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  1. Power in the Land, A

    Subject
    Energy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 40 minutes), £6.00

    A film about the importance of electricity commissioned by the Electrical Trades Union.

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  2. New additions to the Gateway

    Date
    26 Sep 2012, 14:53
    Author
    Andrew Ormsby
    Post Type
    Post

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,200 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments,...

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  3. Gorbals Story, The (1953)

    Director
    David MacKane
    Producer
    Ernest Gartside
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 95 minutes), £16.33

    Johnnie, now a successful artist, recalls his life in the tenements of the Glasgow slums. In flashback his recalls the events and characters he shared life with in a slum tenement building. The screenplay...

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  4. Fawley Achievement (1951)

    Subject
    Energy; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 40 minutes), £8.00

    The building of the Esso Petroleum Company’s refinery at Fawley, on Southampton Water in Hampshire, was an important part of Britain’s post-war industrial development. Its official opening in September...

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  5. Big Melt, The (2014)

    Director
    Martin Wallace
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 70 minutes), £19.99

    A special commission as part of the 100 Years of Stainless Steel celebrations, THE BIG MELT is a feature length elegy to the men and women who toiled in Sheffield’s steelworks and a hymn to Britain’s...

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  6. Coffee: America’s Happiest Addiction (1950)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 135 minutes), $14.99

    Of all the legal narcotics in our lives, coffee is the most constantly prevalent and accepted. It is truly a part of our culture. This collection presents films that show the making of coffee, the workings...

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  7. Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm of Film (2006)

    Director
    Geoffrey Jones
    Subject
    Film Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £14.99

    Since the 1950s, Geoffrey R. Llewellyn Jones has been making short films with an extraordinary marriage of images, music and rhythm that make him one of Britain’s true film artists. This DVD brings a...

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  8. Police and the Mentally Ill (2 Vols) (1930)

    Subject
    Mental Health and Counselling; Psychology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 60, 180 minutes), $14.99 each

    Two collections of short industrial films spanning four decades. Vol 1. POLICE AND THE MENTALLY ILL is an educational film for police officers offering advice if they are confronted by a mentally ill...

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  9. American Supermarket (6 Parts) (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Davide Ferrario
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution

    Industrial films, old commercials, documentaries, educational films, and army training films are used humourously to portray the American dream of the 1940s and 1950s. Shows the mass culture of a period that...

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  10. Suburbia: The American Dream

    Subject
    Architecture; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 120 minutes), $14.99

    This collection of industrial films takes a trip back in time to the dawn of the American suburb. They were created to educate the public on the values of moving out of the dirty, grimy city and into newly...

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