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Design of Equipment: The Human Factor (1979 Video)

Director

Cedric Maggs

Producer

Cyril Randell

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 18 min.

Shows ergonomically inefficient equipment. Explains the science of ergonomics and the related design problems.

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Winsor McCay: Animation Legend (1911 Video)

Producer

Albert M Miller

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 100 min., 1996 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

A compilation of the work of Winsor McCay, one of the founding fathers of cinema animation and a key figure in the development of cinema. He became famous as a newspaper strip cartoonist, then developed a...

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Britain’s Greatest Pilot (2017)

aka: The Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown

Subject

Aviation

TV documentary. Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown recounts his flying experiences, encounters with the Nazis and other adventures leading up to and during the Second World War. Illustrated with archive footage...

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Battle for the Skies (2007)

Subject

Aviation; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 549 minutes), £29.99

Produced with the full support and co-operation of the Royal Air Force and British Aerospace, Battle for the Skies is the definitive film history of the R.A.F. from the early days of the Air Battalion and...

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Great Balloon Race, The (1997 Video)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

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

Follows three teams on three continents as they compete to be the first to circumnavigate the earth non-stop by balloon. Richard Branson’s balloon nearly crashes in the Sahara, a Swiss-Belgian balloon...

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Voices from the Western Front (1994 Video)

Director

Andrew Johnston

Producer

Taylor Downing

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 56 min., 1996 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Interviews with survivors of the Western Front in World War 1 - veterans of the infantry, cavalry and Royal Flying Corps, accompanied by archive film footage of the battlefield and the war in the air.

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Silence de la Mer, La (1949)

Director

Jean-Pierre Melville

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £19.99

The debut film of Jean-Pierre Melville, Le SILENCE DE LA MER is a landmark in French films about World War II, made shortly after Melville himself was demobilised from the Resistance and based on the novella...

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Awesome Giants of Steam (1997 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 52 min., 1997 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

A compilation of two short British Transport films.

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Decent Place with Hot and Cold, A (1970 Film)

Director

Ian Dabbs

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Slums in the Midlands. Many of Britain’s large towns contain depressed areas where slums are being cleared, but where people still live, waiting to be rehoused. A community officer discusses the problems...

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Waiting for Harry (1980 Film, Video)

Director

Kim McKenzie

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale Hire, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 57 minutes), £50.00

About the preparations and organisational difficulties of the final and most involved stage of the sequence of mortuary rites practised by the Anbarra group of Australian aborigines. The conduct of each part...

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