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  1. Rationing Ends

    Date released
    5 Jul 1954
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1309
    NoS ID
    019330
    Story no
    3 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: End of Rationing. DESCRIPTION: Wartime queues, which fast became a feature of the British way of life, are about to become a memory. Meat, the last food on ration, has been freed after...

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  2. Fast Food Services (1979 Video)

    Director
    Martin White
    Producer
    Martin White
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 15 min.

    An illustration of a fictional warehouse system: the paperwork and the cash flow problems form the basis of a computing exercise for students on short courses.

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  3. Meatrix, The (3 Parts) (2003)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Business studies

    An animated takeoff of THE MATRIX that describes the evils of factory farming. It was made by the green messaging firm Free Range Studios in 2003 as a commissioned project for GRACE, the GrassRoots Action...

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  4. Food, Inc. (2009)

    Director
    Robert Kenner
    Subject
    Agriculture; Biology; Earth Science; Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £6.99

    In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our...

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  5. Report on BSE measures (1996)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Vox pop

    Malcolm Brown wrap. The experts advising the Government about the BSE crisis spent the weekend in conference at Sunningdale in Berkshire. The scientists’ recommendations are being passed on to ministers...

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  6. Hong Kong Scare

    Date released
    31 Aug 1961
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1682A
    NoS ID
    024250
    Story no
    4 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hong Kong Scare. DESCRIPTION: In over-crowded Hong Kong a cholera scare. The outbreak here was believed to have been brought in by refugees from China. Cholera spreads fast and is...

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  7. Swimming in Fish: An Experimental Approach (1986 Video)

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

    Looks at how fish use different muscles for slow or fast swimming with film from the Marine Laboratory in Aberdeen, where fish have been trained to ‘race’ for a food reward. There are also sequences...

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  8. Condensed Milk Ceylon

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    Date released
    Apr 1969
    Series name
    Roundabout
    Issue no
    83
    NoS ID
    327908
    Story no
    1 / 5

    COI synopsis: Ceylon’s fast expanding dairy industry and condensed milk production.

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  9. Empowerment (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Business studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2001 sale: £75.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines how the concept of empowerment is interpreted in practice in five different organisations: McDonalds (fast food chain), Alliance Account (telephone banking), Rover (Land Rover car production),...

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  10. America in the Fifties: The Road to the Sixties (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    MacDonalds invents fast food and Detroit designer Harley Earl comes up with exuberant cars more like ‘jukeboxes on wheels’; the Russians shock the Americans by beating them into space with Sputnik. The...

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