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Dunbar Wharf (1989 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Preview, Videocassette. VHS. col. 104 min.

Shows Dunbar wharf (a Butler’s Wharf warehouse), the last surviving wharf operating in London’s docklands to handle sacked goods, in this case juniper berries imported for the manufacture of gin. It has...

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Follow the Yellow Cake Road (1980 Film, Video)

Director

Michael Ryan

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Britain is importing uranium, or yellow cake, from Namibia. This is forbidden by the United Nations and appears to support the illegal occupation of Namibia by South Africa. Anthony Wedgwood Benn claimed...

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Golden Banquet, The: Politics of Food (2003)

Subject

Agriculture; Development studies; Economics

Distribution

Hire, VHS (NTSC, 2 x 28 mins), £7.00 + £20.00 deposit

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Britain Imports Coal

Date released

31 Jul 1947

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1713

NoS ID

040645

Story no

6 / 7

Extras

1 assignment sheet, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

South Wales town of Swansea which before the war exported vast quantities of coal, receives 9,000 ton shipment from America. Meanwhile, women displaced persons arrive from Estonia and enter cotton industry,...

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Australian Trade Commission in Salisbury

Series name

Rhodesian Spotlight

Issue no

8

NoS ID

351856

Story no

4 / 7

Rhodesian Spotlight synopsis: The Australian Trade Commission visits Salisbury when they visit the Finance Ministry and a Tobacco Factory. Rhodesian Spotlight Commentary - Most visitors to Salisbury are...

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Question of Balance?, A4: Learning at Work (1993 Video)

Producer

Pip Surgey

Subject

Education

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the question of learning at work. The context is that of the manufacturing industry where there are many different approaches to training. Looks at training at Vosper Thornycroft, Southampton, with...

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Blonde in Love, A (1965)

Director

Milos Forman

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 83 minutes), £16.78

Life in Communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s wasn’t much fun; and life in Zruc, a provincial town, was particularly bleak. There were 20,000 factory girls and not enough boys to go round. The factory’s...

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Power of Community, The: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)

Director

Faith Morgan

Subject

Agriculture; Economics; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 53 minutes), $20.00

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba’s economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half - and food by 80 percent - people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships...

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Wartime Winter and Summer, A (2006)

Subject

Agriculture; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £24.95

When the Second World War broke out Britain faced much more than a military crisis. Two-thirds of our food was imported, but these imports were immediately halted by the German blockade. If Britain was not...

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Foundations of Wealth, The: DVD 1 (2004)

Subject

Economics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 51 minutes), £64

'The Foundations of Wealth’ combines documentary film material and animation to present an introduction to economic principles. The series is structured around the activities of two people, cartoon...

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