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  1. River and the Trees, The (Bromeliads) (1975 Film)

    Producer
    Colin Willock
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Looks at the frogs in Trinidad: a frog that builds a swimming pool for its offspring; one whose tadpoles move about in organised groups; the golden tree frog, which lives among the bromeliads - plants that...

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  2. Predator, The (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Kate O’Sullivan
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Recounts efforts by scientists to save the ‘Partula’, a Polynesian tree snail, which has been driven to near-extinction in its natural habitats by ‘Euglandina’, a rapacious meat-eating snail...

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  3. Structures (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Civil Engineering & Building; Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 2006 sale: £39.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Aspects of structures: tension (cantenary, suspension bridge, tension, structures, tents, webs); compression ( column, buckling, guy ropes, arches, tunnels); shear (cutting metal); torsion (failing in...

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  4. Proctodeal Exchange and Antenna Relations in ‘Dolichoderus Quadripunctatus’ (1973 Film)

    Producer
    Claude Torossian
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Following a short ecological introduction, shows vitelloproctodeal food exchanges whereby workers nourish the eggs, then adults of the colony during the larval growth phase. ‘Antenna talk’, i.e. antenna...

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  5. Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978 Video)

    aka: Albero Degli Zoccoli, L’

    Director
    Ermanno Olmi
    Subject
    Italian studies; Media studies
    Distribution
    Videocassette. VHS. col. 170 min., 2001 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

    Feature film about a poor farming family in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century. The family sacrifices to send the son to school, but his shoes break and there is no money to replace them.

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  6. Making a Cello (1976 Film, Video)

    Director
    Roger Hill
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows the making of a cello by instrument-maker Alec McCurdy, tracing the process from the felling of the tree to the finished instrument. Includes excerpts of solo cello music by Imogen Holst, Bach and...

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  7. Archaeological Dating: Retracing Time (1976 Film)

    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Discusses two approaches to determining the age of an archaeological site, relating to other sites. Introduces methods of dating artifacts absolutely, including tree-ring dating (dendrochronology),...

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  8. Trees in Data Processing (1987 Video)

    Producer
    John Jaworski
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at the way manufacturing companies can structure their product information in a computer. Using film shot at Racal-Mobical’s factory in Reading, and extensive animation, shows how Racal use their...

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  9. Killing Rain, A (1982 Video)

    Producer
    Jeremy Taylor
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines the problem of acid rain concentrating particularly on Sweden. Looks at sources of pollutants, how fish and tree deaths occur and at ways of halting the rain. Discusses the political arguments and...

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  10. Making and Meaning: Rubens’s Landscapes (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 1999 sale £10.00 (inclusive)

    Rubens painted his landscapes largely for his own pleasure, and many of them are painted on panels made up of several individual pieces of wood. The programme includes a reconstruction of the preparation of...

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