Results

All At Sea: Tanker Lights

Date released

1983

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

308

NoS ID

352463

Story no

5 / 6

COI Synopis - In this programme, we look at what the sea can offer us in terms of energy, food and minerals. It also examines its awesome power and offers some solutions for safety at sea. Red - too fast,...

News on Screen Cinema news To order Moving image

Knowledge of Healing, The (1999)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 89 minutes), £15.99

The first full-length film dealing extensively with Tibetan medicine, which takes a highly developed, holistic approach to health through the use of herbs, roots and minerals. Includes interview with The...

DVD Find Other To order

Beneath Scotland (1982 Video)

Subject

Geology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

The composition of the continental crust beneath Scotland is deduced by combining geophysical measurements such as reflection seismic and gravity anomaly data with observations of the composition of the...

DVD Find Other Record only

Radioactive Dating (198 Film, Video)

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Describes in detail the basis of radioactive dating with animation explaining radioactive decay and half-life. Describes how scientists can make use of radioactive substances such as carbon-14 and...

DVD Find Other To order

Growing Crystals (1997 Video)

aka: Croissances Cristallines

Director

Mugur Enea

Producer

Mugur Enea

Subject

Chemistry

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (PAL, SECAM, NTSC). col. 58 min., 1997 sale: £75.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Describes some of the most beautiful minerals in France, the modern methods of crystal growth and the commitment with which scientists are folllowing this regular structuring of atoms into that arrangement...

DVD Find Other To order

Old Glengowla Lead Mine (1997 Video)

Subject

Archaeology; Engineering

Distribution

out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 15 min.

The Old Glengowla lead mine in County Galway, Ireland, operated from 1851 to 1865. Today, an underground trip down to water level shows old equipment and and a variety of minerals, and on the surface can be...

DVD Find Other Record only

Igneous Rocks Down the Microscope (1990)

Subject

Geology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 15 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

A collection of thin sections for study: lavas showing olivine and plagioclase pyroxene (augite), opaque minerals (magnetite), and mafic lavas, which demonstrate sanidine zone plagioclase and orthopyroxene...

DVD Find Other Record only

Message in the Rocks, The (1978 Video)

Producer

Alec Nisbett

Subject

Geology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 55 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Develops the theory that four and a half thousand million years ago the earth was formed due to the explosion of a huge star which provided the rocks, the minerals and the radioactivity from which life...

DVD Find Other To order

Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Stars Entertain Servicemen’s Children

Date released

20 Dec 1945

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

863A

NoS ID

013660

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Daily Mirror Children’s Christmas Party. DESCRIPTION: The Daily Mirror Children’s Christmas Party was for the children of men serving with the British Army of the Rhine. The kids...

News on Screen Cinema news Online Moving image

First Year Petrography (1995 Multimedia)

Subject

Geology

Distribution

CD-ROM

Teaching module on introductory petrography. Images of rock thin-sections and hand specimens are used extensively. Covers basic petrography, tools used in petrographic examination, identification of mineral...

DVD Find Other To order