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Precambrian Glaciation in Scotland (2003)

Subject

Environmental science; Geology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 30 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

On a group of remote islands off the coast of south west Scotland there is evidence for Snowball Earth - a completely white planet covered in ice. The Garvellachs, or Isles of the Sea, reveal something of...

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Aymara, The: A Case Study in Social Stratification (1994 Video)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

In Northern Bolivia, where the heterogeneous population is socially and economically stratified, the inequalities of a sharp class division between the Spanish-speaking mestizos and the subordinate Aymara...

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SEA CHANGE

Date released

Dec 1957

Series name

Mining Review 11th Year

Issue no

4

NoS ID

345985

Story no

4 / 4

BFI synopsis: a convalescent home for Warwickshire miners at Swanage. NCB Commentary - On the coast at Swanage, Dorset, is Durlston Court, the Warwickshire Miners’ Convalescent Home. Greeted by Union...

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CHAIRMAN ALOFT

Date released

Oct 1961

Series name

Mining Review 15th Year

Issue no

2

NoS ID

346147

Story no

4 / 4

BFI synopsis: a visit by Lord Robens, Chairman of the National Coal Board, to one of the Board’s sea boring towers off the coast of County Durham.

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The North East - NEW AREAS FOR OLD - 2

Date released

Oct 1966

Series name

Mining Review 20th Year

Issue no

2

NoS ID

346347

Story no

1 / 3

BFI synopsis: The reorganisation of the Durham and Northumberland coalfield. NCB Commentary - Under the North East Coast lies coal - millions and millions of tons. Now, the coalfields of the North East,...

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How They Built the Channel Tunnel (1992 Video)

Director

Sandy Balfour

Producer

Sandy Balfour

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1993 price: £20.00

The Channel Tunnel was the largest single construction project in Europe and it took five years to build. This programme investigates the science and technology that made the project possible, and reflects...

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New Orleans Black Indians: A Case Study in the Arts (1994 Video)

Subject

Anthropology; Art

Distribution

Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Introduces the blend of American Indians and blacks which comprise the black Indian tribes of New Orleans as they carry out a century-old tradition of participation in the pre-Lenten Mardi Gras festival....

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Plutonium Dream (1988 Video)

Subject

Environmental science; Technology

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min.

Looks at the controversy over the UK fast breeder reactor at Dounreay on Scotland’s north coast. With early colour footage, traces the history of the plutonium-fuelled fast breeder reactor, and examines...

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Yesterday’s Britain: Highlands (1992 Video)

Subject

Biology; History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 63 min., 1997 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

A compilation of three short British Transport films. 1 (1952, dir. John Taylor): Tours the communities between Inverness and Kinloch Rannoch. Shows life in these small communities, developments in industry,...

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Juuni-Ya (2007 Television)

aka: Twelfth Night

Director

Yukio Ninagawa

A televised version of Ninagawa’s 2005 Kabuki production of Twelfth Night transposed to 14th century Japan and set on the sea-coast of the Kii Province.

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