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  1. Skyscraper (4 Parts) (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Karl Sabbagh
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 4 x 52 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) INCA (compilation video?)

    A record of the building of a 47-storey, 7OO-foot tall skyscraper, Worldwide Plaza, in New York City, showing the evolution of the project from the initial design through all it construction stages to its...

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  2. 21st Century Jet (1992 Video)

    Director
    Karl Sabbagh
    Producer
    Karl Sabbagh
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1993 price: £20.00

    The programme is about the Boeing 777, the world’s newest jet airliner, designed entirely in the memory store of a network of computers. The programme is following the design, construction and testing of...

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  3. Rebuilding Berlin (1992 Video)

    Director
    Cosima Dannoritzer; Karl Sabbagh
    Producer
    Cosima Dannoritzer; Karl Sabbagh
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1993 sale: £20.00

    Many technical problems remain in Berlin after reunification. Looks at how engineers are overcoming difficulties in telephones, energy, public transport and other technical systems.

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  4. Concerning Cancer: The Fragrant Smoke (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Gill Barnes
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Charts the rise of the incidence of lung cancer and other diseases associated with smoking in China, as the Chinese try to find ways to reduce number of smoking-related deaths. At the same time British and...

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  5. Race for the Top (1989 Video)

    Director
    Karl Sabbagh
    Producer
    Karl Sabbagh
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Features two competing teams of scientists as they search for the ‘top quark’ atomic particle, one of the fundamental consitutents of matter. Based at CERN (European Centre for Nuclear Research) in...

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  6. Towards a Cure for Cancer (1990 Video)

    Producer
    Karl Sabbagh
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 56 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) INCA

    Follows a year in the work of three American scientists, Dr Paul Marks, Dr Richard Rifkind, and Professor Ronald Breslow, who are developing a new treatment for cancer - hexamethylene bisacetamide or HMBA, a...

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  7. Letters from an Indian Clerk (1988 Video)

    Director
    Christopher Sykes
    Producer
    Christopher Sykes
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Charts the life of self-taught Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan from his roots in rural India to his work in pure mathematics at Cambridge University. Discusses Ramanujam’s relationship with...

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  8. Whispers of Creation (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Karl Sabbagh
    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Follows three teams of scientists in their attempt to map the ‘ripples in the universe’ discovered in 1992 - events following the ‘big bang’ that led to the formation of atoms, galaxies and...

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  9. Cleared for Take-Off (1994 Video)

    Director
    Karl Sabbagh
    Producer
    Karl Sabbagh
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., £20.00

    The programme covers the year leading up to the first flight. The Boeing 777 is the company’s latest attempt to stay ahead in the civil aviation field, in the face of competition from McDonnell Douglas and...

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  10. 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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