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  1. Transportation Revolution in Scotland (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Michael Leonard; Janet McBain
    Subject
    History; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 45 min.

    Includes footage of George Bennie’s railplane, a propeller-driven vehicle which ran along elevated track in the 1930s. Sequences of servicing a steam locomotive; time-lapse photography of a tram being...

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  2. Shadows of Progress

    Date
    14 Jul 2015, 08:06
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Review

    Shadows of Progress: Documentary Film in Post-War Britain 1951-1977. 2010. GB. DVD. British Film Institute. 851 minutes + extras (42minutes). £34.99 About the reviewer: Dr James Mansell is Assistant...

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  3. Divided Manchester (2006)

    Subject
    Geography; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-ROM, 30 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    This film is a journey through one of Britain’s most challenging cities: Manchester. Two sociologists Linda Janes and Gerry Mooney use the new Metrolink Tram to take them around the city, meeting people as...

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  4. Birmingham Memories

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £7.99

    Included here are rare early colour recordings held by the Central Library of Birmingham. The recordings date from between 1930-1970s and cover: -Everyday life in Birmingham in the 1930s -Celebrations in the...

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  5. Moving Memories 2 (1991 Video)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 57 min.

    A compilation from the unique collection of the North West Film Archive containing films of the region. Starting on Blackpool seafront in 1899 and ending in the streets of Salford in 1969, coverage includes...

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  6. Liverpool on Film: 1897 to 1967 (2007)

    Subject
    Architecture; History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £9.99

    To mark Liverpool’s 800th birthday this DVD of archive film footage tells the story of Liverpool during the turbulent times of the twentieth century. Liverpool was one of the first cities in the world to...

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  7. Winstanley (1975)

    Director
    Kevin Brownlow; Andrew Mollo
    Producer
    Kevin Brownlow; Andrew Mollo
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 96 minutes), £19.99

    A story set during the period of the civil wars in England, telling of the commune of ‘Diggers’ set up in 1649 on St George’s Hill in Surrey under the leadership of the visionary Gerrard Winstanley....

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  8. Tour of Carrs Mine, A: Exploring the Nenthead Visitor Mine (2004)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 31 minutes), £14.95

    Carrs mine is part of the Nenthead lead-zinc mining complex high on Alston Moor in the Cumbrian North Pennines. Carrs was first recorded in 1679 and by 1750 it was one of the largest mines in the area. From...

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  9. Shadows of Progress: Documentary Film in Post-War Britain 1951-1977 (2010)

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 830 minutes), £34.99

    This 4-disc set contains 32 films and brings together for the first time almost 14 hours of film material preserved in the BFI National Archive, telling the previously untold story of British documentary...

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  10. Five Shapes (2005)

    Subject
    Architecture; Mathematics

    In new series about Five Shapes, mathematician Marcus du Sautoy finds his favourite forms in some highly unlikely places. He visits a spherical building in Paris, hears music inspired by the symmetries of...

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