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  1. Building by Numbers (1995)

    Producer
    Anne-Marie Gallen
    Subject
    Architecture; Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 24 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Looks at the use of mathematics by architects Palladio, Le Corbusier and Bernard Tschumi. Palladio’s 16th-century Italian buildings reflect his belief in the perfection of nature as epitomised by geometry...

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  2. Restoration Stage, The: From Tennis Court to Playhouse (Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Drama
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 46 min., £38.00 (+VAT inc p&p)

    Traces the origins of the first Restoration playhouses in London from the example of French tennis court theatres in Paris. Shows how Sir William Davenant’s 1661 adaptation of Lisle’s tennis court into a...

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  3. Berthe Morisot: An Interview with Kathleen Adler (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Sarah Birt
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Kathleem Adler, author of a book on Morisot, is interviewed by Briony Fer. Adler describes the restrictions suffered by a woman artist in Paris in the 1860s and 1870s. The fact of being a woman put...

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  4. Fairy Tales: Early Colour Stencil Films from Pathé (1901)

    Director
    Georges Méliès
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 164 minutes), £19.99

    During the belle époque in turn-of-the-century Paris, a short-lived film form called ‘scènes de feeries’, or ‘fairy films’, was made popular thanks to the Pathé Frères company. The films...

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  5. Robotic Arts: Chico McMurtrie’s Totemobile (2015)

    Director
    Kriszta Doczy
    Subject
    Art; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 28 minutes), £110.00 (University rate)

    Chico MacMurtrie is internationally recognized for his large-scale, performative, kinetic installations, and interactive public sculpture. In this video a fullscale Citroën DS transforms in a few minutes to...

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  6. Sweet France (1992 Video)

    Director
    Mogniss H Abdallah; Ken Fero
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., £20.00 (hire) £30.00 (sale)

    Traces the experiences of the Arab community in France from the Algerian Revolution to the uprisings by Arab youg across the country in recent years. Although unemployment is a national concern, people...

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  7. One Man’s War (1981 Film)

    Director
    Edgardo Cozarinsky
    Producer
    Jean-Marc Henchoz
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    One man’s view of the Second World War. Uses documentary material in a different way: instead of a commentator reading an ‘authoritative’ account of events over newsreel footage, Cozarinsky uses as his...

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  8. Germany: The Other Story (1991 Video)

    Director
    Mogniss H Abdallah; Ken Fero
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 hire: £20.00 1995 sale: £40.00

    Germany’s black and migrant communities speak out about the increasing racism in the ‘new’ unified Germany, about how the anti-immigrant policies of the state threaten them and about how they are...

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  9. Don Giovanni (1979) (1979)

    Director
    Joseph Losey
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 162 minutes), £24.99

    Infamous womanizer Don Giovanni makes conquest after conquest, leaving seduced and abandoned women in his wake. When the ghost of the Commendatore he has killed appears, he is given a final chance to change...

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  10. Simone de Beauvoir: Two Interviews (2012)

    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 90 minutes), $298.00

    Two interviews, recorded 16 years apart, illuminating the historic role, personality and thoughts of the novelist, philosopher and political activist who paved the way for Second-Wave Feminism. In the first...

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