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Church Eaton: Portrait of a Village (2011)

Director

Ray Johnson

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £12.99

Church Eaton is a typical rural community of about 750 people about seven miles from Stafford. This video looks at the archaeology and history of the village, its cattle, pigs and sheep farming, the green...

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Village, The (1980)

Director

Peter Mills

Producer

Stephanie Tennant

Subject

Geography

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 25 min.

Traces the development of the English village and considers whether this form of settlement can survive. Burford, Milton Abbas, Bourneville, and Long Milford are used as examples.

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Lost Village, Wharram Percy (2005)

Subject

Archaeology; History

Archaeologists investigating medieval village life have found the excavation of Wharram Percy an invaluable tool in gaining a better picture of peasant life in the middle ages. Aubrey Manning investigates...

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Between Two Villages (2006)

aka: Entre Deux Villages Entre Duas Terras

Director

Muriel Jaquerod; Eduardo Saraiva Pereira

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £50.00

The film tells the story of the village of Aldeia da Luz, population 330, which is due to disappear with the construction of the Alqueva dam in the south of Portugal. A new village is being built a few...

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Indian Pilgrimage, An: Village Man, City Man (1975 Film)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Deals with the way in which one man, Shripal, views his life as a city man whose kinship ties and duties still bind him to his natal village. Shripal now works in a New Delhi cloth factory, 400 miles west of...

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Small Happiness: Women of a Chinese Village (1984 Video)

Director

Richard Gordon; Carma Hinton

Subject

Anthropology; Women’s studies

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 58 min.

Concerns the women of the village, Long Bow, who are the subject of the William Hinton books ‘Shenfan’ and Fanshen’. The title refers to the enduring attitude in rural China that while a boy is ‘big...

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Village Life and Music in Hungary (198 Video)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Folk songs, dances and instrumental music from Hungarian villages, paralleling gypsy music.

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Dimanche en Anjou (1993 Video)

Producer

Betty Talks

Subject

French studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Contrasts Sunday in a French village with Sunday in a town. All is peaceful in the village in the early morning, while the town is bustling with people going ot market. During the day, roles are reversed,...

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Caught in a Web (2017)

aka: Caught in a Web Trilogy

Director

Toni de Bromhead

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (52 minutes (each film)), £50.00

Three films comparing and contrasting aspects of life in a Dorset community in the Bride Valley and in Villes-sur-Auzon, a French village in Provence. The first film in the trilogy is A VILLAGE HERITAGE...

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Village Voices: 40 Years of Rural Transformation in South India (1999 Video)

Director

Beate Engelbrecht

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: DM85 (+p&p)

Examines rural development by observing the different developmental paths of two villages, following the introduction of an irrigation system begun in the 1930s in the Mysore district in South India. An...

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