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Energy: The Alternatives (1985 Video)

Subject
Physics; Technology

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

Looks at three energy alternatives: the world’s largest geothermal field in northern California, the wind farms of the Altamont Pass near San Francisco, and a tidal power barrage at La Rance in Brittany....
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Squadron 992 (1940 Video)

Director
Harry Watt

Producer
Alberto Cavalcanti

Subject
History

Distribution
Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 26 min.

In response to a request for a film that showed the importance of balloon barrage, Harry Watt made this drama-documentary about the training of a balloon squadron and its first assignment to the Forth...
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Shapes of Flows, The (1987 Video)

Producer
Pip Surgey

Subject
Mathematics; Physics

Distribution
Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The Victoria Falls and the whilrlpool at La Rance barrage in France are spectacular examples of flows. It turns out that for linear flows there are exactly 13 geometric varieties of flows that can occur, and...
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Power to the People? (1986 Video)

Producer
Kevin Newport

Subject
Design; Engineering

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

Large-scale projects such as Concorde, the nuclear power programme, the Channel Tunnel and the proposed Severn tidal barrage have at least two characteristics in common: they are publicly funded (or the...
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Dylan Thomas: The War Films Anthology (2006)

Subject
Film Studies; History

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 0, 106 minutes), £15.99

The world-renowned poet Dylan Thomas made a little-known but valuable contribution to Britain’s war effort scripting powerful propaganda films for the Ministry of Information. This anthology collects...
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Desert Victory: The Battle of El Alamein (1943)

Director
Roy Boulting

Producer
David MacDonald

Subject
History

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 0, 60 minutes), £14.99 (QL/retail)

Documentary, with some re-enacted material. Official British war film. The story of the British Eighth Army’s victory at El Alamein in the autumn of 1942, and its advance across nearly 1400 miles of desert...
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