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Holiday - With Pay

Date released

1960

Series name

Look At Life

Issue no

87

NoS ID

349711

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: A film taking a look at students and the types of summer jobs they get to earn money during the summer vacation. It begins by concentrating on one particular student from Cambridge University,...

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Peter May

Date released

1962

Series name

British Sporting Personalities

Issue no

10

NoS ID

323885

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Peter May is an insurance broker, unexceptional amongst thousands of men and women in the City of London during the week. On the cricket field, however, he is incomparable. Still in his early...

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Lake Nakuru

Date released

1972

Series name

London Line

Issue no

420

NoS ID

326697

Story no

1 / 4

COI synopsis: The unique Lake Nakuru national park in Kenya attracts thousands of tourists a year, and a developing town is growing up on its shores. Our film shows the astonishing richness of wild life...

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Kingdoms of Bronze (1975 Film)

Director

David Collison

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

With the conquest by the British of the city states of Benin in 1897, the bronzes used in many of the ceremonies designed to honor the Oba (the divine ruler) were released onto the art market and now fetch...

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Dominic Dromgoole on Massive Plans for the Globe (2011 Audio, Multimedia)

Dominic Dromgoole, the artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, talks to Dominic Cavendish about his plans for a multi-lingual festival of the complete works to co-incide with the run up to the...

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Impact of Tourism 5, The: Ecotourism in the Amazon (2002)

Subject

Development studies; Economics

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 25 min), £120 + VAT +p&p

In the past tourism in Brazil was all about sun and sand. Now Brazil is actively promoting the Amazon as an attraction with the aim of bringing money and jobs to the locals. Asks how tourism will affect one...

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Shed Your Tears and Walk Away (2011)

Director

Jez Lewis

Producer

Nicholas Broomfield

Subject

Social Studies; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), £9.00

Filmmaker Jez Lewis grew up in the small town of Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire. Hebden Bridge has a reputation as a home to artists and is a popular destination for tourists with a bohemian outlook, but Lewis...

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King is Alive (2000 Film)

Director

Kristian Levring

Producer

Patricia Kruijer; Vibeke Windelov

Feature film emerging from the Dogme 95 manifesto and the first to be filmed outside Scandinavia in the English language. 10 tourists, travelling by bus in the Namibian desert, are stranded when the bus runs...

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National Geographic - Seconds from Disaster - Series 4 (2012)

Subject

Psychology; Technology

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 288 minutes), £17.99

The Seconds from Disaster series Blends advanced CGI, re-enactments, archival footage, forensic science, dramatic eyewitness accounts and expert testimony to allow the viewer to experience first-hand the...

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Birdwatchers (2010)

aka: (Terra Degli Uomini Rossi, La

Director

Marco Bechis

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 108 minutes), £15.99

A drama in which a group of indigenous people face off against the modern day owners of their ancestral homeland.In Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the farming classes lead a wealthy and leisurely existence....

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