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Digital Field Trip to the Rainforest, The (1999 Multimedia)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

CD-ROM

An interactive CD-ROM that uses virtual reality technology to visit a reserve in Belize to explore the ecology and importance of rain forests and encourage an awareness of the importance of rain forest...

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20 Years of BFI Film Classics

Date

9 Jul 2012, 16:08

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

Post

The British Film Institute launched its popular series of compact 'BFI Classics' guides devoted to seminal films twenty years ago. The BFI Film Classics range is a series of expertly written and well...

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Acid Rain: Manchester’s Destructive Legacy (1986 Video)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 46 min.

The term ‘acid rain’ originated in Manchester in the 1850s. The history of damage to buildings and vegetation is discussed and the contemporary effects of acid rain on the ecology of the region examined....

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Acid Rain 1 (1996 Video)

aka: Sulphur and Acid Rain

Subject

Chemistry

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Examiines how international political wrangling has generated a wide range of scientific studies into the effect of acid rain on land and water. Also described some of the solutions that have been attempted;...

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Acid Rain (1984 Video)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 16 min.

Surveys the mounting damage occurring throughout the world by acid precipitation to lakes, forests and buildings. Discusses acid rain’s effect on human health. Illustrates some efforts of science, industry...

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Killing Rain, A (1982 Video)

Producer

Jeremy Taylor

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the problem of acid rain concentrating particularly on Sweden. Looks at sources of pollutants, how fish and tree deaths occur and at ways of halting the rain. Discusses the political arguments and...

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Acid Politics (1994 Video)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 48 min.

Acid rain was perhaps the most notorious pollutant of the 1980s. This programme looks back on the acid rain debate of that period and examines the roles played by government, by scientists and by...

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Acid Rain: Who Cares? (1983 Film)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A Swedish view of the adverse effects of acid rain told through the framework of a conversation between a Swedish boy and his English penfriend, serving to highlight the fact that much of Sweden’s acid...

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Acid Rain: Requiem or Recovery (1982 Video)

Director

Seaton Findlay

Producer

Jim Turpie

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 27 min.

Origins of acid rain from combustion of fossil fuels. Emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides result in the formation of sulphuric acid and nitric acid in rain and snow. Consequent effects on...

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Baka: A Cry from the Rain Forest (2014)

Director

Phil Agland

Producer

Phil Agland

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £14/£16 Blu-Ray

Returning to the same Baka village that he filmed in 1987, filmmaker Phil Agland learns how the passage of twenty-five years has changed the informants from his first film. The documentation of the...

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