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  1. Shirley Strum and the Pumphouse Gang (1982 Film)

    Producer
    Colin Willock
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Describes the studies of the American anthropologist Shirley Strum who, over a period of six years, observed a troop of baboons who live in Gilgil in the Rift Valley of Kenya. The ‘Pumphouse Gang’ is...

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  2. Message in the Rocks, The (1978 Video)

    Producer
    Alec Nisbett
    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 55 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Develops the theory that four and a half thousand million years ago the earth was formed due to the explosion of a huge star which provided the rocks, the minerals and the radioactivity from which life...

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  3. Alkali Industry, The (1983 Video)

    Producer
    Neil Cameron
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    The presenter, an historian of the chemical industry, demonstrates the chemistry involved in the three principal historical processes for the production of alkali. He visits sites associated with the...

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  4. Cinema of Unease (1995 Video)

    Director
    Sam Neill; Judy Rymer
    Producer
    Grant Campbell; Paula Jalfon
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 52 min.

    Actor Sam Neill’s personal journey through the cinema of his native New Zealand, finding echoes of his own memories and formative experiences in the emerging national film culture. Features the work of...

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  5. Moving Still (1980 Video)

    Producer
    Chris Haws
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) INCA 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) BBC

    Charts the development of stroboscopic photography and how it can show things which the naked eye would be unable to detect. MIT Professor Harold Edgerton shows how it is possible to recreate ‘living’...

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  6. Spend and Prosper (1981 Video)

    Producer
    Christopher La Fontaine
    Subject
    Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Profile of John Maynard Keynes, economist and patron of the arts, who died in 1946. Notes some of his policies which were in direct opposition to the monetarist policies of the Thatcher administration. More...

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  7. Changing Face of Slavery, The (1997 Video)

    Director
    Bill Locke
    Producer
    Rose McCausland
    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £15.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Two 15-minute programmes examining slavery past and present: 1) investigates the trans-Atlantic slave trade, how and why it began and the arguments for and against its abolition; 2) looks at childen working...

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  8. Old Wives’ Tales (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Biology; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1998 sale: £14.99 (inclusive)

    Asks whether it is right for women past natural childbearing age to undergo fertility treatment. Features 64-year-old Alison Cobb, who spent three years trying to have a baby using fertility treatment, and...

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  9. Year to Remember, A: The 1930s

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £19.99

    This three disc DVD set features Pathe footage taken from across the 1930s, giving an insight into the decade leading up to World War II. In a world reeling from the Great Depression, the decade was...

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  10. Cracks in the Crust (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Simon Campbell-Jones; Alex Seaborne
    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Investigates developments in seismology. Japanese scientists claim to be able to predict earthquakes, but on 17 January 195, the Kobe earthquake came without warning and killed 5400 people. Despits the fact...

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