widely acknowledged as the ‘father’ of modern art. Although initially associated with the impressionists, his innovations in representing the natural world laid the foundations for the...

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Marcel Duchamp: The Large Glass and Readymades/Film Montage: The Projection of Modernity (2005)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 50 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

MARCEL DUCHAMP: THE LARGE GLASS AND READYMADES looks at details of the work of Marcel Duchamp who was a central figure in 20th century art. Several of his pieces such as ‘Nude Descending a Staircase’,...

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Art of Faith (2008)

Subject

Architecture; Art; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 180 minutes), £19.99

This series of three hour-long films exploring the architecture and art of Judaism, Christianity and Islam visits many of the greatest and most significant religious buildings of the world. Filmed in high...

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Greatest Speeches of All Time Vols 1,2 and 3 (2006)

Subject

English language and literature; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £17.99 each vol

Three separate DVDs each containing original footage of some of the most important and well-known political speeches of modern time by US presidents, politicians, world leaders and supporters that...

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Advertising on TV (Vols 1-26) (2005)

Subject

Business studies; Media studies; Politics & government; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 55 mins each vol), $20.00 each vol

A 26-part series covering in detail, with many examples, the theory and technology behind the development of television advertising in the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s. Many of the films were...

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