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Real Dads Army (2002)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £16.95

Four films depicting various aspects of recruiting and training the Home Guard (Dad’s Army) during World War 2.

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Towards a Greener Planet (1986 Video)

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 20 min.

Assesses applications of remote sensing in problems of environmental management and agricultural monitoring. It follows on from AN INTRODUCTION TO SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING. Introduces the principles of...

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Managing Our Countryside (2 Parts) (1993 Video)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Free loan (F&F) Sale (LTS), Videocassette. VHS. col. 2 x 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p) each part

In two parts: 1) Looks at the areas of Snowdonia, the Norfolk Broads and the Cotswolds, and what impact human activity has on the countryside. New agricultural practices, growing tourism and pollution are...

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Eco: Unnatural Solutions (1985 Video)

Director

Paul Cleary

Producer

Vivica Parsons

Subject

Agriculture; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

A survey of the effects on foxes, otters, bees, birds, etc. of the effects of DDT, dieldrin, aldrin, glyophosate, lindane, paraquat, 2,4,5-T, ioxynil and phosphorus compounds. The dangers of spray drift on...

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Ghana’s Roosting Bird (2007)

Director

Miriam Rowe; Gemma Gander

Subject

Agriculture; Development studies; Economics; Geography

A short film looking at what Ghanaian farmer’s have to battle with. Despite plentiful fields, cheap imports and a lack of support from the Ghanaian government means that farmers cannot easily supply their...

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Terraces and Raised Beds (2003)

aka: Aquaculture: Synergy of Land and Water

Subject

Agriculture; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 27 mins), £15.00

Shows how Sepp and Veronica Holzer have cultivated 112 acres on a south facing hillside in the Austrian Alps in soil that had become acidic due to the pine forests planted all around. Out of this sterile...

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Science for Survival (1995 Video)

Director

Ani King-Underwood

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

In India ecologist Vandana Shiva argues that the introduction of high-yield crops does not taken into account women’s knowledge of seeds, fostering a type fo development that ignores people’s needs....

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Science for Survival 1 (1996 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A video-based teaching package that aims to challenge the stereotype that science is solely a western activity carried out by scientists, who are usuallly white and male, in laboratories. Uses the experience...

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Kenyan Small Farmer, The (1978 Video)

Producer

Pam Taylor

Subject

Agriculture; Development studies

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Twenty years ago some of the more arid regions of Kenya were populated by elephants and other wild animals. Now, because of an evergrowing human population, these poor agricultural lands have to be...

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Infection of Clover by Root-Nodule Bacteria (1973 Video)

Director

Chris C Doncaster

Subject

Agriculture; Biology

Distribution

Hire (film - HEFVL) Sale (video - BUFVC), Videocassette. VHS. col. 15 min., 1996 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Describes the normal processes of infection of clover root hairs by root-nodule bacteria and subsequent nodule formation. Shows the root-hair surface using scanning electron microscopy, the initiation of...

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