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  1. Battling Barges (1999 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 28 min., 1999 sale: £12.00 (inclusive)

    A series of interviews with Thames barge captains, an investigation of organisations preserving barges and a brief history of barges on the Thames. Shows highlights of a Thames Match barge race, filmed on...

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  2. Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé

    Date
    2 Jun 2014, 07:57
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Article

    Jean Painlevé (1902-1989) was one of the pioneers in the development of scientific cinema and was one of its great popularisers. Oliver Gaycken, Assistant Professor at University of Maryland looks at the...

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  3. Flags Under the North Sea (1982)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The Far North Liquids and Associated Gas Systems or FLAGS is an Esso/Shell joint venture. Gives a detailed account of how the 450-kilometre-long pipeline was laid in the North Sea in waters 150 meters deep...

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  4. Hampshire (2013)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £11.49

    Hampshire, month by month and through all four seasons. Among the local people we meet are farmers and smallholders, a traditional baker, a river keeper, a thatcher, a ploughman, a wheelwright, a clock...

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  5. Fred Dibnah’s Magnificent Monuments: Bridges and Tunnels (2004)

    aka: Building Blocks

    Subject
    Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building
    Distribution
    VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), subscription only

    Fred Dibnah tours Britain admiring some of the greatest achievements in civil engineering, from the earliest wrought iron suspension bridge to the Channel Tunnel. He also steers a barge across the...

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  6. Pantanal: Lifewaters (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    The river Plate Basin, South America’s second most important river system after the Amazon, is the site of a struggle between governments and development banks on one side and environmentalists and local...

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  7. Burnley... Memories of the 1930s and 1940s: The Films of Sam Hanna

    Director
    Sam Hanna
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL), £14.99

    Sam Hanna pioneered the use of film in schools as a means of instruction. In 1932 he started to film life and events in his home town Burnley, as well as capturing dying local crafts for posterity on movie...

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  8. Afterimages 4: Vivienne Dick (2007)

    Director
    Vivienne Dick
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 56 minutes), £100.00

    AFTERIMAGES is a continually-expanding collection of important works by film and video artists, newly remastered and made available on DVD for the first time. The aim is to make important historical works by...

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