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Celestial Navigation

aka: Celestial Navigtion and Sextant Instruction for the Sun Noonshot

Subject

Physics; Sports science

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC, 120 minutes), $29.95 (+p&p)

The tape consists of two one-hour lectures. In the first Gene Grossman (Magic Lamp’s Skipper) talks about the theory of celestial navigation and the how to use the Nautical Almanac. In the second, Paul...

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Examination Skills in Ophthalmology (4 Parts) (1998)

Producer

Steve Collier

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 26. 26, 21, 12 minutes), £40.00 each part

A series of four programmes looking at examination skills in ophthalmology.

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Get Lamp: The Text Adventure Documentary (2010)

Director

Jason Scott

Subject

Information technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 121 minutes), $40.00

The first games on home computers had limited sound, simple graphics, and tiny amounts of computing power. They were called "computer adventure games", and they used the most powerful graphics processor in...

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Strike a Light (1990 Video)

Producer

Philip Ashby; Pam Taylor

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

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

Describes the design, manufacture and marketing of light bulbs. Two components, the tungsten filament in the household bulb and the alumina tube in the high-pressure sodium vapour lamp, are used as examples...

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Diya (2002)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC, 55 minutes), £50.00 +VAT +p&p

A diya is a small terra cotta oil lamp used throughout India in Hindu ceremonies. The film follows the life history of an object through the every day experience of people who make, sell and use it in the...

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What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: Working Wonders

Subject

History; Science; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL, 30 minutes), £24.99

Dan Cruickshank traces the origins of the 21st century working world in some of the innovations of the Industrial Revolution, including James Watt’s steam engine; Richard Arkwright’s spinning frame which...

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Basic Celestial Navigation

aka: Celestial Navigation Using the Air Almanac (H.O. 249)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC, 120 minutes), $29.95 (+p&p)

Official US Navy film explaining how to navigate day or night using the horizon system, the intercept method and H.O. 249 through observation, computation and plotting. In addition the programme contains the...

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Lightstudio (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

Film & television production

Distribution

CD-ROM

A A CD-ROM based simulator for training in lighting design for film and television, allowing practice in four different virutual studios. Practice exercises help the user to work out solutions alone,...

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Experimentation with Forest-Dwelling Chimpanzees in the Congo, 1963 (1989 Video)

Producer

A Kortlandt

Subject

Biology; Psychology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A record of the 2nd Netherlands Chimpanzee Expedition to the Congo, now ZaÔre. Part 1 (23 min) shows preparations for observation; morning descent from the dormitory hill; return to hill. Shows experiments...

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Design 1 (2007)

Subject

Design; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 156 minutes), £25.99

The DVD features the 6 26-minute programmes in a series that places the art of design in its sociological and technological context. The programmes tell the story of the 20th century through six industrial...

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