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    Date released
    11 Feb 1929
    Series name
    British Screen Tatler
    Issue no
    28
    NoS ID
    330412
    Story no
    6 / 6

    NoS synopsis: views of Rio de Janeiro.

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  2. Life and Death in Rio (1985 Video)

    Producer
    Vic Lockwood
    Subject
    Development studies; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Rio de Janeiro has the reputation of being the world’s most glamorous city, but nine million people who live there are subject to infectious diseases and malnutrition. Death rates are high and life...

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  3. Valentin (2002 Film)

    Director
    Juan Luis Iborra
    Producer
    Marc Cases

    Fiction film. A backstage comedy drama in which an all-male theatre troupe gets together to perform highlights of Othello and other works of Shakespeare. Director Ricardo (Lluís Homar) finds himself...

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  4. Latin American Cinemas

    Date
    6 Nov 2013, 18:26
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Review

    Latin American Cinemas: Local Views and Transnational Connections edited by Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios (University of Calgary Press, 2011). 344 pages. ISBN: 978-1552385142 (paperback). £29.50 About the...

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  5. Developing Tomorrow’s Energy (1980 Film)

    Director
    Jim Turpie
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col 25 min.

    An account of the mining and refining of uranium showing how the development of energy from uranium is providing much of the world’s current needs.

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  6. Caring for Health the Brazilian Way (1985 Video)

    Producer
    Vic Lockwood
    Subject
    Medical sciences; Social welfare
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Discusses health services in Rio de Janeiro, exploring the way the system works and conditions in the clinics, hospitals and dispensaries. Patients, doctors and government officials are dissatisfied with the...

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  7. Social Impact of Rapid Industrialisation, The (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Hugh Phillips
    Subject
    Development studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at Rio de Janeiro and San Paulo to find out how rapid industrialisation has affected Brazilian society. Discusses the social and spatial impact of industrialisation, the role of women in the economy,...

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  8. Hilton: Palacio del Rio (1968 Film)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The 21-storey Hilton Hotel in San Antonio, Texas, was built in nine months. This short construction time was made possible by pre-casting each room unit at a nearby pre-casting yard. Before being...

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  9. Otello de Oliviera (1984 Television)

    Director
    Paulo Alfonso Grisolli
    Producer
    Paulo Alfonso Grisolli

    Feature film. A version of Othello transported to a shanty town section of Rio de Janeiro. Otelo is the leader of a samba band, Emilia an agreeable black woman, Cassio a guitar player, Iago provides a black...

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  10. Cravo e a Rosa, O (2000 Television)

    Director
    Walter Avancini; Bandarra. Mario Marcio; Armora Mautner; Ivan Zetel
    Producer
    Denis Carvalho

    Brazilian soap opera. Romantic comedy loosely re-working the themes of The Taming of the Shrew. Set in Rio de Janiero, the soap tells the story of a 20-year-old independent woman and Petruchio who believes...

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