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  1. Light Load

    Date released
    Mar 1970
    Series name
    Mining Review 23rd Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346484
    Story no
    4 / 4

    NoS synopsis: Once a year 9 tons of coal are carried down a cliff face to heat the Douglas Head lighthouse on the Isle of Man.

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  2. Man at High Altitude (1977 Film)

    Director
    D A Heath
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows how a man acclimatizes and how many animal species adapt to high altitude. Looks at the body build of the Quechua Indians and at their biologically successful life in the Andes, contrasted with the...

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  3. Last Moment, The (1928 Film)

    Director
    Pál Fejös
    Producer
    Edward M. Spitz; Samuel Freedman

    An experimental and impressionistic film which records the thoughts of a drowning actor. In one scene, the young man (dressed in the make-up and costume of a clown) performs as Hamlet to the approval of the...

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  4. Scopes 'Monkey Trial' Newsreel Footage

    Date
    6 Oct 2009, 16:00
    Author
    Eve-Marie
    Post Type
    Post

    As part of our News on Screen /NewsFilm Online Linking Project we have rediscovered original newsreel footage on the famous Scopes 'Monkey trial' of 1925 that inspired the thrilling courtroom drama 'Inherit...

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  5. Digging Up Man (1973 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 15 min.

    Professor Barry Cunliffe looks at Danebury Hill Fort, Hampshire, an Iron Age site. Shows how an archaeologist works and what he can deduce from his discoveries. Life at Danebury is reconstructed with the aid...

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  6. Sterile Man (1978 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A comprehensive list of the possible causes of infertility in the male with discussion of the management of some of them. The first part examines all the anomalies which are found in sperm production. The...

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  7. RECORD CORNER - 22 TONS PER MAN

    Date released
    Dec 1961
    Series name
    Mining Review 15th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346152
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: 22 tons of coal per man is the output record set up at Swallow Nines face at Barrow Colliery, near Barnsley

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  8. Sand Islands (1977 Film)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A description of the stages (from concept through model to prototype) leading to the production of cheap, stable man-made islands. Shows the prototype construction of an island by hydraulically placing sand...

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  9. View to a Kill, A (1996 Video)

    Director
    Rod Williams
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Follows the Kelley family of Texas, who exercised a new state right to watch the execution of the man who brutally killed their children Kara and Mark in 1988. Shows their week leading up to the execution,...

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  10. MoliÈre (196 Film)

    Director
    Peter Coltman
    Producer
    Peter Coltman
    Subject
    French studies
    Distribution
    Hire, Film (16mm, 106 minutes)

    Introduction to the life and work of the French dramatist and actor Molière. Using illustrations, his career is traced from fledgling actor to famous playwright and actor-manager. Argues that he was...

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