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  1. Museum of Modern Art: New York (2014)

    Subject
    American Studies; Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 50 minutes), £14.99

    The MoMA in New York is the first choice for aficionados of modern and contempoary art. Art collectors Abby Rockefeller, Lillie Bliss, and Mary Sullivan laid the foundations for the museum, which opened its...

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  2. Rubber Universe, The (1994 Video)

    Director
    Storm Thorgerson
    Producer
    Geoff Deehan
    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1998 sale: £19.95 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines the disputes surrounding the Hubble constant started 60 years ago by American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble. In 1929 he discovered that all of the galaxies are rushing away from us and concluded...

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  3. Search for the Tunguska Meteorite, The (1967 Video)

    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Special loan only, Videocassette. Standard formats. col.

    At 7.17am on June 30, 1908, an explosion of tremendous violence disrupted the remote Siberian taiga several hundred miles north of Irkutsk. The film describes this event and the scientific effort that has...

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  4. Surrealism and Science: The Weird World of Jean PainlevÉ (1995 Video)

    Director
    Jean Painlevé
    Subject
    Biology; Media studies
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 95 min.

    A compilation of nine short films relating to surrealism and science made by Jean Painlevé between 1926 and 1976. Trained as a biologist, Painlevé made nearly 200 scientific films, but he soon became...

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  5. Collectivisation of Soviet Agriculture, The (1995)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 46 minutes), £60.00

    The film uses the substantial documentary film studies on the collectivisation in parts of European Russia by Ilya Kopalin between 1929 and 1931, including the first experimental sound documentary on the...

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  6. Man Ray Films (1940 Video)

    Director
    Man Ray
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 112 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

    Four films by Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), Dadaist and experimentalist well-known for his photographic work. During the 1920s he made four films that established him as a major figure of avant-garde...

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  7. George Barber: Cinema Pioneer

    Producer
    Ray Johnson
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.99

    Made to celebrate the centenary of the opening of the very first cinema in the Potteries - Barber’s Picture Palace in Tunstall. There’s a history of film shows in the Potteries since 1896 up to the need...

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  8. Curtain Up: Remembering Edinburgh’s Cinemas

    Subject
    Media studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 63 minutes), £19.99

    In 1929 Edinburgh had more than thirty cinemas but was eagerly awaiting the opening of yet another one. This time it would be The Playhouse, a large cinema seating 3000. CURTAIN UP is the story of The...

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  9. Archive Pioneers: Saviours of Sound at the BBC (2010)

    Subject
    History; Media studies; Technology

    The BBC was nearly ten years old when it installed its first recording machine, but tapes and discs soon began to pile up in Broadcasting House. Through broadcasts, internal BBC interviews and recordings...

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  10. War of the World (2010)

    Subject
    History

    A 6-part series of 60-minute programmes in which Professor Niall Ferguson presents a major history of the 20th century. He argues that the underpinning forces behind the conflicts of the last century were...

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