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Brain Trust Island

Date released

8 Aug 1938

Series name

The March of Time 4th Year

Issue no

3

NoS ID

352198

Story no

2 / 2

The March of Time synopsis: The Harvard Law School has been the parent of many New Deal braintrusters, but today attending first-year law classes at Cambridge, Mass., is a most unusual student, 36-year-old...

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Prospero’s Island (1963 Television)

Series

Word and Image

Director

Peter Mullings

Producer

Patricia Owtram

Six-part series, aimed at 15-18 year olds, about imagery in English literature presented by Professor W.M. Merchant. Episode four presumably deals with The Tempest. No further details know. (2/2008).

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Short-Eared Owl, The (1956 Film)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Activities of the short-eared owl on the island of Texel. Birds seen feeding, and at its nest, where the female is sitting on a clutch of six eggs. Shows the hatching of the young birds, the stages of their...

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Coal for Caldey

Date released

Feb 1970

Series name

Mining Review 23rd Year

Issue no

6

NoS ID

346478

Story no

2 / 4

NoS synopsis: Caldey Island, three miles off Tenby, the home of a group of Trappists, who use 40 tons of coal a year to produce perfumes and other toilet preparations

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Science Fiction Writers (2011)

Subject

Literature; Science

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 79 minutes), £10.00

This cd collects recordings of ten well-known science fiction authors from various BBC radio productions. Track listing: 1. Isaac Asimov. From ‘Outlook’. Date of broadcast: 02.01.1990; 2. Doris Lessing...

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Caliban Upon Setebos (1948 Radio)

Radio broadcast of Robert Browning’s poetic take on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, in which Caliban reflects on life, religion and human nature. The poem is read by Cecil Trouncer.

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Koyaanisqatsi (1983 Video)

Director

Godfrey Reggio

Producer

Godfrey Reggio

Subject

Anthropology; Environmental science

Distribution

OUT of DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min.

A personal view of America, with a strongly environmental theme, set to music by Philip Glass. (The Hopi Indian title word means ‘unbalanced life’.)

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Tempest, The (1920 Film)

Director

Robert N. Bradbury

Fiction short. A modernisation very loosely based on Shakespeare’s play. The hero is shang-haid, thrown overboard in a storm, finds refuge on an island and falls in love with the lighthouse keeper’s...

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At Home with Hurricanes (1981 Video)

Director

David Hayward

Subject

Architecture; Development studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Describes research by the Overseas Division of the Building Research Establishment to design houses suitable for low-income families in developing countries that will be strong enough to resist earthquakes...

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Bay of Mont St Michel, The (1979 Film)

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Discusses the tides and their influence on the sedimentation dynamics of the bay; the quantity and spreading of sediments; the main sedimentary environments of the bay, from the sandy sublittoral area to the...

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