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Sirus Project, The: Towards a Determination of Which Weapons Cause ‘Superfluous Injury or Unnecessary Suffering’ (1998 Video)

Subject

Law; Medical sciences

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 8 min., 2000 sale: Sfr20.00 (+p&p)

The SirUS Project relates to the part of international humanitarian law that governs the means and methods of warfare. The project proposes that the well-documented effects of legitimate and conventional...

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Val d’Herens: An Alpine Community in Change (1972 Film, Video)

Director

W John Allen; Michael J Clark

Producer

W John Allen; Michael J Clark

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Provides a context to examine the complexity of apparently simple ‘primitive’ economies and to demonstrate that change is an integral part of any dynamic way of life not just an unfortunate...

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There Ain’t Nothing Nowhere (1997 Video)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 59 min., 1997 sale: £25.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

A discussion with a small group including schoolchildren, exploring the structure of the vacuum, led by Professor David Miller. Looks at particle scatter in a vacuum, structures inside atoms, the Heisenberg...

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Loners (2001)

Subject

Chemistry

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 10 minutes), £ 15 per item or £ 100 for the whole set (inclusive)

One of a series of 13 short films about remarkable scientific discoveries by Nobel prizewinners and their colleagues. This programme looks at the work of three Nobel winners: Sweden’s Gustav Dalén makes...

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Balthus the Painter (1997 Video)

Director

Mark Kidel

Producer

Emma Crichton-Miller

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 58 minutes), £14.95

Profile of the painter Balthus (Count Balthasar Klossowski de Rola), born in Paris in 1908. Chronicles his life and traces the themes and motifs which recur in his work: young girls, knowing cats, spare...

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Principles of Tibetan Medicine, The (1985 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 300 min., 1997 sale: £57.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

In Rikon, Switzerland, Dr Tenzin Choedak, personal physician to the Dalai Lama gives a series of three talks covering the underlying causes of illness, diagnosis and treatment in traditional Buddhist...

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Heinrich IV (2002 Video)

aka: Henry IV

Director

Stefan Pucher

A videotaped recording, using a single camera, of Henry IV for the Schauspielhaus, Zurich directed by Stefan Pucher. Peter Brombacher is Henry.

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Shakespeare and Switzerland (1995 Radio)

aka: Hamlet in the Wild West

Producer

D. Minshull

Radio programme. Two writers relate tales from abroad. Julian Barnes describes thespian adventures in the American heartland. Christopher Hope in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Rich describes high...

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Switzerland. A Sporting Monarch

Date released

12 Jan 1928

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

855-1

NoS ID

131757

Story no

4 / 6

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "The King of Belgium enjoys the thrills of a bob-sleigh run at St Moritz." King Albert arrives at the run in an open sleigh, then takes his place as the second man on a four-man bob. They set...

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Silk, Muthappar and Vhs: Portraits from South India (1997 Video)

aka: Seide, Muthappar und Vhs: Portr‰ts aus SÜdindien

Director

Damaris Lüthi

Producer

Ulrich Grossenbacher

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 63 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Presents three portraits of ‘ordinary’ people in the town of Nagercoil, southern India: Mala, a young weaver sharing a one-bedroom house with nine siblings, with a daily routine that revolves around the...

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