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Documentary Film About ‘Helicopter’ String Quartet (1995 Video)

Director

Frank Scheffer

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 76 min., 1997 sale: DM128.00 (inclusive)

Karlheinz Stockhausen rehearses and talks about his ‘Helicopter’ string quartet, played by the Arditti Quartet. The preparations, including test flights, are documented from the first rehearsal to the...

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Maiden Flights (2000)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 29 minutes), £79.99

Looks at the principles of aerodynamics, using as illustration the experience of two women who take their maiden flights as helicopter pilots.

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Major Disasters (1987 Video)

Subject

Engineering; Geology; History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 58 min.

Footage from British Movietone newsreels. Shows man-made disasters featuring plane, train, boat and helicopter crashes, ships sinking and bridges collapsing. Natural disasters covered include floods,...

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Changing Homes (2001)

Subject

Business studies; Civil Engineering & Building

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £295.00 (or off-air recording under licence)

A programme in the fourth series about bosses returning to the shop floor to experience working conditions at first hand. This programme features Sir Neville Simms, the chief executive of Carillon, the...

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Chopper, The (1982 Video)

Producer

Patrick Uden

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

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

Traces the evolution of the helicopter over a period of nearly 50 years, using rare archive footage of early pioneering flights. Shows the first practical helicoptor, the German Focke Achgelis 61, first used...

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1700 Metres from the Future (1990 Video)

Director

Ulla Boje Rasmussen

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, minutes), £50.00

Inhabitants of the isolated settlement of Gásadalur on the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic discuss the planned tunnel that will connect them to the other islands, talking about their outlooks on the...

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Happy People: A Year in Taiga (2010)

Director

Dmitri Vasyukov

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

A film profiling a year in the lives of the people in the village of Bakhtin along the Yenisei River in Siberian Taiga. Werner Herzog, who narrates the film, edited down the four hour television documentary...

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Tar Sands Trilogy

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £14.99

These films address the huge environmental impact of the Tar Sands developments in Alberta Canada. DIRTY OIL (2010): Deep behind-the-scenes into the strip-mined world of Alberta, Canada, where the vast and...

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Britain from the Air (2 Vols) (2001 Video)

aka: Flying Through History

Subject

Architecture; History

Distribution

Sale, 2 videocassettes. VHS. col. 168 min., 2001 sale: £14.99 (inclusive) - boxed set

A series of six programmes, filmed entirely from helicopter, showing key sites and how the landscape of Britain has evolved over 2000 years. Each of the six units covers a key period.

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To Boldly Go (2 Parts) (2012)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes each), £195.00 each part or £390.00 series

This two-part series traces the extraordinary journey that took humans from the depths of the ocean to the edge of space - and beyond. We think of ourselves as a global species, but in fact we can only...

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