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  1. First Catch Your Octopus

    Date released
    1949
    Series name
    Shell Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    13
    NoS ID
    349983
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: octopus fishing in Italy

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  2. Control of Octopus Heart Rate (1979 Video)

    Director
    Michael Steele
    Producer
    M Gorman
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 15 min.

    Mounting of an octopus heart in vitro and monitoring of its stimulation following the injection of extract of octopus vena cava.

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  3. Octopus Dissection (1979 Video)

    Director
    Michael Steele
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 20 min.

    Demonstration of the North Sea octopus at various stages of dissection.

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  4. Visual Input and Orientation in the Octopus (1973 Film)

    aka: Optomotor Responses in a Cephalopod2

    Director
    Eric Lucey
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Andrew Packard, of the Zoological Gardens in Naples, gives a series of demonstrations of the effects on the baby octopus of rotating visual fields.

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  5. Optomotor Responses in a Cephalopod (1964 Film)

    Director
    Eric Lucey
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Two series of experiments on the visual system of the octopus.

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  6. Harvest Octopus

    Date released
    28 Sep 1922
    Series name
    Daily Sketch Topical Budget
    Issue no
    579-1
    NoS ID
    128694
    Story no
    2 / 5

    [SUBTITLE]: "Huge American horse drawn combine harvester." Combine harvester in USA.

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  7. Biology of Molluscs, The (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 15 min., 2001 sale: £32.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the evolution, phylum characteristics, major classes, larval development and natural history of the phylum ‘Mollusca’, which is made up of four major classes: ‘Polyplacophora’ (includes...

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  8. Passengers or Partners? (1970 Film)

    Director
    D M Ross; Leonard Sutton
    Producer
    D M Ross; Leonard Sutton
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Reviews the producers’ studies on symbiotic association of several species of sea anemones with various crabs. In some associations, anemones transfer to crabs without assistance (passengers). In other...

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  9. Molluscs, Mechanisms and Minds (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Barrie Whatley
    Subject
    Biology; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    J Z Young’s identification of the squid giant axon in the 1930s was the foundation of the study of how we might learn about our own nervous systems from the study of those of other animals. Archive film...

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  10. Science is Fiction/ The Sounds of Science (2007)

    Director
    Jean Painlevé
    Subject
    Biology; Film studies; Music; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £24.99

    Before David Attenborough and Jacques Cousteau - there was Jean Painlevé, Poetic pioneer of science films, Painlevé explored a twilight realm of vampire bats, seahorses, octopi, and liquid crystals. In...

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