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Villagers of the Sierra de Gredos (1989 Video)

Director

Peter Carr

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI, Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 51 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

The 130 villagers of Navalguijo in the Sierra de Gredos of central Spain live in a village high in the mountains and face an extreme climate with poor soil. With access to winter pastures across the...

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Dubai: Miracle or Mirage (2012)

Subject

Business studies; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 60 minutes), £110.00 [University rate]

This one-hour documentary examines one of the world’s most fascinating and fastest developing city-states. Dubai, while a centre of luxury and excess, is also home to hundred of thousands of migrant...

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Benjamin Britten and His Festival (1967 Television)

Director

Tony Palmer

Producer

Nathan Kroll; Humphrey Burton

Television documentary marking twenty years of the Aldeburgh Festival and the opening by the Queen of the Maltings concert hall. The film begins with scenes in Paris where Britten’s opera A Midsummer...

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Australians Begin Tour in Light Vein

Date released

30 Apr 1953

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2313

NoS ID

044371

Story no

1 / 6

Extras

1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

Sunday match at East Molesey gives tourists welcome knock up. Duke of Edinburgh meets team. Next day His Royal Highness opens Memorial Hall at Lords commemorating cricketers killed in two wars.

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First Contact (2007)

Director

Mark Anstice

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £195.00

The dense lowland swamps of New Guinea and the outer reaches of the Amazon Basin are home to the last groups of ‘uncontacted’ hunter-gatherer tribes still in existence. They are the few human beings that...

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London Zoo

Date released

1977

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

976

NoS ID

329217

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: London Zoo in Regent’s Park is a favourite summer’s day out for Londoners and tourists. Over six and a half thousand animals live happily here in just thirty-four acres and Maggie Palmer...

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West Highland (1939)

Director

John Gray; Charles Heath; Edward McConnell

Subject

History; Travel & tourism

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 85 minutes), £20.41

Collection of four transport films about railways in the Scottish Highlands. The first, John Gray’s WEST HIGHLAND (1960) is about the last days of the steam train on the West Highland line between Glasgow...

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State of the Mediterranean (2 Parts) (2005)

Subject

Environmental science; Travel & tourism

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 23 minutes), £30.00 each part

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Struggle for Sustainable Tourism, The: An Ecuadorian Case Study (2005)

Subject

Business studies; Development studies; FE; Travel & tourism

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 23 minutes), £125.00

Study of a new project in ecotourism. The people of Santa Lucia, a farming community on the slopes of the Andes, were foreced to abandon their traditional way of life because of laws brought in to protect...

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The Steam Train Is Alive And Well

Date released

1973

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

752

NoS ID

328993

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Steam train enthusiasts saved an old engine from the breaker’s yard and now it provides a regular service for commuters and tourists in South Devon. Michele Brown gets her first ride on the...

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