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Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice (1967 Film, Video)

Director

Asen Balikci; Quentin Brown

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire (film - RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (video), 16mm. sd. col. 33 min. (part 2 only) Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min., 1995 hire: £22.00 (+VAT +p&p) part 2 only 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The series shows how life used to be among the Netsilik when they still lived apart and depended on the land and their own ingenuity to sustain life through the rigours of the Arctic year. The filming was...

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Battle for the Planet (7 Parts) (1987 Video)

Director

Bo Landin

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, 2 videocassettes. Standard formats. col. 208, 156 min. Tape 1 contains programmes 1-4; tape 2 contains programmes 5-7.

A seven-part series with each programme presenting a personal view of a major issue, followed by responses from grass-roots groups in different countries, and concluded with discussion relating the issue to...

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Water Crisis II: Cyprus, China, Spain (2009)

Subject

Environmental science; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 41 minutes), £97.00

Three films highlight water shortages across the world. Film 1: Inner Mongolia has long been one of China’s driest regions; Film 2: In Spain the government is trying to solve its shortage by pumping water...

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Australia’s Water Crisis: Climate Change, Salinisation (2009)

Subject

Agriculture; Environmental science; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes), £97.00

Film 1 THE BIG DRY: Farmers in south-east Australia are suffering their worst drought in living memory. It’s a question of adapt or go under. Film 2 THE SALT PROBLEM: White settlers tried to use water to...

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At the Caribou Crossing Place (1967 Video)

Director

Asen Balikci; Quentin Brown

Producer

Quentin Brown; Kevin Smith

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale (video - RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 59 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The series shows how life used to be among the Netsilik when they still lived apart and depended on the land and their own ingenuity to sustain life through the rigours of the Artic year. The filming was...

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All’s Well That Ends Well (1983 Video)

Director

Trevor Nunn

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1981 production of All’s Well That Ends Well. Directed by Trevor Nunn with Peggy Ashcroft as the Countess.

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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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Climates, Landscapes and Life Series (2 Parts) (2003)

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 26 minutes each), £29.94 each part of £49.95 together

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Sea Change, A (2010)

Director

Barbara Ettinger

Subject

Environmental science; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 83 minutes), $250.00

Documents how the pH balance of the oceans has changed dramatically since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution: a 30% increase in acidification. With near unanimity, scientists now agree that the...

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Battle of the Ancre and Advance of the Tanks, The (1916 Video)

Producer

Geoffrey H Malins

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 67 minutes), £9.99

Official World War 1 film of the Western Front. Actual shots of men in the trenches. No heroics, slow-moving, mundane in style and yet greatly interesting on account of the reality of the situations and the...

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