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Sexual Selection and Speciation: Behaviour Studies on Hawaiian Picture Wings and Their Potential in a Med Fly Eradication Program (1992 Video)

Producer

David Jackson

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Discusses the factors for new species formation, using as the example the Hawaiian ‘Drosophila’, the so-called ‘picture-wings’. Considers the biological control of the Mediterranean fruit fly in...

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Whisper jet flies off from London City (1992)

Genre

News report; Interview

BAE have developed a new jet airliner to fly from London City Airport to Europe which will fly to more destinations and hopefully be quieter. Emma Howard reports from the Docklands. Includes interviews with...

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James May on the Moon (2009)

Subject

Space science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £14.98

James meets three men who have walked on the moon, to discover how it felt and learn how 1960s technology managed to produce machines which were able to fly to the moon. May also experiences the thrill of...

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Battle Anniversary

Date released

19 Sep 1963

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1789A

NoS ID

025258

Story no

5 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Battle Anniversary. DESCRIPTION: As usual on Battle of Britain Day, thousands turned up at Biggin Hill. Movietone’s pictures show some of the planes on show at the RAF open day....

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Macmillan Sees Brighton Fly Pest

Date released

10 Dec 1953

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2377

NoS ID

044744

Story no

5 / 6

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Popular cabinet minister watches demonstration of destruction method used against seaweed fly plague.

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Angling from Various Angles (Cartoon)

Date released

6 Oct 1924

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1413

NoS ID

079835

Story no

1 / 6

Extras

1 film clip

[SUBTITLE]: THE WORM’S POINT OF VIEW Boy digging for bait comes across articulate worm that says ‘Fishin’s alright for them as likes it’ - boy says ‘I like’s it’ and puts worm in tin. Chicken...

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Men Who Bottled a Cow, The (1986 Video)

Producer

Edward Goldwyn

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

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

Documentary on Dr Glynn Vale’s research into the tsetse fly - a carrier of trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness - a major killer of domestic animals in Africa). His research in Zimbabwe led to the discovery...

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Battle of Britain Fly-Past

Date released

20 Sep 1948

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1007

NoS ID

015327

Story no

7 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Battle of Britain Fly Past. DESCRIPTION: The eighth anniversary of the Battle of Britain was marked with a fly-past over London. SHOTLIST: KS GV crowd on Air Ministry roof. SCU Air...

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Zululand Mystery, The (1988 Video)

Subject

Veterinary science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 10 min.

In 1894 David Bruce, an officer in the Army Medical Service, was sent to Zululand to investigate the outbreak of a mysterious wasting disease which was ravaging the herds of cattle. He showed that the...

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Fly Farm

Date released

26 May 1952

Series name

New Pictorial

Issue no

402

NoS ID

119362

Story no

2 / 4

Extras

1 film clip

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