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  1. Birds, The (1998 Video)

    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS (PAL). col. 100 min., 2000 sale: US$269.00 (+p&p)

    A production of Aristophanes’ ‘The Birds’ recorded at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and featuring a professional cast using Peter Meineck’s modern interpretation of the text.

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  2. Now is the Time (1969 Film)

    Director
    Jim Crow
    Producer
    Joan Fiore; Inez Gottlieb
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The history of American blacks from pre-Civil War to the present day through the works of James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Stokey Carmichael, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullee.

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  3. High School (1968 Film)

    Director
    Frederick Wiseman
    Producer
    Frederick Wiseman
    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Examines a typical middle-class school in the United States, the Northeast High School in Philadelphia. Postgraduate courses in Education - student-teacher relationships*.

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  4. Hickory Stick, The (1960 Film)

    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A teacher takes a ‘creative’ writing lesson with a class of ten-year-olds. How she handles various situations and some of the kinds of behaviour she has to learn to deal with. The home backgrounds of...

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  5. Great American Railroad Journeys: Series 1-3

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1595 minutes), £45.50

    In this 11-disc set, Conservative politician Michael Portillo swaps his treasured copy of Bradshaw’s Handbook for its stateside counterpart - an 1879 edition of Appleton’s General Guide to the United...

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  6. Quest (2017)

    Director
    Jonathan Olshefski
    Subject
    American Studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 105 minutes), $295.00

    Filmed with vérité intimacy over the course of nearly a decade, Quest is the portrait of the Rainey family living in North Philadelphia. Beginning at the dawn of the Obama presidency, Quest Rainey and his...

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  7. Perception and Proportion (1980 Multimedia)

    Producer
    Monica Pidgeon
    Subject
    Architecture; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, Audiocassette. 25 min; 24 slides. col.

    Anne Tyng, long-time collaborator of Louis I Kahn in his Philadelphia office, is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. She says: ‘We see as a result of...

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  8. American Independence 1776 (1987 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Filmed on location in Philadelphia, looks at why the revolt of 1776 took place in what was an apparently a solid British community. Covers: Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine; the ‘Declaration of...

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  9. Edsac Film, The (1976 Film)

    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    In 1951 a film was made in the Mathematical Laboratory at Cambridge University illustrating the operation of the EDSAC computer which had been working since May 1949. The film was first shown at the First...

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  10. Hollywood Librarian, The: a Look at Librarians Through Film (2009)

    Director
    Ann Seidl
    Producer
    Ann Seidl
    Subject
    Film studies; Librarianship
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 96 minutes), $275.00

    A blend of factual documentary, feature film, and storytelling, the film reveals the history and realities of librarianship as depicted in American movies. Interviews with actual librarians, intercut with...

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