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Britain Before Man (1984 Video)

Subject

Geology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The history of the British Isles over the last 700 million years, showing how the area has drifted northwards, through varying climates, from the southern hemisphere, and been sundered by the formation of...

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Look Again at Gulls (1975 Film, Video)

Director

Anthony Clay

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Identifies the main British species of gull: kittewakes, greater black-backed, lesser black-backed, herring, common and black-headed gulls. Shows how by adaptability and versatility they profit from man, and...

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Laurie (1979)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 25 minutes), £10.00 (+p&p)

"I’ve always had that desire to do something big, you know, in a funny kind of way ... I’m a manual worker really. I like working with me hands, and sculpturing is the essence of working with your hands,...

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Maybe (1970)

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 10 minutes), £10.00 (+p&p)

The Northumbria Ferry crossed the River Tyne between North Shields and South Shields carrying workers, shoppers and children, and in the evening the same again dressed up to sample the night life on the...

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Kurt Schwitters (2014)

aka: The Schwitters Scandal

Director

Simon Chu

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 53 minutes), £17.99

The Kurt Schwitters scandal was pure DADA. Whilst he was alive, Schwitters provoked the art world with his one-man Dada movement, Merz, which united painting, sculpture, architecture and literature in...

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Jonathan Meades Collection, The (2008)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £15.99

This three DVD box set includes eleven films made by Jonathan Meades for the BBC. Meades explore the ways human beings interact with the structures and places they create. With a distinctive style and...

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Ishi, The Last Yahi (1992 Video)

Director

Jed Riffe; Pamela Roberts

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 57 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Tells the story of anthropologist Alfred Kreoeber and Ishi, who walked out of the hills of northern California in 1911, and was the last living Yahi Indian. Ishi spent the last four years of his life at the...

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Movie Lover’s Guide to Film Language, A (2005)

Subject

FE; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes), £19.99

A general introduction to film language and five "lessons" covering the major elements of cinematic language: LIGHTING, CAMERA, MISE EN SCENE, SOUND and EDITING. For each of these lessons there is a short...

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I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba) / Siberian Mammoth (2007)

aka: Soy Cuba

Director

Mikhail Kalatozov; Vicente Farraz

Subject

Film studies; Politics & government; Spanish studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 230 minutes), £8.99

A 2-disc set. Disc 1 : I AM CUBA, partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, captures the island just before it made the transition to a post-revolutionary society. Moving from city to country...

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Horizon: 7/7 Bombers - A Psychological Investigation (2007)

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

No researcher has been able to come up with any psychological trait that is common to suicide bombers. To understand their motivation, it is essential to look at the circumstances in a person’s life and...

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