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  1. Winning Hands Down

    Date released
    Jul 1938
    Series name
    Ace Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    72
    NoS ID
    349225
    Story no
    4 / 5

    NoS synopsis: Butterfly wings from South America, used in making decorative pictures by Miss Lottie Spooner.

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  2. Banking on Disaster (1987 Video)

    Director
    Adrian Cowell
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., 1998 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Documents the destruction of parts of the South American rainforest as the land is opened up by new roads and the forest is cleared to make way for coffee plantations and cattle ranches. As the settlers move...

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  3. Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2011 Television)

    Director
    Fred C. Adams; Steve Lowe
    Producer
    Steve Lowe

    A live relay on the BYUtv cable channel of Brigham Young University, Department of Theatre and Media Arts’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Filmed with nine...

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  4. BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests

    Date
    21 May 2013, 16:46
    Author
    Markeda Cole
    Post Type
    Post

    For the week ending 10th May 2013, the most requested programmes from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service focus on drama, music, the history of TV, the consequences of Google's infringement of literary...

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  5. Appeal from the Rainforest, An (1990 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 10 min.

    Shows the effects of mining in the rain forest. Davi Yanomami makes the first-ever visit by a Yanomami spokesperson to Europe, to appeal for acknowledgement of Yonomami land rights. He also collects the...

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  6. Navajos: Children of the Gods (1967 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The Navaho traditions as seen in Monument Valley in Utah and Arizona.

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  7. Price of Progress, The (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min.

    Documents the effects of World Bank-funded projects on the environment and tribal peoples worldwide. These projects include the Poloroeste project in South America (building a road through a Brazilian rain...

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  8. Navaho: The Last Red Indians (1973 Film)

    Producer
    Michael Barnes
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows the survival of the traditional way of life of the Navaho Indian on a remote plateau in North America. In particular, looks at various primitive methods of medicine, many of which white doctors claim...

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  9. Aymara, The: A Case Study in Social Stratification (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    In Northern Bolivia, where the heterogeneous population is socially and economically stratified, the inequalities of a sharp class division between the Spanish-speaking mestizos and the subordinate Aymara...

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  10. Spirit Hunters, The (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1995 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

    A study of the Machiguenga Indians of Peru who believe all rainforest plants and animals evolve from their ancestors and therefore possess human souls and spirits.

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