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Faiz: Poet in Troubled Times (1986 Video)

Director

Faris Kermani

Producer

H O Nazareth

Subject

English language and literature; Politics & government

Distribution

Out of Distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

Looks at the development of modern politics in Pakistan through the eyes of its premier poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz who died in 1984. The story is told through interviews, poems, songs and cinema clips.

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Sources of Shakespeare’s Richard III, The (1984 Radio)

Radio broadcast. Tinch Minter researches source material from which Shakespeare wrote his play. His main resources seem to have been the English chronicles of Edward Hall (1548) and Raphael Holinshed...

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Video Recordings Act 1984

Date

28 Aug 2009, 18:37

Author

bufvcsergio

Post Type

Post

It has been announced that the 1984 Video Recordings Act, which governs the role of the BBFC in classifying and censoring home video releases in the UK, was never referred to the European Parliament and thus...

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Online Storage and Retrieval (1984 Video)

Subject

Information technology; Librarianship

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videodisc. Philips Laservision VP705 or VP835. BBC Model B microcomputer with disk drive (40 track).

An interactive videodisc describing the storage and retrieval of bibliographic information. It is based on a conventional training course for online searches. A ‘to camera’ presentation, set in a...

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Harlan County (1976)

Director

Barbara Kopple

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £14.99

A re-release on DVD of one of the seminal films of the US documentary movement. Barbara Kopple’s 1976 Oscar winner profiles a miners’ strike in Kentucky that saw a corporation playing hardball against...

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Beyond Famine? (1986 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

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

In 1974 world attention was focused on a sever famine in Bangladesh which killed hundreds of thousands of people. flooding in that year had destroyed crops and killed livestock, but when similar floods...

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A J Cook, Miners’ Leader 1926 (1984 Video)

Director

Philip Priestly

Subject

History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 20. min.

Cook was national secretary of the Miners’ Federation in 1926. He is remembered by historian Paul Davies, Will Paynter, Dennis Skinner and Arthur Scargill. Comments on the General Strike are juxtaposed...

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All out (1985 Video)

Director

James O’Donoghue

Producer

George Brandt

Distribution

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

Shows the activities of striking miners and the women’s support group during the period up to Christmas 1984 in the village of Penrhiwceibr in South Wales. Through an impressionistic combination of...

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Desert Ecology (1986 Video)

Producer

Tony Jolly

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

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

Filmed in 1984 at the Chihuahuan Desert field station at Mapimi in Northern Mexico in collaboration with members of the Institute of Ecology (Mexico). Shows the main features of the desert environment and...

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Globe Reborn, The (1984 Radio)

Radio broadcast. Hamish Robertson talks to people involved in planned reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Globe in London and looks at the practical difficulties of rebuilding a sixteenth-century theatre...

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