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Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir (2014)

Director

Andrew Braunsberg

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £8.16

Film director Roman Polanski discusses his remarkable, often controversial, life and career with his longtime associate Andrew Braunsberg in conversations filmed during a time when Polanski was under house...

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Planet Hunters (1996 Video)

Producer

Danielle Peck

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Follows astronomers from Manchester, Switzerland and California as they scour the skies for signs of planetary systems other than our own. Recently other solar systems have been discovered with what appear...

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Electrochromic Devices (1999 Video)

Director

Mugur Enea

Producer

Mugur Enea

Subject

Chemistry; Engineering

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (PAL). col. 14 min., 2000 sale: £25.00 (+p&p) PAL

Electrochromic materials are characterised by a reversible colour change as a function of applied electric current and have many potential applications in a broad range of devices including smart windows and...

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Saltmen of Tibet, The (1998)

Subject

Anthropology; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 109 minutes), $29.99

Shot under extreme conditions, this film documents the ancient traditions and day-to-day rituals of a Tibetan nomadic community. Filmmaker Ulrike Koch reveals a realm untainted by the tides of foreign...

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Tunnel to the Beginning of Time, A: Experimental Physics at Lhc (2015)

Subject

Physics; Science

The particle collisions created at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland now involve energies never before achieved in the laboratory and may shed light on new fundamental particles and...

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World in a Water Drop, The (1987 Film, Video)

aka: So Leben Mikro-Organismen

Director

Pedro Galliker

Producer

Pedro Galliker

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Micro-photograpic footage showing the hidden world beneath the surface of lakes and ponds, examining the water flea ‘Daphnia’, the carnivorous plant ‘Ultricularia vulgaris’ and its ensnaring...

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Substance, The: Albert Hoffmann’s Lsd

Director

Martin Witz

Subject

Chemistry; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £17.99

Martin Witz’s documentary tells the story of the drug which Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann synthesized in a laboratory in 1943. The film follows Hofmann’s experiments with the drug on himself, the research...

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Angelica Kauffmann, Ra, And the Choice of Painting (1993 Video)

Subject

Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Angelica Kauffmann was a founder member of the Royal Academy of Art in London and one of the first women to achieve an international reputation as a painter, although today she is much less well-known than...

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Best of Springdance Cinema 96, The (1996 Video)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 75 min., 1997 sale: NLG 59.00 (inclusive)

Compilation of the best dance films and videos chosen from the Springdance Cinema 1996 programme and produced in 1995 and 1996. Criteria for selection included the camera’s forming part of the...

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Sirus Project, The: Towards a Determination of Which Weapons Cause ‘Superfluous Injury or Unnecessary Suffering’ (1998 Video)

Subject

Law; Medical sciences

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 8 min., 2000 sale: Sfr20.00 (+p&p)

The SirUS Project relates to the part of international humanitarian law that governs the means and methods of warfare. The project proposes that the well-documented effects of legitimate and conventional...

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