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  1. Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)

    Director
    Banksy
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £22.99

    The world’s first street art disaster movie, EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP is the groundbreaking film from Banksy - the world’s most famous graffiti artist; a global phenomenon with a fiercely guarded...

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  2. Kawelka, The: Ongka’s Big Moka (1974 Film, Video)

    Director
    Charlie Nairn
    Producer
    Charlie Nairn
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    In Papua New Guinea status is earned by giving things away rather than acquiring them. The moka is a ceremony in which people, somethimes the whole tribe, give gifts to members of other tribes. The larger...

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  3. Gift of a Girl (1997 Video)

    Director
    Mayyasa Al-Malazi; Jo Smith
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2000 hire: £10.00 (+VAT +p&p) Concord 2000 sale: £35.00 (+VAT +p&p) Concord

    Looks at the movement to stop female infanticide in southern India, focusing on solutions to the many problems surrounding the issue in a region where, for various social and economic reasons, the murder of...

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  4. Emperor’s Gift, The (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Classical studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines what the remains of the Coliseum in Rome can tell us about the way it was built and what when on in the famous amphitheatre, and what significance the activities of this huge arena had in the life...

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  5. Tayuban: Dancing the Spirit in Java (1996 Video)

    Director
    Felicia Hughes-Freeland
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows an annual ritual held in a Javanese village. After a distribution of food, men dance with professional female dancers. The allegedly sexual ethos makes these ‘tayuban’ unacceptable as national...

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  6. Dyslexia: An Unwrapped Gift (2000)

    Director
    Chris Smart
    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £30.00

    "Dyslexia is only a disability because society calls it a disability". Highlights recent research that suggests that dyslexics will be the intellectual elite in the digital picture-packed world of the 21st...

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  7. Pilgrim’s Gift, The (1996 Video)

    Director
    Barbie Campbell Cole
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Follows a elderly, devout couple as they endure blistering heat, bitter cold and unforgiving terrain on a pilgrimage to the shrine of their saint and idol, the 13th-century Sheikh Husein. They make to...

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  8. Diary of a Maasai Village, The (5 Parts) (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Melissa Llewellyn-Davies
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 50 min.

    How the Maasai live today. The programmes are structured as a film diary of a seven-week visit to a single village, with each part covering a period of a week to ten days following several events.

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  9. Next Birthday (1996 Video)

    Director
    Jaemes Newton; Jacqui Rose
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Free loan, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., Free loan

    A fictional dramatisation about the recurring hope of a cure for cystic fibrosis. It features the birthdays of a boy with CF who grows into a teenager. At each birthday the gift of a cure gets closer but not...

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  10. Biology of Spiders. No. 11: Courtship and Mating: ‘Pisaura Mirabilis’; Capture of Prey: ‘Dolomedes Fimbriatus’ (1965 Film)

    Director
    E R Skinner; G H Thompson
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The male ‘Pisaura’ courts by catching and wrapping a prey and then seeking a mature female. Having found one, he poses before her holding his offering. If the female is prepared to mate she seizes the...

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