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Colour of Britain, The (1994 Video)

Director

Pratibha Parmar

Producer

Debra Hauer

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £50.00

Successful British-Asian artists offer controversial new ideas of what it means to be British and, by extension, what constitutes British art. Features artists Sutapa Biswas, Chilla Burman, Zarina Bhimji,...

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Ecology (1997 Multimedia)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

CD-ROM

A multimedia CD-ROM to accompany ‘Ecology’ by Begon, Harper and Townsend, 3rd ed. (Blackwell Science, 1996). Contains tutorials based on chapters of the book, with interactive simulations and models,...

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Roberto Rossellini: The War Trilogy (2015)

Director

Roberto Rossellini (1906-177)

Subject

Film studies; Italian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 337 mins), £49.99

Limited edition Blu-Ray boxed set. Features ROME, OPEN CITY/PAISA/GERMANY YEAR ZERO. Special features: L’AMORE (1948, 80 mins), documentaries CHILDREN OF THE OPEN CITY (Muscardin, 2005) and INTO THE FUTURE...

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Shinjuku Boys (1995 Film, Video)

Director

Kim Longinotto; Jano Williams

Producer

Kim Longinotto

Subject

Sociology; Women’s studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Follows the lives of three hosts in the ‘New Marilyn’ nightclub in Tokyo, where all the hosts are women who have decided to live as men. Although young heterosexual women who visit the club often have...

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Broadcast News (1992 Multimedia)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

CD-ROM

A database of full-text, fully-indexed transcripts from news and current affairs programmes broadcast on CNN, National Public Radio, ABC News and PBS television and radio networks, covering US and...

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Giulio Cesare (1909 Film)

aka: Brutus Julius Caesar

Director

Giovanni Pastrone

Producer

Louis Albert

An abbreviated version of the play. Ball finds the picture disappointing, commenting on the poorly handled crowd scenes, unnecessary invented action, and primitive photography and acting.

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Condition Improving (1998 Video)

Producer

Tessa Livingstone

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min.

The final episode in the follow-up series to DOCTORS TO BE (1992), which followed ten medical students from selection in 1984 for St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London, to working in an NHS hospital in...

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Scrap Metal Giants (2011)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £17.95

This is the first in a series of programmes which will compare the various machines available for dealing with different classes of scrap metal. This programme visits five sites in the UK and Europe and...

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Inspector Calls, An: Video Pack (1997 Video)

Director

Stephen Daldry; Guy Hamilton

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £59.95

A video-based teaching pack on J B Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’, emphasising the play as a drama text. The video looks at staging and interpretation, and uses video clips from Stephen Daldry’s...

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Old Wives’ Tales (1998 Video)

Subject

Biology; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1998 sale: £14.99 (inclusive)

Asks whether it is right for women past natural childbearing age to undergo fertility treatment. Features 64-year-old Alison Cobb, who spent three years trying to have a baby using fertility treatment, and...

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