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Big Flame, The (1969 Video)

Director
Ken Loach

Producer
Tony Garnett

Subject
Drama; Politics & government

Distribution
Hire, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 85 min.

Traces the progress of a strike in Loverpool’s docks following the Devlin Report, which advocated the abolition of casual labour. The workers take over Liverpool docks. The central figure is a...
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Glasgow’s Docklands (1956 Video)

Subject
History

Distribution
Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 11 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

An evocation of a city on the eve of massive change. The streets aroundthe Broomielaw, the hustle and bustle of the docks set against a background of traditional songs and observations on life along the...
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Dockers (1988 Video)

Director
John Goddard

Producer
John Goddard; Mike Thomson

Subject
Sociology

Distribution
Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 51 min., 1995 sale: £35.25 (inclusive)

The story of Hull’s docks and dock workers, using interviews with dockers and shop stewards, and archive film and stills, and aerial filming along the rivers Humber and Trent.
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Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise (1986)

Subject
Literature

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 90 minutes), $39.00 ($89.00 institiutional use)

From the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia to the New York City docks where he worked as a customs inspector, this documentary tracks the personal and intellectual adventures of Herman Melville. Narrated...
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Docklands Light Railway. Part 1: Tower Hill to Island Gardens (1986 Video)

Producer
Andrew Millington

Subject
Technology

Distribution
Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Traces the design and building of the Docklands Light Railway in the East End of London, looking at the project in terms of the hard systems. Discusses the situation posed by the decline of the London Docks...
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Moving Memories 4 (1993 Video)

Subject
History; Sociology

Distribution
Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 59 min.

A compilation of ten archive films about traditions, events, people and places of north-west England from 1910 to 1955. Contents: Sir Stanley Matthews and his ‘magic feet’ - how Stanley Matthews’...
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Engineering (1974 Video)

Director
Michael Clarke; R K Neilson; Nick Nicholls; James Ritchie

Producer
Edgar Anstey; John Legard; John Shearman

Subject
Engineering; History

Distribution
Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 114 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

Following the nationalisation of transport in 1948, the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house production and distribution system to cater for all the requirements of the various undertakings,...
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