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Rocks for Roads (1994 Video)

Producer

Nicholas Watson

Subject

Engineering; Environmental science

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Visits three quarries to investigate the materials needed for road building, where they come from and how they are processed. Environmentally acceptable sources are becoming scarce, and new approaches to the...

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Uk’s Changing Landscapes, The (2016)

Subject

Geography; Geology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 28 minutes), £49.00

This DVD provides an overview of the formation, geology, distribution and key features of the UK’s areas of upland and lowland landscapes. Through the use of diverse case studies, from Malham Cove to the...

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A Boat for a Fisherman

Date released

1961

Series name

Looking At Britain

Issue no

19

NoS ID

326945

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: One of England’s longest traditions is that of fishing the oceans for food, and most particularly, the fishing of her own coastal waters, in the smaller products of her famous boat building...

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Coast Series 1 (13 Parts) (2005)

Subject

Archaeology; Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 686 minutes), £39.99

Geographer Nicholas Crane presents a 13-part journey around the coast of the United Kingdom, uncovering stories that have made us the island nation we are today. He is joined by a historian, an...

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Antarctic Crossing (1958 Video)

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Free loan, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min.

About the 1957-58 crossing of the Antarctic continent. Tells how eight men of the Commonwealth Trans Antarctic Expedition’s advance party made landfall on the coast of Antarctica and established the base...

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Coast Series 2 - The Journey Continues (2007)

Subject

Archaeology; Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 480 minutes), £29.99

The second series of the BBC documentary that discovers the secrets of the British coastline. Includes the episodes Dover To Isle Of Wight, Holyhead To Liverpool, Arran To Gretna, Cornwall To Ilses Of...

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British Enter France

Date released

27 Aug 1942

Series name

Warwork News

Issue no

S15/3; Paramount Issue No.: 1199

NoS ID

156581

Story no

1 / 1

Fighter planes escort Army across Channel where they are scheduled to carry out raids on Dieppe destroying Nazi aerodromes. Convoy sighted by Germans and guns fire in Channel. Nazi bombers attack; shots of...

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In the Land of the War Canoes (1972 Film)

aka: In the Land of the Headhunters

Director

Edward S Curtis

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A romanticised saga of Kwakiutl Indian life on the northwest coast of America, filmed in 1914 by Edward S Curtis, who was already famous for his still photographs of Indians, and his writings about them. It...

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Oil Haven

Date released

1974

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

830

NoS ID

329071

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: One of Britain’s largest oil ports is right in the heart of an area of outstanding natural beauty - Milford Haven on the famous Pembrokeshire coast of South Wales. When the port was built the...

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Rural Industries

Date released

1976

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

935

NoS ID

329176

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Big cities and big companies are, by no means, all there are to industry in Britain - as Maggie Palmer discovers on a visit to the Isle of Wight, off England’s south coast. Nearly 70% of...

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