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Not a Legacy to Stand on (1987 Video)

Director

Tony Edwards

Producer

Ian Elvin

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 16 min.

Examines the issues and conflicting pressures associated with the day-to-day management of an area of outstanding natural beauty. Focuses specifically on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland National Park but...

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North Korea Undercover (2014)

Subject

Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £195.00

Panorama reporter John Sweeney reports undercover from North Korea, as he travels from the capital Pyongyang to the countryside beyond and to the de-Militarised Zone on the border with South Korea.

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A Velha (1992 Video)

aka: Old Lady, The

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows Maria do Carmo Gago, who at age 83 still lives alone in the Portuguese countryside. After a lifetime of adapting to change, she is used to making her own choices, preferring the earthy contact of her...

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Claude: The Roman Landscape (1994 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 2006 sale £15.50 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at ways in which Claude Lorraine drew his inspiration from classical and contemporary poetry, the remains of ancient, medieval and Renaissance Rome, and the countryside around the city. Shot on...

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Stripping of Appalachia, The (1972 Film)

Director

John Slater

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The Appalachian countryside in the United States is gradually being denuded by strip coal mining. Shows how natural resources are being exploited without regard to the ecological changes which affect both...

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Operation Harvest: War in the Countryside 1939-45 (1998 Video)

Subject

Agriculture; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £14.99 (inclusive)

Uses archive film, photographs and first-hand accounts to tell the story of British farming during World War 2, when farmers had to cope with ever-increasing productivity targets coupled with shortages of...

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A220 Videocassette 3 (1995 Video)

Subject

Architecture; History

Distribution

SUPPLIED WITH COURSE MATERIALS ONLY, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 97 min.

A compilation of television programmes 1-4 from Princes and peoples: France and the British Isles 1620-1714, course A220.

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Making and Meaning: Rubens’s Landscapes (1996 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 1999 sale £10.00 (inclusive)

Rubens painted his landscapes largely for his own pleasure, and many of them are painted on panels made up of several individual pieces of wood. The programme includes a reconstruction of the preparation of...

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Then and Now (3 Parts) (Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 3 x 75 min., 1997 sale: £12.99 (inc. VAT +p&p) each

1: Archive and modern film showing the changing nature of the towns and countryside of Yorkshire, covering rural crafts and farming, and contrasting pre-war city centres of prewar days to the congested...

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Other Kenya, The (1980 Video)

Producer

Martin Freeth

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

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

Looks at the contrasts in Kenya between the tourist image and the impoverished lives of the country’s inhabitants. A wealthy minority own much of the countryside and grow cash crops to sell to the...

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