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Deep Diving with the Russians (1995 Video)

Subject

Geology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Follows an Anglo-Russian scientific expedition to the bottom of the Atlantic to investigate hydrothermal vents, or ‘black smokers’, in the mid-Atlantic ridge.

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Search for the Tunguska Meteorite, The (1967 Video)

Subject

Geology

Distribution

Special loan only, Videocassette. Standard formats. col.

At 7.17am on June 30, 1908, an explosion of tremendous violence disrupted the remote Siberian taiga several hundred miles north of Irkutsk. The film describes this event and the scientific effort that has...

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Great White Silence, The (1924)

Director

Herbert G Ponting

Subject

Film studies; Geography; Sports science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 110 minutes), £19.99

Henry Ponting’s extraordinary official record of Captain Scott’s legendary final expedition to the South Pole, fully restored by the BFI National Archive, with a new musical score by Simon Fisher Turner,...

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Reef Corals and Sponges of Indonesia (1990 Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 210 min., Free to educational users under the UNESCO Training and Education in Marine Sciences (TREDMAR) programme.

A video-based learning module on the biology of reef corals and sponges in Indonesia, incorporating the results of the Indonesian-Dutch Snellius II expedition. In six parts, covering reef corals, benthic...

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Eclipse 73 (1974 Film)

Director

P Lena; J Rösch

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The solar eclipse of 30 June 1973 was observed in Africa south of the Sahara. The film sets out the nature of the work involved in mounting an eclipse expedition both on the ground and in the air. The French...

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Breathing Deeply (1993)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 24 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

On a rain-swept Welsh mountainside members of the 1994 British Mount Everest Medical Expedition test their physiological monitoring equipment. Having retreated to the dry, the doctors describe the...

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Surrealism and Science: The Weird World of Jean PainlevÉ (1995 Video)

Director

Jean Painlevé

Subject

Biology; Media studies

Distribution

Out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 95 min.

A compilation of nine short films relating to surrealism and science made by Jean Painlevé between 1926 and 1976. Trained as a biologist, Painlevé made nearly 200 scientific films, but he soon became...

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Rough Science, Series 3: New Zealand Gold Rush (2003)

Subject

Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £15.00

A series in which five scientists follow in the footsteps of the original prospectors from 1860 and undertake an epic journey on the rugged west coast of New Zealand’s South Island to hunt for gold. Kate...

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Strangers Abroad (6 Parts) (1985 Video)

aka: Strangers Abroad: Pioneers of Social Anthropology

Director

André Singer

Producer

André Singer

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (6 x 52 minutes), £60.00 each part or £300 the series

Series on the first anthropologists to go out to live among the peoples who interested them. Retraces the steps of these pioneering anthropologists in the countries where they worked and, through their...

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