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  1. Final Excavations at Pompeii

    Date released
    5 Feb 1953
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1235A
    NoS ID
    018356

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pompeii Final Excavations. SHOTLIST: Cut story - Various shots of unearthing mummies etc. Also various pillars and parts of buildings, on excavation site.

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  2. Egyptian Mummies: An Investigation (1979 Film)

    Director
    Ken Wrench
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Produced as part of the comprehensive investigation over several years of mummies in the Manchester collection. Each short section deals with one specific aspect of research: textile (bandage) analysis,...

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  3. Media Screen Roundup - June 2015

    Date
    13 Jul 2015, 12:45
    Author
    Linda
    Post Type
    Post

    The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. This issue opens with a rather morbid...

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  4. Mummy One Seven Seven 0 (1979 Film)

    Director
    Ken Wrench
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Records in detail the process of unwrapping Mummy 1770 in the Manchester Museum collection. The project, carried out over three days, was part of a major academic investigation of certain mummies in the...

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  5. War of the Mummies (1974 Film)

    aka: Krieg der Mumien, Der

    Director
    Walter Heynowski; Gerhard Scheumann
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Documentary consisting largely of footage shot in Chile during Allende’s Government of Popular Unity, and of interviews with those involved in its revolutionary overthrow.

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  6. Mummy’s Blessing, The (1984 Video)

    Director
    Bill Metcalfe
    Producer
    Bob Thorpe
    Subject
    Archaeology; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows how the study of an Egyptian mummy at Manchester Museum has resulted in the development of new fingerprinting methods and new techniques in radiology and pathology. Ends with a long sequence showing a...

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  7. Inside the National State Hermitage Museum (2012)

    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    This programme visits the National State Hermitage in St. Petersburg, which is one of the world’s oldest museums, boasting three million artefacts of art and antiquity, including tattooed mummies, items...

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  8. Nostalgia for the Light (2012)

    Director
    Patricio Guzman
    Subject
    Archaeology; Astronomy; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 mins.), £9.99

    A documentary drama by Patricio Guzman on the high altitude desert in Chile called Atacama. Atacama is highly significant to archaeologists for preserving the oldest known mummies in the world, and for being...

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  9. Mystery of the Persian Mummy (2003 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 50 minutes), £125.00

    The story of a magnificent mummy of an ancient Persian princess discovered in Pakistan. Covered in gold jewellery, and believed to be 2,600 years old, she had been offered for sale on the black market for...

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  10. Mummies and the Wonders of Ancient Egypt (4 Parts) (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Lisa Bourgoujian
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 4 x 52 min., 1998 sale: £10.99 (inclusive) each

    1: Egyptologists explore a new theory on how the huge rocks for the Great Pyramids at Giza were transported. 2: To the ancient Egyptians hieroglyphs, or sacred carvings, were powerful magical images capable...

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