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  1. Procession of the Linguists

    Date released
    10 Aug 1942
    Series name
    Gaumont British News
    Issue no
    897
    NoS ID
    062979
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

    News on Screen News on Screen Cinema news Cinema news Digitised Documents Digitised Documents Online Online Moving image Moving image
  2. Linguists, The (2008)

    Director
    Seth Kramer; Daniel A. Miller; Jeremy Newberger
    Subject
    Anthropology; Languages
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 65 minutes), $300.00

    Like modern-day explorers, the two academics featured in The Linguists travel to forgotten places around the globe to unearth rare treasures—in this case, endangered languages. On a shoestring budget,...

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  3. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991 Film)

    Series
    Star Trek
    Director
    Nicholas Meyer
    Producer
    Gene Roddenberry; Leonard Nimoy; Ralph Winter; Steven-Charles Jaffe

    Final Star Trek feature film featuring the cast of the original science fiction series. In this episode the aging crew must stop a plot to prevent a peace treaty between the Klingon Empire and the United...

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  4. Recently added to the Moving Image Gateway

    Date
    27 Feb 2015, 15:16
    Author
    Andrew Ormsby
    Post Type
    Post

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,650 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or...

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  5. Listening Post

    Date released
    8 Jan 1940
    Series name
    Pathetone Weekly
    Issue no
    510
    NoS ID
    124422
    Story no
    2 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Somewhere in England skilled listeners and linguists of the BBC eavesdrop on all parts of the world. They take down as many as 150 bulletins from 22 different countries, and each item has to be timed to the...

    News on Screen News on Screen Cinema news Cinema news Online Online Moving image Moving image
  6. Before Babel (1992 Video)

    Subject
    Linguistics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Is it possible that all human languages share a common ancestor? Since William Jones discovered the link between English and Sanskrit in 1783, the existence of a group of languages known as Indo-European has...

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  7. A-Z of English, An (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Paul Manners
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    From ‘accent’ to ‘zero’ - a humorous tour through the different topics covered in the course. People with a wide range of views on English, from countries as diverse as India, Jamaica, France,...

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  8. Building on the Foundations (1987 Video)

    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col.

    Deals with group interaction in the age group 7 to 16 years. Illustrates how language skills continue to develop through exposure to a wide curriculum and emphasises the quality of interaction between both...

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  9. Joy of Stats, The (2011)

    Director
    Dan Hillman
    Producer
    Dan Hillman
    Subject
    Mathematics; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £20

    BBC4 series on statistics presented by Hans Rosling. In San Francisco, a new app mashes up police department data with the city’s street map to show what crime is being reported street by street, house by...

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  10. Tracking the Emergence of New Words Across Time and Space (2015)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Media studies

    Podcast. Dr Jack Grieve, Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics at Aston University, asserts that very little is known about how new words spread in language. New words are regularly identified by lexicographers,...

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