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Bridewealth for a Goddess (2000 Video)

Director

Chris Owen

Subject

Anthropology; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 72 min., 2001 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Documents the last performance of the ritual for the fertility goddess Amb Kor. Shot over a period of 15 years, the anthropologists/filmmakers have been participant-observers durng a time of pivotal change...

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Goddess Back to Earth

Date released

29 Oct 1962

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

62/87

NoS ID

110405

Story no

3 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

Bengali Indians hold spectacular religious festival.

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Green Goddess

Date released

22 Jan 1968

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2016

NoS ID

027214

Story no

2 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Green Goddess. DESCRIPTION: That’s the popular name of the Caronia the latest Cunarder to be sold into retirement. Bought by Yugoslavia, she was launched in 1947. We recall her maiden...

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Durga: The Goddess Comes to London (2008)

Director

David Wallace; Wayne Derrick; Jeremy Jeffs

Producer

Aaron Young

Subject

Religious studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 45 minutes), £12.99

Documentary which tells how Indian craftsmen, directed by sculptor Nemai Chandra Pal came to London, to construct a giant tableau of the goddess, Durga, and her family in the Great Court of the British...

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Technicolor - "Extra"

Date released

27 Nov 1969

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

69/96

NoS ID

113899

Story no

7 / 7

Extras

1 film clip

The rains have come, and in India, that’s something worth celebrating. They celebrated a good Monsoon in traditional style at Jaipur with the Festival of Teej, the goddess of rain.

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Goddess and the Computer, The (1989 Video)

aka: Water Goddess and the Computer, The

Director

Steve Lansing; André Singer

Subject

Anthropology; Environmental science

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (INCA, RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) (INCA) 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

Demonstrates how in Bali, development projects can threaten a carefully balanced ecological irrigation system that is maintained by religious authorities. A biologist and an anthropologist look at the...

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Return of the Sea Goddess (Colour)

Date released

14 Feb 1963

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1758A

NoS ID

024993

Story no

4 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Return of the Sea Goddess (In Colour). DESCRIPTION: The last time the Queen visited New Zealand, she was likened by the Maoris to the ‘White Heron of the Single Flight’. Now it was...

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India Rations Its Gods

Date released

6 Sep 1951

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1161A

NoS ID

017346

Story no

1 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: India Rations Its Gods. DESCRIPTION: The famous Lakshmi Narayan temple at New Delhi is just one of many Hindu places of worship affected by the new regulations concerning offerings of...

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Shaktima No Veh (2006)

Director

Jayasinhji Jhala

Subject

Anthropology; Drama; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 60 minutes), $195.00

The Goddess Shaktima is the most popular goddess in the region of Saurashtra (Western India) known as Jhalavad. This documentary presents the story of Shaktima as performed by the traditional muslim Bhavai...

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Goddess of the Earth (1985 Video)

Producer

John Groom

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the Dr James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis which argues that life itself actively controls the environment to enhance its own chances of survival and that the earth an all living things upon it are...

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