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Matthew Bourne’s the Car Man (2017)

aka: The Car Man

Director

Matthew Bourne

Subject

Dance; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 115 minutes), £19.99

Dance show loosely based on Bizet’s classical opera Carmen, and the film adaptations of James M. Cain’s novel The Postman Always Rings Twice. Sexy drifter Luca arrives to Harmony, a small Italian...

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Requiem for Detroit (2010)

Director

Julien Temple

Subject

American Studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £195.00

A BBC documentary about the story of Detroit’s automotive industry. Using extraordinary archive footage, including vivid projections of the city’s heyday on its now abandoned buildings, the testimony of...

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Quest (2017)

Director

Jonathan Olshefski

Subject

American Studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 105 minutes), $295.00

Filmed with vérité intimacy over the course of nearly a decade, Quest is the portrait of the Rainey family living in North Philadelphia. Beginning at the dawn of the Obama presidency, Quest Rainey and his...

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Commissioner of Sewers: William S Burroughs (1991 Video)

Director

Klaus Maeck

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1997 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

A drama-documentary using interview and archival material, paintings and clips of William S Burroughs’ film appearances (including DECODER and Gus van Sant’s DRUGSTORE COWBOY and THANKSGIVING PRAYER)...

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N/Um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !kung Bushmen (1966 Film)

Director

John K Marshall

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The medicine dance is one activity in !Kung life that draws people together in groups that are not shaped by family, band, or close friendship. The dance is essentially a curing ritual but is not solemn; the...

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Under African Skies (5 Parts) (1985 Video)

Producer

Mark Kidel; Michael Macintyre; Michael Raeburn; Richard Taylor

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 60 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £225.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series looking at the diverse music of Africa: where it comes from, what it means and where it is going. 1 (producer Michael Raeburn): Among all English-speaking African countries, the music of Zimbabwe has...

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Transformers, The (1990 Video)

Subject

Education

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 3 x 60 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £150.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series looking at teaching children with learning difficulties, showing practice in the USSR, Israel and the USA. 1: Shows the methods being used to teach deaf and blind children in a school in Zagorsk in...

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A is for Autism (1992)

Director

Tim Webb

Subject

Medical sciences; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 11 minutes), £5.99

Animated documentary focusing on autistic children and adults who relate their experiences of growing up autistic. Based on drawings by people with autism, the medium of animation allows the collaborators to...

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Cellebration (1995 Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC only). col. ? min., 2000 sale: £75.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

A collection of 19 real-time and time-lapse sequences demonstrating the dynamics of cell locomotion, nuclear division, membrane trafficking, and organelle movements. Uses a wide variety of microscopic and...

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Three by Rambert (2002)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 min), £19.99

Three dances recorded at The Studio in Denmark Intimate Pages: The musical and thematic basis for choreographer Christopher Bruce’s ballet "Intimate Pages" was the String Quartet No. 2 by the Czech...

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