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If Disaster Strikes (1988 Video)

Subject

Librarianship

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 20 min.

Gives guidelines on procedures necessary to salvage library materials which are damaged by flood or fire. Discusses staff training in the handling of damaged materials and suggests ways in which risks to the...

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Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles

Date

23 Oct 2012, 08:37

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles by Mark Shiel (Reaktion Books, April 2012). 336 pages. ISBN: 978-1861899026 (hardback). £25 About the Author:  Josh Cluderay is a film graduate of Sheffield...

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Ucs Struggle, The (1971)

aka: Ucs 1

Subject

Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL, 23 minutes), £8.00

Cinema Action campaign film from 1971 supporting the fight to retain their jobs by workers at Upper Clyde Shipyards who developed a new weapon to help them in their struggle: the occupation and work-in.

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Science Shack: Lightning (2002)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £145.00 +VAT +p&p

Lightning strikes 1,000 people a year and kills thirty per cent of them, with men are four times more likely to be hit than women. Adam Hart-Davis look at how buildings, vehicles and people can be protected...

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Dole Not Coal: The 1984 Miners’ Strike: The Strikers’ Story

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.99

This film pays testimony to the people and politicians supporting the strike, together with the cause and effect to the striking miners in a dispute unimaginable in modern Britain, but one that has seemingly...

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Statistician Strikes Back, The (1995 Video)

Producer

John Jaworski

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at how the modern statistician works, addressing the slightly sour public perception of statistics. The programme follows a statistician researching the background to a new report, revealing the data...

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Hireling, The (2009)

Director

Alan Bridges

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £12.99

A recently widowed aristocrat Lady Helen Franklin (Sarah Miles), shattered by her husband’s death, takes to a sanatorium to get her feet again. On her discharge she strikes up a hesitant relationship with...

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Industrial Strife (1984 Video)

Producer

Susan Boyd-Bowman

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Compares British and American newsreel coverage from the 1930s to examine the film evidence on the nature of industrial strikes. The nature of industrial action in the two countries is also discussed.

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Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets (2011)

Subject

Law; Politics & government

Distribution

Available on BetaSP/DVcam videotape

A film re-examining the political events surrounding the arrest of 24 Shrewsbury building workers and the imprisonment of three of them, six months after the successful 1972 building workers’ strike. The...

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Follow the Rainbow (1991 Video)

Director

Vasudha Joshi; Ranjan Pallit

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies

Distribution

Out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min.

Damming the Subarnarekha River in India’s South Bihar region will have catastrophic results for the native Ho Indians. The World Band-financed dams will submerge their lands and temples. The campaign of...

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