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Revolutions and the Modern State (1987 Video)

Producer

Vic Lockwood

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Eric Hobsbawm, Emeritus Professor of History at Birkbeck College, London, and Michael Mann, Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, discuss key features of modern states by looking more...

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Where No Tide Flows

Date released

1963

Series name

Look At Life

Issue no

232

NoS ID

350099

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: There are more than 2,000 miles of canals in Britain. Built for commerce in the Industrial Revolution, many have fallen into disuse but holiday makers are rediscovering them.

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K is for Karl: Exploitation (2018)

aka: Alienation (Episode 4)

Director

Theopi Skarlatos

Subject

Philosophy

A series of five short films on the ideas of Karl Marx to commemorate the 200th anniversary of his birth. In the fourth film journalist Paul Mason travels to Manchester, the birthplace of the Industrial...

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Industrial Revolution, The (1975 Video)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 23 min.

Shows industrial developments that transformed the cottage industries of the 18th century into the power-driven factories of the 19th. Darby’s introduction of coke iron smelting mill leads to Huntsman’s...

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History of Water Power, The (1990 Video)

aka: Water Power and the Industrial Revolution

Subject

Archaeology; Engineering; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 1997 sale: £14.95 (+VAT +p&p) (World Microfilms)

Discusses the history of the use of energy in three areas: the energy source itself; the systems of power transmission; the application of this energy to various industrial purposes. Moving water was the...

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Sources of Power (1984 Video)

Producer

Neil Cameron

Subject

Technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

The need for power was fundamental to the expanding industries of the 18th and 19th centuries. Water power was the first answer, but the geographical limitations led to the development of steam power in the...

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Report from China (1966 Film)

Director

Toshie Tokieda

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Filmed by a Japanese team on location in north-east China, one of the country’s major industrial regions, between August 1966 and January 1967. Covers people’s communes, the industrial cities and their...

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Fred Dibnah’s World of Steel, Steam and Stone - Part 1 (2006)

Subject

Engineering; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 174 minutes), £19.99

A series of 6 30-minute programmes in which the late Lancastrian steeplejack Fred Dibnah traces the development of industrialisation in Britain.

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Acting in Turn (1974)

Director

Robin Jackson

Producer

George Seager

Subject

Engineering; Technology

Distribution

Out of distribution, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 20 min.

Traces the development of the gear from the first recorded use in a crude form over two thousand years ago to its widespread use in many forms today. A lever is a means of transferring power. The gear wheel...

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Yesterday, Today - And Tomorrow: Air Loom

Date released

1979

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

240

NoS ID

325993

Story no

3 / 4

COI synopsis: The last decade has seen a man on the moon and the birth of a test tube baby. Yet for a century or more much of our everyday lives and the way we do things has remained remarkably unchanged....

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