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Chaos (1988 Video)

Producer

David Barlow; Rex Cowan

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) INCA

Chaos theory provides clues to the way the universe can seem both ordered and disordered at the same time, and is shedding new light as to which aspects of life can be predicted and which cannot.

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Designer Wines (1995 Video)

Producer

Chris Haws; Hugh McDaid

Subject

Chemistry

Distribution

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

Looks at science has transformed the art of winemaking in Australia and the USA into a highly mechanised and scientifically based multi-million dollar industry. Asks whether the European wine industry will...

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Faster Than a Speeding Bullet (1989 Video)

Producer

David Barlow

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) (INCA)

Examines the science, technology and economics of supersonic and hypersonic air transport 20 years after the first Concorde flights and 50 years after the invention of the jet engine. With various...

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Dambusters (1994 Video)

aka: Dambusters’ Raid, The

Director

Alex Beetham

Producer

Chris Haws

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Uses archive footage and interviews with bomber crews to examining the attacks using the bouncing bomb invented by Sir Barnes Wallis on the Ruhr Valley in May 1943. Suggests that details of the bomb fell...

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School’s out (1990 Video)

Director

Celia Lowenstein

Subject

Education

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Looks at the ways children learn by using computers in the classroom. Includes comments from children, teachers, and psychologists. Computer programmers and film-makers reflect on interactive biology,...

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Unravelling the Universe (1991 Video)

Director

David Barlow; Chris Haws

Producer

David Barlow; Chris Haws

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 56 min.

Superstring theory may be the most significant breakthrough in physics since Einstein’s theory of relativity. While many of the theories such as general relativity and quantum mechanics can be readily...

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Sex, Lies and Toupee Tape (1990 Video)

Director

Chris Haws

Producer

Thelma Rumsey

Subject

Biology; Psychology

Distribution

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

Examines the psychology and biology of ‘male pattern baldness’ including the molecular biology which causes some men to become bald. Also looks at the genetics of baldness, why Caucasians are prone to it...

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Moving Still (1980 Video)

Producer

Chris Haws

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) INCA 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) BBC

Charts the development of stroboscopic photography and how it can show things which the naked eye would be unable to detect. MIT Professor Harold Edgerton shows how it is possible to recreate ‘living’...

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After Desert Storm (1991 Video)

Director

Chris Haws

Producer

Richard Melman

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) INCA

Looks back over the Gulf war and shows recently declassified images which explain why Operation Desert Storm has been described as a revolution in warfare. Assesses whether there was anything qualitatively...

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Pest Wars (1992 Video)

Producer

Chris Haws; Sean Morris

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) INCA 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) BBC

Questions the efficiency of chemical pesticides, which are revealed to be expensive, environmentally unfriendly and ineffective. Reviews the development of biological pest control, looking at current...

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