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What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: On the Move (2005)

Subject

History; Science; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL, 30 minutes), £24.99

Dan Cruickshank looks at the development of transport during the Industrial Revolution, including the roadbuilding of John Loudon Macadam; James Brindley’s canal network; George Stephenson and the...

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Paper: Its History and Uses (1988 Video)

Director

Brian Hill

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1997 sale: £23.95 (+VAT +p&p)

Uses slides, charts, graphs, diagrams and demonstrations to explore the growth of papermaking from its roots in second-century China through its spread to Europe and rapid growth with the appearance of...

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Tissue Degenerations and Depositions (1991 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 38 min.

Tissue degenerations and depositions are among the commonest facets of human disease, but because they are a heterogeneous group of conditions treated separately by most texts, many students find learning...

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Family Portrait (1951 Video)

Director

Humphrey Jennings

Subject

History

Distribution

Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 25 min.

The last film directed by Humphrey Jennings and made for the Festival of Britain in 1951, the film shows the British in everyday life, in the arts and in the sciences. Surveys the achievements of...

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Civil Engineering (2001)

Subject

Engineering; History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 98 min), £15.99 inclusive

A compilation of 5 films from the British Transport Films collection. Volume 7 in the series.

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Men of Iron (2004)

Subject

Engineering; FE

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £14.99

Three-part documentary series chronicling the lives and achievements of a generation of great Victorian engineers. Told through the rivalries of two families, the Stephensons and the Brunels, it also...

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Ghost Dances (2003)

aka: Houston Ballet DVD

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL)

The DVD consists of 3 dances performed by the Houston Ballet - GHOST DANCES and JOURNEY, choreographed by Christopher Bruce and IMAGE choreographed by Ben Stephenson.

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Developments in Child Care (3 Parts) (1987 Video)

Director

George Akers

Producer

Roy Ainsworth

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 23, 21, 24 min., 1998 sale: £264.38 (inclusive) set

A set of three videos looking at the evolution of services for disadvantaged children over the last 250 years.

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Track 29 (1988)

Director

Nicolas Roeg

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 90 minutes), £15.00

Freely adapted from Potter’s BBC TV play Schmoedipus. The childless wife of a small town doctor in North Carolina, meets a young British hitchhiker in a café. She starts thinking he might be the baby she...

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Engineering (1974 Video)

Director

Michael Clarke; R K Neilson; Nick Nicholls; James Ritchie

Producer

Edgar Anstey; John Legard; John Shearman

Subject

Engineering; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 114 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

Following the nationalisation of transport in 1948, the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house production and distribution system to cater for all the requirements of the various undertakings,...

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