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  1. Future Shock! The Story of 2000ad (2014)

    Director
    Paul Goodwin
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 105 minutes), £12.00

    First published in 1977 at the height of the punk era, UK Sci-Fi comic 2000AD was violent, anti-authoritarian, darkly funny and distinctly British. With such iconic characters as Strontium Dog, Nemesis and...

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  2. Rise and Fall of King Cotton, The (6 Parts) (1984 Video)

    Director
    Michael Garrod
    Producer
    Michael Garrod
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 30 min.

    Series discussing the technical, scientific, economic and political issues in the rise and fall of the cotton industry. Great Britain, India and the United States of America are the three countries...

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  3. 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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  4. Martin Chuzzlewit (1994)

    Subject
    Drama; English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (337 minutes), £19.99 (retail) £125.00 BBC Learning)

    A television adaptation by David Lodge of the Charles Dickens novel, with Paul Schofield in the title role. Old Martin Chuzzlewit is very rich but paranoid that everyone is after his money. His grandson has...

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  5. North Sea 2: The Origin and Migration of Hydrocarbons (1988 Video)

    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 1999 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The Brent field is used to investigate the nature and origin of csource rocks, how oil is generated, and how the timing of generation and migration are evalutated. Deposition: Discusses depositional...

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  6. Moving Memories (1990 Video)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 55 min., £12.99 (inclusive)

    A compilation from the unique collection of the North West Film Archive containing films of the region. Shows 1) a children’s outing from Altringcham to Mobberley (1909); 2) the London to Manchester ariel...

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  7. People of Bacup, Manchester (1988 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Preview, 3 videocassettes. VHS. col. 221 (includes initial blank 40 mins for tape 1 if it materialises), 217, 50 min.

    The aim was to record certain leisure activities of the working people of Bacup, Lancashire, with a view to demonstrating how these are changing as the mills close down and other forms of economic life take...

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  8. Brian Cox’s Jute Journey (2011)

    Director
    Brian Ross; Donald Alexander
    Producer
    John Archer
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 92 minutes), £16.33

    Hollywood actor Brian Cox is a son of Dundee and grew up amid the clatter of the Jute mills, where both his parents began their working lives. The Jute trade, making hessian from India’s ‘golden’...

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  9. Virgin Queen, The (2005)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 246 minutes), £19.99

    A television dramatisation of the long and eventful life of Queen Elizabeth. It explores the full sweep of her life: from her imprisonment as a teenage princess at the hands of her half sister Queen Mary to...

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  10. American Supermarket (6 Parts) (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Davide Ferrario
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution

    Industrial films, old commercials, documentaries, educational films, and army training films are used humourously to portray the American dream of the 1940s and 1950s. Shows the mass culture of a period that...

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