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Water shortages and droughts across Britain (1995)

Genre

Interview; News report

Brian Ging reports on the launch of the new Thames Water underground storage system at Wood Green aimed at alleviating water-shortages within the south-east of England during periods of drought. Speaks to...

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Vivid Flood Rescues

Date released

11 Aug 1952

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1210

NoS ID

017973

Story no

6 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Vivid Flood Rescues. DESCRIPTION: Not long ago the news from Australia was the drought; now it’s the floods, and many people have been cut off in New South Wales. SHOTLIST: Cut story...

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Greenhouse Effect, The 1 (1989 Video)

Director

Richard White

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the causes and implications of global warming and climate change. Fox example, a minute rise in temperature within the Pacific basin can result in drought in Africa and flooding in Pakistan....

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Leslie Mitchell Reviews the News Pageant of Movietone, with Contributions by Sir Malcolm Campbell (on ARP) & Alan Howland (on Sport): Rain Comes at Last to England

Date released

19 May 1938

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

467A

NoS ID

008807

Story no

1 / 12

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Rain!. SHOTLIST: Rain at last, after the great drought. Shop keepers and pigeons are pleased. People walk in streets under umbrellas.

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Dry Crops

Date released

1974

Series name

Tomorrow Today

Issue no

142

NoS ID

329648

Story no

4 / 4

COI synopsis: The anti-perspirant spray for plants. Plants selectively bred for crops lose a great deal more water through their leaves than their generic parents. Application of a new spray to prevent water...

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After the Drought: An Urban Family in West Afica (1976 Film)

Director

Kristian Palvden; Aage Peterson; O G Sven

Producer

Willy Rohoe

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

About a relatively prosperous family living on the outskirts of Ouagadougou, capital of Upper Volta, who make their living by trade and by farming a field which lies outside the city limits.

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Dust Bowl, The (1960 Film)

Subject

Agriculture; History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Contrasts past and present conditions of the Dust Bowl area of the southern Great Plains. Shows newsreel footage of the area during the dust storms of the early 1930s. Interviews residents in Dalhart, Texas,...

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Rainmaker, The (1998 Video)

Subject

Geography

Distribution

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

Canadian scientist Dr Graeme Mather, who work with cloud seeding in South Africa to prove that clouds could be made to rain by means of human intervention, believed that after 30 years he learned how to end...

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Goshen (2015)

aka: Goshen: Places of Refuge for the Running People

Director

Dana Richardson; Sarah Zentz

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 85 minutes), £110.00

Feature-length documentary depicting the lifestyle of the indigenous Tarahumara, a light-footed running tribe who are striving to maintain their ancient culture in the depths of Mexico’s Copper Canyons....

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Floods in South Africa

Date released

3 Oct 1957

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1478A

NoS ID

021959

Story no

5 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Floods in South Africa. DESCRIPTION: Crops that looked like being ruined by drought have now been ruined by flood, in some districts near the Vaal river. Homes around Voreeninging and...

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