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Navajo Silversmith, The (1966 Film)

Director

John Nelson

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Traces the creation of some small Yebitchai figures, from the mining of the silver to the finished figure.

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Cuba Si! (4 Parts) (1962 Film)

Director

James Hill

Producer

Tim Hewat

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Part 4: A study of Fidel Castro, his relations with the Communist bloc, and the possible effects on Latin America of the revolution as viewed at the time.

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Remembering Wounded Knee (1992 Video)

aka: Re-Creation of Wounded Knee, The

Director

Paul Englar

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

How white Americans and a native American commemorated the 100th anniversary of the battle of Wounded Knee in which Sioux Indians were massacred by the US Army in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

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Sacred Harp Singers (1984 Video)

Director

Mark Brice

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 85 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A moving portrait of harp singers Leonard and Mazine Lacy. Sacred harp music is a kind of harmonised plainsong practiced in rural America. This film was shot in Sand Mountain, Alabama.

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World of Enrico Fermi, The (2 Parts) (1970 Film)

Producer

Gordon Burwash; John Kemeny

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A biography of Enrico Fermi, the scientist who discovered the chain reaction in nuclear physics. Follows his career in Italy and later in America, and his meetings with other scientists, including Mme Curie,...

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Points of Intersection (1979 Film)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Seven programmes looking at how European culture intersects with other cultures. Separate programmes show points of intersction with) 1) the East, 2) Egypt, 3) India, 4) China; and points of contact with 5)...

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Falls, The (1991 Video)

Director

Kevin McMahon

Producer

Brian Dennis; Michael McMahon

Subject

Geography

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1993 price: £20.00

A cinematic portrait of Niagara Falls which over the years has come to symbolise the danger, power, beauty and finally degregation of America. The Falls have spawned a strange mixture of enterprises - from...

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Aymara, The: A Case Study in Social Stratification (1994 Video)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

In Northern Bolivia, where the heterogeneous population is socially and economically stratified, the inequalities of a sharp class division between the Spanish-speaking mestizos and the subordinate Aymara...

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Spirit of the Navajo, The (1966 Film)

Director

Mary Jane Tsosie; Maxine Tsosie

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An old medicine man, Sam Yazzie, looks for roots to use in a ceremony. He prepares for a sand painting and part of the actual curing ceremony in which the patient appears is shown.

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Banking on Disaster (1987 Video)

Director

Adrian Cowell

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., 1998 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Documents the destruction of parts of the South American rainforest as the land is opened up by new roads and the forest is cleared to make way for coffee plantations and cattle ranches. As the settlers move...

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