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  1. Easter Island (2 Parts) (1988 Video)

    Producer
    John Lynch
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 2 x 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each?

    Investigates the mysteries surrounding the ancient stone statues on Easter Island in the South Pacific, asking who built them, how, and why, and enquiring into the fate of the civilisation that once...

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  2. Broadcasting Live ... From Space

    Date
    29 Oct 2015, 08:21
    Author
    Ben Hodson
    Post Type
    BUFVC Article

    In March 2014 Channel 4 promised to let viewers share live the experience of being an astronaut on the International Space Station. Dr Michael Allen, Birkbeck, University of London, considers the perils and...

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  3. Coming Home to Banaba (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Jeremy Cooper
    Subject
    Geography; Sociology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    People who used to live on the tiny Pacific island of Banaba return to see the devastation wrought by 80 years of phosphate mining. Once a British colony, Banaba was a source of the phosphate that fertilised...

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  4. Across the World with Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson (2012)

    Producer
    James Leo Meehan; Osa Johnson
    Subject
    Anthropology; Travel & tourism
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 79 mins.), $14.95

    As if they were showing their film to a few friends in their home, Osa and Martin Johnson describe their trip across the world, which begins in the South Pacific islands of Hawaii, Samoa, Australia, the...

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  5. Paradise Precarious (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 2000 sale: US$25.00 (VHS PAL)

    Shows the fragility of life on small island states such as Mauritius and how easily these paradise islands could be destroyed. Then looks at how governments can work with the private sector and citizens’...

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  6. Disappearing of Tuvalu, The: Trouble in Paradise (2006)

    Director
    Christopher Horner
    Subject
    Anthropology; Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 75 or 50 minutes), $195.00 (long version) $175.00 (short version)

    A detailed overview of contemporary life in the tiny South Pacific country of Tuvalu, this film documents the earth’s first sovereign nation faced with total destruction due to the effects of global...

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  7. Tale of Four Cities, A 1 (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. ? min., 2000 sale: US$25.00 (VHS PAL)

    Given that cities share in common crises that endanger the sustainability of our habitat, looks at the lives of ordinary families and describes the deteriorating urban environment in four cities: Chenni,...

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  8. Sun Dagger, The (1983 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Astronomy
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC only). col. 60 min., 1995 sale: US$24.95 (+p&p)

    Documents the celestial calendar created by the Anasazi Indians in New Mexico, and only recently discovered by modern man. Explores the complex culture of the Anasazi who lived so attuned to the movements of...

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  9. Black Sun, The (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Jane Callander
    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the solar eclipse over Hawaii on 11 July 1991. The Path of Totality swept over the telescopes of the observatory on Mauna Kea mountain as it passed from the Pacific to South America. Magnetic storms...

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  10. Aeroplane Dance (1994 Video)

    aka: Ka-Wayawayama

    Director
    Trevor Graham
    Subject
    Anthropology; Dance
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Records the ‘ky-wayawayama’ or ‘aeroplane dance’ of the Yanyuwa people of the Borroloola area in the Northern Territory of Australia. The dance was came about after an American bomber crashed in the...

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