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Autism’s Lonely Children (1966 Film)

Director

Philip Burton; Jack Willis

Subject

Medical sciences; Psychiatry

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An investigation into the problems of autism, showing characteristic symptoms, and techniques being developed to help hospitalised children back to normality through operant conditioning.

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Room at the Top (1959)

Director

Jack Clayton

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 minutes), £14.67

Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey), a young working-class man who craves social and professional advancement, moves to the wealthy Yorkshire town of Warnley to take up a job with the local council. There, he...

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Faithful Departed (1967 Film)

Director

Kieran Hickey

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Traces the life of James Joyce from childhood to adolescence, concentrating on 16 June 1904, using photographs from Dublin’s National Library.

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Common Sense Motivation (1979 Video)

Director

Jack Duncan

Producer

Charles K French

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 15 min.

A dramatised case study of a manager who, in analysing the factors which motivate him, is able to apply this knowledge in his dealings with his staff.

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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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Irma la Douce (1963 Video)

Director

Billy Wilder

Producer

Edward L Alperson

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

DVD

Wilder’s film adaptation of the Broadway musical, without the music. An ex-cop falls in love with a prostitute and will do anything to keep her for himself.

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Jack Rosenthal at ITV (2006)

Director

Michael Apted

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 900 minutes), £39.99

A legend among TV writers, Jack Rosenthal scripted many of his best works for ITV. This 5-DVD set features seventeen of his plays, many unseen since they were broadcast. Disc 1: Another Sunday and Sweet...

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Visions of Change: The Evolution of the British TV Documentary Vol. 1: BBC 1951-1967 (2016)

Subject

Broadcasting; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 382 minutes), £34.99

An extensive collection of television films made during the 1950s and 1960s, covering a range of topics, and including films by such influential directors as Denis Mitchell, Philip Donnellan, Ken Russell,...

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57 Varieties (1991 Video)

aka: Counting Theorem, The

Producer

Adam Adamyk; Jack Koumi

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Investigates the orbit-stabilizer theorem in group theory, and shows how this leads to the counting theorem, which is used to solve counting problems.

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Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg, The (1993 Video)

Director

Jerry Aronson

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 83 min., 1997 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

A biographical study of Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg, containing interviews and film footage.

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