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Caravans of Gold (1983 Video)

Director

Mike Csaky; Andrew Harries; John Percival; Christopher Ralling

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min.

Illustrates and discusses some of Africa’s historic trading systems internal and external, with special reference to the traditional trans-Saharan caravan trade and to the maritime trading circulations of...

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At the Winter Sea Ice Camp (1967 Video)

Director

Asen Balikci; Quentin Brown

Producer

Quentin Brown; Kevin Smith

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale (video - RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 136 min., 2000 sale: £70.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The series shows how life used to be among the Netsilik when they still lived apart and depended on the land and their own ingenuity to sustain life through the rigours of the Arctic year. The filming was...

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Carl Gustav Jung (1959 Video)

aka: Professor Jung

Producer

Hugh Burnett

Subject

Psychiatry

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w?. 40 min., 2000 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

John Freeman interviews Carl Gustav Jung. Aged 84, he discusses his early life and studies, his friendship with Freud, his work and his conclusions about death, immortality, the soul, sin and redemption.

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Living with Progressive Quadriplegia (1987 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences; Social welfare

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 18 min.

An interview with a highly articulate 59-year-old man who has been suffering from multiple sclerosis for 15 years. His views on the quality of nursing care he has received are of particular interest.

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Soviet Newsreel Nos. 58-59 (September 1943) (1943 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Items include the first Moscow-Kharkov train for two years leaves the Kursk terminus; a tribute to the Kousbass coalminers; Moscow citizens harvest their allotments; Russian cameraman on the Leningrad front...

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King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons (2013)

Subject

History

Michael Wood explains the importance of King Alfred and his descendants daughter Aethelflaed and grandson Aethelstan, who became the first king of a united England. 3 x 59 minutes episodes.

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Being the Brontës

Director

Linda Sands

Producer

John Das

Subject

English language and literature

Martha Kearney is joined by author Helen Oyeyemi and journalist Lucy Mangan to mark the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë's birth by exploring the life and times of the author and her siblings Emily and...

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How to Be Right and Wrong (1997 Video)

Subject

Chemistry

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Cornforth overcomes his deafness to present an elegant account of how he and his wife, Rita, disentangled a historically important puzzle in steroid synthesis. Meticulous...

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Virago: Changing the World One Page at a Time (2016)

Director

Clare Whalley

Subject

Literature; Women’s studies

Documentary telling the story of publishing house Virago Press, which dared to set itself apart to champion women’s literature in an industry dominated in the 1970s by men. [59 minutes]

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24 X 36: A Movie About Movie Posters (2018)

Director

Kevin Burke

Subject

Art; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 77 minutes), £9.99

Documentary exploring the birth, death and recent resurrection of illustrated movie poster art. Through interviews with key art personalities from the past four decades, director Kevin Burke’s film aims to...

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