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Tall Ships (1989 Video)

Subject

Sports science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Traces the transatlantic journey of the ‘Donald Searle’, a square-rigged sailing ship crewed by young people, in a bi-annual tall ships race.

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British Council Films Online

Date

17 Dec 2010, 15:35

Author

bufvclinda

Post Type

Post

Thirteen British Council films from the 1940s have been digitised and are now available from their Time/Image website. These documentaries reflect the work of great directors such as Mary Field (Development...

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Oceanic Fish of the Tropical Atlantic (1981 Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. U-matic. col. 30 min.

Shows high-oceanic, near-surface life in the tropical Atlantic. Records a transatlantic voyage of scientific observation by marine biologists and a meteorologist conducted aboard a drifting yacht.

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John Cage (1984)

Director

Peter Greenaway

Producer

Revel Guest

Subject

Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Documentary on the avant-garde composer John Cage. Includes a postcript by Peter Greenaway in which he discusses some of the issues raised.

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Meredith Monk (1984)

Director

Peter Greenaway

Producer

Revel Guest

Subject

Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Discusses Meredith Monk’s achievements as singer, dancer, performance artist, composer and filmmaker. Includes a postcript by Peter Greenaway in which he discusses some of the issues raised.

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Robert Ashley (1984 Film)

Director

Peter Greenaway

Producer

Revel Guest

Subject

Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Uses material from various performances of the stage version of Ashley’s ‘made for television’ opera ‘Perfect Lives (Private Parts)'. The stage version was a collaboration between Ashley, the...

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Four American Composers: John Cage, Robert Ashley, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass (1984)

aka: 4 American Composers

Director

Peter Greenaway

Producer

Revel Guest

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 220 minutes), £32.92

A series of four programmes of performances by ‘avant-garde’ musicians from New York: John Cage, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass and Robert Ashley. The programmes are preceeded and followed by short...

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Scotland’s X-Files (2013)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 99 minutes), £14.99

From the archive of the Imperial War Museums, rare and unseen World War II propaganda films made to inform the public of Scotland’s role in the war effort. SCOTLAND SPEAKS (1940): The role of all Scots in...

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Trouble at the Top (6 Parts) (1996 Video)

Producer

Clare Duggan; Mary FitzPatrick; Bill Grist

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 40 min., 2000 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 2000 sale: £200.00 (+VAT +p&p) series of 5

Series following individual business bosses through a year in their lives, charting the challenges they encounter during what is a pivotal, and often turbulent, time as they tread the line between success...

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Coi Collection: Vol 1 - Police and Thieves (2010)

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 296 minutes), £19.99

The first volume in a series of DVD compilations of films made by the Central Office of Information. Established in 1946, the Central Office of Information (COI) was a successor to the wartime Ministry of...

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