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When the Mountains Tremble (1983 Film, Video)

Director

Thomas Sigel; Pamela Yates

Producer

Peter Kinay

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Documentary narrated by a Quichi Indian in Guatemala, who tells both her story and the story of the country as a whole from the military coup in 1954, through the growth of resistance and acts of terrorism...

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Stones and Flies: Richard Long in the Sahara (1988 Film, Video)

Director

Philip Haas

Producer

Philip Haas

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Follows Turner Prize winner Richard Long during a three-week walk through the volcanic mountains of the Algerian (Mauritanian?) Sahara in the autumn of 1987 creating sculptures from stones and scuff marks in...

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Western USA from Space (1980 Multimedia)

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, 20 slides. col.

The major regional contrasts of the USA. between the Rocky Mountains and the west coast are decisive and therefore clearly delimited by LANDSAT images. Includes scenes illustrating details of structural...

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Geography Series. No 5 (1975 Multimedia)

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 56 min.; 15 slides. col.

Track A: DESERT LANDFORMS: MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS. Track B: DESERT LANDFORMS: DUNES AND CLIMATIC CHANGE. Introduces the great variability (climatic, tectonic, geological, edaphic and biological) of deserts,...

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Mountains, Fountains and Implied Surroundings (1998)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL)

Investigates the use of the medium of television to make architectural ideas more accessible to the public in a collaboration between film-makers and architects. Focusing on Matlock Bath in Derbyshire, the...

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Capitan Reef, The (1984 Video)

Subject

Geology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Studies in detail the Capitan Reef, the largest known fossilised reef, which is preserved in the desert along the New Mexico/Texas border. It is illustrated by the Capitan Reef ‘diorama’ which was filmed...

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Wasting the Alps (1989 Video)

Director

Christopher La Fontaine

Producer

Christopher La Fontaine

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the threat to the Alps environment caused by pressures from tourism, the decline of mountain agriculture and acid rain. Show areas in Austria, France and Switzerland where efforts are being made to...

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Charcoal-Makers (1990 Video)

aka: Ta Karbouna

Director

Colette Piault

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £24.00

Describes the technical process of charcoal making in the Greek mountains of Epirus. The charcoal-makers, who have sometimes come from distant places with their families, rent themselves and their work out...

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Alexander: The God King (1996 Video)

Director

Christopher Mann

Producer

Christopher Mann

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Archaeologist Dr Tony Spawforth follows in the footsteps of Alexander the Great, from ancient Thebes in Egypt and the half-flooded catacombs under Alexandria, to the mountains of Turkey, to uncover legends...

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Runaway Mountain, The (1995 Video)

Producer

Alec Nisbett

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Traces the recent discovery of a new type of landslide, where millions of tonnes of rock can ‘liquefy’ to flow like water at the speed of an express train. Even though such landslides are common,...

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