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Lost Garden, The: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-BlachÉ (1995 Video)

Director

Marquise Lepage

Producer

Josée Beaudet

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Hire (film) Sale (video), Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 53 min.

Biography of Alice Guy-Blaché, the world’s first woman film-maker who, from the moment she saw the Lumière brothers’ first moving picture, fell in love with movies and progressed to director of all...

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Plaisir, Le (1951 Video)

aka: House of Pleasure

Director

Max Ophüls

Producer

Max Ophüls

Subject

French studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 94 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

French feature film adapted from three short stories by Guy de Maupassant, each dealing with one aspect of pleasure. In ‘Le masque’ a man regains his youth. ‘La maison tellier’ finds a prostitute in...

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Electrons in Solids (1975 Multimedia)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 28 min.; slides. col.

A discussion between Professor B R Coles and Dr C N Guy, both of the Department of Physics, Imperial College, London.

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Romance of Engineering, A (2009)

Director

Stanley Russell

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 97 minutes), £12.99

A collection of promotional films made by Stanley L Russell for Scottish engineering companies. The compilation comprises:MEN OF IRON (c. 1947, b/w) - An overview of iron propellor manufacture at the Blair...

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Beyond Genetics (2016)

Subject

Medical sciences; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 23 minutes), £25.00

This three part film, which features contributions from Dr Nessa Carey and Dr Guy Sutton, looks at recent developments in the field of epigenetics, in order to demonstrate that the way genes work is in fact...

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Skillbank: Basic Technology (2 Parts)

Subject

Civil Engineering & Building; Engineering; FE; Technology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 10, 10 minutes)

The techniques of soldering and using a hand drill are demonstrated in these two videos.

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Partie de Campagne (1936)

aka: Day in the Country, A

Subject

French studies; Literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 39 + 42 minutes of extras), £15.99

Jean Renoir’s adaptation of a short story by Guy de Maupassant, originally released in 1946. On an idyllic country picnic, a young girl leaves her family and fiancé for a while and succumbs to a brief...

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Maupassant (1984 Video)

Producer

Peter Coltman

Subject

French studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 35 min., 1999 sale: £17.50 (+VAT +p&p)

An introduction to the life and work of Guy de Maupassant, illustrated by contemporary prints and photographs, and a critical appraisal of his writings is presented against the background of biography.

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Change for the Better? A: Britain in the 1930’s, (1994 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 82 min., 1995 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

Video-based teaching pack looking at British life in the 1930s through archive film, textual data and personal accounts. Contains contemporary archive footage from the GPO Film Unit. The five units cover...

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News by Wire

Subject

History

Shows the uses of electricity in industry, transport and the home.

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