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Comet To Baghdad

Series name

Middle East Newspots

Issue no

5

NoS ID

327050

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Halley’s Comet: The Apparition (1985 Video)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

Deals with the imminent return of Halley’s comet which was due (during winter 1985-6) to make its closest approach to earth since 1910. Describes how Edmund Halley discovered the comet in 1682 and looks at...

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Sylvia

Date

8 Aug 2014, 09:26

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

2007. Opus Arte. DVD (all regions). 117 minutes. £24.99 Also available to rent via Digital Theatre. About the reviewers: Dr Claire Brock is  Lecturer in English, University of Leicester. Dr Brock’s...

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Comet Called Halley, A (1985 Video)

Director

Terence Murtagh; David Taylor

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min.

Produced to herald the 1985-86 appearance of Halley’s Comet. Uses a mixture of VAX/11/750 computer animation, Quantel Paintbox graphics and archive visual material. Note: A new edition of the video taking...

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From Hastings to Halley (1981 Video)

Producer

John Jaworski

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

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

Halley’s Comet reappears in the Earth’s part of the solar system about every 75 years. ‘About every 75 years’ is an observation. Can the return date be predicted? Looks at Kepler’s and Newton’s...

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Triumph of Flight (1987 Video)

Subject

Engineering; History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 59 min.

Footage from British Movietone newsreels. Shows ‘Concorde’ on its inaugural flight from London to New York, the Red Arrows, the Graf Zeppelin. Also show the Vickers ‘Viscount’, de Havilland...

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Planets, The. Part 7: Are we Alone? (1985 Video)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

Earth is the only planet in the solar system to sustain life. Explains how the analysis of meteorites and comet observations give insights into the origins of the solar system. Infra-red telescopes in space...

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