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  1. Hand Rolling of Steel (1982)

    Director
    W.K.V. Gale
    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 47 minutes), £12.00

    A record of the last Black Country hand steel rolling mill (John Bradley & Co.) made in 1982, only 3 days before it closed. The production follows the process from raw material to the final rolled section,...

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  2. Bessemer - The Last Blow (1973 Video)

    Director
    Frank Black
    Subject
    Archaeology; Technology
    Distribution
    Free loan (2005), video sd. col. 13 min.

    Outlines the development of the Bessemer process and records from start to finish a typical blow at the sponsor’s Workington works before the process was phased out in 1974.

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  3. Computer Says Show and Beyond the Fence (2016)

    Director
    Catherine Gale
    Producer
    Catherine Gale
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes + 130 minutes), £30.00

    Two-part documentary. This programme follows the progress of a team of scientists and musical theatre writers, who team up in an experiment: to try to work out a recipe for success in musical theatre, and...

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  4. Mechanisms of Ocean Waves (1976 Video)

    Subject
    Biology; Geography
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 15 min.

    The confused waves found in a gale at sea are shown experimentally to be made up of a cumulation of simple waves of various wavelengths. Aerial and tank scenes show how every is distributed in each wave. The...

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  5. Data Communications and Networks (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, 16 videocassettes. VHS. col. 35-85 min each., 2000 sale: £1800.00 (+VAT +p&p) complete course

    Lectures comprising a Vacation School recorded at Aston University in July 1993 reviewing modern practice in data communications. Although intended for tutored small group use, the material can also be...

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  6. North Sea (1939 Video)

    Director
    Harry Watt
    Producer
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 31 min.

    Features Aberdeen deep-sea fishing trawlermen and shows how the ship-to-shore radio service safeguards the lives of seamen. Reconstructs one of the many incidents which occured in the big gale of 1937,...

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  7. Joy of Logic, The (2014)

    Director
    Catherine Gale
    Subject
    Mathematics; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 60 minutes), £20

    BBC 4 programme presented by Dave Cliff, professor of computer science and engineering at Bristol University, With the help of 25 seven-year-olds, Professor Cliff creates, for the first time, a computer...

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  8. These Amazing Shadows: The Movies That Make America (2011)

    Director
    Paul Mariano; Kurt Norton
    Subject
    Film studies; Librarianship
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 88 minutes), $24.99

    This documentary tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflect the diversity of film and the American experience itself. It covers the...

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  9. Great White Silence, The (1924)

    Director
    Herbert G Ponting
    Subject
    Film studies; Geography; Sports science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 110 minutes), £19.99

    Henry Ponting’s extraordinary official record of Captain Scott’s legendary final expedition to the South Pole, fully restored by the BFI National Archive, with a new musical score by Simon Fisher Turner,...

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  10. Tyger, The Rose and the Pleasure Dome, The

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 3 x 15 minutes), £19.99

    Dramatisations and performances of poems written by major poets before 1914. Offers a wide range of poetry for analysis and interpretation.

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