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  1. Faiz: Poet in Troubled Times (1986 Video)

    Director
    Faris Kermani
    Producer
    H O Nazareth
    Subject
    English language and literature; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

    Looks at the development of modern politics in Pakistan through the eyes of its premier poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz who died in 1984. The story is told through interviews, poems, songs and cinema clips.

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  2. Online Storage and Retrieval (1984 Video)

    Subject
    Information technology; Librarianship
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videodisc. Philips Laservision VP705 or VP835. BBC Model B microcomputer with disk drive (40 track).

    An interactive videodisc describing the storage and retrieval of bibliographic information. It is based on a conventional training course for online searches. A ‘to camera’ presentation, set in a...

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  3. Harlan County (1976)

    Director
    Barbara Kopple
    Subject
    Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £14.99

    A re-release on DVD of one of the seminal films of the US documentary movement. Barbara Kopple’s 1976 Oscar winner profiles a miners’ strike in Kentucky that saw a corporation playing hardball against...

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  4. Beyond Famine? (1986 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    In 1974 world attention was focused on a sever famine in Bangladesh which killed hundreds of thousands of people. flooding in that year had destroyed crops and killed livestock, but when similar floods...

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  5. A J Cook, Miners’ Leader 1926 (1984 Video)

    Director
    Philip Priestly
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 20. min.

    Cook was national secretary of the Miners’ Federation in 1926. He is remembered by historian Paul Davies, Will Paynter, Dennis Skinner and Arthur Scargill. Comments on the General Strike are juxtaposed...

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  6. All out (1985 Video)

    Director
    James O’Donoghue
    Producer
    George Brandt
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Shows the activities of striking miners and the women’s support group during the period up to Christmas 1984 in the village of Penrhiwceibr in South Wales. Through an impressionistic combination of...

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  7. Desert Ecology (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Jolly
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Filmed in 1984 at the Chihuahuan Desert field station at Mapimi in Northern Mexico in collaboration with members of the Institute of Ecology (Mexico). Shows the main features of the desert environment and...

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  8. Land Use in Brazil (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Hugh Phillips
    Subject
    Geography; Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Looks at the use of land in Brazil and discusses how attitudes to land use can vary between groups as widely different as the small peasant farms and the massive state owners of the north east of Brazil....

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  9. Asthma and the Bean (1995)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 24 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Looks at how statistical techniques helped to find the cause of mysterious asthma attacks in Barcelona during the 1980s. Between 1981 and 1984 seven serious asthma outbreaks in adults were reported at...

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  10. Marina Abramovic: Video and Performance (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 116 min.

    A retrospective of selected video and performance pieces by Marina Abramovic, originally compiled to accompany her exhibition ‘Objects, Performance, Video, Sound’ at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford....

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