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  1. English Garden, The. Part 3: A Temple in the Grove (1725-1755) (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    The invention of the sunken fence or ‘ha-ha’ set designers free to harmonise the surrounding countryside with the garden, while loosening up the regularity of previous gardens. Locations include a...

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  2. 1931

    Date
    14 Jan 2013, 14:02
    Author
    Gabriel
    Post Type
    Page

    Madeleine Carroll at Yorkshire Main Pit At Doncaster (109 seconds) Gaumont Sound News Issue 115, released 19/1/1931 This item shows the actress Madeleine Carroll visiting a Yorkshire colliery...

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  3. English Landscape Garden, The (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Explores the garden of Rousham House, Oxfordshire, designed by William Kent. Gardens in the late 17th century had been formal in design, in imitation of French examples such as Versailles. In the early 18th...

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  4. English Garden, The. Part 2: A Pattern for Pleasure (1660-1725) (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    Looks at the influence of Dutch, French and Italian styles after the Restoration. Walls of trees and hedges became the vogue as did the use of statues and terracing. There was much interest in exotic plants...

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  5. English Garden, The. Part 6: Perfectly Dazzling (1840-1914) (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    With the variety and growth of suburban gardens, a gardener could create his own make-believe world, and with Chinese, Egyptian, rhododendron and rock gardens, and this is what he did. The surrounding...

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  6. English Garden, The. Part 7: Technicolour and Technology (1914-) (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    After World War I loss of confidence set in. Ideas were adapted from the past and people became more immediately concerned with collecting as many species and hybrids as possible. Immediacy was all and...

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  7. English Garden, The. Part 4: The Lake in the Landscape (1775-1785) (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    Under the reign of George III there was a revival of interest in English gothic with mock castles and ruins becoming the central feature for many landscape gardens. Buildings such as follies and treehouses...

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  8. English Garden, The. Part 1: A Tapestry of Herbs and Roses (To 1660) (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min.

    The story of great gardens in England and Wales from Roman times to the 1980s. This programme opens with Sir John Gielgud in the Jubilee Gardens, London, remarking that the English garden often reflected the...

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  9. Biology of Fungus Ants (1960 Film)

    Producer
    N Bariand; M Bazire; P P Grassé
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The observation of the behaviour of atta ants, whose normal habitat is equatorial America, was made possible for the first time due to experiments conducted in the laboratory. Gives a detailed study of a...

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  10. Imagined Worlds. Part 1: Serpent in the Garden of Eden (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    A series in which each programme is a personal account by an eminent scientist of recent changes in scientific thought. Professor Walter Herbert of Harvard University has been engaged for 20 years in...

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