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Making Sex Pay (1987 Video)

Producer

Christopher La Fontaine

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

James Gould, Professor of Biology at Princeton University, offers an explanation for mating habits, in animals and humans: that every animal is in search of a bargain from the opposite sex and doing its best...

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Assessment and the Primary Curriculum (1994 Video)

Subject

Education

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 80 min., 1996 sale: £34.00 (+VAT inc.p&p)

Raises questions about why children should be assessed, what should be assessed, and how assessment should be organised. Feateres schools from around the country and children aged 5 to 11. Explores the...

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Letters from an Indian Clerk (1988 Video)

Director

Christopher Sykes

Producer

Christopher Sykes

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Charts the life of self-taught Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan from his roots in rural India to his work in pure mathematics at Cambridge University. Discusses Ramanujam’s relationship with...

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Lost for Words (1995 Video)

Producer

David Hanington

Subject

Education; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Focuses on 11-year-old dyslexic child Oliver Passmore who is a pupil at the Old Rectory School in Suffolk where 40 children with dyslexia are encouraged to realise their full potential.

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Biology of Bacteria, The (1999 Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 16 min., 2001 sale: £32.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at bacteria, showing the range of behaviours seen in living bacteria, how they obtain nutrients through ‘external digestions’ and how to use sterile techniques for culturing them. Shows the role of...

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Zero Emissions (2000 Video)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 14 min., 2000 sale: £35.25 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Shows the steps in a Fiji boy’s home project intended to utilise brewery waste that was causing environmental problems. The plant material in the waste was fed first to mushrooms to break down the lignin,...

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Great War, The 1 (1997 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 2000 sale: £29.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Tells the story of World War 1 using archive film, photographic images, and computer graphics to explain the progress of battles and campaigns. Includes analysis from Jerry de Groot and commentary from John...

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Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (1972)

aka: Gangster Show, The: The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui

Subject

Drama

Distribution

VHS (105 minutes), research viewing only

A 1972 BBC production of the Brecht play in which Arturo Ui (a Hitler look-alike) rises to prominence in mobster-ruled Chicago. Only available for individual or group research viewing on BFI premises

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Peer Gynt (1994 Video)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

VHS (PAL, 150 minutes), REFERENCE ONLY

Video recording using three cameras of a performance of ‘Peer Gynt’ by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Sean Mathias, by the Ninagawa Company at the Barbican Theatre, London, on 11 March 1994. Designer Tsukasa...

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Comet Called Halley, A (1985 Video)

Director

Terence Murtagh; David Taylor

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min.

Produced to herald the 1985-86 appearance of Halley’s Comet. Uses a mixture of VAX/11/750 computer animation, Quantel Paintbox graphics and archive visual material. Note: A new edition of the video taking...

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