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Anatomy of a Fire (1982)

Director

David Hayward

Subject

Health & safety

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 20 minutes), £37.60

A tribunal of enquiry asked the Fire Research Station to investigate a fire at the Stardust Club in Dublin in 1981 in which 48 young people died. The video shows the many FRS tests culminating in a...

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Psyched-Up: Mind-Bending Films on 4 (1987-1992)

Date

11 Aug 2014, 16:40

Author

bufvclinda

Post Type

Post

With the recent unprecedented multi-platform release (5th July 2013) of Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England, which has been variously described as “a psychedelic Western” (Sound on Sight), “a...

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Fire at Valley Parade, Bradford, The (1987)

Subject

Health & safety

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 32 minutes), £44.06

Describes and analyses the devastating fire at Bradford City Football Ground on 11 May 1985 in the aftermath of the investigation by the Fire Research Station.

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Cardington: The Biggest Fire Space in the World (1989)

Director

David Hayward

Producer

Sally Lessiter

Subject

Engineering; Health & safety

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 14 minutes), £37.60

Shows the space, size and 15 specialist rigs within the Fire Research Station’s Cardington Laboratory, a former air ship hanger which is used for full-scale fire and explosion testing. There are examples...

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Fire in Store (1980)

Director

David Hayward

Subject

Health & safety

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 15 minutes), £37.60

Following a major fire in the Manchester Woolworth’s store in 1979, the Fire Research Station carried out various experiments with sprinkler systems to try to find an efficient way of controlling furniture...

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Fire Making (1965 Film)

Director

Ian Dunlop

Producer

John Martin-Jones

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The object of the series of films was to create a scientific record of the traditional life of Aboriginal people in the Western Desert of Australia. They concentrate on the subsistence technology of the...

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Disaster Specials: Kings Cross/Kansas City (2002)

Director

Paul Burgess

Subject

Engineering; Health & safety

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 2 x 30 minutes), £330.00

Two programmes specially created to provide information and raise issues relating to health and safety, crisis management and post-disaster supervision. The first is on the Kings Cross underground fire which...

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Money Programme, The: Microsoft’s Big Games Gamble and Coke on the Rocks? (2006)

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £34.99

Two programmes from the popular BBC 2 series. In MICROSOFT’S BIG GAMES GAMBLE we follow the launch of the new Xbox 360 as Microsoft attempts to take on Sony’s new Play Station for control of the...

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Civil Engineering (2001)

Subject

Engineering; History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 98 min), £15.99 inclusive

A compilation of 5 films from the British Transport Films collection. Volume 7 in the series.

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Great Events of the 20th Century (1999 Video)

aka: Greatest Events of the 20th Century, The

Subject

History

Distribution

DVD

A collection of newsfilm covering 101 newsworthy events of the 20th century. Items are: 1) Opening credits; 2) Queen Victoria’s funeral; 3) Wright brothers’ first flight; 4) Suffragette dies under...

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