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Dancers - Grotesque and Dainty. (from "Victoria Vanities", Victoria Palace, London.)

Date released

16 Oct 1930

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

489

NoS ID

332553

Story no

2 / 5

NoS Summary - routines from the show "Victoria Vanities" at the Victoria Palace in London, starring Laurie Devine. NoS synopsis: ""Beauties and the Beast." - a jocular contrast, with the English Dancing...

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Prrs (Blue Eared Pig Disease) (2 Parts) (1991 Audio)

Subject

Veterinary science

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 2 x 60 min., 1997 sale: £12.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

1: A recording of a telephone conference on blue-eared pig desease held on 12 September 1991. Principal contributors are P W Blackburn, Dr De Jong, Dr M J Meredith, Dr Van der Veld and Dr G Wensvoort. 2: A...

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Drug Trial That Went Wrong, The (2006)

Director

Karen Edwards

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £20.00

An investigation into the drug trial performed in at a private unit in London’s Northwick Park Hospital in March 2006 on behalf of a small German drug company. After being given an experimental...

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Kawelka, The: Ongka’s Big Moka (1974 Film, Video)

Director

Charlie Nairn

Producer

Charlie Nairn

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

In Papua New Guinea status is earned by giving things away rather than acquiring them. The moka is a ceremony in which people, somethimes the whole tribe, give gifts to members of other tribes. The larger...

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Force to Reckon with, A (2 Parts) (1980 Film, Video)

Director

Francis Gerard

Subject

Law; Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Two programmes about policing, looking from particular problems to wider issues of public order, accountability and general concern about the difficulties that face police and public. Part 1 examines...

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Clearing in the Jungle, A (1970 Film)

Director

Charles Nairn

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 40 minutes2), £30.00

The Panare Indians of Venezuela have lived in almost daily contact with Creoles, Spanish-speaking peasants, for the last fifty years but remain distinctively Indian in their way of life. ‘In that time,...

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Panare, The: Scenes from the Frontier (1982 Film)

Producer

Chris Curling; Melissa Llewelyn-Davies

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

In Venezuela today 2000 Panare Indians continue to live in much the same way as they have done for centuries. They depend for their survival on the game and fish they hunt daily, and they live a communal...

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Richard Feynman: The Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures (2003)

aka: Qed in New Zealand

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL), $65.00

Quantumelectrodynamics (QED) was the subject of "QED - The Strange Theory of Light and Matter," the popular book by Richard Feynman which was first published by Princeton University Press in 1985. Feynman...

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Crazy pub

Series name

Astra Gazette

Issue no

8

NoS ID

000055

Story no

2 / 4

Pathe’s Database Entry for this item: "Date : 3/11/57 CRAZY PUB. (Hunsdon. Herts) CU A sign announcing "Your are now in Britain’s craziest pub" this sign is misspelt. MS Alarm clock dangling from...

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Gambling

Date released

Aug 1949

Series name

This Modern Age

Issue no

29

NoS ID

347229

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: The gambling industry in Great Britain. A silent film and survey of the Chamber of Horrors illustrate the lengths to which a gambler can be led. Man will gamble anywhere and on anything - in...

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