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Style, Meaning and Function in Photography 1900-1940 (1984 Multimedia)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette.; 20 slides. col.

Examines the development of different styles in the history of 20th-century photography in the USA and Europe. Aspirations towards pictorial photography are surveyed as are the kinds of realistic documentary...

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Snow, Sand and Savages: The Life and Times of Captain Frank Hurley (1973 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 48 min., 2001 sale: £14.99 (inclusive)

Biography of Australian-born photojournalist Frank Hurley, who filmed and photographed Australian explorer Douglas Mawson’s expedition to Antarctica in 1911, and then Ernest Shackleton’s later...

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Schooldays 1880-1940 (1999 Multimedia)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, 30 slides., 2000 sale: £38.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

A selection of images taken from the Documentary Photography Archive, a major historical collection that focuses on life in the north-west of England from the 1860s to the present. Using the work of...

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Elstree 1976 (2016)

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £15.99

Documentary written and directed by Jon Spira about the uncredited actors and extras who played minor roles in the first Star Wars film. Featuring behind-the-scenes footage and extensive interviews with the...

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Syria: Chess Match at the Borders (2008)

Director

Amal Hamelin des Essarts

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), $348

Syria is a single-party dictatorship country, ruled since 1970 by Hafez al-Assad and, following his death in 2000, by his son Bashar. Despite the lack of any significant oil reserves, this nation is both a...

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100 Years of the Raf (2018)

aka: 100 Years of the Royal Air Force

Producer

Richard Jukes; Jones Richard

Subject

Aviation

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £7.99

Since its creation in 1918, the Royal Air Force has developed and responded to ever changing demands, and has embraced new technologies too. This documentary, narrated by Sir Martyn Lewis, celebrates a...

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Wings, Series (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Dual platform PC Windows/Apple Macintosh., 1996 sale: £39.95 (inclusive) (each)

A database of fighting machines, with technical and service data on over 500 planes and 200 weapons systems, accompanied by video and still images, together with simulations and animated reconstructions of...

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Feeding the Nation (2011)

aka: Yesterday’s Farm: East Anglia and Beyond

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £11.99

At the outbreak of World War I, farming was on the brink of ruin. By the 1960s, it was thriving once more. Events in Britain and beyond changed agricultural life. After half a century of debts, economic...

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Zeppelin, The (1998 Video)

Subject

Engineering; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1998 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

Outlines the history of airships (or dirigibles) from the pioneering efforts of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin to the career of the ‘Hindenberg’ sister ship the ‘Graf Zeppelin’. Looks at airships...

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Market Structure (1993 Video)

Subject

Economics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 13 min., 1996 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p)

Links economic theory with real business activity. In three parts: 1) Meaning of term ‘market’. Vegetable growers in perfect competition. How an auction market sets price. 2) How to become a monopolistic...

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