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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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Magritte: Day and Night (2010)

aka: Jour et la Nuit, Le

Director

Henri de Gerlache

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 73 minutes), £24.99

As mystifying and peculiar as his work, Rene Magritte painted in a style that was at once real and surreal, witty and disturbing. His enigmatic nature and amazing career deserve more than a routine...

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Britain’s Railways at War (2012)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 201 minutes), £19.99

A comprehensive collection of original archive documentaries covering the wartime role of railways on the British Home Front, featuring a variety of period steam locomotives and dealing with a variety of...

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Midsummer Day’s Work, A (1939 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 13 min.

During the ominously perfect summer that preceded the outbreak of the World War 2 men are laying an underground telephone cable in the Chilterns from Amersham to Aylesbury, about 18 miles. Along the route...

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Listen to Britain 1 (1950 Video)

Subject

History; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 46 min., 2001 sale: £9.95 (inclusive)

Compilation video featuring 1) Humphrey Jennings’ classic wartime film ‘Listen to Britain’ (1941, 19 min): ‘The music of a people at war - the sound of life in Britain by night and day.' Records the...

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Lab Rats: Up All Night (2004)

Subject

Biology; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £12.50 (series)

A series of four 30-minute programmes in which four volunteers undergo a range of physical and psychological experiments. Cut off from the outside world and confined to a laboratory for twenty-four hours,...

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Itn Roving Report: Railways of the World (1958)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 91 minutes), £11.99

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, ITN filmed a series of news items abroad called ‘Roving Report’; most remain unseen since their initial broadcast. This collection brings together a number of reports...

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This Sceptred Isle - Yorkshire (1999 Video)

Director

Ronald Craigen; J.B. Holmes; Ralph Keene; Charles de Lautour; John Taylor; Tony Thompson

Producer

Edgar Anstey; Ian Ferguson

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 92 min., 1999 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

A British Transport Films compilation video made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the film unit of the British Transport Commission. All but FULLY FITTED FREIGHT were produced by Edgar Anstey. 1...

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Surviving Chau (2006)

Director

Mainak Bhaumik

Subject

Anthropology; Dance; Development studies; Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 50 minutes), $195.00

This documentary maps the evolution of the ancient ethnic dance form of Chau - an athletic dance of India done by men in masks - from an anthropological and sociological perspective. In addition to following...

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Elephant: Life After Death, The (2011)

Subject

Biology

Elephants can live for 70 years. But what happens when one of these magnificent beasts dies in the wild and a five-tonne adult elephant is transformed into six million calories worth of fat, meat and guts,...

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