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  1. Open Skies, Grass Roots (2 Parts) (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Ken Little
    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    1: In the early 1980s the provincial government of British Columbia supported the introduction of a province-wide distance education system known as ‘The Knowledge Network’. Based in Vancouver, the...

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  2. Great Gardens of the American West (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Design
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1997 sale: £15.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Grahame Beakhust visits at private and public gardens in California, British Columbia and Washington state and interviews their creators. Shows various gardens including the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden...

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  3. In Search of the Hamat’Sa: A Tale of Headhunting (2006)

    Director
    Aaron Glass
    Subject
    Anthropology; Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 33 minutes), £50.00

    Produced in the Program for Culture and Media at New York University, The Hamat’sa (or "Cannibal Dance") is the most important and widely known ceremony of the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) people of British...

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  4. Clayoquot Sound: The Final Cut? (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Clayoquot Sound is an area of temperate rain forest on Vancouver Island off the west coast of British Columbia and known as a biodiversity hotspot. The high percentage of the forest that has been logged, the...

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  5. Lost Horizon (1937 Video)

    Director
    Frank Capra
    Producer
    Frank Capra
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    Based on the novel by James Hilton in which a British diplomat and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like Shangri-la. The place...

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  6. Timber for Tomorrow (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. ? min., 1997 sale: £? (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at an sustainable logging on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, telling of an 83-year-old forester, Merv Wilkinson, who has been logging his land for profit for 50 years. The result is a...

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  7. Sts-58: Mission Highlights (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Space science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min., 1995 sale: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The launch of the space shuttle ‘Columbia’ on 18 October 1993 into its record-breaking 14-day flight during which the crew of seven conducted a range of studies with the Spacelab Life Sciences 2 Module....

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  8. Fighting to Fish / Un Siecle de Lutte (2004)

    Director
    Charles Menzies
    Subject
    Languages; Social sciences

    Adapted from Dr. Charles Menzie’s book ‘Red Flags and Lace Coiffes’, this film uses animated archival images to tell the turbulent history of industrialisation and resistance over the last century in...

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  9. Artists in Logic - Computers in Wood (1996 Video)

    Producer
    John Jaworski
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min.

    Looks at computer-controlled technology in the timber industry, which is used to process each log most profitable. Shows how computers help to make minute adjustments to the lathe to peel the maximum amount...

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  10. Fluvial Environments (1988 Video)

    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23 min., 1999 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Explores the different river systems that drain the North American continent and Great Britain today and in the distant geological past. In a journey through Saskatchewan, Quebec, British Columbia, Texas and...

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