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Gordon Benson: Genesis of a Museum (2000 Multimedia)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 40 min. 24 slides. col., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Architect Gordon Benson of Benson Forsyth talks about designing a museum for Edinburgh which reflects the city’s geology, topography, history, development and characteristics; has the genetic structure of...

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World of the Unborn (1990 Video)

Producer

Derek Bromhall

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 52 min.

Shows how each baby, unless it has an identical twin, inherits a unique genetic constitution from its parents. Explains the division of cells, DNA, and chromosomes. Shows how the reproductive organs develop...

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London Eye and Beyond, The (2001 Multimedia)

aka: Genesis of the London Eye and Beyond

Producer

Monica Pidgeon

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 25 min. 24 slides. col.

The story of London Eye told by Julia Barfield who, together with her husband, partner David Marks, thought of the original idea, designed it and saw it through to completion with the backing of British...

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Anthony Giddens: Capitalism and Social Modern Theory

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 34 minutes), £39.00

Sociology began as an attempt to make sense of the great transformation from traditional to modern society; the development of industrial production, the mass movement of people from the land to the towns...

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Becoming (2018)

Director

Jan van Ijken

Subject

Biology

A short film about the genesis of animal life. In great microscopic detail, we see the ‘making of’ an Alpine Newt in its transparant egg from the first cell division to hatching. A single cell is...

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Pastorale (1982)

Director

David Hutt

Subject

Music; Philosophy; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £50.00

PASTORALE is a music theatre piece by experimental composer Trevor Wishart (b.1946) which takes a humorous and critical look at the Creation myths and the problems of freewill and determinism. The film...

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Gillian Avery, Penelope Farmer and Jill Paton Walsh with Heather Neill (1985 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

Gillian Avery, Penelope Farmer and Jill Paton Walsh talk with Heather Neill about their work. There is a brief discussion on general issues affecting children’s books: the gender divide, the distinction...

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Harold Pinter with Benedict Nightingale (1985 Video)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

Benedict Nightingale introduces Harold Pinter and discusses his play ‘One for the Road’. Pinter explains the genesis of the play as a result of his experiences in visiting Turkey. ‘One for the Road’...

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Harold Pinter: Art Truth & Politics: The Nobel Lecture 2005 (2006)

Subject

Drama; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 46 minutes), £14.99

In late 2005 Harold Pinter videotaped a lecture on the occasion of the award to him of the Nobel Prize for Literature. His speech, delivered directly to camera, is a complex reflection on his own writing...

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Homer’s Iliad Via the Movie Troy (2004) (2017)

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Homer’s Iliad, the earliest Greek poem, narrates the archetypal war between ‘Europeans’ and ‘Asiatics’ divided by the Hellespont. Looking at Wolfgang Peterson’s blockbuster Troy (2004), the...

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