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Cartography

Date released

Oct 1973

Series name

Carrousel Britanico

Issue no

62

NoS ID

324881

Story no

3 / 4

COI synopsis: Demonstrating latest aids, such as aerial photography, in map making.

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Great American Road Automotive History Films, The (2011)

Subject

Engineering; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 360 minutes), $18.49

24 films celebrating the American automotive industry and the driving pleasures of the American highway, made between 1915 and 1962. They cover topics such as the benefits of interstate highways, their...

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Cartography

Date released

Mar 1973

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

130

NoS ID

328139

Story no

3 / 4

COI synopsis: Latest aids to aerial photography map making.

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To Make a Map (1977 Film)

Director

Douglas Cameron; Wo Ted Parks

Producer

Desmond Dew

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Illustrates the various steps in making a multi-coloured topographic map of a remote area in northern Canada. Shows how aerial photographs are taken, describes the problems of relief and tilt displacement...

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Letters from Baghdad (2017)

Director

Zeva Oelbaum; Sabine Krayenbuhl

Subject

Archaeology; History; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £7.00

Biographical documentary about the explorer, cartographer, photographer, archaeologist and ethnographer Gertrude Bell, who travelled widely in Arabia before being recruited by British military intelligence...

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Letter to the World (2010)

Director

Suzie Hanna

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 9 minutes), £15.00

Commissioned for the Emily Dickinson International Society Conference, Oxford, in 2010. The film is designed to interpret some of the poet’s tropes including her microscopic representation of the outdoors...

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Mapping It out (2002)

Subject

Science

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £130.50 + VAT

A series of six programmes in which five scientists are marooned, with very basic equipment, on the Caribbean island of Carriacou, just north of Granada, where they are challenged to use their scientific...

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Science in Focus Special: Time and Place in the Communication Age

Subject

Physics; Technology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 2 x 20 minutes), £19.99

The history of measuring time with exact precision is taken for granted - yet only a few generations ago, clocks were set locally by the sun. Now modern electronic technology allows time to be measured...

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