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  1. Awakening the Frozen Addicts (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Jon Palfreman
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Young drug addicts in California started freezing like statues, but it led to a medical revolution giving hope to millions. Here two patients travel to Sweden for a daring operation to transplant foetal...

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  2. Aircrash: The Deadly Puzzle (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Marian Marzynski
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A study of an air crash investigation, filmed over the course of a year. In June 1992 a Boeing 737, COPA Flight 201, went down in the Panamanian jungle on its way to Colombia. The film follows the...

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  3. Wot U Lookin’ At? (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Oliver James; David Malone
    Subject
    Psychology; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at causes of violent behaviour, noting that psychiatrists working with prisoners identify paranoia as one of the most important factors underlying violence in cities. Examines current research looking...

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  4. Here Be Monsters (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Alec Nisbett
    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Edwin Hubble’s telescope, built 70 years ago, revealed the galaxies and the expansion of the universe. But now the space telescope named after Hubble is uncovering much more, including dramatic changes in...

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  5. Diet for a Lifetime, A (1992 Video)

    Producer
    John Groom
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 48 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at a study linking foetal birth weight, the size of the placenta and the effects of maternal nutrition on foetal development. Diet during pregnancy and just before conception may even affect the health...

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  6. Dante Goes to Hell (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Simon Campbell-Jones
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines possible contributions of volcanoes to the ozone hole. Follows a robot called Dante as it is sent into Erebus, an active volcano in Antarctica, to find out how much ozone-damaging chlorine the...

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  7. Far Side, The (1994 Video)

    Producer
    David Malone
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 48 min.

    Marks the 30th anniversary of HORIZON, which was launched 12 days after the creation of BBC2 and is its longest running series. This film is a record of those years, relating how technology transformed our...

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  8. Man Who Made Up His Mind, The (1994 Video)

    Producer
    David Sington
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman’s biological theory of the mind, which see the brain not as an information processing machine but as an evolving ecosystem of competing groups of cells. In his...

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  9. Last Mammoth, The (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Kate O’Sullivan
    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Follows scientists’ quest for mammoth fossils in order to establish the reasons why the animal, an ancient relative of the elephant, finally became extinct. Fossil finds in the Siberian Arctic indicate...

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  10. Death Wish: The Untold Story (1994 Video)

    Producer
    David Malone
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    What makes life possible is death, and lots of it. Every cell in the body is prepared to die, to sacrifice itself for the body’s good. This ‘suicide programme’ is the natural healing mechanism that...

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