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Share Remixing Digital Archives: The Victorian Meme Machine (2015)

Subject

History; Information technology; Media studies

Bob Nicholson (Edge Hill University) discusses a project which he undertook in 2014 with the British Library Labs to find and revive thousands of forgotten Victorian jokes. His ‘Victorian Meme Machine’...

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Library Resources: Non-Book Materials (1982 Multimedia)

Subject

Education; Librarianship

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Reviews the special problems associated with the organisation and control of non-book material within the Library Resource Centre. It deals with sources for selection, organisation and storage (including a...

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Gulliver’s Travels (2002)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 206 minutes), £9.99

A star-studded television dramatisation of the satire by Jonathan Swift, adapted by Simon Moore. DVD extras include ‘The making of ...'

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What’s This Channel 4? (2005)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 75 minutes), £19.99

Starting with a ‘typical’ day at Channel 4, this series of three 25-minute programmes explores the way in which Channel 4 as a media institution works. The first programme (24 HOURS) takes the viewer...

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Pompeii: Life in a Roman Town (2013)

Director

Paul Elston

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £14.99

Television documentary. Cambridge Professor of Classics, Mary Beard, presents new insights into the lives of the people who lived and died in Pompeii, based on the discovery of 54 skeletons in a cellar in...

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Vodaphone Hq (2000 Multimedia)

Producer

Monica Pidgeon

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 25 min. 24 slides. col., 2001 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Michael Fletcher and Keith Priest’s largest project is the world headquarters of Vodaphone Airtouch, to be built near Newbury, Berkshire. Hitherto the company has been spread in 54 separate locations in...

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Natural Disaster Films 1905-1973 (2005)

aka: Natural Disaster Films - Earthquakes, Floods, Tornados & Hurricanes

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 150 minutes), $19.95

A compilation of footage of earthquakes, floods, tornadoes & hurricanes. Includes: 1936 PITTSBURGH FLOOD (PART II - PART I MISSING) (1936, 2:49, Silent); A TRIP DOWN MARKET STREET BEFORE THE FIRE (1906,...

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Colour of the Moment, The (1989 Video)

Director

Alain Jaubert

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £19.99

Discusses Claude Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’ in terms of the painting itself, the painter, and a palette of colour: pigment, composition and light effects. In his garden at Giverny, Monet created a gigantic...

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Len Lye: Rhythms

Subject

Art; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 47 minutes), £23.00

Collection of Len Lye’s experimental films accompanied by a 28 page booklet with texts by David Curtis, Roger Horrocks and Len Lye on his films. The films are as follows: A COLOUR BOX 35mm 1935 [4...

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Time Team (2010)

Subject

Archaeology; History

Since January 2010 Channel 4 has made the complete range of TIME TEAM programmes from series 4 - 16, as well as TIME TEAM SPECIALS and TIME TEAM DIGS permanently available for free online viewing via 4OD,...

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