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Complete Warner-Pathe News Magazine of the Screen Newsreels 1949 - 1957

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 700 minutes), $35.95

Almost twelve hours of newsreel stories from the US Warner-Pathe News Magazine of the Screen, spanning the period 1949 - 1957, reformatted for classroom presentation

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TV News: Editing the Story (2001)

Subject

Film & television production; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (37 min), £49.00 inclusive

One of a series of six programmes covering different areas of video production. Each programme is delivered in sections punctuated with key point summaries. The techniques of writing and editing news are...

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News from Nowhere (1990 Video)

Director

Trevor A Scott

Producer

Michael Orrom

Subject

English language and literature; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., 1996 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

William Morris’s ‘News from Nowhere’ is one of the best-remembered Victorian Utopian novels. It indicts the brutalization and wastefulness of Victorian industrialism, and envisions the world as it...

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Look at Life: Volume 6 - World Affairs (2012)

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 720 minutes), £14.39

This collection from the LOOK AT LIFE series presents films encompassing world affairs in the 1960s, from a visit behind the Iron Curtain to the fun and sun of Copacabana beach, from the plight of Tibetan...

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Look at Life: Volume 7 - Business and Industry (2012)

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 552 minutes), £10.07

This collection from the LOOK AT LIFE series presents sixty films whose subjects cover the broad range of business and industry: from building cars to growing tulips and from deep-sea trawling to...

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Acceptable Levels (1984)

Director

John Davies

Subject

Film studies; Media studies

A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to the family, has been hit by a stray plastic bullet fired by a...

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History of Nuclear Energy: Problems and Promises (2007)

Director

Scott Reid

Subject

History; Physics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (118 minutes), £24.99

This 2-DVD set features film footage from the fifties and sixties which explores the power of nuclear energy and the threat of fallout after a nuclear explosion. Includes: NUCLEAR MEDICAL ASPECTS OF NUCLEAR...

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Images of America 1937-1939 (1996)

Producer

Peter Bell

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 29 minutes), £60.00

Illustrates the various ways in which British newsreels on the eve of World War 2 presented propaganda concerning the USA’s international role. Drawing on the archives of Gaumont British, British Movietone...

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Look at Life: Volume 5 - Cultural Heritage (2012)

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 640 minutes), £10.96

This collection presents 64 films from the LOOK AT LIFE series encompassing Britain’s cultural heritage in all its forms and documenting a fascinating era of change - from the rebuilding of post-War...

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Natural Disaster Films 1905-1973 (2005)

aka: Natural Disaster Films - Earthquakes, Floods, Tornados & Hurricanes

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 150 minutes), $19.95

A compilation of footage of earthquakes, floods, tornadoes & hurricanes. Includes: 1936 PITTSBURGH FLOOD (PART II - PART I MISSING) (1936, 2:49, Silent); A TRIP DOWN MARKET STREET BEFORE THE FIRE (1906,...

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