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  1. Light Fantastic (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Peter Champness; Ken Patton
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23 min.

    How do pictures get on to a television screen? Starts with John Logie Baird’s mechanical television system and moves up to the latest digital special effects, including an explanation of CEEFAX, and the...

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  2. CFP: Strange New World - New Frontiers in Cinema & TV

    Date
    24 Mar 2015, 11:42
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    Post

    The Cinema and Television History Research Centre presents: Strange New World: New Frontiers in Cinema and Television Thursday 18 June 2015 De Montfort University Issues of technology and film have...

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  3. Insat: Implications for a Nation (1986 Video)

    Producer
    John Stratford
    Subject
    Information technology; Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    Looks at the wider implications of satellite technology for India, focusing ib the tensions between the needs of the private television owners (mainly rich, educated and urban) and the needs of the...

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  4. Images and Innovation (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Andrew Millington
    Subject
    Design; Media studies; Sociology; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23 min.

    Images of new technology are often gained from the mass media, especially television. Examines how the Horizon programme NOW THE CHIPS ARE DOWN, made in 1978, about the impending changes to society caused by...

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  5. Television Camera Tube, The (1972 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Film & television production; Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The vidicon type camera tube; the principles of operation of the various electrodes; the photo-sensitive layer; magnetic focusing and deflections.

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  6. Fly-By-Wire (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Ben Shephard
    Subject
    Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. Betamax. col. 52 min.

    Advances in aviation technology give computers a central role in the control of modern jet aircraft. For many years military aircraft have incorporated fly-by-wire technology. The first fly-by-wire civil...

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  7. British Telecom (1994 Video)

    Producer
    David Akerman
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1995 sale: £55.00 (inclusive)

    Looks at the future of British Telecom in a multimedia world. As the telephone business becomes inextricably linked with entertainment and computing, cable television is signing up thousands of phone...

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  8. It at Work: ‘For Your Information’ (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Philip Ashby
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min.

    Developments in information technology have greatly changed the way most of us work, and there is more in store. This video visits two of the world’s leading computer companies, Intel and Microsoft, whose...

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  9. Far Side, The (1994 Video)

    Producer
    David Malone
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 48 min.

    Marks the 30th anniversary of HORIZON, which was launched 12 days after the creation of BBC2 and is its longest running series. This film is a record of those years, relating how technology transformed our...

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  10. Women in the Eighties. Part 3: New Technology in Sweden (1981 Video)

    Producer
    Suzanne Davies
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at the impact of new technology on women’s work in large organisations and the ways in which women working within unions or organised groups are fighting to protect jobs in the secretarial and...

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