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Restoring an Icon (2012)

Producer

Jeff Reed

Subject

Environmental science

Short film about the reintroduction of bison to Montana, their natural habitat, as part of The American Prairie Foundation’s project to restire a vast amount of prairie to its natural state. This film...

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New on the BUFVC Moving Image Gateway

Date

24 Apr 2013, 16:16

Author

Andrew Ormsby

Post Type

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The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,350 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or...

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First Emperor of China, The (1989 Video)

Director

Tony Ianzelo; Lui Hao Xue

Producer

Pan Han Ci; Barrie Howells

Subject

Archaeology; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 42 minutes), £12.99

Historical drama chronicling the life of Qin Shihuang, the founder and first emperor of China. Includes the first documentary footage of Qin’s life-sized terra cotta army, constructed for his tomb some...

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Helping People with Dementia in Activities of Daily Living (199 Video)

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 22 min.

Demonstrates techniques to help people with Alzheimer’s disease or other related dementias to accomplish as independently as possible a variety of tasks and activities such as dressing, grooming, and...

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Diya (2002)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC, 55 minutes), £50.00 +VAT +p&p

A diya is a small terra cotta oil lamp used throughout India in Hindu ceremonies. The film follows the life history of an object through the every day experience of people who make, sell and use it in the...

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My Voyage to Italy

Subject

Film & television production; Italian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 246 minutes), £7.99

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese gained great inspiration from the Italian films he watched in his youth and others that made an impact later on in his life, changing the way he made films. My Voyage To Italy...

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Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita (2008)

Director

Maria Finitzo

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 83 minutes), £32.38

Documentary about the experiences of Dr Jack Kessler, chair of Northwestern University’s Neurology department, who shifted his research from finding a cure for diabetes to finding a cure with stem cell...

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Marina Abramovic: Video and Performance (1995 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 116 min.

A retrospective of selected video and performance pieces by Marina Abramovic, originally compiled to accompany her exhibition ‘Objects, Performance, Video, Sound’ at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford....

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Planets, The (1999)

Producer

David McNab

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 400 minutes), £34.99

An account of space exploration and discovery from the first attempts to magnify the sky to space travel. Contains computer-created footage, actual footage shot from spacecraft and archive film. Narrated by...

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Spain’s Secret Conflict (2010)

aka: Catalonia, The Next State in Europe?

Director

Gary Gibson

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 39 minutes), €15.00

Made back in 2010, when the conflict between Catalonia and Spain was very little known outside the Spanish State, this short documentary starts with the first independence poll to take place in Catalonia...

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