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MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Queen in West Africa (Colour). DESCRIPTION: The Volta River is destined to play a most important part in the future economy of Ghana. Dredging and other work has already started at...
About a relatively prosperous family living on the outskirts of Ouagadougou, capital of Upper Volta, who make their living by trade and by farming a field which lies outside the city limits.
Possibly earliest sound recording of the opening lines of Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy, spoken by a man’s voice on a wax cylinder disc. The recording is an example of experiments...
'To be or not to be ...' as recited in the early 1880s crackled to life on computer speakers at the Library of Congress on Tuesday, 13 December. The early audio recordings on Volta discs - which...
About a peasant family living in the village of Piela - a loosely nucleated settlement of compounds with little centrality - in the central part of Upper Volta, who make their living primarily by farming,...
Isa Partsch-Bergsohn and Hal Bergsohn present the concise history of Greek to Elizabethan dance using engravings, prints, and paintings with accompanying music and narration. Period-costumed dancers...
Introduces basic concepts of electrochemistry. In six 10-minute segments: The Building Blocks of Electrochemistry (workings of a battery, redox reactions); Electrochemical Cells; Designing Electrochemical...
A short film looking at what Ghanaian farmer’s have to battle with. Despite plentiful fields, cheap imports and a lack of support from the Ghanaian government means that farmers cannot easily supply their...
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the day-to-day lives of ordinary Britons had remained unchanged for centuries. Homes were largely rural and functional, and the idea of decorative and comfortable...
A survey of 20 years of black African film production from Sembene Ousmane’s Senegalese fictional short BOROM SARRET (1963) to Souleumane Cissé's 1983 feature FINYE (THE WIND). Includes clips from 18...
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