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Newton’s Revolution (1994)

Producer

Michael Peet

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 29 minutes), £79.99

The earth revolves, and the question arises, how come if you jump up you don’t land somewhere else? Two academics guide the viewer away from the intuitive reasoning of the ancient Greeks to the scientific...

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Incredible Shrinking Chip, The (2000)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 29 minutes), £79.99

Looks at the history of the semiconductor transistor, the silicon chip that controls computers, mobile phones and many other electical products. Talks to Gordon Moore, a found of semiconductor manufacturer...

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Helmut Newton (1988)

aka: Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge

Director

Adrian Maben

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 100 minutes), £17.99

Documents the work and lifestyle of Australian photographer Helmut Newton in Paris, Los Angeles and Monte Carlo. Shows not only his art but also the business of his art and how he gathers about him the rich,...

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Secret People (1952)

Director

Thorold Dickinson

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £15.99

Crime drama set in the 1930s and starring Valentina Cortese and a young Audrey Hepburn. Maria and her younger sister Nora flee to London after their political activist father is murdered by a European...

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Firebird, The and les Noces (2002)

aka: Stravinsky Staged

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 145 min), £24.99

A performance by the Royal Ballet filmed live at the Royal Opera House in 2001 and broadcast on BBC2 on 26/1/02 under the title STRAVINSKY STAGED. The principals in The Firebird are Leanne Benjamin and...

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Waving Not Drowning (2000)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 29 minutes), £79.99

Uses the story of two Cornish fishermen to illustrate the physics they rely on. New fishing techniques such as pair-trawling require essential communication between boats. Even small boats now carry...

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Ame Kaizen Blitz, The Video (2002)

aka: Kaizen Blitz, The Video

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £95.00

Inside an Association of Manufacturing Excellence Kaizen Blitz process as experts from within host companies and participants from outside companies join together to implement the Kaizen Blitz. The team are...

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Bernard Leach & Barbara Hepworth

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 52 minutes), £10.00

A DVD produced from the South West Film & Television Archive (SWFTA). During the sixties the local South West TV company Westward Television produced a documentary TV programme about each of these artists....

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Turn of the Screw, The (2000)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 92 minutes), £12.99

A television adaptation by Nick Dear of the Henry James novella, in which a governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.

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Critical Social Work Practice (2009)

Subject

Social welfare

This series of 25 audio tracks looks at social work practice around the world and compares attitudes and management techniques within the social work field. Material is taken from The Open University Course...

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