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Atlas Of The Earth

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

117

NoS ID

325506

Story no

2 / 4

COI synopsis: There’s more to this atlas than maps... it sets out to satisfy our curiosity about the various forms of life on Earth, and to relate the development of the Earth and us to time and space.

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Magnetic Earth (1987 Video)

Producer

Tony Jolly

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Discusses the invisible force field of magnetism which surrounds the earth. Sensitive compasses were used to map the intensity and direction of the magnetic field at the earth’s surface, and recently...

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Descant on Mine Own Deformity (1993 Television)

Series

Over the Edge

Director

David Hevey

Producer

Christopher Hutchins

Television series produced by the BBC Disability Programmes Unit. William Shakespeare comes back to earth and works in an ad agency re-working his disabled heroes for a charity campaign.

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Designing Fairies - and making them, too!

Date released

6 Dec 1923

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

131

NoS ID

330965

Story no

4 / 5

Pathe Intertitles - "Not real fairies, girls, but the Pantomime variety, that Father sometimes takes you (and himself) to see - "The first problem is to conjure up the design", said Mr. Clarkson." Three...

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A Weighty Problem

Date released

23 Mar 1922

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

42

NoS ID

330712

Story no

1 / 6

NoS Summary - excercises for weight reduction. Pathe Intertitles - "Eve’s weightiest problem to-day is how to get rid of it." Two shots "Nothing to gain - about a hundredweight to lose!" One shot "Mind...

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Topics in Earth Sciences 1 (1998 Multimedia)

Subject

Chemistry; Physics

Distribution

CD-ROM

Two activities designed as science learning resources: 1) An Element on the Move: investigates the earth’s natural carbon cycle. One can explore the multiplicity of ways in which carbon moves through the...

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Atlas Of The Earth

Series name

Tomorrow Today

Issue no

117

NoS ID

329554

Story no

2 / 4

COI synopsis: There’s more to this atlas than maps... it sets out to satisfy our curiosity about the various forms of life on Earth, and to relate the development of the Earth and us to time and space.

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Truth About Climate Change, The (2008)

aka: Are Changing Planet Earth?/ Can we Save Planet Earth?

Subject

Environmental science; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £15.99

A two-part television documentary presented by Sir David Attenborough who explores just how far climate change is altering our planet, from drought-stricken rainforest to declining polar bears, from flooded...

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Rammed Earth Renaissance, The (1998)

Subject

Engineering; History

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 45 minutes), $29.95

From the beginning of history, every civilization from the Assyrians to the Zunis has used earth to create beautiful, durable, and affordable shelter. Author, engineer and earth builder David Easton hosts...

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Measuring the Earth and the Moon (1989 Video)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Discusses methods of measuring distances in the earth-moon system. Starts by showing a version of Eratosthenes’ experiment for measuring the earth’s radius. With the data from this experiment combined...

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