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Narritjin at Djarrakpi (2 Parts) (1980 Video)

Director

Ian Dunlop

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50, 39 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) each part

Narritjin Maymuru and his family are establishing a small settlement at Djarrakip, an important Manggalili clan site on the northern head of Blue Mud Bay in the Northern Territory of Australia. Narritjin is...

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Atmospheric Circulation (1996 Video)

aka: World Weather

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1997 sale: £31.75 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the causes of the world’s wind patterns. Covers: global heat budget; convection; Coriolis effect; general circulation of the atmosphere; trade winds; seasons; monsoons; synoptic charts.

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Out of Asia (1997 Video)

Producer

Chris Hale

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

Late in 1996 archaeologists in the remote north-west Australia’s Northern Territory claimed to have found the oldest art in the world and evidence for the arrival of people in Australia three times earlier...

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In the Steps of D.H. Lawrence: An Exile in Creativity (2015)

Director

Garry Shead

Subject

Art; English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 31 minutes), £95.00 (University licence)

This documentary by Garry Shead is a creative journey in the footsteps of the English novelist and poet, exploring his life and work with expert commentary and rich illustration of archival footages of WWI...

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Getting That Interview (1995 Video)

Subject

Education

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £29.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Advises on searching for and applying for a job, following the experiences of a young woman looking for her first job. Focuses on dravting the CV, beginning the job search, and writing a succesful leter of...

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Jacques Cousteau Collection - Australia, Indonesia and the Danube - Rediscover the World - Series 1 (2007)

Subject

Biology; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 576 minutes), £29.99

Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his team look at some of the fragile ecosystems of our planet and suggest ways to protect it. In this set, their journeys take them to Indonesia, Australia and, in Europe, to the...

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Madarrpa Funeral at Gurka’Wuy (2 Parts) (1979 Film)

Director

Ian Dunlop

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The way of coping with death in north east Arnhem Land is through rites of clan, religion and land. The funeral is for a young child at an aboriginal clan homeland settlement on the Gulf of Carpentaria. At...

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Utopia (2013)

Director

John Pilger

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 110 minutes), £10.30

John Pilger’s film breaks what amounts to a national silence about the indigenous first people of Australia: the oldest, most enduring human presence on Earth. UTOPIA reveals that apartheid is deep within...

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Goodbye Old Man (1977 Film, Video)

aka: Good-Bye Old Man

Director

David MacDougall

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Ethnographic record of a pukumani (bereavement) ceremony of the Tiwi of Melville Island, off the coast of Australia. Made at the request of the Mangatopi family of Snake Bay, the ceremony was held for the...

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Echidna, The (1969 Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

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

Shows echidnas in the field and in the laboratory - their feeding behaviour and the suckling of the young. An animated sequence explaining how the fertilized egg develops is followed by actual film of the...

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