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Ashes to Ashes (1996 Video)

Subject
Drama

Distribution
REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. col. 60 min.

A video recording using a single camera of a performance of ‘Ashes to Ashes’, written and directed by Harold Pinter and performed by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Upstairs at the...
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From Ashes to Forest (1984)

Director
Tony Lanzelo

Subject
Agriculture; Environmental science

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 52 minutes), on application

For centuries the idea of the forest fire as a destructive force has been perpetuated and, where possible, fires have been suppressed in order to protect the environment, the populace and the economy. Filmed...
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From the Ashes (1996 Video)

Director
Jane Dibbin

Producer
Karen Mattison

Subject
Social welfare

Distribution
Out of Distribution, 1999 sale: £40.00 (+VAT inc p&p)

Story of Carol Rigby, who in 1978 set fire to a wastebin while working as a nurse at the National Theatre, London. Convicted of arson and sent to Broadmoor, she examines what drove her to the point of...
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Shooting Freetown (2011)

Director
Kieran Hanson

Subject
Anthropology; Media studies

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 29 minutes), £15.00

A decade since Sierra Leone’s devastating civil war, from the ashes rises a new dawn of creativity in audio-visual media. Inspired by Jean Rouch’s ‘shared anthropology’ and ‘ethno-fiction’,...
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Decade of Destruction (1986 Video)

Director
Adrian Cowell

Producer
Roger James

Subject
Environmental science; Geography

Distribution
out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 4 x 52 min., 1993 sale: £40.00 (+ VAT +p&p)

An account of the destruction of the Amazonian rain forest in Brazil. The destruction of the world’s tropical forests is the greatest single threat to the stability of environmental systems on our planet....
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Addressing the Nation: Gpo Film Unit Volume 1 (2008)

Director
Alberto Cavalcanti; Len Lye; Humphrey Jennings; Basil Wright

Producer
John Grierson

Subject
History; Media studies

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £24.99

The first of three deluxe double-disc box sets presenting all the key films of the GPO Film Unit on DVD for the first time. The complete collection includes legendary filmmakers such as John Grierson, Len...
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Great Rift, The (1988 Video)

Producer
Keith Scholey; Adrian Warren

Subject
Environmental science; Geology

Distribution
Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 3 x 55 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £150.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series examining the 4500-mile-long Great Rift Valley of Africa, the greatest rupture in the earth’s crust, evolved over some 40m years and still widening. 1: Begins at an active volcano in Zaire which...
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We Live in Two Worlds : Gpo Film Unit Volume 2 (2009)

Director
Len Lye; Harry Watt; Evelyn Spice; William Coldstream; Basil Wright; Stuart Legg; Alberto Cavalcanti; Norman McLaren; Lotte Reiniger; Pat Jackson; Humphrey Jennings; Richard Massingham

Subject
Film studies; History

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 257 minutes), £24.99

The second of three double-disc box sets presenting all the key films of the GPO Film Unit produced between 1936-1938. The collection is not just important in cinematic terms, but provides a valuable and...
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Human Element, The (1992 Video)

Subject
Chemistry

Distribution
Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 30 min., 1997 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p) (each) 1997 sale: £200.00 (+VAT +p&p) five programmes

A human view of the world of science, aiming to show that there is more to chemistry than meets the eye. 1: The story of Lise Meitner, whose achievements included vital work which led to the splitting of the...
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