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Candle Power

Date released

1952

Series name

Oil Review

Issue no

15

NoS ID

349314

Story no

1 / 2

NFA Summary - the making of household, church and decorative candles BP synopsis: The history and production of candles. Explaining how candles are made from crude oil and the purification process, and the...

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'Cat’ for the ‘Catcracker’

Date released

1953

Series name

Unilever Magazine

Issue no

3

NoS ID

349873

Story no

2 / 3

BFI Summary - chemical plant at Warrington making catalysts for breaking down crude oil NWFA synopsis: building of the oil refinery at Warrington - involvement of Joseph Crossfields in supplying the silicone...

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Organic Chemistry (2 Parts) (1989 Video)

Producer

Oliver Ryan

Subject

Chemistry

Distribution

Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 2 x 60 min., £20 each part

Shows chemistry techniques involved in the Leaving Certificate chemistry syllabus and is designed to help pupils with their own practical work and also as a revision aid. Part 1 demonstrates the laboratory...

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Environmental Control in the North Sea (1993 Video)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

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

Looks at waste and water management aboard a North Sea oil platform. Considers not just the inevitable solid and liquid wastes of the accommodation for several hundred workers, but the complex industrial...

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Glass (5 Parts) (1986 Video)

Producer

John Alexander; Paul Simons

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 25 min.

Part 1: The nature of glass, how it is made and shaped into a vast range of designs - from primitive beads to rococo Venetian glass. The way the first crude glass was formed and how this same underlying...

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Jubal (1955 Film)

Director

Delmer Daves

Producer

William Fadiman

Feature film western based loosely on the plot of Othello. Jubal Troop is found injured by rancher Shep Horgan and given a job as a cow-hand. Jubal soon finds himself admired by Mae, Shep’s wife. Mae has...

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Tar Sands Trilogy

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £14.99

These films address the huge environmental impact of the Tar Sands developments in Alberta Canada. DIRTY OIL (2010): Deep behind-the-scenes into the strip-mined world of Alberta, Canada, where the vast and...

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Alice (2011)

aka: N Co z Alenky

Director

Jan Svankmajer

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £19.99

Jan Švankmajer’s award-winning ALICE is a distinctly disturbing and creepy interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s perennial literary classic, yet it is perhaps the closest to the original work. Combining a...

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Those Long Forgotten Days!

Date released

9 Jan 1930

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

449

NoS ID

332325

Story no

4 / 6

NoS Summary - fashions today and twenty-five years ago. British Pathe synopsis: "Twenty-five years ago, when flickering figures glided jerkily across our crude screens - " Shot of women in old-fashioned...

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Lucy Meets Orson Welles (1956 Television)

Series

I Love Lucy

Director

James V. Kern

Television sitcom. When Lucy learns that Orson Welles is doing a benefit show at Ricky’s club, she desperately wants to act the role of Juliet to Welles’s Romeo. Ricky doesn’t want Lucy to have the job...

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