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Avebury: Working on the Evidence (1987 Video)

aka: Working on the Evidence: Avebury

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 22 min., 1997 sale: £7.95 (inclusive)

Looks at the evidence explaining the Avebury stone circles and nearby monuments. Includes sections on a living history project and the excavation work led by Alexander Keiller.

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Queen of Spades, The (1948)

Director

Thorold Dickinson

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £15.99

This atmospheric suspense thriller, one of the finest British films of the forties, is based on a short story by Pushkin. Anton Walbrook stars as Russian army captain Herman Suvorin, who secretly covets the...

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Moscow Elegy - Alexander Sokurov (2007)

aka: Moskovskaya Elegiya

Director

Alexander Sokurov

Subject

Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £24.99

Originally intended to mark the 50th birthday of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. However, disagreements within the Soviet Professional Union of Cinematographers about the style and content of the film...

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Glasgow Architecture on Disc (2000 Multimedia)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

CD-ROM

A multimedia guide to the architecture of Glasgow, including the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomas and many others. Pictures of the buildings are accompanied by text which is...

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Elegy of the Land - Maria/Last Day of a Rainy Summer (2007)

Director

Alexander Sokurov

Subject

Agriculture; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 40/30 minutes), £24.99

Two shorts by Alexander Sokurov about the significance of the land to Russia, where it has an almost spiritual meaning. Both films are embued with the director’s signature moody melancholy. MARIA, made in...

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Making and Meaning: Holbein’s ‘Ambassadors’ (1997 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 27 min., 1999 sale £10.00 (inclusive)

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Portrait and Image (1983 Video)

Subject

Archaeology; Art; Classical studies

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23 min.

Places in context the portraits of the Emperor Augustus that have survived on coins and as busts. Discusses the development of portraiture from the idealised representations of Alexander the Great through to...

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Pope and Augustan Poetry (197)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 50 minutes), £11.00

One of a series of audiotaped discussions which show literary criticism as a living, evolving interchange. This discussion is between I. Jack of Pembroke College, Cambridge and R. Luckett of St Catherine’s...

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Nobel Scientists: Interviews with Nobel Prize Winning Scientists (2010)

Subject

Science

The 20th Century was a time that saw significant advances in all branches of science. In the 1980s, the BBC decided to preserve a record of some of the great minds behind these remarkable developments and...

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Innocent Years, The (1965 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Uses authentic footage to present a picture of the United States during the changing years between 1901 and 1914. Emphasises the nation’s emergence as an industrialised affluent society and a world power.

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