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Extreme Weather (2005)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £14.99

First-hand accounts and pictures of the best and worst of British weather during the last sixty years including the blizzards of 1947, coastal floods of 1953, the winter of 1963, the summer of 1976, the...

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The Children of Green Knowe

Date

24 Nov 2016, 14:29

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Review

The Children of Green Knowe GB. DVD. Simply Media. 110 mins, £14.99. About the reviewer: Prof Stephen Lacey is Emeritus Professor of Drama, Film and Television at the University of South Wales. His main...

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Weather, Climate, River and Floods

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 7 x 20 minutes), £60.00

This secondary Channel 4 Learning compilation demonstrates the key physical processes affecting weather and climate. Topics include: Air Around Us; Temperature Differences; Rainfall and water cycle; Tropics;...

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Lessons from Engineering Failures: Ronan Point, Tay Bridge, Dolgarrog Dam, Comet Airliners Etc (1982 Multimedia)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, 37 slides. col.

Looks at the historical and geographical background to the problem of east coast floods and the threat to London, and how it is hoped that modern engineering can contain it.

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Extreme Weather: The Somerset Levels (2016)

aka: The Somerset Floods

Subject

Environmental science; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £49.00

In the winter of 2013/2014 the UK was hit by a succession of 13 low pressure systems causing extreme flooding on the Somerset Levels. This DVD looks at the human and physical causes of the floods and...

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Florence - The Restoration of Books (1968)

Director

Roger Hill

Subject

Librarianship

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 37 minutes), £25.00

An account of the techniques used in the restoration of early books which were damaged by muddy water, oil and chemicals during the Florence floods of November 1966. Shows research being undertaken in...

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20th Century Disasters (1999 Video)

Subject

Engineering; Geology; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 60 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Footage from British Movietone newsreels and elsewhere. Shows air, road and rail crashes, buildings collapsing, fires, floods, tornadoes and earthquakes. Air crashes include: the Hindenburg explosion,...

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Flood! (1993 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 54 min., 1996 sale: £17.50 (inclusive)

Films of the 1953 floods in East Anglia and earlier floods including 1937 and 1947 in the fens. Includes sequences filmed around Hunstanton, Gorleston, Felixstowe, Harwich and Canvey Island and a film...

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Major Disasters (1987 Video)

Subject

Engineering; Geology; History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 58 min.

Footage from British Movietone newsreels. Shows man-made disasters featuring plane, train, boat and helicopter crashes, ships sinking and bridges collapsing. Natural disasters covered include floods,...

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After the Flood 2 (1994 Video)

Producer

Bettina Lerner

Subject

Engineering; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

The Mississippi is one of the most rigorously controlled and engineered rivers in the world, yet in the summer of 1993 it suffered the worst flooding in its history. Fundamental questions are being asked...

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