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Typeface (2011)

Subject

Crafts; Design; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.99

The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in rural Two Rivers, Wisconsin, receives very few visitors except for one weekend a month when carloads of artisans arrive to attend printmaking workshops led by, and filled...

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Copperworking in Santa Clara del Cobre, MichoacÁn, Mexico: Artisans Facing Change (1989 Video)

Director

Beate Engelbrecht

Subject

Anthropology; Crafts

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 52 minutes), £50.00

Santa Clara del Cobre is a centre for the craft of copperworking, a craft originating from pre-Spanish times. As in colonial times, copper utensils are beaten into shape. In the 1940s the industry expanded...

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Kings of Pastry (2011)

Director

Chris Hegedus; D A Pennebaker

Subject

Catering; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 84 minutes), $395.00

Noted documentary filmmakers Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker cover this, never-before-filmed test of France’s finest artisans as they work under constant scrutiny of master judges and the critical...

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Secrets of Nature Pioneering Natural History Films, 1922 - 1933 (2010)

Director

Percy Smith; Mary Field

Subject

Biology; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £19.99

A digitally remastered collection of 19 British films made between 1922 and 1933 that used groundbreaking techniques to share the secrets of the natural world with cinema audiences. The pioneering series...

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Signé Chanel (2008)

aka: House of Chanel, The

Director

Loïc Prigent

Subject

Arts and Humanities; Design

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 142 minutes), £24.99

Originally made as a 5-part television series, the programmes go behind the scenes to follow the creation of Chanel’s Fall/Winter 2004-2005 Haute Couture collection, from Karl Lagerfeld’s first drawings...

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