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Predator, The (1994 Video)

Producer

Kate O’Sullivan

Subject

Biology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Recounts efforts by scientists to save the ‘Partula’, a Polynesian tree snail, which has been driven to near-extinction in its natural habitats by ‘Euglandina’, a rapacious meat-eating snail...

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Moana (1923 Film)

Director

Robert J Flaherty

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Describes Polynesian life in general with special reference to the ceremony of initiation to manhood, with its painful, and then almost defunct, tattooing operation. Filmed in Samoa.

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Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise (1986)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 90 minutes), $39.00 ($89.00 institiutional use)

From the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia to the New York City docks where he worked as a customs inspector, this documentary tracks the personal and intellectual adventures of Herman Melville. Narrated...

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Journey, The (1987)

aka: Resan

Director

Peter Watkins

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 870 minutes), 30 Euros

Peter Watkins’ monumental fourteen hour documentary was produced in 1983-86 by the Swedish Peace & Arbitration Society and local support groups in Sweden, Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, USSR, Mexico,...

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Spring Re-Loaded 1 (8 Parts) (1994)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

out of distribution

Recordings of contemporary dance performances from the 1994 Spring Loaded season held at The Place, London. The two-camera live mix version does not interpret the work but does capture the spontaneity of...

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Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)

Director

F W Murnau

Producer

Robert J Flaherty

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 82 minutes), £19.99

In 1929, German filmmaker F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu, Faust, Sunrise), invited leading documentarist Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North, Moana, Man of Aran) to collaborate on a film to be be shot on location...

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Nomads of the Wind (1994 Video)

Producer

Phil Chapman; Peter Crawford; Mark Jacobs

Subject

Anthropology; Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) (each part) 1996 sale: £200.00 (+VAT +p&p) (series)

Series exploring the relationship between man and nature in the South Paciific. 1: Polynesian seafarers settled the islands of Tahiti and the Marquesas some 2000 years ago, islands of immense natural...

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