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  1. Glacial Balance (2014)

    Director
    Ethan Steinman
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (95 minutes), £17.40

    The snowmelt of the Andes mountain accounts for roughly 80% of the water supply for Andean cities, including drinking water, irrigation and hydro-electric power. New evidence suggests that most of the Andean...

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  2. How Montgomery Catered for Army

    Date released
    24 Dec 1942
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1233
    NoS ID
    038505
    Story no
    4 / 5

    Latest pictures from Middle East show drinking water carried by sea, Nazi planes captured intact, and General Montgomery visiting Benghazi.

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  3. Fasting as a Cure for All Ills!

    Date released
    1 Mar 1926
    Series name
    Topical Budget
    Issue no
    757-2
    NoS ID
    130428
    Story no
    3 / 5

    [1ST SUBTITLE]: "When this picture was taken Lady Fisher had eaten no food for 29 days." Close-up of Lady Fisher. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "Her companion had also fasted for 29 days". Close-up of the two women. [3RD...

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  4. Electrodialysis

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    90
    NoS ID
    351235
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: In some parts of the world drinking water has to come from boreholes, and it’s brackish, not pleasant to drink. An electrodialysis plant uses the principle of electrolysis to remove...

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  5. Scaling the Salt Barrier (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Rissa de la Paz
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Atlantic salmon migrate between freshwater and the sea at least twice during their lives: once as young smolts migrating down to the sea, and again as adults returning to the Scottish rivers to spawn. This...

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  6. Winter Nymphs

    Date released
    29 Jan 1931
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    504
    NoS ID
    332638
    Story no
    1 / 6

    NoS synopsis: Title states "Filmed at Ken Wood, London" (Kenwood House on Hampstead Heath). A story about "all-the-year-round bathers." "Not ladies who play touch and go with the cold water - but hardy...

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  7. Active Carbon

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    63
    NoS ID
    351104
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: Whoever heard of cast-off clothing helping to fight pollution - well, heat it up to 900 degrees centigrade, bubble nitrogen and carbon dioxide through it and you get active carbon - the very...

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  8. Green Machines (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Philip Ashby
    Subject
    Agriculture; Biology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min.

    Food production is a highly technical business. This programme looks at long-term sustainability in farming. Looks at the basic scientific principles of plant growth - the balance between nutrient and energy...

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  9. Finicky Fish

    Date released
    1977
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    217
    NoS ID
    325917
    Story no
    2 / 3

    COI synopsis: Should pollutants get into a river they could poison entire populations through their drinking water. The latest system uses "detector" fish to detect even minimal pollution! Ingenious...

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  10. Round the Clock

    Date released
    26 Oct 1933
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    647
    NoS ID
    333308
    Story no
    1 / 4

    NoS Summary - record breaking Aquaplanist British Pathe synopsis: "This isn’t a time-piece tale - it concerns a record-breaking aquaplanist" High angle shot of a man on an aquaplane board being pulled...

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