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  1. George Speaight’s Victorian Toy Theatre (197 Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 55 min.

    A lecture by George Speaight on toy theatres and a performance by him of the play ‘The Miller and His Men’.

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  2. TV Toy Commercials - The Classics (2005)

    Subject
    Media studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 109 minutes), $14.99

    A collection of 87 American television toy commercials, produced during the 1950s and 1960s. Products featured include Coney Island, Barbie dolls and many other products from Mattel and other companies. For...

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  3. Toying with Their Future (1990 Video)

    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 31 min., 1998 hire: £10.00 (+VAT +p&p) 1998 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at aspects of the toy industry and the impact that war toys and Barbie doll-type toys have on children. Toy designers and other industry representatives assert that toys have nothing to do with...

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  4. Melodrama (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Charles Cooper
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    One of the most popular Victorian melodramas, ‘The Corsican Brothers’, involving ghosts, flashbacks and duel scenes, is recreated using an original Victorian toy theatre to demonstrate how music and...

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  5. Exploring Novelty (1967 Film)

    Director
    Corinne Hutt
    Subject
    Psychology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Studies the reaction of three children aged 3, 5 and 6, to an ingenious new toy. Made at the Warnford Hospital for Children, Oxford.

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  6. Dion Boucicault (1983 Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 28 min.

    A documentary on the life and work of the Irish dramatist Dion Boucicault (1820-90), author of ‘The Colleen Bawn’, ‘Arragh-na-Pogue’, and ‘The Shaughraun’. Includes a Pollock’s Toy Theatre...

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  7. Toy Stories (1997 Video)

    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1999 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A humorous film about toys - why they are important, what people do with them and how people can become obsessed with them. Shows adults who buy Pippa and Sindy dolls for themselves and a space hopper...

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  8. Mathematics of Shrek, The (2005)

    Subject
    Film Studies; Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes (approx)), £12.00

    A recording of a lecture delivered as part of the London Mathematical Society’s Popular Lecture series. Dr Joan Lasenby of Trinity College, Cambridge, demonstrates how mathematics, coupled with immense...

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  9. Non-Euclidean Geometry (1994)

    Producer
    Anne-Marie Gallen
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 24 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Explores the nature of non-Euclidan geometry, beginning by looking at the toy known as the Euclidean kaleidoscope and moving on to explaining the properties of non-Euclidean geometry. Then explains the...

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  10. Toy Models (2008)

    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes (approx)), £12.00

    A recording of a lecture delivered as part of the London Mathematical Society’s Popular Lecture series. Dr Tadashi Tokieda of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, demonstrates toys that can be made in 10...

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