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Making and Meaning: Holbein’s ‘Ambassadors’ (1997 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 27 min., 1999 sale £10.00 (inclusive)

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BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV and Radio Programme Requests

Date

17 Feb 2014, 16:22

Author

Markeda Cole

Post Type

Post

For the week ending 31st January 2014 the most requested programmes from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service were: 1. FROZEN PLANET (BBC2) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB National For more...

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Art and Mathematics (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

Art; Mathematics

Distribution

CD-ROM

CD-ROM based teaching resource looking at the interplay between mathematics and the visual arts. Modules cover spiritual geometry, magic squares, perspective, knots and links, the Divine Proportion, ‘The...

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Holbein’s Ambassadors: Rendezvous with Death (2013)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 36 minutes), 14.99 Euros

Analysis of Hans Holbein’s painting which show thow the artist uses his two protagonists - men at the cutting edge of science, politics and the arts - not simply to symbolise privilege and power, but to...

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Ashes to Ashes (1996 Video)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. col. 60 min.

A video recording using a single camera of a performance of ‘Ashes to Ashes’, written and directed by Harold Pinter and performed by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Upstairs at the...

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On Company Business (1980 Film)

Director

Allan Francovich

Producer

Howard Dratch; Allan Francovich

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Compilation documentary on the Central Intelligence Agency and US foreign policy. Told through interviews with former CIA employees, ranging from accountants to directors, contract agents, ambassadors and...

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Restoring ‘The Ambassadors’ (1995 Video)

Producer

Patricia Wheatley

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1999 sale: £13.00 (inclusive)

Follows the three-year project to clean and restore the Hans Holbein’s painting in the National Gallery, London. Shows how the complex paint structure is investigated by scientific analysis, distinguishing...

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El Salvador: Another Vietnam (1981 Video)

Director

Glenn Silber; Tete Vasconcellos

Producer

Glenn Silber; Tete Vasconcellos

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 50 min.

Investigates the origins of the civil war in El Salvador and the involvement, historical and contemporary, of the USA. For fifty years, El Salvador was ruled by an oligarchy supported and effectively...

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Disabled Lives (1995 Video)

Producer

Tim Lambert

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 4 x 50 min., 1996 sale: £200.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series on what it means to be disabled, marking the end of the UN Decade of Disabled persons.

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Vietnam: The 10,000 Day War (Parts 14-26) (1980 Video)

Producer

Ron Kelly; Paul Lang; Michael Maclear; Don North

Subject

History

Distribution

Hire (U-matic - HEFVL) Sale (VHS - retail), Videocassette. U-matic. col. 13 x 30 min (HEFVL). Videocassette. VHS. 6 x ? min (retail).

Part 14: The 77-day siege of US Marines at Khe Sanh which intensifies anti-war sentiment in America. The day-by-day drama of the most widely debated battle of the Vietnam war. Part 15: The Tet Offensive as...

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