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You Can’t Be Told: Teaching Communication Skills (1987 Video)

Producer

Liz Ashton-Hill; Nick Holloway; Liz Mackay; Geoff Richman; Marie Richman

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., £95.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Follows a group of student nurses as they use video to practise role playing conversations with elderly patients, with each other and with senior hospital staff. Two years later they assess their own...

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Britain at Bay (Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Special loan (film -IWM), Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 14 min.

Nazi Germany had swallowed Czechoslovakia, invaded Poland and Norway, overrun Holland and Belgium. ‘The future of the whole civilised world rests on the defence of Britain’. The film was probably edited...

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Fitting of a Mechanical Seal, The (2 Parts) (1971 Film, Video)

Director

Patrick Ashton

Producer

John Wiles

Subject

Engineering; Technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Part 1: Shows what a seal is, the importance of precision in production, and covers installation and operation. Part 2: Shows the fitting of three different types of mechanicl seal.

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Royal Ballet, The (2007)

aka: Evening with the Royal Ballet, An

Director

Paul Czinner

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 128 minutes), £6.00

Filmed on the stage of The Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in 1960, director Paul Czinner’s film showcases prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn in what was her first feature film. Partnered by Michael Somes,...

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Power Under the Clay/Diamonds Under Dirt (1972)

Producer

Ray Johnson

Subject

Crafts; History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.99

POWER OVER THE CLAY (1975, 40 min) is a documentary charting the social and industrial history of the area, using period illustrations, archive film and re-enactments to bring the past to life. It then moves...

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Britain at War: Under Fire (1991 Video)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 55 min., 2004 sale: £11.99 (+p&p)

Compilation of five films from the GPO Film Unit that illustrate the effect of the first two years of war on the British people. [See individual titles for synopsis details.]

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Subject to Contract: An Introduction to Land Law (1988 Video)

Subject

Law

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 23 min., 1996 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p)

An introduction to land law in the form of a situation comedy. It outlines the procedures in, and legal implications of, buying a house, illustrating the conveyancing process as the practical application of...

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Rome, Open City (1993)

aka: Roma Citta Aperta

Subject

History; Italian studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £15.99

Often seen as the true beginning of neo-realism with its documentary-style imagery and the authenticity of its performances, Rossellini’s classic tells the story of resistance under German occupation....

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Tenth Dancer, The (1993 Video)

Director

Sally Ingleton

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2000 hire: £6.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The story of two women dancers who survived the Khmer Rouge holocaust under Pol Pot and lived to to return to Phnom Penh and rebuild Cambodia’s the ballet school and retrace her pupils. Personal stories...

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Village Under the Forest, The (2013)

Director

Mark J Kaplan

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £39.50

Unfolding as a personal meditation from the Jewish Diaspora, this programme explores the hidden remains of the destroyed Palestinian village of Lubya, which lies under a purposely cultivated forest...

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